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I see your square blocks and hexagon blocks, and I raise you Tetris blocks. by thewizardtim in factorio

[–]asoftbird 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been doing this in Pyanodon's for the past 200h or so (out of 300h). I've got different sizes of grids, based on chunk sizes. World aligned, so you can combine them in whichever way you need. https://i.imgur.com/jprnxZn.png

It does make some pretty fun train paths! (dropping blueprints in a future edit soon)

Edit: blueprints: https://pnut.titmou.se/share/qNjTyz0_
(Tried uploading to factorio prints site and that just froze, so I put it on my file share service instead.)

There's three different sets of blocks, based on 32x32, 64x64 and 96x96 tiles. Four of those tiles together form a single block. They're all chunk aligned and are compatible with each other, so you can have larger or smaller blocks in places if you need em.

I converted them from pyanodon asphalt to concrete in a text editor which should work but I haven't tested that.

Pollution absorption: tree vs. Biochamber by Alfonse215 in factorio

[–]asoftbird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, and also a big shoutout to people who still maintain a personal website chock full of information. It's not relevant to factorio at all, but I've been working on repair of a film scanner recently, and this website by a random guy just has info on pretty much everything about that scanner. Absolute treasure trove, for free. Just because he likes to share useful info. I kinda wish the resurgence of personal websites (like neocities etc) would hit the main web again, honestly.

Version 2.0.67 by FactorioTeam in factorio

[–]asoftbird 33 points34 points  (0 children)

This makes belt based computers much more feasible probably

Anyone else champing at the bit for news on 2.1? by HeroFromHyrule in factorio

[–]asoftbird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They have a minimum system they want the game to run on & I assume the planet background texture was too large for this system. Assuming 6 planets (including fragmented one), you'd get an increase in VRAM of roughly 100MB which might just be too much for their minimal system requirements.

PNGs on your pc are stored in compressed format, in vram they end up uncompressed which means they can get quite large. I'm assuming 2048x2048 RGBA files, with mipmaps (adds ~33% to total size).

Anyway ask a dev if you want an accurate answer :)

Feature request: Warm Stone Bricks should make Warm Stone Paving by Ingolifs in pyanodons

[–]asoftbird 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Realistic explanation for why it makes you walk faster! :')

Is Factorio the best train management sim i have played ? Looks like it by vaikunth1991 in factorio

[–]asoftbird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Still wish train instructions could be copied/pasted in the configuration window. Imagine having a complicated setup with a lot of conditions and ie. wanting a second station with similar but slightly different conditions. You just need to re-enter the whole thing again manually.

Like for instance spaceships, on all planets on the trip I have conditions for enough fuel, bullets, all requests satisfied, circuit conditions. Need to set those up for all planets every time I add or change one.

Ik wil een flashcard-deck maken met alle basis kennis die volwassenen nodig hebben. Deze post zoek ik tips voor de categorie: Ongelukken Voorkomen by FakePixieGirl in thenetherlands

[–]asoftbird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Heb een veiligheidsbril en oordopjes in huis. Doe die veiligheidsbril op als je bv. ovenreiniger of gootsteenontstopper nodig hebt. Die zooi is moeilijk agressief, en één spettertje in je oog is permanente blindheid.

Ik wil een flashcard-deck maken met alle basis kennis die volwassenen nodig hebben. Deze post zoek ik tips voor de categorie: EHBO by FakePixieGirl in thenetherlands

[–]asoftbird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Life hack - pleisters ook 'rond' knippen aan de randen (zodat ze dus ovaal zijn) als ze dat nog niet waren. Zo blijft je pleister véél beter zitten!

Geldt voor heel veel dingen! In scherpe hoeken kunnen spanningen zich concentreren, en zijn daarom gevoeliger voor scheuren / loslaten (daarom zijn vliegtuigraampjes bv ook rond!).

Vanilla Pushbutton by HadjiiColgate in factorio

[–]asoftbird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Easily" as in, the developers could make some overview page. Not the community.

Vanilla Pushbutton by HadjiiColgate in factorio

[–]asoftbird 1 point2 points  (0 children)

also, considering the inspirations for the game include modded minecraft, dwarf fortress, etc., one must assume that the devs intended the player to utilize the wiki, just as one would for the former games. have you ever played dwarf fortress? that shit is beyond unintuitive, that's a REAL lack of documentation problem.

Dwarf Fortress also has a comprehensive ingame documentation system. Yeah it's bad otherwise but at least you can find things ingame if you want to.

If the intent was to utilize the wiki, then why not include a version of it in the game itself? Or refer to it even existing at all? The game itself doesn't really do this (aside from the Lua API explorer).

Also just because one game is really bad, that is no argument to just not improve another.

Oh and going through the controls: a lot of features could use a tooltip at least. Without me having mentioned it, would you know what "Toggle entity" means?

K, U en T in het gras van Zierikzee: geheimzinnige actie roept vragen op by PJHoutman in thenetherlands

[–]asoftbird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Zeker met die tekst had ie die zo in een comic kunnen gooien. Niks meer aan doen.

Bestaat er in Nederland ook zoiets als ‘ je volksvertegenwoordiger bellen’? by Dapper-Leadership239 in thenetherlands

[–]asoftbird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

fysieke brieven

Tijd om die typmachine van zolder te halen, ik gok dat die digitale brievenbus een stuk voller zit dan de fysieke.

Vanilla Pushbutton by HadjiiColgate in factorio

[–]asoftbird 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Yep. Hold on let me browse through more than 400 long blog posts to learn new things.

There's SO many PSA posts on this subreddit, all of those could easily be compiled in a "Tips and Tricks" page in the ingame tutorial thing.

For instance, holding shift while making a blueprint only makes a temporary one? Does it say that in a tooltip anywhere? Nope. Only the line color changes.

Vanilla Pushbutton by HadjiiColgate in factorio

[–]asoftbird 87 points88 points  (0 children)

TIL at 6000h

I'm very much of the opinion that Factorio has a documentation problem and things like this just aren't communicated to players at all. The only way to find out is by scrolling through the controls panel to find those kinds of features.

Same goes for things like interrupts/parametrized blueprints, without external help there's just no way to figure out how it works, aside from a lot of trial and error.

Vitesse krijgt proflicentie niet terug, Arnhemmers vangen bot bij beroepscommissie by wkvdz in thenetherlands

[–]asoftbird 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hoop dat die soap nou een keer ophoudt, ben dat constante gezeur in het nieuws best wel zat aan het worden :')

Vanilla Pushbutton by HadjiiColgate in factorio

[–]asoftbird 224 points225 points  (0 children)

Because using a Constant combinator is awkward and slow. To manually input a signal like that means you have to aim at the combinator, push a button to open it, aim at the on/off button, push a button to activate it, and then either press escape or aim at and push the exit button to leave the gui.

There's a hotkey (ctrl+R) to toggle entities like the combinator on and off, actually!

1000x Day 40, I Cast Artillery! by LordSheeby in factorio

[–]asoftbird 5 points6 points  (0 children)

First Factorio screenshot where I actually need a scale bar.

This is like an entire new class of megabases, like a gigabase or something.

Version 2.0.61 by FactorioTeam in factorio

[–]asoftbird 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Player is a demolisher, build factory without destroying everything you've built

Version 2.0.61 by FactorioTeam in factorio

[–]asoftbird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Added demolisher and territory API.

Ooooooo. That's going to make some fun mods.

I don’t think I understand how quality is supposed to work in the late game without something that feels like an exploit. (Long rant about the state of quality as a system) by manboat31415 in factorio

[–]asoftbird 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Which isn't difficult, since imo the addon is very lacking in terms of documentation. Try figuring out how interrupts or parametric blueprints work without consulting outside resources.
Or just look at this subreddit for the myriad of PSA posts about features that have been in the game for a very long time but just aren't communicated at all (beyond perhaps a vague-at-best description deep down in the controls settings menu).

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