Yes, things changed quite a bit in 0.17.50, as I mentioned in this later report . I still saw asymmetries, but in different setups. I haven't run the throughput tests since then. I'll do that with the latest version and update both this ticket and the other one. It'd be great if both this and the it...

Inserters are significantly more prone to get stuck picking up items from belts in 0.17.50. I know it is a regression since 0.17.47, when I last ran my inserter throughput tests and opened a bug report about inserters behaving differently in different directions (which they still do, but not in exac...

Following up on a discussion about inserter rotational asymmetry , I can note that several cases remain, and all of them happen when inserters pick from belts. Here's an example: https://i.imgur.com/i1ach1W.gif As you can see, the east->west inserter is a lot faster than the north->south one, becaus...

Thanks for the detailed post. I'll look into it. Cool, thanks! Like I said, some situations might end up being slower because of how things are timed, so one slowdown might be fine compared to the many other speedups. Sure, there aren't a lot of big slowdowns like that afaics. I was more concerned ...

Thanks for the inserter fixes. Inserter orientation still makes a difference in some cases though. I notice it in particular for long-handed and burner inserters moving items from chest to chest or chest to belt: https://i.imgur.com/bR710OO.gif https://i.imgur.com/XUljxHE.gif In these cases horisont...

A few small updates: - The "Resources needed" column now shows ore resources before the mining productivity bonus. (It's still taken into account when calculating the required number of mining drills.) - New measurements of inserter throughput since inserters changed in 0.17.44 and 0.17.45...

I've updated the 0.17 sheets to accurate inserter throughputs. Chest → belt is slightly faster, which I believe is due to the better belt compression (4 items per belt lane per tile instead of the 3.56 in older versions). Belt → chest figures are somewhat lower, even though inserters ought to be a b...

Dunno, you think it's solar winds?

Jokes aside, could flaky graphics memory cause the bit error in my case? Or is it enough that I test main memory? (I haven't doubted the mobo so far, only the graphics card.)

I've been getting intermittent crashes during autosave since the last couple of updates. Not sure in exactly which version it started happening, but it ought to be within the last two weeks, i.e. since 0.17.35 or so. When it crashes, some data gets written to the new save ending with .tmp.zip, but i...

I heard about this game from CGP Grey on YouTube mentioning he was addicted to it and including some references to it in Easter Eggs in his videos. I'm sure he'd give a great endorsement if you sponsored one of his videos. Like this one: https://youtu.be/AM1-ecnQsm4?t=98 Gold. :) (He's only at 1500...

Apologies for necro'ing an old thread, but since this is the top search hit for "factorio reload mod" and is in "Won't implement", I thought it worth pointing out that there is a function to simplify mod reloading. From the LuaGameScript docs : reload_mods() Forces a reload of al...

The parameters for an arithmetic combinator resides in LuaArithmeticCombinatorControlBehavior.parameters.parameters. From https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/LuaControlBehavior.html#LuaArithmeticCombinatorControlBehavior.brief I expected one level of "parameters". To reproduce: Place an ar...

In other words, how would one start the inserter at the appropriate time to ensure the throughput is highest? That's a good question. It might be possible to sense the items on a belt tile before the inserter and use a few combinators to start the inserter at the right moment. However a problem wit...

Cool, I'm glad it's appreciated!

It wasn't only out of idle curiosity, although that is a perfectly sufficient reason in my book. ;) Just to give an example of why belt positions can matter, in these two cases the only difference is that the bottom lane has started one tick later (both inserters use max stack size). The inserter on...

Well, I think it's interesting to understand the belt mechanics more deeply. In "normal" gameplay it's arguably not of much practical value, but then again people are doing all sorts of cool things in Factorio that isn't "normal" gameplay, and then it might be useful. The reason ...

I found myself wondering exactly how long belt segments are, or more precisely how long it takes for an item to get from one end to the other. The wiki page (as of the time of this posting) tells us that straight segments have 32 "slots", which are travelled 1 slot per tick on a yellow bel...

TL;DR Modify the stamping of blueprints to remove red and green cables from overlapping entities on the ground when there are no cables between them in the blueprint. What ? When a blueprint is stamped out on top of existing entities, it replaces the settings in them and adds any red and green cabl...

The left-click pop-up dialogues for (at least) combinators do not update when left-click pasting new settings into them. Example: 1. Place two constant combinators. Let's call them A and B. 2. Add a constant to A, e.g. X=1. 3. Left click on B to open its pop-up dialogue. 4. Shift-right click on A. 5...

Does the 0.17 sheet have the new (15/30/45) belt speeds? I've been working on new measurements for inserter throughputs for 0.17, but I wanted to be more thorough than in earlier versions and it's proving to be quite tricky to get reliable readings, so it's taking a bit of time. That's no reason to...