Sure, attach a small pump to the relevant pipeline and connect it to the nearest tank of that gas. Configure it to run when it's above a certain threshold, and attach a steam engine to the other side of the pump. It will automatically consume the gas without doing anything.

i have seen small artifact drops near biter spawners which i couldnt have killed. not sure how this happens, dont have more info about it either - sorry. Spawned aliens have a lifespan - when they reach their age limit, they die, and unfortunately the drops still happen, despite it not being a viol...

Since this is a fork, should it really be in the unofficial updates section?

Yeah, I second that, that's a reasonable change to base, IMO.

Yeah, I had some trouble figuring out what was going on in the turret definition file until I got to the bottom. I don't know that writing up a generic function (or functions) to define various entities would be all that useful. Eventually you'd reach the point where you were defining every single f...

Klonan built his oil fired burner to support ten engines at once, which conveniently replaces my original 1/5/20 pump/boiler/engine setup with a 1/1/20 pump/oil boiler/engine arrangement using your mk.3 engines. And it gives an energy boost since his steam fluid has a slightly higher energy content ...

bobingabout wrote:In theory my higher tiers do need lubricans because the components used to make them require libricant.

Well yes, that was kinda the point. Adding something like that for tier 3 would make it consistent.

I thought the fact that I was finding nothing but big explosive worms when I went hunting was odd. Was this fixed in the latest version?

Cobalt steel seems to be a solution looking for a problem to solve. Since there are high-speed steels that incorporate cobalt (just quietly ignore the tungsten component of the alloys...) could you add cobalt-steel cogs/bearings and replace the lubricant/iron gear components of express transport bel...

I'll have to build my own factory to demonstrate what I'm talking about. I've gotten a proof of concept working with oil products from Bob's Mods so far.

I wish I could be this organised with my factories.

Also, wow, I knew there was a reason I stuck with RSO when playing Bob's, no matter what.

This is getting to be a bad habit. It's not all my fault, I've had some family issues to deal with recently, but that's done with, so, onto the mods! Since it's been two weeks since my last update, there's a whole raft of new and updated stuff, just like last time. *** New Aircraft - Adds flyable pl...

With regard to producing stone/dirt in addition to the main ore type, I believe the probabilities are checked independently, so any ore entity automatically has the potential to produce multiple ore types simultaneously.

I think I see what you're aiming for, but I fear that it won't work beyond a one or two-stage production process at the moment. You might be better off with a loop system that outputs materials onto the belt whenever something else further down the line requires it.

Now all we need is a weather mod to add rain that refills the lakes. It looks like it has a maximum range it will draw from, similar to how Red Power's drain + pump worked in Minecraft (which is probably the only sane way to do it, really). Have you thought about an option for sufficiently large bod...

I'm looking forward to the day when liquid firing is possible in the game, and hydrogen can just have a really low fuel value and we can be done with this debate.

Mysteriously, now that I have Mining loaded in Factorio as well now, I'm getting gems from ores via miners again. Did you cut and paste some code from Ores that you shouldn't have, Bob?

My recent games have all been completely solar agnostic, just for the hell of it. I'm interested in seeing how far I can drive the pollution of a base down by using the extended modules available. I'm also using Klonan's oil burner because dammit I want to use oil firing already. I lose the efficien...

The extra mining drills and pumpjacks seem to have gone walkabout in 0.12.1, the prototype files are missing.

EDIT: Oops, never mind. I didn't see that you'd added another module for those items.

You're not the only one, netmc. I can handmine coal and receive some diamond ore, but automated mining produces only coal, when outputting onto a belt or into a chest. It was working in 0.12 so maybe a bug was introduced in 0.12.1?