The conflict is simple yet difficult to imagine.

Basically, the game functions on a tile grid where each tile is a square. However, the images in the game are rendered with an orthographic camera under 45 degree angle.

We use axis X to be horizontal, Y and Z vertical. This means that everything that is in Y or Z is distorted by square root of 2 - a flat plane on the ground will have dimensions X=1, Y=1.41, and look like a perfect square in the game.

Generally speaking, this conflict results in some perspective magic that vast majority of the graphics have to do.

As a quick nightmare fuel: Anything you see rotate (except biters, car, tank, and combat robots), is not actually just rotating in the 3D space of Blender, but some additional tricks and modifications are happening to it, often times different rotations are using a very different 3D model.

However, specifically rails are weird because they have the conflict directly in them.

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Lua is global by default, Somewhere you are doing type = item.name or something, And that is overriding the global type() method.

You need to declare the variables as local type = item.name.

Console command:

/c for k, v in pairs (game.player.surface.find_entities_filtered{type = "corpse", position = game.player.position, radius = 50}) do v.destroy() end

We haven't used serpent for quite a while, info here: https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-349#lua-serialisation

Bugfixes

• Fixed transport belts picking up items on ground when rotated. more
• Fixed that game.map_settings.path_finder.fwd2bwd_ratio could be set to nonsensical values. more
• Fixed main menu track playing only once. ...

And we still get paid 😎

Modding

• Changed tip trigger name from "unlocked-recipe" to "unlock-recipe" to be consistent with the way other triggers are named.

Use the automatic updater if you can (check experimental updates in other settings) or download full installation at http://www.factorio.com/download/experimental.

You're thinking of Therenas, not Earendel

Bugfixes

• Added tip about power pole coverage when drag-building.
• Fixed that the distance between first and second pole in the dragging electric poles tutorial was 6 tiles instead of 7.
• Fixed LuaGameScript::save_atlas() function would crash the headless server. more
• Fixed possibility for the victory screen to be hidden behind other GUIs under specific circumstances more
• Fixed generator and fluid energy source t...

Bugfixes

• Fixed "create-trivial-smoke" triggers being interpreted as "create-entity" triggers in the prototype explorer which could cause a crash. more
• Added migration for saves with inserters that have NaN hand height or hand length.

Scripting

• Added LuaGuiElement::swap_children().

Modding

• Sub items are now removed from items used in hand-crafting.

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This is a problem with Windows, there is information on our forum of how to solve it: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?p=550992#p550992

I think I got about 150 for my setup to function. I guess it depend on the system really heavily, but for example every of my 2->2 machines had its own requester chest always trying to fill, so that alone was quite some buffer to start with.

A few dozen sounds quite low, that's how much I got from the first trip for collecting some spheres

Bugfixes

• Added migration for saves with particles that have NaN movement vector.

Use the automatic updater if you can (check experimental updates in other settings) or download full installation at http://www.factorio.com/download/experimental.

Bugfixes

• Fixed that setting the scale parameter to zero in a spidertron leg definition would cause a "double value not in range for fixed point number" error. more
• Fixed crash when destroying a vehicle on the same frame a tooltip is created for the vehicle's weapon and ammo bar. more
• Fixed that building an entity over other forces' ghosts and undoing would transfer ownership of those ghosts to the undoer's force.
• F...

You're the one they warned us about

Changes

• Reduced multiplayer latency on very good connections by up to 66ms(4 ticks). more
• Changed multiplayer latency calculation to be smoother. This should reduce multiplayer stutter on bad connections.
• Changed default network send rate from 30 to 60 packets per second and added an option to configure the rate in server-settings.json.

Bugfixes

• Add a 70% damage bonus to discharge defenses with Energy Weapons Damage 6 and 7. more
• Fix...

I just treated it as a separate closed environment. I've put it into it's own logistic network, and then figured out very basic logic to determine when should it try to use which recipe, based on some min/max that it should try to keep. As others said, a display showing the current balance is insanely helpful.

Once some minimum in the logistic network, only then I allowed it to output that arcosphere to the main logistic network. That way I'd never get into a deadlock where it'd just run out of a type.

Bugfixes

• Fixed an API error when checking for updates for a large number of mods. more
• Fixed that inserters wouldn't remove burnt result items from assembling machine recipes with no item outputs. more
• Fixed vehicle weapon slots GUI not highlighting with the corresponding ammo slot when selected
• Fixed tank cannon weapon showing a "1" in the vehicle weapon slots GUI
• Fixed that entities not containing certain collision masks would never collide with tiles. more
• Fixed a crash when opening the tutorials GUI through Lua command. more
• Rocket silo no longer drains more energy at night. more
• Fix tank cannon showing smaller range than the cannon shells. ...

Bugfixes

• Fixed false positive tile corruption detection when 255 tile prototypes were defined. more
• Fixed pollution overlay misalignment at certain zoom level/map position combinations. more

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There is a threshold of ban activity that needs to be met, 1 ban certainly isn't enough