New hope demo levels Klonan
A few weeks ago we discussed the changes to the demo and tutorial in the game (...
Read moreUse the automatic updater if you can (check experimental updates in other settings) or download full installation at http://www.factorio.com/download/experimental.
External link →Wow, thanks for the fast reply. I was not expecting that.
Here is the save file:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3ji8jy20z6b2uea/2020%20Krastorio%20Space%20E.zip?dl=0I hope this works and thanks for your help.
Seems it was a conflict between landfill painter and my transport drones mod.
I've fixed it on my side, since I don't know if the landfill painter mod author is active or anything.
I was about to start building my rail network when I noticed that I can't build on floor tiles like concrete, bricks etc. and when I try to build concrete on a tile that is occupied by a rail the rail disappears.
My mods: Krastorio 2, Space Exploration, AAI Industries, AAI Vehicles, Transport Drones, Alien Biomes and a few QoL mods.
Is this an intended feature or a bug? Has anybody experienced something similar?
I don't know which mod is causing this so instead of reporting a bug on some mod that isn't even responsible for it I was hoping to get some help here.
Thanks.
Can you provide the save game? I can see which mods might be causing the hassle
Nothing like that was ever in vanilla
In the recent patch notes, there was a line "Fixed landfill spawning under player when building landfill elsewhere. More" and some people on Reddit were wondering how did this bug happen in the first place, and asked for the long version and even suggested we could even use it for Friday Facts, and I thought: "Yeah, if I am going to spend time writing this, we should consider using it in FFF so someone else doesn't have to spend time writing something else." ... but I am going to stretch it out.
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The landfill bug reported after the release of 0.18.21.
Disclaimer: I have not been around during the a...
Read moreI think we have differing images of what a “group of units” is in our heads.
In this context, I perceive Factorio to be similar to an RTS game like Starcraft, where a player can drag-select a group of units on their screen and then right-click on an enemy base to send them to battle. In Starcraft, units of different speeds/movement capabilities would behave independently and would, yes, arrive separately. This provides a challenge for the player, but also gives consistent and predictable results of what will happen when you command a group of units to go somewhere: they will arrive as fast as they can regardless of what kinds of units were selected.
In an 4X game like Stellaris a fleet of units would be behaving as you describe, but that would require the player to explicitly designate a selection of units as a “fleet”.
In Factorio unit group refers to a special game object, the 'unit group'.
This group does pathing, and members of the group do simple and efficient logic to just follow the group position. This helps reduce UPS usage for 500 biters trying to cross a lake. Just 1 pathfind is done for the group, and the 500 biters just follow the group.
Selecting units and what happens in Starcraft isn't specifically related.
This behavior of mixed group of biters feels counterintuitive to me. I would expect units of different kinds to have independent pathing: fast units get to the destination quicker than slow units, fliers take direct path while walkers have to walk around. Maybe that’s just my RTS background talking.
Thats a different concept. If you have two unit groups, then it will work as you describe.
If you have 1 group with mixed units, it would be weird if they split up and arrived at different times.
Last weekend, a bug report came in on our forum. The issue was that the groups of biters were trying to path over the water, but the bugs can't swim.
It seemed like something quite typical of a mod being funky. I looked into it, and it seems the ...
Read moreIt was never on its own thread.
When updating, each fluid network is updated in parallel. This is still in series with the main game update step.
So its like,
Update input -> Update all fluid networks -> Update entities
(simplified)
And the fluid network step its split across multiple threads.
I had a lot of issues with the mod when it first released. Frequent crashes, abysmal pathing, and just plain not working with the logistics beacons and chests.
I noticed JD and Tuplex seem to have had a lot more success with the personal drones recently, but neither have used or made any mention of the logistics beacon setup as far as I've seen. Is that still part of the mod, and if so does it work better now?
I removed that stuff, descoped the drones to be just personal drones, which makes them work much more smoothly
with a command:
/c game.reset_time_played()
https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/LuaGameScript.html#LuaGameScript.reset_time_played
That makes a ton of sense now.
My GPU somehow was mixing elements of windows and linux together across reboots. It has since been resolved but it made for extremely interesting results.
That is weird though, I would expect the GPU to lose power some time during the reboot, which would clear vram. I guess not :p
Not a bug with the game itself*
My Laptop has a bizarre dual GPU architecture whereby a single proprietary NVIDIA driver controls both a high end and integrated card, picking whichever one to use whenever appropriate. The manufacturer made sure this works absolutely fine in Windows, but in Linux things are a wee bit unstable.
This particular error occurred when putting the system to rest mode with factorio running in the background. It’s pretty interesting to look at nonetheless, and still technically playable. The map view and inventory screen are still completely normal.
Related issues are actually present on pretty much all nvidia gpus on linux, not just optimus laptops. I reported a similar issue to nvidia: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/glgeneratemipmap-corruption-after-hibernate/63962/4
Basically, with the nvidia proprietary drivers on linux, if you do anything unusual, the contents of memory are undefined. It sucks.