Removed core lualib util.encode() and util.decode()
Why was this done out of curiosity? Also was the PVP scenario updated to not use them anymore? Last I knew it made use of these two functions.
There is the new game.encode_string() andgame.decode_string(), which replaced their functionality
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Read more External link →stevetrovs_10K_mega_belt_base.zip
Hi,
internet seems to claim that Ryzen 5 3600 is the bestest most CPU-est single-thread furnace at the moment, is there anybody who has Ryzen 5 3600 (I'm looking at CL14-14-14-34 3200MHz memory specifically)?
I've found https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/ccy927/update_ryzen_3000_memory_speed_benchmarks/ for the Ryzen memory test.
However, the 8700K is capped at 4.2GHz in that test, but on full blast u/madpavel seems to have went even further... ...
Read more External link →One improvement I would like is high resolution icons throughout; some of them now look a bit 'basic' for a 'complete' game.
(The fact that this is my biggest gripe shows how polished the game is).
HR Icons is on the TODO for 1.0 :)
The new poison cloud looks really nice!
Now if you can apply the same love to the fugly beacons, we can call it 1.0 and move on. :P
We are applying love to the beacons, but they need a lot of it, and they are very important to us, so we are really taking our time with them.
I noticed the robot death animations have velocity, will they inherit the robots velocity if it's moving? Would look pretty odd if they died and suddenly went the opposite direction lol.
nope, death particle velocity is not affected by the speed of the robot
It's just me or the fight robots should kinda shutdown like its batteries ran out (then crashing in the ground) instead of exploding like they were destroyed by attacks?
In the gif they were killed by damage, so they explode and die catastrophically.
When expiring there is no explosion and they fall more calmly.
The poison cloud animation is a placeholder spritesheet (that kovarex found somewhere on the internet), we have wanted to improve it for a long time, but since it was always such a small detail other things took priority. Well now is the time to finish everything, big and small.
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Some of the problems we see with the old placeholder animation:
The new animation was done quickly and without the need of any large changes to the Factorio engine. This is the mindset we are in these days, use the engine features we already have to finish things quickly and without trouble, and we try to stop ourselves going crazy with more detail.
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External link →Scrolling on the map view of steam turbines or nuclear reactors seems to crash the game in this version. Don't know which of the two yet.
/edit: Crash also happens when zooming on a furnace-array, so might be something to do with the particles or clouds of those buildings.
Also found a crash case when opening a blueprint, working on reproducing it rn.
whoops, hotfix incoming
I think it would be cool if there were mining robots you could research. They would not by flying robots, would work within a ground range of a robo port, deposit into the logistics network, and need to recharge in a similar way to flying robots.
The pros would be very little pollution (equivalent to hand mining) and very little infrastructure (no belts, power poles, miner machines, etc.. just a robo port).
The cons would be that they can't increase productivity in the same way that mining productivity improves the electric miners, and speed could only be increased with worker robot speed / cargo size.
They would be useful for midgame outposts, allowing for simple setup and giving off little pollution, but later game the regular miners would be favoured again.
Like these guys: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Mining_Drones
Thanks for the feedback, I will take a look at the scenario again before 1.0, so this post is quite useful
Hello,
We released 0.18.4 this week, same old same old, more bugfixes, more bugs, more changes. At this stage of development, not many interesting things are happening, we are just polishing what we have.
Just a couple days before the release of 0.18.0 I had an epiphany about a terrain rendering problem that was bugging me for a really long time. When rendering terrain, we reuse the texture from the previous frame. How this was always done, is that we would render the texture shifted to the new position, fill up the gap, and then copy the final result back into the texture for reuse in next frame. So what was bugging me about this? This simple operation would result in rasterizing 2 screens worth of pixels. While that is not a problem for at least half decent GPUs from the past decade, it's a significant work load for integrated GPUs, which in general have an order of magnitude lower memory bandwidth than dedicated ...
Read moreProblem with using Space Exploration is that Earendel marks any kind of teleportation mod as conflicting. Even if it's not in the conflict list, there's code to stop the game from loading if any mod has 'teleport' in the name.
There is one exception to that check: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Teleporters
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