Crash site: First state Ernestas, V453000, Albert

For many weeks now the GFX department has been focused on preparing replacements for the placeholder graphics of the campaign crash site. The subject as usual is not that easy because we had to first solve the main concept of the crash site.

It happens that those new entities belong to the Factorio universe, but they come from a different reality than the usual DIY/diesel punk of the game. So we had to invent a new way to design machines that look like Factorio but that are not too familiar.

Here a proof of concept of the look:

The concept is that the big (medium) spaceship broke into pieces as it crash landed, and lost many components that the player, during the introduction, will repair and use for his own profit.

The look of the spaceship remnants are a little bit based on the d...

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Hello,
this is a special edition. We are celebrating that we managed to write something about the game development of Factorio every single Friday and reached the number 300. Since we hopefully won't get to another round number like this before finishing the game, we would like to make this one a little bit different. We will introduce people from the team.

Everyone was asked to answer the following questions:

• What were your favorite video games growing up?
• What did you do before Factorio?
• What do you do in the Team?
• What's your favorite part of Factorio?
• Anything else that is important about you.

Here are the answers:

Michal (kovarex) Kovařík
Founder, Game designer, Developer, "Approver"

My favorite games are: Baldur's gate, Starcraft, Civilisation, Xcom, They are billio...

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You might have noticed that a lot of rail related stuff was broken during these past releases, and now it is working more or less fine again. The story behind it is not so trivial.

Rail signal logic

The rail signal logic for automated trains is quite straightforward:

As a train moves forward, it tries to reserve signals in front of it. If it can reserve a signal, the whole block guarded by the signal gets reserved for the train. If the train can't reserve the signal, as the block is reserved or occupied by different train(s), it stops in front of the signal and waits. Once the train passes a signal and enters a new block, it removes the reservation on the signal and block it had reserved. Once it exits the block, the block can be reserved and entered by other trains.

This looks nice and simple, nothing fundamentally wrong could happen with this logic right? Especially since we have it there for almost five years and it all just works right?...

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