Noob question, but do I need a modem between the connection box and a router? I bought the ASUS RT-AX54HP and am having the usual troubles hooking it all up :P As stated in the title, I'm on FTTC and the connection box has all lights a go, but I don't get internet connecting the router to the connection box via the WAN port. As far as I've read, FTTP needs a modem, but FTTC just needs a router? Is this correct? If I at least know whether it's possible or not, then I can rule that out and try some other fault finding. Cheers!
Super basic question for this subreddit: Just wanted to know the speed boost you get for walking on belts. According to the wiki, belts move at 1.875, 3.75 and 5.625 tiles per second. Is it then as simple as running on a blue belt is 5.625 times faster than running on grass? And then the follow on question, does the ground underneath the belt matter? Can you go faster on a belt on a concrete path, or does the belt negate the tile bonus beneath? If you do get the bonus, is it multiplicative or additive, ie for blue belt on refined concrete is the speed multiplier 5.625 *1.5 or 5.625+0.5?
I've been working through my first Bob's and Angel's run and am working my way towards blue science. This requires sulfur and I'm at a loss as to how to get it. I'm using FNEI, which shows a lot of recipes that require blue science to unlock, like coal cracking that can lead to hydrogen sulfide gas which goes to sulfur, but obviously I can't access these without sulfur to create the blue science packs.
The only recipe that seems to have a chance is the one that uses a green catalyst, can't remember the name, but it creates hydrogen sulfide gas from acid gas, which comes from natural gas. However, this needs aluminium and silver which require continium (sp?) and higher-level sorting recipes.
Is there a way that I can set a signal based on missing construction materials, aka the flashing cog alert notification? A bit of googling turned up this mod: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/GhostScanner, does anyone have any experience with it?
I want to create some flashy looking concrete along my borders and I want a concrete train to deliver materials. At first I'll need a LOT, but over time this will diminish and I'd rather not end up with 20k concrete sitting in boxes at my outer perimeter. If I could link this into to the system that already know how much concrete is missing, I can use this to set filters/disable train stops along the way.
So, I foolishly started a death world playthrough thinking I was up for the challenge. I'm about 4 hours in and have only got red and green science and my nearest oil field is behind a wall of biter bases. I feel like I spend all my time walking from one end of the base to the other, topping up AP ammo and repairing my turrets and walls, not able to spend the time expanding my factory. Oh, and my starting resources patches are slowly making their inexorable way towards zero while the biters grow stronger and stronger with each belching of my steam engines.
Hey guys, just wanted to relay my findings from chasing the "There is no spoon" achievement as a noob. Surprisingly, I got it on the first run through in just over 7 hours, plenty of time to spare. There are two things that made this possible:
Blueprints - I got this idea from a video by u/zisteau (thanks heaps!). I created my own blueprints for all the science and components I would need with correct(ish) ratios to produce 60 SPM. I never built bots, but just having the blueprint placed down to copy over saved a ton of thinking time.
Map/biter generation settings - This almost felt like a cheat to me, but whilst you can't turn biters off and get the achievement, you can tweak some in
This is such a minor thing but if you're fiddling with the base documents anyways I'd love it if you got hyperlinks for the sections in the pdf rule book and spell/lore document. As someone who uses these on a tablet I'd be grateful.
edit for clarification: By hyperlinks I mean on the table of contents.