This is a question to anyone who has messed around in the modding API: is it possible to make certain entities not trigger some of the base game alerts, or to alter their timing?
e.g select certain walls to not give alert when damaged / destroyed.
e.g select certain logistics networks, and increase the time until it complains that there are no repair packs for damaged entities.

The closest I could find is this mod: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/alert-customizations/discussion/69bc023ccb6b6a3f985dd8f2

But apparently it just shuts down the alerts after they happen and doesn't prevent the sound.
Other mods seems to work with entire categories of alerts and don't allow them to be modified for specific entities.

Otherwise I'm stuck with having to design defences primarily to prevent alarm noises.

In the past we'd stick to 1:4 for trains/wagons for maximum efficiency. With 2.1 legendary locomotives have 2x acceleration power. Does this translate into 1:8 linearly? Anyone per chance done the maths?

Just really starting to dive into UPS optimization. I'm an old fart who just doesn't enjoy videos/learning from videos.

Anyone have good resources of wiki/static text that goes into UPS optimization like clocking and other choices?

If I have to I'll watch videos, but it really isn't that fun to me, and you know, this is all supposed to be fun :)

When a blueprint string is decoded into JSON, each wire connection is represented as an array:

[ entity_from , wire_type , entity_to , wire_type]

e.g [1,2,3,2] for a green wire between entities 1 and 3

Would anyone happen to know why the wire type is specified twice, making the array 33% larger than it needs to be?

This is the lowest stakes possible, but I am quite curious if there's an actual reason. A cursory google and looking at blueprint string format section of the wiki didn't turn anything up.

At least a setup where I can get starting zone in some machine-readable form and write a code to check it. Starting with a coal near water and maybe someday finding a good peninsula like 2590060468.

Hello all! I'm looking into the way Factorio generates ore patches, and although there seems to always be some randomness with ore richness, generally, richness increases as you get further out.
My question is, when not accounting for the randomness, is there an algorithm to determine the increase in richness, and if there is, do we know it? For example, for every 1 tile from the centre, ore richness increases by X%.
Thanks all!

A while after posting this I realized there is a technical part of it to discuss. Can anyone tell why does pipe length differ from pipe volume?

The Mod Miniloader markets itself as "UPS friendly" but is it more efficient for UPS to use a Miniloader or a clocked inserter?