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• Uranium-235
  ...long with [[uranium-238]], one of the refined products of [[uranium ore]]. It is used in the production of nuclear fuels and the [[atomic bomb]]. Uranium ...e of most expensive products in the game. Once 40 units have been amassed, it can be generated much more quickly through the Kovarex process.
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• Main Page/Expert/it
  * [[Mining/it|Meccaniche di estrazione]] * [[Circuit network/it|Rete di circuiti]]
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• Sulfuric acid
  ...ust also be piped into [[electric mining drill]]s to mine [[uranium ore]]. It can be produced in a [[chemical plant]] from [[sulfur]], [[water]], and [[i ...producing batteries, or 150 [[assembling machine 3]]s producing processing units.
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• Steam turbine
  The '''steam turbine''' consumes [[steam]] to create electric energy. It is usually used together with [[heat exchanger]]s and a [[nuclear reactor]] ...nt than using two steam engines. Unless saving space within a large build, it is not necessary to use the more costly turbines for boiler steam.
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• Lubricant
  ...d converted from [[heavy oil]] in a [[chemical plant]]. Like other fluids, it may be [[barrel]]ed. ...s underground belt|underground belts]] and [[express splitter|splitters]]. It is also used to create [[electric engine unit]]s.
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• Offshore pump
  ...object that accepts liquids]]. It produces 1200 units of water per second. It does not require [[electric system|electricity]] or [[fuel]] to operate. ...e pump by using [[landfill]] will rename the pump to "Water well pump" and it will keep producing water.
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• Steam
  ...liquefaction]] in [[oil refinery|oil refineries]]. Since steam is a fluid, it can be stored in a [[storage tank]]. ...o water to create steam is the same amount of energy you get back out from it since both steam engines and turbines are 100% efficient.
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• Storage tank
  ...[[storage]] — it has no input and no output, depending on pressure to fill it, essentially acting as a large [[pipe]]. ...ll only be filled to the same percentage of capacity as pipes that lead to it. A pipe that carries about 50 water will fill the tank to about 50% of its
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• Prototype/SimpleEntityWithForce
  ...a priority target for units/turrets, who will choose to attack it even if it does not block their path. Use [[Prototype/SimpleEntityWithOwner]] for enti
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• Prototype/EnemySpawner
  ...ing_radius|spawning_radius]] of this spawner for it to stop producing more units. How far from the spawner can the units be spawned.
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• Uranium processing
  ...amounts. Additionally, the Kovarex process requires a bulk stockpile of 40 units of the rare uranium-235 isotope to initiate in a single centrifuge. Therefo ...nit is ''E(1,p) = 1 ÷ p = ~143''. The expected number of cycles to gain 40 units is then ''E(40,p) = 40 × E(1,p)'' = '''~5,714 cycles'''. Note that running
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• Electric engine unit
  *Although the electric engine unit is clearly depicted as an electric motor, it is apparently just a lubricated combustion engine.
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• Pump
  ...d, the pump will transfer fluid from the source side to the output side if it will fit. This will occur even if the input side has significantly lower fl ...fluid container: the pump can never move more fluid than is available and it is therefore generally beneficial to have a pressurized [[storage tank]] di
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• Heat exchanger
  ...7 MJ</code> of energy. A heat exchanger produces 10 MJ a second, therefore it produces <code>10MJ / 0.097MJ = 103.0927835</code> steam per second. ...ince steam is produced from water in a 1:1 ratio, this also means that 103 units of water are consumed per second.
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• Storage
  {{Languages}}''Storage'' is the concept of '''storing items'''. It is not always necessary to store large quantities of items, since they are ...er, one can assure that the resource being buffered is always present when it's needed, very important for items that are slow to produce. Buffers can al
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• Fluid wagon
  ...t holds more fluid; a cargo wagon filled with [[barrel]]s can carry 20,000 units of fluid. * Changed fluid wagon recipe so it requires just 1 storage tank instead of 3.}}
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• Power armor MK2
  ...ed resistances over the [[power armor]] and a 10×10 equipment grid, making it larger than the grid of the [[spidertron]]. Access the equipment grid by ri ...les (to avoid requiring Production science pack) and added electric engine units.}}
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• Artillery turret
  ...is a super-long-range static defense structure added in game version 0.16. It fires [[Artillery shell|artillery shells]], relatively slow-moving projecti ...not mobile units (biters and spitters); shells do, however, damage mobile units in the vicinity of impact normally.
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• Types/BaseAttackParameters
  Number of ticks in which it will be possible to shoot again. If < 1, multiple shots can be performed in ...methrower turret]] does not move, but has a minimum range. Less than this, it is unable to target an enemy.
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• Nightvision
  ...kind of [[Equipment modules|equipment module]]. It can be used by placing it in the grid that opens by right clicking the armor. ...her items such as exoskeletons or shields, equipping multiple night vision units has no effect. Nightvision turns off and requires no energy during the day
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• Rocket silo
  ...currently the only win condition. Once the silo has been built and placed it can be filled with [[low density structure]]s, [[rocket fuel]], and [[rocke ...requires 10 low density structures, 10 rocket fuel, and 10 rocket control units.
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• Research
  Research progress for a technology is divided into ''units''. Each unit has a time and a science pack cost. When research is in progre The time ''T'' it will take to research a particular technology is given by:
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• Units
  ...efinite, representational quantities of measurement for different systems. Units can represent the measuring of electricity, amount of items, the time take Not all in-game units are simulated with full realism.
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• Portable solar panel
  '''Portable solar panels''' are the basic power generating units for [[modular armor]] and the [[spidertron]]. They provide only a small amo ...annot usefully hold a much more powerful 4×4 [[portable fusion reactor]]. (It could store one, but there would be no room for anything to use the power.)
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• Artillery wagon
  ...is an end-game wagon mounting a rail cannon that can be added to a train. It fires [[artillery shell]]s, relatively slow-moving projectiles that explore ...rget mobile units (biters and spitters); shells do, however, damage mobile units in the vicinity of impact normally.
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• Wall
  ...health than most defensive structures, their high damage resistance means it will take longer for enemies to destroy them. ...walls in a manner that disrupts their pathing without entirely obstructing it. However, if their pathing is disrupted enough, they will still resort to a
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• Map structure
  ...tructure''' describes the division of the game world into standard [[Units|units]]: tiles and chunks. Tiles are the building blocks of the game, upon which * It takes about 1 minutes and 52 seconds for a player to run 1000 tiles without
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• Data types
  ...e in "big"-endian format (the standard for network stuffs, so much so that it's often referred to as "network"-endian). (Please correct any of this if I' ...of signedness Factorio uses – perhaps it is machine dependent, but for me, it always appears to be [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two%27s_complement two'
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• Prototype/Technology
  ...setting it <code>enabled = false</code>. If it is enabled (by script etc), it will use the data from the other difficulty. Not setting a difficulty, e.g. Controls whether the technology is shown in the tech GUI when it is disabled (enabled = false).
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• Prototype/OffshorePump
  How many units of fluid are produced per tick. Must be > 0. ...adjacent_tile_collision_box must collide with this collision mask (unless it's empty).
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• Module
  * <span style="color:#66CC66"> If used with productivity modules, it can increase the efficiency of the machine in terms of items produced per j ...imply speed up the bar. Each time the machine finishes crafting the recipe it is set to, an amount is added to the bar equal to the percentages of the pr
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• Prototype/MapSettings
  * min_to_diffuse - [[Types/double|double]] - This much pollution units must be on the chunk to start diffusing ...le]] - A chunk has to have at most this much percent unbuildable tiles for it to be considered a candidate. This is to avoid chunks full of water to be m
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• Steam engine
  ...ore electricity. This means the energy that was put into the steam to heat it to a higher temperature is wasted.
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• Chemical science pack
  ...also referred to as "blue science") is the third tier of [[science pack]]. It is used in [[lab]]s to [[research]] advanced [[technologies]].
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• Crafting
  ...only be done by [[furnace]]s. Since smelting cannot be done by the player, it is impossible to craft some items directly from raw resources. ...e automation. The more advanced or expensive an item is, the more [[time]] it may take to craft.
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• Fluid system
  ...rcentage of the entity's maximum volume that is being occupied by a fluid. It can be observed in pipes and tanks; they have windows through which the flu ...nly contains one fluid when looking at the alt-mode icons, when in reality it contains multiple fluids which are located in some other connected structur
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• Prototype/Generator
  How much energy the generator produces compared to how much energy it consumes. For example, an effectivity of 0.5 means that half of the consume The number of fluid units the generator uses per tick.
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• Tutorial:Main bus
  This is a good measure to combat "spaghetti factories" as it forces someone to plan a structured layout and move everything to use items ...te a belt (or splits it into more) then this can be called a "fake"-bus as it ''can not'' be saturated.
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• Tree
  ...ts in Factorio. They can be mined for [[wood]], and are the only source of it. Trees are obstacles to construction and must be cleared to provide buildi ...in its chunk per second. If the total pollution in a [[chunk]] is above 60 units, once per second some of the trees in that chunk each have a chance to eith
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• Electric system
  ...y machine has its own internal electric capacity. When energy is produced, it is evenly distributed to all machines in the network that need electricity. * [[Fuel]]. It can be burnt to generate power.
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• Tank
  ...spidertron]], are the three non-rail vehicles in Factorio. In multiplayer, it is possible for a [[player]] to enter a tank alongside another player. The ...killed. Tanks will change color based on the color of the player who drove it last.
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• Version history/0.4.0
  * Fixed bug of crash (and other problems) when riding rolling stock after it was rotated. * Smaller inserter bounding box, so it is easier to run through the factory.
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• Types/EnergySource
  ...ry. Only valid values are "electric", "burner", "heat", "fluid" or "void", it specifies the type of the energy source to be used. ...to render the [[File:Electricity-icon-red.png|50px]] icon on the entity if it is low on power. Also applies to [[File:Fuel-icon-red.png|50px]] when using
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• Energy and work
  * '''Energy''' can be thought of as stored work. It is measured in joules (symbol J). * '''Work''' is the result of converting one type of energy to another. It is also measured in joules. (See the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_%28
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• Construction robot
  ...re in high danger to be destroyed. Despite being a floating entity, ground units using melee are still capable of destroying them. {{Achievement|you-are-doing-it-right}}
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• Logistic robot
  ...t run when they encounter enemies. Despite being a floating entity, ground units using melee are still capable of destroying them. ...em is unable to deliver its cargo (e.g. if the player moves out of range), it will drop its cargo in a storage chest before moving to other tasks.
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• Construction robot/ko
  {{Achievement|you-are-doing-it-right}}
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• Inserters
  ...hare of the items. For example, if a boiler has 5 or more items of fuel in it, an inserter will not insert additional fuel. This allows the other fuel to ...redients for 2 research units and at most the ingredients for 100 research units.
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• Power production
  Electricity has to be produced before it can be transferred to consumers over the [[electric system]]. There are mul ...p produces enough water to supply 40 steam engines: <code>1200 unit/s ÷ 30 units/s = 40</code>. The number of boilers can be derived from the number of stea
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• Tutorial:Nuclear power
  ...change. It's a great solution for middle- to end-game power generation and it works well in combination with other power generation techniques. ...tly how nuclear power works, but don't necessarily want all the solutions. It focuses on what you should do and what you should know to get Nuclear up an
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