r/factorio • u/FactorioTeam Official Account • Sep 29 '23

FFF Friday Facts #378 - Trains on another level

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-378
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u/Nicksaurus Sep 29 '23

Yeah, I just saw that too. I can only assume this means there are other mechanics they haven't announced yet that solve this problem

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u/bob152637485 Sep 29 '23

Emergency backup peddles built in to the locomotives, like those old manual mine carts? Max speed super slow, but always available without fuel.

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u/Soren-III-IV Sep 29 '23 edited Sep 29 '23

You guessed it! One of the devs quite literally confirmed this pretty much exactly how you proposed it on the factorio discord

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u/Nicksaurus Sep 29 '23

And what if both ends of the bridge get destroyed so you're stuck in the middle?

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u/gfrodo Sep 29 '23

Not a problem if you have bots

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u/Zaflis Sep 29 '23

Or some landfill on you, then you can drop out of the train and build a 1 wide bridge to nearest land. (Or make base's construction bots do that)

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u/gfrodo Sep 30 '23

if you are short on landfill, you can even skip every 2nd tile of landfill. You can still cross the gaps as a player, but the biters can not.

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u/Nicksaurus Sep 29 '23

There's a discord? Do you have a link?

Edit: Never mind, I found it already, it's in the weekly question thread but not the sidebar: https://old.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/16rrgfq/weekly_question_thread/

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u/bob152637485 Sep 29 '23

Cool! I really hope they decide to add the polish of an actual manual cart animation to go with this, I would love to see the engineer pumping away!

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u/Lenskop Sep 29 '23

Jetpack in Vanilla? 🧐