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[Graknorke]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that you will always need coal for furnaces.
Why? You need coal and ore to make iron IRL, and then more coal again to make steel.

Girlinhat, are you still having trouble? if so, post a picture.

You don't need it to make iron, though you do need it for steel though. However, it's not necessary for coal to be the fuel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_arc_furnace

[ank]

If you read through the article you'll see the Arc Furnace is only for remelting scrap iron(and making it into steel, which still requires carbon).
No ore refining here.

And no luck with induction furnaces either, from wikipedia:
"The one major drawback to induction furnace usage in a foundry is the lack of refining capacity"


And lastly, consider the gameplay: We want coal to be useful throughout the entire game, it's just better game design.

[Graknorke]

That's what I guess for basing things on what I learned from museums at the age of 7.

[askovdk]

I just played the demo, - and am now founding.
This is the kind of game that I really love. 

[LoSboccacc]

I am using the conveyor to bring two kind of resources from the many mines around the infinite world,
so I needed a way to make a merge intersection between different lanes with the same sided resources:

Spoiler: T-section (click to show/hide)

the filters bring coal left to right and iron right to left; respecting sides (robohand always drop on the farthest side)

the loop has another smart filter that feed back leftover coal when the main conveyor is full.

[Dariush]

I haven't even started the game and it already is glitching out on me. :-/ (it's x64 zip'd version, BTW)

Edit:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Aaaand I have just started the game and it already went unplayable on me. Yay?

[Graknorke]

I haven't even started the game and it already is glitching out on me. :-/ (it's x64 zip'd version, BTW)

I downloaded the Windows x64 zip file and it works fine. Dunno what's up with yours.

[Dutchling]

Mimu.

Sounds like a fun game to me. Don't see what's the problem.

[qwertyuiopas]

I had a similar issue, though as it only affected a few letters, the game was still playable. One thing I noticed, was that the window extended slightly off the edge of my main screen, though I have no idea whether that could affect the text rendering.

[Siquo]

This looks amazing (well, the concept at least). Will try this out asap.

[Stelknecht]

Tried the demo, got hooked. Donated. Can't quit. I really hope they get the funding, this looks neck-and-neck up to this point.
Mind you, I can't finish, either, I never get very far before I come up with a 'better' way to optimize factory production. Currently trying to automate my lab research supplies.
I'm enjoying this almost as much as my first few months of DF.

[Siquo]

This is pretty nice! However, the framerate being linked to that of my monitor makes it play at ca 180FPS. Which makes doing battle... awkward.

[askovdk]

This game is dangerously good. At home I play it on my main computer, in bed I play it on the laptop, and at work I can't help thinking about it and design setups on squared paper.

Their forum is already collecting designs that would make any dwarf happy, so I will (very modest) give my own smelting plant as example: 
http://www.factorioforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=285

[LoSboccacc]

Go and advertise it then! 
I need a multiplayer version of this 

[Darthlawsuit]

Go and advertise it then! 
I need a multiplayer version of this 

I wonder what a multiplayer version of this would be like.