The difference between doing it with love and doing it for money, congratulations, it’s fantastic.

Thank you for the stream) Showcasing the work in progress is extremely appreciated, I love the openness and the engagement with the community. Looking forward to design some train logistics in the factory)

I love the talk about innovating on signal mechanics. Honestly, the idea of "non-blocking zones" is how I think about chain signals 90% of the time anyway, so it makes sense to just define those zones directly. Good luck!

The train physics are pretty nice. They don't have to be perfectly realistic, just approximately. One big factor that I wish will be implemented is rolling resistance in curves. Trains have almost zero rolling resistance in a straight vs in the tightest turn that CoI allows, this small locomotive would struggle to move the train at all.

Still loving the thought process and really appreciate the chance for Steam trains. I'm consistently amazed at the quality of the work and look of this game.

Critical sections instead of signals is a very interesting idea. Good luck implementing it!

Looks great Marek. I look forward to seeing these in game.

Amazing! I have always wanted to se this in CoI having loved Satsifactory's trains. So excited for this update :)

I like the way Trains fit in with the logistics here, I've been loving this game since i saw it on steam, keep up the great work, I'll throw in a few ideas i had while watching that i either didn't see mentioned or such: Shunting yards: instead of the train returning to the depo itself to attach/ detach cars they could be done at shunting yards, these could also have newly built cars added to them and transported via a regular train passing by or set as a way point and the Trainyard could have a wagonyard upgrade that has its own train unit to transport, additionally shunting yards could be set to have an already loaded set of wagons so a train can detach the unloading ones and attach the loaded ones, maybe as an advanced logistics thing. Wagon Yard: either as a seperate building or attachable building to the Trainyard, so you can build wagons faster/ more wagons and have an attachable shunting yard to set them up, that way it would be both more realistic and a bit easier to set trains up. Upgradable switch: Could work much like a balencer, first stage has the non priority train come to a stop, when its upgraded it consumes power but has the non primary train slow down enough to let the priority train pass then speeds up. (this could take some tinkering with code to get right though). Merge/pass switches: Like above but lets trains pass if one is entering a station to unload and one behind isnt or allows 2 tracks to merge, would be similar to above (maybe an advanced train logistics tech thing). Level Crossing: I imagine this could be done like a balencer, you could even select if the train or vehicles have priority (though it makes more sense for the train to have priority) vehicles stop and calculate with the crossing if a train is due, if no train they can cross, if train coming then stop (maybe have a special track piece that detects the train and is linked to the crossing like how mine control towers have set vehicles/ or its assigned to the trains on that track with a calculation to its estimated time of arrival). Flatbed Wagon (Vehicle): Could work if you have them assignable and an animation like they line then sorta teleport onto the wagon and off again, or you could have a new cargo type like "Incomplete excavator" and its loaded/ unloaded at a "Vehicle Assembler" (this would be a good way of transporting Mega vehicles around the map, so it might just be a Mega Vehicle thing). Water tower: Steam train building to keep water in the boiler over long distance (could also be turned off on easy or just a realistic setting thing like ore sorting) could also have coal storage upgrade/ attachment. Vehicle bridge train: Could be small, medium and large to allow vehicles to bridge over train tracks like the others do for pipes and belts (could be done if it was made like a track piece? just with a bridge going over at the appropriate height). Nuclear trains: Could be an upgrade option and the water towers could have some nuclear fuel storage to keep it fueled and watered, Possible upgrade could be molten salt reactor ( so it can be refueld like the fast breeder reactor) but that would be about the same level of research. Steam trains: could also have a higher polution penalty and more workers but less and lower teir of maintenence (so it won't immediatly be skipped over and it would make sense that it is less complicated to work on due to already having coal boilers and lots of coal intensive industry already). Upgradable Tracks: Tracks having the ability to be upgraded like belts and pipes, i.e Light Rail: can handle tier 1 trains at full speed but teir 2 and 3 trains have to reduce speed, Medium Rail: Adds canterlevers for electric trains, Teir 2 trains and lower can travel at full speed but teir 3 trains need to slow down, Heavy Rail: all trains travel at full speed. Electric injector (not sure what its called) : Acts like the transformer in the settlements and adds electricity to medium and heavy rails. Train Service yard: comes in 3 teirs corrospnding to train and rail teir and can either act like the statues of maintenence or act like the maintenence buildings in game and have a similar system (this is where the Steam train would differ as it would only drain either teir 1 or 2 maintenence (i'd say same about the same as coal boiler, maybe with an extra 5 or such if teir 1 or maybe just over half of the diesel trains). anyway the above are just ideas i hope may help with getting over the hurdles when it comes to implementing new stuff. Cheers and as i said, keep up the great work.

Amazing! Impressive how good it's looking so early

Feedback: THIS IS FUCKING AWESOME!!!!!! TLDR: I loved it. XD

It would be 10/10 to have a modern train engine

This is exciting. Great work.

Cant wait to see the depiction of steam vs diesel locomotives if you decide to go forward with steam. Steam having higher raw power but needing much more infrastructure and maintenance vs the simple diesel that is relatively cheap and easy to use would be a great dynamic and portray the dilemma railroads went through during the transition era

nice work. the game is so cool now and will be perfect with trains...

Can't wait for it! Great game

I suggested this back a few months ago.

awesome

Gonna put it out there now: factorio's chain signals are amazing, please use them as your inspiration for signals here!

42:29 I would expect air drag to also be affected by the surface area of the train carts, maybe especially the front surface area: i.e. more carts, more air drag, but also replacing smaller carts with fewer large carts should reduce air drag.

great stream, will we ever get the ability to make tunnels ? both for vehicles and for trains.

Thanks. ChooChoo Hype !

"Steam engines can't take tight curves" Sir let me introduce you to the Garratt locomotive, a steam engine designed to emulate the massive US engines, on the tight rails of the UK.

57:51 Can you use multiple locomotives to pull one train like in Factorio? EDIT: I mean, with each locomotive contributing traction.

Does it count emty cargo so train go faster and loaded is slower. Do we have rail signal to have control by trains.

Interesting, but I have some questions: 1) what about rail+road crossing? or only briges will be awailable? 2) routing of trains, how it will work? 3) logistic automatization of trainz? will it be? how it will look like (as LTN in Factorio or "Train distribution office" in Workers&Resourses )? 4) will You make some kind of "logistic zones" to prevent car from serving faraway industry?

Factorio Signals allow Long trains, trains can occopie multiple Blocks.

If we put 2 locomotives dos it still can hold a power claiming hills on highest speed?

i didnt get to ask live, but would love to know if trains can cross spans of water/ocean?

1 more thing I hope to see some underground x ray tool. I like to bery my pipes underground is little bit difficult but it's posable. Make thing more cleaner. + this one it be really nice when doing some strategy build witha blue prints it's stays in place wahil ground works going on instead of they demolish by tham self cuz ther is no ground support jus for laying pipes.

How do you plan to handle tracks construction? Currently, everything is constructed by trucks delivering materials. However, I think there will be situations that you want to build train tracks in areas unreachable by trucks.

dont forget Double traction whould benefit heavy consist

I intrested if be posable transferring mix resources to sorting plant. Instead of separate and then move it. It be more realistic in life.

Wonder, if the game will use the Advanced steam technology too ... not just use copies of preexisting steam locomotives ...

will rain affect train wheel slippage and therefore drag?

We ask for roads that make the trucks move faster, they give us trains…..👍

Awesome

Promising... Why not use splines to trace the paths? I don't have the GOD and remove all trees functions in the console, is this only for developers? How can you have more workers (2059) than population (1140)?

You sholde let a train go back if is to steep an heavy

The next step should be a base defense, like in factorio 😊 some pirates or something else who are attacking the Island. ❤

Would love the option for my excavators to mine another material in the mine if lets say iron gets full instead of sitting with a full bucket for ages

im so exitced like mavis when she got the fluffy unicorn

lol H0 track size

Nooooo. Trains ruined factorio. Please God no

What about britons? Poor creatoures