Several posts about this topic previously, including a duplicate on this specific suggestion

[Lou]Ghost entities cannot be placed directly on Aquilo tiles which require two layers of tiles to be constructed

Guess cover tile to use when no cover tile is set yet

some others

Yes the idea in agriculture science is to minimize buffering to get the most science out of it. Adding a head start on spoilage would be just adding a "handicap" to give you a one time boost to performance. Unless you made the head start so long that you can get the potion researched entirely before ...

In my ribbon world experience you might have to build a long thin bridge of landfill to get a train to more resources. If it's lava, I guess you have to come back with a mechsuit.

That is perfectly cromulent English.

when the packed items are moving east west on a belt yeah, the bar can look full white even though there is some spoilage. When it is nearly dead, you see mostly gray bar. Assuming all the items have the same age.

I think it is less of an issue north to south

"during flight" (between planets, since in space you're always in flight) you could plausibly add back in parallax because according to head canon the platform is required to do some amount of rotation to get its brachistochrone trajectory to make sense without having engines on both ends of the ...

thematically it's hard to move mass quantities of water into space, and ice would be even worse because it's less dense. However in the game ice is 4x more efficient in a rocket vs equivalent water barrels which might lead to unthematical advantage. Going out to the outer solar system to get mass ...

the lore expressed by the rocket capacity tooltips is a rocket can only lift so much weight into orbit. If you stretch your imagination you could also believe a cargo pod doesn't have the delta V to get between orbits holding a rocket silo, but can somehow survive a landing. Either way it's not ...

It's great space casino is now removed

I could have sworn this was already what happens when you loot the body containing armor while having nothing on you

This came up a lot in relation to mixed rockets not autolaunching (pre 2.1). One question I have is the semantics. When circuit goes from 0 to not 0, launch? What if there's nowhere suitable to launch to, and how does that interact with other normal (not circuit controlled) silos competing for the ...

if achievements aren't supposed to be hard to get

they should have called them something else.

Steam Participation Trophy?

I was wrong about that part. To get the situation straight I did some numbers for the process of crafting (by hand) concrete then recycling it vs crafting engine unit then recycling it. Ignore that concrete nor engine units can be crafted by hand

0.1 gears per second consumed crafting engine unit
0 ...

not a bug

You can use quality items for crafting. And accidentally losing your rare iron gears to the common engine factory sounds like its own kind of error prone. Though I agree this idea would make everything way easier. Which is why I don't like it.

There was an old bug report about concrete recycling and how it was "bugged", and didn't follow the formula. Except that when I looked at the formula, which factors in amount of item crafted explicitly, it seems to be acting exactly as described in the blog post introducing the recycler and the wiki ...

Hold on. In vanilla + quality, high quality satellites does something? This I gotta try

By the way showing the range of the agricultural tower was recently mentioned in "fixed in 2.1"

The steel furnace uses less coal per craft. So the question becomes is it worth the expense of creating the steel furnace itself before unlocking electric furnace (and modules, because without modules the electric furnace is much more inefficient). I did the math and with vanilla recipes, it takes ...

For what it's worth, after connecting switch 1 with factorio to a 4k TV, I had to select one of the advanced video interpolations in the TV options before being able to ride the train zoomed in. Otherwise it would flicker quite bad. Luckily there were a few options which worked well. Try delving ...