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 ...

It would be funny if the recipe did match the underground length, but the argument that it would make all the buildings match up exactly is not great. This would lead future people to always build to grid, making posted designs even more samey than they are. If everything was 3x3 it would also make ...

If the point was to find the one optimal design that beats all, and you couldn't immediately find it. Sounds like a game worth buying. If you eventually found it and felt like that was the end, immediately quit retired champion. I really feel like maybe you missed a few things along the way ...

When I first saw your screenshot, I despaired that you won't find a convenient way to load the processing units using inserters! The amount of bots to make sure things go smoothly looks excessive.

But you might be in luck: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?t=132595

It's about quality ...

The magic number for the needed digits of precision in C is DBL_DECIMAL_DIG from float.h

or std::numeric_limits<double>::max_digits10 in C++

which happens to be 17.

Though algorithms to get it smaller and still round trip conveniently exist in other languages, they usually fall back to arbitrary ...

There are some modded weapons already using this feature, but I think non-explosive tank cannon is the only ammo in vanilla game has this property.

Also the uranium cannon shell and atomic bomb have a range modifier.

Confirmed this is makes driving on straight "roads" much easier and doesn't interfere with any off grid driving that I've seen.

(Not to mention you can properly drive a car in multiplayer now, an unrelated bonus feature)

Great work for something seemingly so minor