robot256 wrote: Sun Nov 24, 2024 6:08 pm You might be able to get away with automatically changing the recipe to the "primary result",

I almost put (primary) into the wording. While choose an output would be more generic, especially with mods, I think primary fixes the majority of use cases in space age.

Setting the filter of the storage chest to the recipe would be the equivalent. This would also make no sense but it would be consistent with the behaviour of the requester chest and a better solution than simply not allowing to select that recipe.


If nothing else that consistency would be great ...

So I checked the blueprint, and it all works as intended. The storage chest has [0] as filter, which limits this parameter to be an item, and there is no item "empty barrel"


Usability wise it'd be better if it showed the recipe grey'd out with a tooltip saying that the parameter needs an item ...

When used in a place that needs an item a recipe should be converted to the item it makes.

Meanwhile you can get round this mess by having two parameters, one for the recipe and one the thing it makes.

Otherwise a train can path into that space in the time between when the ghost is created and the first bit of train is delivered resulting in a collision.

You mean how you can only pin vehicles with Alt + right click,

I forgot about alt + right click. Thank you, now I have a pin on my tank.

There's a couple of little things that I think would substantially improve remote driving.

1: pin vehicles the same way you can pin ore patches etc, so you can find them easily (edit: you can use alt-right click)

2: an option to block zooming out to radar level when remote driving.

I often get ...

I'm getting this on ore stations. I mentioned it here https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=117901 as part of a suggestion to allow any quality in circuit conditions.

> paramaterized blueprints of these stations is weird, I set the parameter to copper ore any quality, what actually gets ...

Currently the all qualities option is available in filters but not signal conditions.
I'd like if it were available in signal conditions as well and just summed them all.

My particular usecase is ore trains that have mixed quality that I'm unloading in one place.
Currently I can't count ALL the ore ...

I presume most of the engines changes are going into the Switch port. Does that mean you might be able to give them the elevated rails and quality mods?

With Space Age it'd be great if you could have each screen a separate view so you could look at multiple surfaces at once.

XT-248 wrote: Sat Jun 22, 2024 6:45 am (over-flow at 80% or above from input to the outlet, Only allows flow if the outlet is at 20% or below, etc.)

That's a tank, a pump and a wire, and you could still make a mod like that and it would still be useful.

Imagine doing a similar "Belts 2.0" update next. There is no belt, just a long chest of arbitrary shape.


Belts are the heart and soul of this game and their current behaviour is very consistent and easy to see.

Pipes are at most a small side thing and their current behaviour is arguably the ...

As a compromise in the interest of UPS performance etc, what about limiting segments to, say, 10 pipe units? That way really long pipes would still suffer as they ought to from a logistics perspective.


A direct segment to segment connection requires something like the old algorithm even if it's ...

The only "realism" trade-off is that you don't need additional pumps for "really long" pipes. Well, "really long" pipe is a cornercase which can be processed separately. For example, you could limit the size of the segment, starting from the nearest source of fluid, and when a pipe becomes "too ...

You pump in 20°C cooling liquid and each machine increases the temperature by 1° per craft, on the other side you pump out the too hot liquid and somehow cool it down again.


If you add liquid into a segment it mixes instantly, you can easily work out from the volumes and temps what the new temp ...

> Longer pipelines have higher throughput, but take longer to fully empty.

Does that mean that if I put a bunch of tanks on the side of my pipeline the throughput increases?

This looks really nice, but I do miss the directional flows in the pipes. This was always such a nice moment when you turn on a chemical/fluid plant and you see all the water and oil rushing in.

Any chance that might be added again?


Could do a cosmetic only thing. I think you could spanning ...

I just wanted to say that I'm enjoying the signoff lines on the blog posts.

You didn't mention locked / unlocked state at all.

I presume in search results, used by, alt recipes etc you see all recipes, it'd be nice if locked stuff was grey'd out and pushed to the end.

Also on locked items the tech to unlock is the most important thing. But on unlocked ones it's the least ...