Not sure if any more reports of this have any benefit, but I just had one too. Manually driving the train into a dead end at high speed. I had the same thing, playing multiplayer. I was testing the new gates with a train when I rammed full speed into the edge of the rail. I had one car in front and...

I think they should have value to it, if you combo more you get bonuses to your mining. Sounds like it would be a great addition.

Steam engines don't make pollution, only boilers do, and only as much as is needed for the electricity, so the problem you describe is just in your imagination ;) Huh, didn't know that. Kinda silly of me thinking they did now that I think about it. XD https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/index.php?titl...

+1 I wouldn't mind having variations in the world instead of the same desert and grasslands.

So as I'm building up my first factories I notice that I may have built a couple more power plants then first intended. I wanted to shut them down to save pollution but couldn't. Okay.. Have to mess around a bit rebuilding them as I need. I went to play with solar panels and then noticed a new trend...