FactorioBot wrote: Wed Aug 05, 2026 1:16 pm Fulfilled platform construction requests will no longer block platform to platform transfers. (135042)

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

You truly are the king of kings!

Now that we have radar alerts for biter spawns, it would be awesome if we could get radars to output "biters detected" to the circuit network

You find yourself half-awake in bed trying to plan the software changes for when your employer adopts quality modules.


Except in real life, when it comes to software, quality modules seem to work in reverse, and I've worked on some corporate software that seems like it has unlimited module ...

In much the same way that we have the "Read logistic network requests" output, I would love a "read missing construction requests" output, which will output what we're trying to build but lack the network contents for.

Use case: My base on Vulcanus needs certain items shipped in periodically, as I ...

The relevant FFF quote is

Even when overdelivering some items, the algorithm can still fail to find a complete batch due to our sorting constraints. It usually happens when you don't have enough supply in your logistic network. The logic hopes that missing items will be produced eventually ...

The relevant FFF quote is

Even when overdelivering some items, the algorithm can still fail to find a complete batch due to our sorting constraints. It usually happens when you don't have enough supply in your logistic network. The logic hopes that missing items will be produced eventually and ...

Rseding91 wrote: Sat Jul 18, 2026 5:12 pm Thanks for the report. You clicked the "hide tall entities" button on the toolbar and or or in the tools menu on the quickbar. If you click it again it turns it off.

Oh, I am dumb. Oops

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For some reason, logistics and construction bots seem to have the wrong colours and are transparent.

This only started happening recently, they were fine until randomly they broke 10 minutes ago.

I am using a save with a lot of mods, unfortunately, so debugging it is ...

I want to make a mod that limits space platforms to only send items to other platforms if you have a research unlocked.

It would be nice to have a setting where we could set per-force if inter-platform logistics are enabled or not.

For anyone who doesn't know, with the new experimental 2.1 update you can now transfer items directly between space platforms.

Previously, you had to send items back down to the planet and then launch them back up again with a rocket to get them from platform A to platform B.

While I personally ...

I already made a similar thread about this and I concluded that the current system is VERY confusing - one checkbox can essentially block the other, which is NOT how checkboxes work.

Space Platforms have a "pin" button in their title bar, next to the close button.

This button should be added to Cars and Tanks as well, as they are commonly pinned, and the Alt-Rightclick shortcut isn't really documented anywhere outside of the keyboard controls.

This is just a minor QoL change.

Thanks for the report however this it not a bug. It is not "toggle_menu_locks_the_player_to_the_remote_view_surface_they're_on". It will also leave remote driving of cars and close the space map.


This absolutely is a bug, you seem to fundamentally misunderstand what I'm talking about. I'm ...

disabling LuaPlayer::toggle_menu_leaves_remote_view allows us to use the main menu freely with the escape key without leaving remote view, with leaving remote view being tied to the "toggle remote view" key only.

This works fine when it's possible to leave remote view, but when we're in a place ...

Thanks for the report however this is not a bug. Platforms will not provide items that they have request filters for. It works this way otherwise as soon as items arrive for construction they would instantly get sent back to anyone requesting them.


I can understand why this is the case, but I ...

What did you do?

I have a space platform that produces space platform foundation in space for my other platforms

What happened?

I turned on "Auto request missing construction materials" on the platform

Now, every other platform with requests reads as "available on platform: 0"

What did you ...

Okay I've been playing around with the new LuaPlayer::toggle_menu_leaves_remote_view function, and it turns out it doesn't work properly if you're inside a space platform.

When the value is set to FALSE, escape will open and close the menu as it should most of the time, but if you're currently on ...

Rseding91 wrote: Tue Jul 14, 2026 7:11 am Remote view is not a GUI though.

Is there any way for a script to fire an event when the player opens/closes remote view, similar to opening any other GUI? If not, perhaps there should be?

I think there's a layering issue with the new planet renders for space platforms.

Some of the asteroids can disappear behind the planet.

I'm not sure if this is intentional, but it looks very wrong.

I've attached a video to show what I mean:

FactorioBot wrote: Mon Jul 13, 2026 12:40 pm Added LuaPlayer::toggle_menu_leaves_remote_view read/write.

UNFATHOMLY BASED!

I've already created a mod based on this, and Remote View is MUCH better to use now!

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/BetterRemoteView