Quality Holmium Ore serves no purpose and is just a contaminant when it comes to recycling with quality modules. For QoL, any Holmium Ore that would have been produced at a higher quality should either be voided, replaced with common quality or replaced with >1 common quality.
Yes, we can deal with ...

Given that Foundries can cast LDS with iron, copper and plastic, Heat Pipes should be even simpler to cast as they only need iron and copper.
It would be a small productivity boon for Heat Pipes on Aquilo where we need tons of them.

When you have a chest and an inserter transferring items from the chest to an Assembly Machine, and then clear the recipe on the Assembly Machine or pick a different recipe, there is a chance that the inserter becomes stuck - if it was trying to deposit an item that the Assembly Machine no longer ...

TLDR: Inserter enable/disable checkbox being unticked should not prevent setting the condition.

When I connect an inserter via wire to say, a chest, and then click the Enable checkbox, the inserter becomes disabled - good. I then edit the conditions under which it should be enabled and it becomes ...

I too have noticed and found this quite irksome on 2.0.77

Thanks eugenekay, that works for me. How very unintuitive though!

The deconstruction planner has no tiles listed and set to Whitelist.
If I change it to Blacklist it does not change the behavior.
If I add, say, Stone Bricks to the list and keep it as Whitelist then the Foundations no longer get removed.

If there is a Whitelist, anything not on the Whitelist ...

1. Ghost-place some Foundations and a Roboport over lava.
2. Create a Deconstruction Planner with only Cliffs as the thing to remove.
3. Use planner on existing ghosts - they will be marked for destruction (BUG)

cliff-destructor.jpg

If, instead, you use a Deconstruction Planner that only removes ...

Maybe so, but destructing a support implies destructing the rails and so should be automatic. The bot logic is "I can't remove the support until the rails are gone, so I won't try" - great! Take the rails then.

I also am experiencing this in freeplay in conjunction with bots, which I think makes it more severe - the bots hover in place and hold on to the items forever, and no bots come along to remove the entities marked for destruction. I posted as a separate bug with save and simple repro steps but it ...

I don't think this is entirely a duplicate - this specifically relates to bots. The bots hovering in place and holding on to the items forever and no bots coming to remove the entities marked for destruction.

Not sure if the devs would consider that a bug - it's been that way for as long as I can remember. However, I agree that it is unintuitive and annoying. If I'm placing while simultaneously crafting, I want to carry on building. Instead I have to monitor the count and wait until I have at least 2 ...

What did you do?
Placed Elevated Rails, then tried to force-build a blueprint of other Elevated Rails over the top.

What happened?
Bots replaced some of the rails, but got permanently stuck on others.

What did you expect to happen instead?
Bots should have removed all in-the-way entities and built ...

+1. Especially annoying on space platforms trying to ensure my guns and rockets both have full coverage.

TL;DR
Let Storage Chest specify multiple filters, blacklist/whitelist, and option to trash unfiltered items.


What?
Presently, the Storage Chest allows a single item filter.
Storage Chest should be updated to have a similar interface to inserters - allow specifying multiple filters and option ...

On "space casinos"

I haven't done much with quality yet as it seems to be quite a complicated and arduous process to scale up, but I'm slowly learning. I only found out about this "space casino" because of this heated FFF discussion. My only input is: if it is demonstrably the best/fastest/whatever ...

All great sounding updates, can't wait.

Things I would love to see:

Change distance between planets from 0-15000 KM to 0.0-1.0 AU or something sensible. The diameter of Earth is about 13000 KM!
Let Storage Chest specify multiple filters, blacklist/whitelist, and option to trash unfiltered items ...

Sorry, nevermind. My destruction planner had "tiles only" set.

I think I'm missing something - I can't create a destruction planner for vulcanus cliffs. There is no icon for "Vulcanus Cliff", only "Cliff" - and such a planner will not let me mark vulcanus cliffs for destruction. How do I do it?

Game is working as intended, it just feels weird and, more importantly, visually noisy. So how about this for smoothing it over:

If a cargo pod is launching or has just launched within X ticks, just teleport newly ready items into the existing cargo pod and delay the next cargo pod by X ticks.