Spidertron has a mode where it automatically targets enemies.

However trees are enemies but it can't automatically target trees.

If spidertrons could automatically target trees then spidertrons filled with explosive rockets would be a really cool way to clear out trees.

That would be pretty rad if you could fip oil refineries and chemical plants. There's probably something in the code that makes it difficult to do. But if that could be cleaned up it would be a nice quality of life feature.

For most items, if you place a blueprint that includes the item, then build the item as part of a blueprint, then the item you place will inherit the properties from the blueprint. This is especially noticeable with splitters that have custom filters. However if you place a blueprint that has train ...

The highlighted area looks like you can click it to search but you can't. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/pauldejean/techbug1.png Instead you need to click the small spyglass icon. Then a place to type the search pops up: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/pauldejean/techbug2.png It would be way ...

Thank you for the nice detailed report. Unfortunately I am not able to find the cause of the desync, nor to get it when I load your save. It looks like something got wrong but it got fixed by the save/load or by something that we have in our current version, but I rather do not believe that. So unf...

In a two player game with my brother, immediately after building this water setup I was desynced. I kept being desyched after logging back in. When he removed this setup and replaced it with a simple water pump, the desyncs stopped. Here's a screenshot of the setup: https://steamcommunity.com/id/pau...

Victory poles are the only thing I think is overpowered.

http://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-137 Basically as stated, you end up in this trap where certain parts of your factory can get "worse" because of research you did. I don't think this is good design. To counteract this, when you click you a rapid inserter you should be able to set its s...

Bravo!

Ahh, they might want to update the original post, so that there isn't any lingering confusion.

Will smart inserters need a circuit network connector? Or can they be wired to the circuit network directly? If they need a connector, then it becomes impossible to have a row of smart inserters. For a smart train stop you basically need a row of smart inserters. So does this mean that smart train s...

I don't understand.

Surely map generation allowing for "unplayable" maps is a bug...

Water overwriting resources, resources not being place-able because water is in the way. Either way the result is the same. Resources not being placeable because water is in the way? That doesn't make sense. Resources should only be distributed among "valid tiles." Of course you can't pla...

Because of this, it's possible to get a start without copper or some other essential resource, if you end up starting with a lot of nearby water.

An example is attached.

A solution would be to generate water before placing resources, rather than after.