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On top of better functionality and aesthetics, one could argue that it's more consistent with the recipe, which requires 10 pipes (the 5 iron plates could be the start and end of the underground pipe). Not that recipes always need to make sense, but it's just nicer.

+1 on this, I've noticed it for a while now and it always bugs me. Especially because I like to Ctrl+click a blank spot in my inventory to fill a machine's input slots, but if I have any higher tier modules they get swapped even if they're worse because of quality. In my opinion, the expected result ...

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Ran into this issue while trying to get the Golem achievement after beating the game with legendary mech armor. I stocked it up with a bunch of legendary energy shields, went over to a train, and realized I would have to make some power armor instead. It wasn't until after that I also realized I ...

One other note is because the Foundry has recipes for each tier of belt, it makes sense for green belts to be unlocked on Vulcanus

If you could disable it for a ship / surface, in both cases it's now impossible to know if something seriously wrong happened. Something unexpected.


A counterpoint to this could be that, if I'm understanding OP's post correctly, the "entity destroyed" alert would still show up. To me, that's a ...

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Now that I think about it, all those examples you gave have been annoying to read at one point or another. Seems like a really simple fix, too.

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This would also be really helpful on space platforms, where the slow repair speed becomes much more apparent when your ship takes a lot of damage at once.

I agree that even before you've unlocked quality, you can usually mass-produce repair packs at such a big volume that increased durability ...

There does indeed seem to be no way of reading whether a certain achievement is gained. There is an event for it, but this wouldn't count achievements gained before your mod got added to the save https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/events.html#on_achievement_gained

You could make an api request ...

I'm working on my first mod and I want to be able to read the status of achievements, specifically to know which ones are pinned by the user. Is this currently supported? I've checked the API docs and haven't been able to find anything, but I thought I'd ask here.