Also add different colours for areas covered by lighting rods, lighting collectors, and lightning attractors (which are the pre-existing lightning protection systems you find among the ruins. Since they return different amounts of power - in the case of the lightning attractors, no power at all - it...

+1

Also, items in the hotbar should reflect how many of that item are available in the hub.

As you know, by default, batteries with insurance storage are difficult to coordinate with solar energy, especially when applying global power grid modules on the ground surface. I hope the production team will adopt my suggestion. Thank you very much! In order for them to implement your suggestion...

Note that if you're building a platform in the orbit of a planet other than Nauvis, you can't just slap down a giant blueprint and then start sending stuff up to build it with, because even if you send the ammo first, it does no good without guns to shoot it, and those guns are presumably at the edg...

Rather than just spawning new Demolishers, I'd suggest that the territory of existing Demolishers will very slowly move to fill cleared space that was previously owned by Demolishers the player has already killed. The player's starting area is always safe, but everything outside of that requires per...

Also has a practical use: when placing large areas of landfill with construction bots, a bunch of fish inevitably get collected and dumped in the nearest storage chest in the process. Currently, the only way to undo this is to collect the fish with the character and then drop them back in the water ...

Note that there are some cases where the same input does different things in remote view vs. normal mode. Having the game silently transition from doing the normal-mode thing to the remote-view thing just because the object you are interacting with is outside the (invisible) reach threshold would be...

Also would mean you can have a planet-side base ship items up to a station in orbit slowly, then have a ship come by and pick them all up at once.

+1

As a programmer, it is very weird to have an 'if' condition that doesn't allow you to define the 'else' branch.

Game version: 2.0.20-3 More detailed set of replication instructions: Constructed a pair of Assembler 2s Set first one to make red belts, the other to make blue belts Using a default upgrade planner in right-click mode, marked both Assembler 2s for downgrade into Assembler 1s Bots from personal robo...

Not a duplicate. The problem isn't that downgrading clears the recipe - that is expected and normal when the recipe in question requires a fluid ingredient, which Assembler 1s don't support. The problem is that undoing that downgrade with Ctrl-Z did not restore the recipe once it was an Assembler 2 ...

The blueprint editor enforces a limit of 500 characters on the 'Description' textbox. With the introduction of parameterised blueprints, you can easily have a blueprint which requires more than 500 characters to explain all the requirements, parameters, and instructions for use. I propose that the l...

@koravex: Which release is this supposed to be fixed in? Because it's still broken in 2.0.20.

It can be quite difficult to tell what buildings are connected to what. Here are some ways to improve that: When you mouse over a building, all the wires in any circuit network are highlighted. This is very useful, but could be improved in a couple ways: When the building in question connects to two...

When parameterizing a blueprint, it would be nice to be able to set restriction on the types of item an item parameter can be, or what values a numeric parameter can take on. For example, I have parameterized blueprints for train stations for loading/unloading 1-4 trains with a single item type. The...

In 1.17, every type of rock on Nauvis was a separate item in the deconstruction planner. If you wanted to deconstruct all rocks, you had to add each of half-a-dozen rock types to the planner separately. (Or use the trees-and-rocks only switch, but that only worked if you specifically wanted to remov...

When applying an upgrade planner, either to the world or to a blueprint, a warning should be displayed if doing so will cause underground belts to break. More specifically: An underground 'breaking' is defined as any change in what underground connects to what: Pair of undergrounds that previously c...

Currently, you cannot use an upgrade planner to, e.g., replace stone brick paths with concrete or refined concrete paths once those become available. You should be able to!

There are a number of common tasks that upgrade and deconstruction planners get used for, and it would be useful to have presets to allow these tasks to be done without manually configuring a blueprint for them. We already have one preset just like this: the 'Rocks/trees only' toggle on deconstructi...