You can equip many shields for even greater protection. You can easily fit four shields for 4 * 150 = 600hp of shield, alongside a fission reactor, batteries, and roboports. A spidertron has an even bigger equipment grid.

And it's not about how long your tank can last before it runs out of HP, its ...

this looks awesome. a brilliant execution of the underground buildings visual trick.

This is really awesome! Love the work put into "unflattening" the usual topdown terrain. Mech suit looks awesome, the yumako fruit is a cool detail.

Wouldn't this functionality be easily achieved with a recipe to say convert 100 iron plates into "bulk iron", which can be reverted back to 100 plates in a machine as needed?

If its a mod you're after, Packing Items seems to fit the bill. Freight Forwarding is a modpack that has that functionality ...

Yeah, kinda feels huh. SA was not close to finished on release, they must have known it could never be so without early access support. Expecting to buy a finished product it was a missbuy for me. Feels like some people at Wube are just tired of the game, quit playing and didnt look back, left a ...

the actual end is in sight, just 3 months away. factorio becoming a finalised product. a state it will exist in for eternity. no more changes, no more blog posts. tell me, what is this emotion im feeling?

Try this wiki page:

https://wiki.factorio.com/Inserters

It has a ton of data and tables that you can use to get all the information you need for every inserter at every research level and every quality.

The only 1x1 items for the equipment grid are personal solar panels and belt immunity equipment. Once you start using portable fission/fusion reactors there's no need for solar panels any more, but that leaves a single belt immunity item in a 1x1 space meaning it's impossible to fill the equipment ...

Why does your son need the expansion? That way you only need to spend $45 to get a full, feature-complete game to play with your son. If your son is as impulsive as you say (and as all kids are, no slight against your son), surely he'll be bored of it long before even beating the base game. I think ...