Don't forget, AFAIK, the main application at hand is making furnaces, not roads. And maybe military/production science.


This is true for stone and stone bricks, but refined concrete is just a tile, it's not an ingredient to any building, hence why I drew an analogy between refined concrete ...

Instead it should be replaced with radar being able to track how many bitters/spitters/spawners&worms does it detect.

From that then we could build circuits for any alert we need - e.g. larger increase in spawners/worms - means we have detected new base there.


+1 on that. And when pairing ...

Don't forget, AFAIK, the main application at hand is making furnaces, not roads. And maybe military/production science.


This is true for stone and stone bricks, but refined concrete is just a tile, it's not an ingredient to any building, hence why I drew an analogy between refined concrete and ...

The damage asteroids deal to a stationary ship has been nerved in the 2.1.13 version and should persist on version 2.1.14
But I just realized today that a single asteroid oneshot a thruster on my stationary ship.
This happened 4 times so it was not just a one-off. (3 times in the orbit of fulgora ...

I like island maps, but I find that it makes later expansion very difficult. Many resource patches end up covered by water so you have to venture deep into biter territory to get more resources later in the game.


This, and it also gives a false sense of security. I start the game knowing I am ...

Concrete specifically needs calcium containing stones.


I wonder if asphalt concrete could be a good stand-in for some applications in Factorio where concrete is usually used. The recipe could be approximated (very roughly) using petroleum processing of some kind. I imagine asphalt concrete is ...

+1 It always felt odd that so many other basic resources come from space rocks, but I couldn't get the most basic of basic materials from them...

This doesn't feel like the job of a mod, this feels like a missing feature in vanilla.

Idea: when nests absorb pollution, there is an ever-increasing chance that a 'builder' will spawn to increase the size of that nest.

That would incentivize players to A) reduce pollution and/or B) deal with biter nests within their pollution cloud before they fill their entire area and produce ...