Maybe they could search for a nearby reachable spot and try to attack anyway, if they would otherwise give up? I don't know what the exact melee range of biters is, but spitters can certainly still attack in this situation.

I considered putting individual rockets near my manufacturing, but since rockets are loaded by bot, there's no guarantee that the material I drop into chests (green) next to the rockets will be loaded into those rockets.


That is a problem with bots, but you do not have to load rockets only by ...

Even ignoring the power of Productivity Modules, if you put two Efficiency Module 1 or Efficiency Module 2 in an electric furnace, then it consumes less power and produces less pollution than a steel furnace. So, it seems like it should make sense to switch to electric furnaces as soon as you have ...

I'm newly getting the same problem with Factorio 2.0.41 on MacBook Pro M4 Max, Sequoia 15.3.2. My atlas texture size setting is 4096 and sprite resolution is High.

I'd got the impression that it was a mod for the normal one somehow.


It is a mod — a mod which you get access to by buying the Space Age expansion. There are 3 mods in the expansion:


Elevated Rails
Quality
Space Age (requires Elevated Rails and Quality)


After the purchase, you can ...

As already mentioned, you should make sure there are chain signals on the curved tracks that cross the vertical tracks, so that the vertical tracks are all separate blocks from each other. That will allow your trains to proceed. However, there is another principle to consider:

trains-anno-crop.jpg ...

I would like to see this too. When I started playing on Aquilo, I unconsciously assumed that the way that it worked was “buildings must occupy at least one tile that is heated ” — that's all the game shows you — and it did not occur to me at all that the buildings on those tiles might affect how ...

Another possibility would be to keep the checkbox, but make clicking on the filter slots automatically check the box.

I would like this as an option, and I would also like an option to turn off automatically destroying cliffs in the same circumstances (when using them as walls on Nauvis, or for aesthetics).

I can reproduce this (version 2.0.28). It seems to happen only with armor types that provide an inventory bonus (mech armor, modular armor), and not with ones that don’t (light armor, heavy armor).

This should become a bug report.

I recently broke Gleba by accidentally sending all my yumako seeds to overgrowth soil. It would have been fixable remotely if I had had a chest of spare seeds to release. I had solar power, and bootstrap nutrient production, but the nutrient supply couldn’t keep up with the whole base’s demands, so ...

...but, I've built a rocket - it's sitting in my silo on Nauvis, with a starter pack in it, waiting to go to Gleba.


When you choose a planet in the “New space platform” dialog, you’re choosing which planet its starter pack will be launched from. You can’t build a new platform by launching a ...

I felt a little let down too when I got the railgun and ran around Vulcanus clearing out every demolisher. I don't think the problem is necessarily that the end game weapon is OP; rather, for me, there isn't enough motivation to expand on Vulcanus and run up against space limits that make finally ...

If there is a machine that does not allow rhe placement of spoilage into a trash slot where another inserter can remove it, that might be a bug.


Just to confirm that spoilage insertion is possible, I built a test scenario (in version 2.0.23) that makes this happen 100% of the time:

Screenshot ...

+1 I've broken my space platforms this way a couple times even after learning the rule. "Oh I can just trim off this unused platform... whoops my asteroid chunks aren't flowing."

Yes; all radars function as a single circuit network per planet. So, as long as you only need one, you can send signals between islands. (I haven't tried this myself, just read it in FFF and the wiki.)

What?
On the Factoriopedia pages for items, add buttons which would let you jump to the production statistics view, or the logistic network contents view, filtered to that item.

Why?
Being able to alt-left-click any item to see info about it is enormously convenient. Let’s make the alt-left ...

I’ve thought of having a throwing rate boost too, but I was imagining it being a piece of grid equipment instead of research. Perhaps both could exist, just like we have walking speed bonuses from both built surfaces and exoskeleton equipment.

The problems with blueprinting train loading and rails occur because rails exist on a 2×2 grid, but train cars are spaced at 7 tiles (6 tiles for the car and 1 space between cars). Here are some ways to avoid getting stuck on the wrong grid spacing:


Select only the stuff on one side of the rails ...

Summary

When pasting settings to a requester chest, the game should use the new logistic request multiplier feature instead of putting a “hardcoded” multiplier on all the ingredients individually, so the player can easily adjust the multiplier down or up.

What?

Currently, when you copy ...