One way to work within the limitations is to perform granular synthesis: instead of playing 1-tick sounds that are intended to splice perfectly, play longer sounds that are designed to get overlapped randomly and blend together to the final result.

Question - what’s going on with that splitter in the inventory sounds video? It’s swapping the lanes of iron and copper? They can do that?? A filtered splitter puts everything that doesn't match the filter on the other output. Or if you didn't know splitters could have filters: splitters can have f...

The thing that has bugged me about the vehicle sounds (as they currently are in the released game) is that they don't reflect engine output — which is significantly determined by the vehicle's acceleration , not solely its speed. I want to hear trains roar when they start pulling out of a station. C...

Finding the right spots is also made easier by these resource nodes having yellow smoke (yes, we can have animated resources now). Jerzy has made the acid puddles of this section in a couple of ways, earlier on we had puddles filled with liquid acid, but we moved to dried up puddles to keep the pla...

Regarding wiki linking, a suggestion: instead of downloading a lookup table, generate URLs systematically based on the type name — then add redirects to the wiki to map the systematic possibly-ugly names to the usual page names. That way there's less code in the game, it never has to download anythi...

Well, for what it's worth, I and my left little finger think it's a usability problem that you have to lean on the Shift key because letting go forgets something.

As always, pressing R (rotate) while the rail planner is active allows you to choose the orientation of the end of the track. But now in 0.17.31, whenever I press or release the shift key, the chosen rotation is lost and it goes back to auto-selecting the orientation — meaning not only do I have to ...

It's been said already but I'll say it too: this is not how concrete should look. Yes, Factorio's aesthetic is rough and messy, but the point of concrete floors/paths is to be flat. Make it nubbly, make it have rough edges , make it have somewhat nubbly slab edges, make some plants stick through eve...

Here is a different angle on the requester chest multiplier problem, which avoids giving even more complicated rules or options for pasting in particular: Allow multiple item requests to be selected at once (or just a checkbox for "all"); then the slider/box, instead of setting the item co...

If I understand the described behavior correctly, then buffer chests will not actually work well for the last use case of "dedicating part of your storage for specific things", because they make requests, so they will fill up as fast as possible from PP chests and won't take random items. ...

I like the idea of terrain (at the biome scale) mattering more to gameplay. Here are some more things that could be done with it and thematic excuses for it: Extremely hot areas. Player is damaged unless they use relevant armor equipment or vehicles. Some machines cannot run fast or at all. Geotherm...

I was placing a blueprint containing tanks on top of existing tanks and some of them were unexpectedly red (blocking). I rotated them twice and they were blue (object-already-exists) instead. It seems that tanks have four orientations, not two, even though it makes no difference to the game except i...

I still see centrifuges flashing — only in the mouseover / open machine views but not in the world. 0.15.9.

It used to be that if you had focus on a numeric input field (like the logistic request count entry) then you could still use any keyboard key binding that is not a number key. For example, pressing E to close the window, or moving around with WASD. This was very convenient. Now with 0.15, they do n...

I have hit this too and I also consider it a bug. Since the green graphics' presence corresponds to whether an automatic connection will be made, they should only show the actual single connection that will be made or both connections should be made.

Another thing that would be useful in a logistic storage UI update: some way to find a particular item type in the big list, so you can easily find out how much of something you have if you're not sure whether you have any at all. I also think it'd make sense to include "current orders that can...

This isn't actually specific to the Transport Belt Madness scenario or to right-click. Right-click crafting always makes 5 (not 10) of the recipe , not the product, and the recipes for basic transport belts and all underground belts make 2 of each instead of 1 as most recipes do. So there are three ...

This problem is annoying but removing sidestepping would also be annoying, because there's plenty of small sidesteps around trees and power poles and so on that don't interfere with building most of the time. I have an idea for a different solution to the problem: If you are building and sidestep du...

+1 to both being able to mine while holding a blueprint. This annoys me all the time.

This is not a gameplay change, but only a tweak to the UI which I think will help new players understand the game and also be useful in general. Right now, the electricity usage of an object is displayed like this: Energy consumption: 13 kW Drain: 400 W The problem I see (remembering my experience a...