You make a good point. Perhaps then they could be wandering things that could not cause damage but could be harvested for such things as ice and ice platform
A nice bit of flavour

It is very nice to be able to have some things input through one wire and output through the other now with 2.1 on the experimental branch; but, the more accustomed I get to working with this, the more trouble I encounter with its limitations: if two things are grouped into either input or output ...

I think it would be neat if slowly drifting icebergs occasionally came across Aquilo's "waters"

It would give another use to the turret and grabber system required by platforms, and could perhaps yield certain materials which otherwise can only be got there through basic processing (or even ...

Whenever I launch a rocket, the bottom of the modules on the beacon behind it shew through, like this:

Spawners and worms visibly commune deeply with the earth: this should result in small new resource patches being discovered once they are destroyed

This would partly repopulate the already-mined parts of the map, and add a fun little bonus to the bothersome nature of expansion nests

BHakluyt wrote: Sat Sep 12, 2026 5:19 pm Can't test right now for a few days. If you want check it out, its for Factorio 2.0

bigbraintime

BrainzZ$tormZzs_0.1.0.zip

Thank you!
But if it is 2.0 then I can't test it

they never made it past the concept art stage, and are almost never going to be added - especially into the base space age :lol:


But that was as an Aquilo foe, I'm suggesting a Fulgora friend! ;)


Regardless, that's still just making a new enemy basically from scratch. In matters of game ...

Oh oh oh, and they could do **something** for the logistic system
Possibly in exchange for nutrients


Electricity, rather!
Being from Fulgora, it makes sence that they would like electricity
An upgraded organic roboport that used them as bots would be amazing (unlocked on Fulgora with some Gleba ...

MrSmoothieHuman wrote: Sun Sep 06, 2026 11:50 pm they never made it past the concept art stage, and are almost never going to be added - especially into the base space age

But that was as an Aquilo foe, I'm suggesting a Fulgora friend!

Oh oh oh, and they could do **something** for the logistic system
Possibly in exchange for nutrients

And befriending them could somehow grant an upgraded roboport with 64 range instead of 50, to match chunk sizes!

Being able to set the possible destinations (blacklist or whitelist or even circuit conditions) for trash categories would fix this

IDEA: implement it like loaders, without visuals, problem solved!
Then it's up to the modders
(maybe give the ramp the visual, just not the trains)


Without visual , the train would just disappear, it seem quite janky to me and unlikely that it would be in the base game under this form. But if ...

During 2.0 development we decided against this idea because that was considered to be out of VRAM budget as it would not only require 45deg ramp sprites but also 45deg sloped sprites for all rolling stocks.


IDEA: implement it like loaders, without visuals, problem solved!
Then it's up to the ...

Like we get for fluid pipes when hovering over them
Would mostly be useful for spotting gaps in the network
A colour gradient for temperature would also be nice, with a noticeable difference at the important thresholds below which things no longer work

+1
Excellent idea, a needed improvement!

+1
For the reasons outlined in the OP
Especially now with how much longer the game lasts with Spage Age, I simply cannot play it vanilla

I know that there are several layers to terrain generation already, but once enough of the map is discovered the samey-ness becomes obvious and repetitive and boring and ultimately disappointing

Resources and bodies of water should not all be so evenly spaced: everything would look far better if we ...

You posted a thread where a developer already gave a clear answer to your proposal.
You did not bring a new argument.
You could have just as well replied the old topic.
There is already a way to achieve what you want even though it is hacky.
And you probably expect someone to take this suggestions ...

+1
If we're using loaders, we should be able to use them to dump full belts into lava
And they should be able to tell that they are doing that, so modders can add a smokey splash effect or something