It is indeed a bit awkward to use. The initial order of items is less than optimal too.

More importantly the grey empty space is gone despite the scroll bar on the resources still being present.

Do try playing around with ctrl- and ctrl+ to change the GUI scale on the fly to see how it adjust in X11 and wayland for you.

I can't tell you how many instances of "each red < each green ==> Input Count green" followed by "each > 0 ==> each 1" I have in my bases.

Each[red] < Each[green] and Each[green] != 0, output Each 1

Have fun deconstructing combinators


Oh man, yes. I keep forgetting that you can have ...

TL;DR
Support blueprint parameters in LuaRecord, LuaSurface and Events.

What?
LuaRecord.build_blueprint and LuaRecord.create_blueprint lack a parameters option.
LuaRecord lacks get_blueprint_parameters and set_blueprint_parameters.
LuaRecord lacks get_blueprint_name and set_blueprint_name ...

You can also get that in the game (and then have to decode it yourself) but that doesn't help creating a new blueprint with the same settings. But I guess it would be possible to mod this.

A simpler solution would be for chain signals to claim as much space after the signal as the train is long. So if the rail signals after a chain signal are spaced too close together then the chain signal only goes green when enough of them are green to match the trains length.

No new signals needed ...

Why not move the part of the ramp that looks like a support column by two tiles? The ramps foodprint would be 2 tiles larger but nothing would change for the trains. The ramp would then end with a support column with 1 rail present (slightly sloped) and one missing. The amount of supported rails ...

The fluids aren't simply voided. At least for a recipe with item and fluid input in 2.0.69 the fluids are pushed back into the fluid system up to the amount it has space for. If you connect a tank to each input you can see that all the fluids present in the assembler end up in the tank when you ...

This is a problem because "spoiled first" doesn't work when taking from belts.

This is most deadly with eggs, where aliens spawn when they spoil.


Are there situations where the current behaviour is useful or even necessary for something to work?


The current behavior is this way because when ...

Another useful option would be to replace the wire value with a constant instead of multiplying it. The input count on the selected wires is reduced to the constant provided, and this is important, that the signal exists on the wire.

I can't tell you how many instances of "each red < each green ...

I very much need this too. I have a collection of blueprints and every time I change something I have to repeat all the parameterization over and over.

It would be really nice if one could place a parameterized blueprint, select some "place as raw" button in the parameter mask and it would add the ...

TL;DR
This is a bit of a collection of ideas for improving parameterized blueprints, sorry. Each is a very simple idea so I didn't split them into separate issues.


Virtual parameters

What?
Allow creating virtual parameters (variables) that aren't present in the blueprint already so the user ...

Still present in 2.0.69.

Parameters seem to sometimes work when clicking the parameter checkbox, saving the blueprint and then going into the parameter editor again.

Well, what should it show in the tooltip?

Because for the first parameter the available previous parameters to be used in the formula are ... NONE. Did you expect "Available variables: None"?

On the other hand the tooltip text doesn't seem to be custom tailored to the available parameters, for ...

Merged...

My monitor recently broke and I had to work with an older low-res monitor for a while. Now I'm back to glorious 4k but then I noticed that the map preview when starting a new game is off center. The screenshots are from a game with Spaghettorio, which certainly touches map generation ...

Recipes have a field for the main result. And if the automatic is wrong for those 1% cases that still means you save time on the 99% other recipes.


You mean that's how Factorio recipes are handled internally? If so, I'm sure that this "main result" is good enough for most any case.
Even if ...

The whole railway token idea relies on there only ever being one token at a time.

Railway tokens are designed to avoid collisions on a route. That's not what I'm trying to do; I'm trying to space out multiple ships on the same route to get more frequent arrivals which requires some form of ...

What?
You can copy (shift right-click) a recipe from an assembler (or other factory machine) onto a requester chest (shift left-click) to request all non-liquid items need for crafting.
You should also be able to copy the recipe onto a storage chest as well to set the filter to the first non ...

As a side note: When the copy&paste chooses a way too high value you can set the group multiplier to e.g. 0.1. Having it use the exact recipe numbers + multiplier would look much neater though and easier to understand the numbers.

I would take this idea a step further though. Pasting a recipe onto ...

It can fail if multiple platforms using the same tokens are present at the same time.


The whole railway token idea relies on there only ever being one token at a time. So if your trade route goes Nauvis - Vulcanus - Gleba then you can have at most 6 spaceships. After that it is guaranteed to ...