Hey, I want to add new variables to entities and items to work with. These values need to be preserved for the thing's entire life, from item to entity and back, and when stacked in an inventory. Just went through the modding tutorial so I'm pretty new; ways I'm thinking this would have to be done a...

I just really wanted to second the cargo ship idea although I know I’m far from the second to do that. I still remember my first play through of factorio in 0.11, finally getting blue science, though most of the research, and being shocked there were no boats. It just seemed such a natural thing to ...