Counterpoint: For those of us who do already know how to use pins, this new button takes up space where I'd prefer to see more of the screen instead.

I'd be more amenable to it if it only showed up until I added my first pin, and then disappeared forever.

Of course, if someone only uses this ...

100% guarantee...

As soon as they add this in the base game, there are going to be a hundred posts all saying:

"This assembly machine ate my legendary XYZ piece! How could you awful devs let this happen!?"

It is kind of funny that the one thing you can't get from space rocks is...rocks.

I think compared to every other assembler type building it would be weird for one of them, especially something with as little philosophical sophistication as something that crushes trash, to keep stock and only output in groups of items. No other machine does this and you would least except the ...

The recycler only has 12 internal slots.

This change would require it to have quite a lot of internal slots.

Just to hold the various scrap/quality output would take 60 slots.

If you're also feeding non-scrap items back into the recyclers to break them down further, now you're talking about...no ...

You can do this yourself with a chest, combinator, and stack inserter per recycler. As I recall it's something like this:


Have each recycler output into a steel chest.
With an arithmetic combinator, do an each operation on the chest contents, taking items with count ≥ 16.
Set a stack inserter ...

And accidentally losing your rare iron gears to the common engine factory sounds like its own kind of error prone.


To me this sounds a lot worse than just having a bunch of low-quality items floating around.

Imagine e.g. a legendary gear getting wasted on creating a common engine because you ...

Change is that science packs are no longer tools so labs will consume science pack in 1 tick and then do reserach from internally tracked remaining durability. Previously the science packs would be partially used up by a lab on the top of the chain during that 1 tick but the item would stay in the ...

eugenekay wrote: Sun Jun 28, 2026 2:39 pm And here are 4 reasons Why:

That was all edited in after I posted, which is why I asked the question instead of just reading that.

boskid wrote: Sun Jun 28, 2026 9:15 am Still not a bug.

I don't doubt your word.

Kyralessa wrote: Sun Jun 28, 2026 9:15 am ...but when and why was it changed?

boskid wrote: Sun Jun 28, 2026 9:14 amNot a bug.

OK, but when and why was it changed?

I would note that with the previous lazy-consumer design, it was easier to know where to prioritize e.g. productivity modules: In the furthest-away labs.

With the new eager-consumer labs, which lab consumes a science pack seems somewhat less deterministic with the same setup.

06-28-2026, 11-14-05 ...

I'm not sure this is a bug; it looks like a deliberate change. I've noticed in 2.1 that labs are now eager consumers instead of lazy consumers.

Previously, with the setup below, science packs would've been moved all the way down to the lower-left. Now science packs are consumed by the first lab ...

Is this actually new, though?

I thought Nauvis was the only planet where you were guaranteed not to get pummeled by damage-causing asteroids while assembling a platform.

If there's one big thing I'd like re: communication, its for Wube to explain what the intention for Factorio is, and explain design decisions, and do a post mortem about the design. Because you're asking for feedback, but from what I see you don't care at all about feedback and are just doing what ...

Hoping for Friday New-Wube-Game Facts soon...

Since you still have to do hand-crafting of a few things, instead of disabling hand-crafting entirely, change it to an inconvenient key combo.

For example, I change crafting from left-click to Control-Shift-Alt-left-click. That ensures I can't do it accidentally.

In case it helps, here's the list ...

NineNine wrote: Tue Jun 23, 2026 11:41 am

Rseding91 wrote: Tue Jun 23, 2026 11:27 am What changes do you believe were last minute and or what changes do you think are buggy and will need fixing?

I don't have any specific bugs right now.

So this is basically speculative complaining?

Vertically, I always had to set up inserters and belts and just watch and see which side the ore ended up on; I could never remember.

Just having the arrow show it is great.

Being able to flip the inserter and have it drop on the other side of the belt is huge.

Having inserters always drop on the ...

The easiest way, if you have an account on Factorio.com, is to download the .zip version you want.

You can unzip it to a directory of your choosing and then play.

You don't even have to "downgrade"; you can keep both versions on your system.

In fact, if you have several different overhaul mods ...