Also when there is no place for the items to go, the whole line stops while in fact all those items should get squashed more and more and finally be thrown out of a belt and onto a ground. How could we be so blind here? This will create so many new challenges for a players since they will have to h...

So you've posted a visual bug without any visuals...

You cannot know, how I use the slots. You may solve a problem, where others have none. It’s just not how these things should be developed. Right, but in this case, having a used item open its slot isn't a problem, because right now that does nothing. The item is red. If you click on it anyway, noth...

No, clicking an item with red background just beeps and says the item is already requested. That's the change I suggested. Clicking should just open the existing request for editing. That the item has a red background doesn't help me find it in the long list of request slots. I agree, this makes se...

Have you considered updating and using a mod that restores the alien artifacts?

This one, for instance, says it makes the aliens drop artifacts which you can craft into space science packs, I guess as an alternative to launching rockets:

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/AlienSpaceScience

What OS are you using? If it's Windows, you can create a shortcut and rename that instead of factorio.exe.

If you're using Mac or Linux, I can't help you, but perhaps there's something similar you could do.

It seems we're back at the old split, between those who regard design challenges, any possibility of failure at all, as the point of play, and those who regard them as impediments. Very much so. Agreed. I wonder if it's possible to make a mod that doesn't make bots completely invulnerable, but simp...

mrvn wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 10, 2021 5:40 am

NO, I want them to be changed because the current behavior is just plain stupid.

Ah, the classic "insult the developers so they'll make the change you want."

mrvn wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 09, 2021 5:42 pm

I'm not using flame throwers. The aliens are. There are mods that change the kind of damage the spiters do to fire.

So you think the base game should be changed because you happen to be using a mod that makes it harder for your bots to survive?

That would be a million times nicer than hour of tedium I just spent setting up all the logistic options, grid equipment, & paint-jobs, on a posse of Spidertrons,... however, I'm trying to copy them right now and it's not working. The copy selection completely ignores spiders, as does the bluep...

Why should bots be immune to damage when no other factory thing is immune to damage? What is so special about bots that, outside of a mod, they should be impervious to biter and spitter attacks? It's simple enough to use an invincible-bots mod. It's simple enough to turn the aliens off completely, o...

I think I figured it out. Testing now. At some point I thought the silo needed radar to launch so I set up a belt full of radar to be inserted into the silo. Is it possible the radar was being inserted where the satellite belonged? The rocket would take the radar to space but it wouldn't register a...

Here's that link:

https://factorio.com/support/faq#q-steam-key

cars/tanks work differently tho, I would call this at least surprising tbh At a guess, it's because cars or tanks in inventory are interchangeable whereas each Spidertron is a unique entity, due to the equipment grid, logistics, etc. So a car or tank in the quickbar represents any car or tank, wher...

I loaded up the save and drove over to look. The chunk boundaries don't entirely explain what's happening. The two oil fields in the southwest are in one chunk. The two in the west are in another chunk. The bulk of the rest of the oil fields are in yet another chunk. Yet of that large set of oil fie...

Needs to include a few minifigs to run over when they least expect it.

If you meant that smart furnace set-ups aren't possible with arc furnaces, yes, unfortunately that's true. Arc furnaces have to be an "assembling machine" type entity where you manually select a recipe, because they have one or two different fluid outputs which change depending on the rec...

There are mods for that:

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/color-coding

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Concrete-Tints

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Dectorio

ssilk wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 26, 2021 11:07 pm

@Kyralessa that how I searched. It’s the last link in my previous post.

Well, not exactly; you didn't use double-quotes around the mod name.