I'm all for option 1 . I don't want more items taking up inventory space, forgetting where I put them, forgetting to add them to the library, etc. The key to making this work well is the making the blueprint library amazing - as long as people can organize and find the blueprints they want, in the w...

The Steam winter sale is going on, and they're also running the Steam Awards. Factorio is up as one of the 5 candidates for the "Haunts My Dreams" award!

http://store.steampowered.com/SteamAwards/

I'll be logging on to Steam on December 29th to vote for Factorio, for it Haunts My Dreams!

Thanks so much for letting us play 0.16 over the holidays!

LOVE the changes, but HATE the idea of F1, F2, F3 - not having to move my hand is a great design of this game. My suggestion - E opens/closes the inventory panel (to the last page opened), and Shift-E cycles through the tabs. I also HATE the idea of having to use 6-0 for anything, please keep it 1-5...

The new HD textures look amazing, but I'm concerned that they'll noticeably increase the load time. Has any thought been put into a more load on demand style system? Or is such a system already in place and I'm reading too much into the status messages during startup?

Hmm, upgraded to v3 and something odd happens that I didn't see in earlier versions. The initial (2-engine) cargo train that re-ups the inventory of new tiles ends up looping around and never unloading anything for many cycles. This only starts happening about a dozen tiles in. I looked a little clo...