I always just assumed it was "Kevin"...

Could you explain the sort of situation you're likely to encounter this and want it as a feature? Well, if you've got a non-empty assembly machine looking to output something (assuming you just build it, connected all the inputs, and it's already created some stuff, but has nowhere to output to yet...

Inserters do pick up items off the ground, if it doesn't work with a dropped item it's probably an optimisation or something that totally disables the inserter until something like a belt raises the event to kick it off again because there are items to grab. I bet if you rotate the inserter 360 deg...

When you drop place a chest on an item that is on the ground, or in an inserter arm hovering over ground, the item should be added to the chest contents, not the player inventory. Example, you just put together assembly machine that outputs iron gear wheels, and you then add an inserter to outout th...

Survival elements just don't work very well in this style of game. The player's survival needs are FIXED. Factory production SCALES. If the survival tech is too complex it becomes a death clock. If it's too simple then it's a plop and forget chore. Challenge elements need to scale. I wasn't thinkin...

Ability to create/plow some soil and plant stuff like trees or some other grown material needed for some assembly.

Some sort of floor tile that includes power, where anything constructed on that floor gets connected to the electric grid. Would be good for late game stuff.

I see that the robots can now add modules that are contained in a blueprint, great! I was thinking we could have a blueprint/stamp pattern or something (not sure what to call it) that would allow me to quickly change the pattern of modules in an assembly machine. For example, if I have an assembly m...