I recently submitted a post in the suggestions forum https://forums.factorio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=39385#p39385 where I proposed a new way of doing research. My Lua knowledge and skill is fairly low so I'm soliciting help and to gauge interest in creating a mod to modify how research works. I'm ...

Okay, Now for a more technical game design discussion then of how we would make this work. First what I'm suggesting would mean that the current research oriented production chains would be obsolete, which would be a major change. So I do understand that it may be to late in the design of the game t...

I agree the game is about automation which is why I'm suggesting that the way research is handled right now really breaks down when we consider that the ever increasing production chains all revolve around creating potions. If knowledge were treated like a commodity in the game I think it would allo...

Here is my setup where I use all but one lane. These are fairly compact clusters, note the use of dividers and splitters, hard to see but the far right belt has both iron gears and belts on it. The only reason I don't have the left belt filled this way is that there is no advantage to it. It's reall...

Here's a thought a toggle in the manufacturing plan view for each floor, this would be used to set the recipe for each floor. Secondly each multi-floor factory would have an adjacent say 2x1 extension to the left and right of the factory. When clicked this extension would show a UI representing the ...

So we have somewhat realistic production chains, however it seems as if we are just using them to produce fancier research bottles. I offer an alternative approach that would be somewhat more realistic and in the end I think more fun. What if research labs lived up to their name? Here below is a qui...