deciding which ones to use for the craft.


There's different strategies that a crafting machine could use (i.e. lowest first, highest first, non-mixed first), but I think the most intuitive here would be to use the higher quality ingredients first. You typically want a machine to craft the ...

TL;DR
Add a new "Any :any-quality:" quality setting to crafting machines, which permits the mixing of ingredients of different quality in a crafting machine.

What?
Currently, crafting machines can only select a single quality level, and subsequently store and consume ingredients of only that ...

A very simple solution to the bots out-scaling everything (that others have mentioned in the thread as well) is to make bots take time to pick up or drop something.

The simplest and cheapest implementation I can think of is to introduce a "cooldown" for containers when a bot interacts with them. If ...

The zip version doesn't work! (Fails to extract, some file is apparently broken/missing/corrupt.)
Installer works fine though.

At the moment, you can only connect to a server using an IP or IP:port.
I propose adding hostname and hostname:port to that.

This is far more convenient if you plan to host a 24/7 server on the internet. People wouldn't have to remember an IP, but instead a domain name, e.g. "johnmaddenfactorio.com ...