I think preventing items from spoiling in inserters' hands is a good idea, but their spoilage level should still drop all the way to zero. That way the inserter can still always successfully insert the item, but it will spoil immediately in the target inventory. That's fine, because that would happe...

TL;DR When you have a ghost building (or module or item) in your cursor, the number of available items in logistics storage should be shown. What? When you're building a ghost, or inserting ghost items, it would be nice if the cursor showed how many items were available, like it does when you have ...

I just discovered this under the exact same conditions, and can reproduce it the same way: Be on Gleba, remote control a tank on Nauvis, "esc" from remote view, open remote view (on Gleba now), go back, go back. (I'm sure the particular planets are not important though.)

This feels like a much bigger deal now that Space Age is out and you can do so much through the Remote View now. I almost filed a bug report because I swear it used to show radar range on the map. But no, it's always been only on the minimap.

What did I do? What happened? In the Remote view, activate a wire tool, any will do, and click on a pole to start wiring it. Now switch surfaces. The wire tool does not stop working as it probably should, and instead shows a preview wire from original pole's would-be position on the new surface. For...

I have an idea. Checking self collision for solutions while pathfinding is not possible for performance reasons, but would it be possible to check the final proposed solution for self collisions? Like, just turn the ghosts red where they would fail to place? That would keep the game from misleading ...

I had a feeling it might be something like that. Pathfinding is a hard problem. It does only seem to happen when the rail planner is getting really desperate anyway. I'm pretty sure the path I'm trying to solve there doesn't have a good solution. (I've been tweaking this intersection for quite a whi...

I've noticed that sometimes the rail planner, at least in ghost mode (holding shift) will sometimes produce impossible rail paths, and I've found a particularly bad example. I'd never want to build the following path anyway, but I'm pretty sure the rail planner shouldn't be suggesting paths that can...

I think you are correct. I took another look at my circuit and finally figured out a better way to route the signals, and can confirm that the index signal is properly removed from the signal frame before indexing. I think I was mixing it up with another errant signal that had gotten mixed in. My mi...

The Selector Combinator's "Select Index" mode picks a signal out of the input signals using an index to determine which signal to select. Normally, this index is the constant 0, but you can also use an input signal as the index. This causes a problem though, because now your "index si...

This has been mentioned in a few places, but I wanted to document it more fully. There's a bug when this mod is combined with YARM. YARM creates "fake ores" to show the resources when you're using a resource scanner. Tile scanners return the fake ore from YARM instead of the normal resourc...

That's pretty cool. I haven't loaded it up, but it looks like exactly what I want. Out of curiosity, I went to find out when the graph window APIs had been added without me noticing. They haven't. The mod creates a hidden surface in the world, and draws the graphs in the world using the new drawing ...

The pollution graph looks awesome! (I love graphs.) I also love the diligence you all put into making sure the game is as stable as possible.

But while we're adding new graphs... any chance we could get Circuit Graphs considered?

It's a little clunky in its current form, but this mod adds truly conditional orders to trains! Skip orders, make decisions based on current load, and more! Smart Waypoints Smart Waypoints is a mod that enables waypoints with special names to control trains that go by, skipping around their schedule...

It's a little ugly, but I made a mod for this with the new API.

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/smart-waypoints

How about this? It's basically exactly the same as a normal station entry, except that it has a target order instead of a target station. conditional-goto.png Basically when it gets to order 3, as long as it has more than 50 coal, it skips to order 1. Otherwise, it goes onto order 4, where it can ge...

This has already been mentioned, in this thread and others, but if the Train GUI looked like this in 0.17, I would be very, very happy. (This is a mockup for Conditional Goto Orders, ala OpenTTD.) conditional-goto.png Of course, I'm already going to be happy. But this would be even better. :D Also, ...

I guess I could see it being an issue if players placed hundreds of them, but I don't think most players would do that. I also don't think recording signal data requires that much performance. The game doesn't seem to have any trouble storing production data, and that has be tracked across the entir...

While I like the idea of global/wireless circuit networks, I don't think it's really necessary for this idea. I don't want to change the mechanics of the circuit networks at all, I just want the player to be able to say, "I'd like a graph of this circuit output", and then just connect a bo...

Two words: Circuit Graphs I'd really like to see a Recorder Box that can be hooked up to the circuit network. This would just be a little combinator style box that hooks up to the circuit network, and would record all of the signals it receives. Clicking on it would reveal a Production Graph style w...