TL;DR
The stacked belts should be their own set of belt, splitters and undergrounds, instead of depending on inserters.


What ?
The belts shown in FFF 393 should be their own set of items, that are dedicated to the purpose, with all inserters that have a stack capacity greater than one able to ...

I think a very nice option would be to limit the recycler to final products, which can't take productivity modules.
The reason would be much less the productivity cap, but opening up the space for alternate recipes as has been mentioned in a recent friday facts, for which the recycler is an issue ...

I'm trying to still figure out why the quality system is bothering me so much. First off, the names are bad, really bad, and make no sense at all, but that is really a superficial issue.

One thing is that the graphics seem to become confusing. Everything can have quality overlays, and that is an ...

This is a very small bug, but when changing the offset of the absolute grid position, the corresponding box placement still snaps to the old value if the blueprint contains rails that force the blueprint onto a 2x2 scale.

The values can still be manually edited, but any change of the selected ...

There is at least one mod that includes a stacksize combinator already: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/utility-combinators-plus

The mod only provides the stack sizes in a constant combinator. You'll need to extract the right signal, convert it into an appropriate constant and then multiply/divide ...

TL;DR
Allow blueprints to be placed through Fog of war


What ?
You should be able to place Blueprints in the map view regardless if an area is currently revealed by radar or not.

Why ?
It is no fun having to overlap a blueprint with one you previously placed, just because fog of war cut off ...

There are several features that currently seem only available for SpiderVehicles, and not for other types of vehicles.

The radar capability set by chunk_exploration_radius
The autopilot feature set by autopilot_destination
The autotargeting settings accessed by vehicle_automatic_targeting ...

I think the fundamental issue is that 'beacon' does not map well to 'long lines' ever. I think the best way to make beacons look better is preventing their effects from infinitely stacking, and ensuring that the beacons are outnumbered by the assemblers/furnaces/refineries.

The picture with the ...

I would consider prioritizing high level recipes over low level ones. So a 3 cable -> 2 green circuit build should show the green circuits first, even though they are in the minority.

Has anyone gotten this to work with 0.16?

I have a mysterious unkown item name error when I try to create a 'item-request-proxy', I assume I got the syntax of modules somehow wrong, but I can't figure out what

player.surface.create_entity
{
name = 'item-request-proxy',
position = entity.position,
force = entity.force,
target ...

The mod can be fixed adding a few lines in local function on_player_selected_area(event), as limitations are no longer a table, but an array
Change the lines testing for appropriate limitations
if entity.type == "assembling-machine" and recipe and next(prototype.limitations) and not in_table ...

If anyone is interested in this behavior, I made a mod that adds a combinator that performs exactly this. (I am afraid I have no clue how to hack into the roboport)

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/missing-circuit

impetus maximus wrote:read "New toolbar proposal"

I only see talk about ways to place ghosts without actually having the item, but I don't see any mention of ghosting modules to existing assemblers. Searching for module comes up empty for me.

read here
https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-191

Can you tell me where in that blog post Twinsen talks about modules? Especially with the radar view, I'd be very much in favor being able to requests modules at the other end of my factory.

Also, existing modules should be slated to be removed ...

Thanks, I fixed it now, it seems to work fine now. It is just very hard to debug something that fails quietly without any error message.

I am trying to match various entities if they are in the same logistics network
I am first saving entities into a table by the logistics network gotten by find_logistic_network_by_position
local parent = surface.find_logistic_network_by_position(combinator.position, combinator.force)
if parent ...

Here is the file

I am trying to make a simple mod, but I am unable to get it to show up in the game in the mods menu. What am I overlooking?
The folder is called:
missing-circuit_0.1.0

and contains the data.lua file:
--data.lua

require("prototypes.items")
as well as the json file
{
"name": “MissingItemsCircuit ...

The tiles look really nice... they just don't have the 'industrial' feel. The main reason I prefer concrete over stone tiles is that the concrete looks much flatter, much more like a factory floor than a hand assembled path. For me I'd much prefer even completely untiled, flat, poured concrete.
Both ...