I'll admit I'm something of a "casual" player... I've got quite a few tiers of infinite research, but it's slow going because my factory expansion is, eh... not so good. I don't want to turn off biters, they're a part of the game, but this sounds like they're getting a bit too powerful for...

As a player of Fortresscraft, I have to say that the third most annoying feature of the game is the toolbar vs toolbelt decision (No. 2 is the crappy keybinding system, and no. 1 is lack of steam sync) (P.S. I really like the Factorio key config menu system.). Minecraft has a toolbelt, Factorio has ...