The idea behind not allowing this (as it has been suggested many, many times before) is that if you make a moat surrounding your base, it will be impenetrable. You won't even need to spend resources defending against spitters if you make a wide enough moat (and I'm not sure if the spitter AI would ...

You are never to young to learn. And learning by playing is a great way to acquire new skills and knowledge. Factorio is a great game to learn about "logic" and "planning" and many other useful skills.

As a 48 year old I am thoroughly enjoying learning how to play this game and sharpen those skills ...

Natural biter behaviour?

Not actually, but in my opinion AI animals should behave somewhat like natural animals. The simplest behavior or reactions to environment and situations would not be hard to program or time consuming to execute. It would not necessarily change much playing but it would ...

Natural biter behaviour?

Main use of Land mines is to augment base defenses, a line, a few mines deep tiled right at the edge of turret range will greatly thin their numbers and stun the poor fools for your towers to chew apart easily, and they can be replaced automatically by your construction bots too.
And in the case ...

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Hi there, also a new player here. Enjoy this great game.

It is not a bug. You always fire to the direction where your cursor is.

That is a bit misleading here.

I thought that "save blueprint" means save the entire blueprint and the name is a part of it. There isn't even a message to warn that the name isn't saved.

So the button actually means this ?
"save blueprint (but not the name because it is not a part of the ...

These are awesome. A great inspiration to my first experiments in rail in the game.

Thank you for another speedy update.

At my end it shows correctly using Firefox as the browser.

As a very new Factorio player I have been reading lots of topics, looked up info on the wiki, watched videos (tutorials) and Twitch streams.

The factorio players amaze me again and again with there creative solutions. This mixing solution is one of the many I have been reading up on. I hope I can ...