Sandbox Mode should have all in-game items available in the menu and the option for buildings to work with or without power.

Update: Oddly enough it seems like they do grab repair kits before leaving, but nothing else.

Multiple tests of running towards damaged objects show this is the case.

Indeed, its function would mostly only be useful for those who enjoy creating extremely compact factory networks. There's often not enough room to have buffer storage areas between factories. There's no reason anyone with infinite space to build wouldn't just use a chest, but it's seldom an option f...

There's no point in nuclear reactors (or other forms of energy-production) if you can scale up solar panels all the time and have 300MW solar-only factory with 50GJ battery storage I beg to differ. Steam power is early game, Solar is mid game, and Nuclear is endgame. With a proper uranium mine and ...

Both of those issues were covered in the original post. If you remove the factory then the contents will go into your inventory just as they do now and the reservoirs will sit idle. Reservoirs will only connect to one factory and that can only be designated when its placed via snap rotation. (As in ...

TL;DR Chest-like entities that attach to the side of your factories to expand internal storage of the factory. What ? I would like there to be multiple tiers of Factory Reservoirs that you can attach directly to any empty directly-adjacent side of your factories. These would expand the internal sto...

He means when you move towards a blueprint with a Personal Roboport active, your robots will first fly out of your inventory and follow you with no items held and then have to catch up to you or you must stop to let them catch up to you so they can remove items from your inventory to then go build. ...