Release date! Hooray!

Also:

Release date, no more FFF

Probably the best community interaction of my gaming life. What an amazing journey this has been.

I wish Wube the best of lucks in all the projects they embark.

Mod portal URL: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/asteroid-quality-reprocessing

Description:
A simple mod to bring back Quality Modules to asteroid reprocessing
The mod is designed to work with 2.0 (but it's redundant right now) and will be checked and updated if needed on experimental 2.1 release day ...

Bye bye vanilla casinos.

I think they were quite a fun way to break the late game, but we all expected this. What I hope is we get another way of obtaining quality materials, because upcycling feels tedious and too "grindy".

A common ground of a difficult but rewarding puzzle to obtain quality ...

I was waiting for some motivation to start a new run after 100% the game.

There goes my summer

Just my two cents on the belts vs bots issue. I'm not going to discuss throughput or power, but some other details.

One thing that I think would make belts better are tools to ease the construction of complex buses, for example lane management.

If inserters could be configured to take or leave ...

I like this idea.

Everything that helps reduce the artificial complex constructions (like the ones in pipes) would be great.