Personally I would like to see them reworked to remove the assumption that they are single-use items. I would prefer they be more like construction robots. That would be a major change and mean, among other things, that they would need to be tough enough to stand a decent change of surviving fights....

Are you playing the current version? This was a bug earlier but it should be fixed now.

Note that the slider still only goes up to 120, but you can enter a higher number by clicking in the text box.

Good analysis. I too, stopped using them a long time ago after my initial tests proved unimpressive. I didn't even realize they got worse still in the latest version. If the devs can find time, I think they should give these guys a major overhaul before the 1.0 version. Like redesign from the ground...

Yes please, that would be very helpful.

Or at least give us a circle showing the blast radius to make estimating easier.

It seems like this forum doesn't use the collapsible kind of spoilers, instead it just turns the text black-on-black, so it doesn't work with images.

This seems to work fine. 0eNplj9EKwjAMRf8lzx1s6FT6KyKlrNksdqk0mThG/9069WH4Fk5yc+9dwGEXiSVNnfhI5h4sESbQCzCKeBr4PSOJl9n0PggmM0aHoGu1xeXwvADZsexAfMBquEYWUODJ4bMI8kWBJEQ2lpxJsbuxiRRm0L0NjGpV/ZmskDHgJ+GX5/JWcCxW2wbVr4GCR8lUCOjjrm7atj01+0POL7XlVzo= I guess I can see how it's unintuitive that "tile gh...

I would suggest ↑ (an up arrow with a line under it), to represent "picking something up".

What about adding presets? Personally I'd say keep the current RGB values, but add buttons for common colors. Kind of like how you can set your player color using either /color ### ### ### or /color <colorname>. I admit I don't know what other people use train colors for, but my main goal is to have...

Huh. Weird. I've continued to have problems with this, almost seems like every other update fails, where as I don't remember having these troubles back in 0.16 so... I donno. But I guess it's possible something changed on my system in the mean time.

First let me say that I understand why the developers chose not to implement this, because there is significant ambiguity about what the range should be in various situations. However, in the specific case of DrParanoia's example I think the range is reasonably clear. I would define that specific ca...

It's definitely not a bug as the old campaign specifically warned you about this. As for a back-story/justification I like the idea that biters are sensitive to microwave radiation and find the radar annoying, much like you or I would be annoyed by an audible-range sonar. PING! PING! PING! PING! PING!

Also happens with red and green cables. What all of these recipes have in common is that they contain an odd number of both copper cables and electronic circuits. For comparison: Crafting an advanced circuit, which uses an even number of each, does not suffer from this problem. This is consistent wi...

In traditional forums, like this one, as opposed to say Reddit it's more common to have only "Like" (sometimes also known as "applaud" or other names). But I do kinda wish we had something like that. If available, a downvote/dislike option might not be a bad idea either, I think ...

I just noticed this the other day too.

I agree that if the sound is supposed to be "global" this is not the expected behavior.

Personally I'm inclined to think "these" actually refers to "structures that require fuel", and the error instead is a misuse of the word "inserted" to mean "filled". But either way, I agree the current sentence isn't right.

that button is simply not there for me for any of my blueprint books. I put them into my hotbar and all i can do is edit the name or delete. As for individual blueprints the export arrow only shows up if i place the blueprint on the ground and then use a new blueprint on it. Otherwise i can only ed...

can you explain to me how to export a book? I can't see anything pointing to it in-game and even a google search has proven useless. Same way as an individual blueprint. Right-click it, then click the icon that looks like a square with an arrow coming out of it. However, and this is a little bit od...

While I don't recall encountering this problem myself, I definitely quick-replace small poles with medium sometimes and obviously I do that when I want to make a connection that wasn't previously there. Example situation would be I've got a block of smelters or assembling machines wired with small p...

The only other thing you could do is change the recipe, put modules in, and change it back. You can copy the recipe from another machine, so potentially it would be faster if you really had to do a large number of them, but it's definitely not a perfect solution.

It's a big step. I don't know if that's really avoidable though, the recipes have to start getting complicated at some point. If chemical science was easier, it would just make production or utility seem that much harder. What I do object to is the crafting time. I know it works out to the same as b...