The problem
Placing multiple roboport ghosts is very frustrating as the ghost roboport does not emit a coverage prediction, making it impossible to tell how far to place the next roboport to make a max-range connected network without memorizing distances.
The solution
Ghost roboports should ...

What did you do?

Used Alt+U upgrade planner to schedule an upgrade for an assembly 2 to assembly 3.
Used map view to get ghost speed modules in hand and ctrl+click to schedule module insertion to all slots.
Used Alt+U upgrade planner to shift+click unschedule assembly machine upgrade ...

1. High-quality stone was placed in a furnace
2. High-quality stone cannot be smelted into stone brick in a furnace, because the furnace cannot set quality for the smelting recipe.
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3. The furnace should have automatically matched quality of recipe to quality of input, the ...

I'm unsure of what the "standard" use case for bots is considered to be if you assume that entities aren't being built next to each other. The main thing I use bots for is placing solar panels and batteries in big clumps.

I can understand limiting the "vision" range of bots (no sense trying to ...

No, the post body says 27 and the post title says 28. This is a typo, not an intentional version skip.

EDIT: Except if FactorioBot is actually a bot (and why wouldn't it be?) how did it accomplish a typo?

I agree with the FFF on this one: the campaign is much harder for veteran players than new ones.

As a veteran player in freeplay, I generally start games with 2-4 people, stick a pair of burner miners on coal and then quickly establish steam power and electric drills and inserters. I bypass burner ...

Haven't devoted effort into reproduction yet, just saw this while placing objects.

The inserter is being drawn over the power pole despite the pole being in front.

When copy+pasting assembly machines the ghost retains the product setting and displays the icon for it. When manually placing assembly machines, you cannot set the product and have to remember what everything is. This can be very confusing if you leave and come back or are working in multiplayer and ...

Please add some sort of mining option so that the item you mine goes to your hand (with a hand-placeholder appearing in your inventory so you can Q clear it there and don't break inventory limits). This probably wants to have a modifier key associated with it so it only happens when you want it, or ...

Am I the only one who feels weird about the angle on belts? I immediately looked at them and said "I can see too much of the side". I think the belt housing is supposed to be going straight down, but it feels like it comes way too far out from the belt for a 45 degree camera angle. I think the core ...

Interactive text looks really clean! I'll be happy to have a way to send recipes to people so they don't have to find them in the crafting menu while they're busy.

Don't wanna sound negative, but thinking about actual setups used in game (see pictures) and seeing how many junction there are and relatively few straight pipe sections, I'm not sure it would really be that much of an optimization to be honest.


Even in the images you link there are pipe ...

I just got Automation 2!

Open the tech tree and browse to figure out what I want next
Find logistics robots . I want those!
Go up the tree and notice I need engines
Select engines to research next
Wait
Engines finished!
Remember I was going for logistics robots (which might not be ...

I wanna start with that I really like the direction this is taking and I think it's an improvement overall. I need to make that clear in advance though, cause most of this post is gonna be suggestions on fixes to it.

Good:

The queue
The way progress is displayed on a research card
Large ...

What do ya'll mean? They are having fun! They're fixing Factorio! The Factory grows!

Thanks!

I tried outputting the contents of some on_player_mine events, specifically on_player_mined_tile, and the surface_index is coming back as 0, which isn't a real surface. At first I thought this was because I had made water minable and was mining it off the map, but it was also true of stone paths ...