I also don't see how being able to select the armor from the Quickbar is somehow too bad for dropping items across the ground when it's simply a shortcut for selecting the armor from inventory and clicking it into the armor slot, which does the exact same item dropping thing.

Update: It randomly happened again while clearing a biter nest without the use of Atomic Bombs, so the cause may be unrelated to the bombs or UPS.

Since there is no way to set up an Alarm without an audio component, I frequently set up informative alerts with 0% volume. For a little while, I have randomly heard the alarm sound effect play even though the volume is set to 0%. I finally discovered that the playback seems to be related to either ...

Oh, nice. It actually sounds like it would address that problem completely as well. The explained problem occurs for the user when they select the armor in their Quickbar that they're already wearing. It picks the armor up off their character onto the mouse pointer, spilling their extra items all ov...

TL;DR Putting armor on the Quickbar and selecting it should equip the armor. What ? Selecting an armor piece that's been added to the Quickbar currently picks the armor up onto the mouse pointer. You then have to carefully move the mouse pointer over to the correct slot in the interface and drop it...

Yay, Microsoft.

Thanks.

> What did you do? Playing windowed mode, but might affect full screen as well. When tabbed away from the Factorio window and holding Shift, Ctrl, or Alt modifier keys when clicking back in, the modifier keys are not recognized, and the game treats it as an unmodified click. > What happened? I alt-t...