How would plopping down a drone station be different from the current way, plopping down mining drills? If you want to build less outposts, then increasing the resource size and yield is a very good option. Alternatively, the recipes can be modded to reduce the amount of resources needed, which woul...

After pondering this for a while, I have come to the following conclusions: Belts and inserters are a design flaw The issue is not only caused by belt throughput, but also by recipes and assembly machine dimensions No amount of band aid will fix the situation How can one of the core mechanics be a d...

(Spoiler: one of them is called "Randomium") Sugestion. Instead of Randomium (Random-ium) try Randonium (Rando-nium) sounds more ore-like. actually, ending with ium as a naming converntion for metals, not ores, so... I dunno. Randomite. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ore#Important_ore_...

Technically, this is very easy to implement, even for someone with little programming knowledge, because the beginner modding tutorials cover all that one needs. a) Create the prototype of all waste products you want to have b) Create recipes that take the waste as input and assign them to be crafta...

darkfrei wrote:

Aeternus wrote:Y'know... next to T-shirts, they should sell hard hats with the Factorio logo on it. Would buy one of those

What is hard hat? Helmet?

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_hat
Basically, the mandatory head protection to wear on a construction site.

Belts and bots are both extremes on the same spectrum, flexibility. Belts are 100% static and player driven, while bots are 100% dynamic and automatically managed by the game. The main points are: The path of each item on a belt is fixed and predetermined by the player, through the placement of spli...

From my perspective, it is not very clear what exactly you mean, since the game does not have a "price" mechanic, i.e. there is no "currency" with which all items are evaluated by. Speaking more generally, the price of an item in the normal economy is practically only decided by ...

Do you mean that stuff basically gets teleported from one chest (or whatever sending entity) to another?

Thank you, but I am aware of these mods. The thing is, that they do not solve the problem at hand. Abstracted away, paletting / boxing is the same as increasing belt speed, all other restrictions of belt (always going, potential contamination) remain.

Spent a bit of time experimenting if I could mod in a single tile wide railway, but doesn't appear possible when using the standard rail type (even without the rail builder). As the game insists that rail entities are centred in the middle of a 2x2 tile area. Would be nice to have options for a var...

I personally dislike bots, as I think of them as "cheating" because of their property to basically teleport items. At the same time, trying to build something like a Mall without them is incredibly tedious and results in a massive belt spaghetti construction. This is because belts can be c...

Monorail. I am not sure what exactly you mean. I tried searching, but could only find mod ideas and a request for monorail assets (reskin of regular train / rails), nothing concrete yet. But the way I see it, all these proposals would operate the same way trains do already, i.e. 2x2 base rail, same...

Any chance rail categories could be re-added? Not likely. If they did, it wouldn't be in any meaningful way. The entire rail system was built under the concept that there exists one rail category and that any rails in the world always interact with each other. Changing that isn't likely unless it h...