Question: I have a Steam Deck but I don't like the UI for it, how can I change it to the same as Desktop? Cannot find into the config menus.


If you change the control scheme to "keyboard+mouse", you can get the standard UI layout, but you lose all of the gamepad functionality. Unfortunately ...

So, what exactly is needed before any graphical play of Factorio is possible on a raspberry Pi? That seems like an essential thing for learning worldwide!


The raspberry pi simply does not support the features Factorio graphics engine needs. It might be possible to adjust the engine to work on ...

After a few failed attempts having to do with incompatible glibc versions (which is a dynamic dependency that we, unfortunately, cannot avoid)

Is there a reason you can't use musl and statically link that? Do you rely on glibc-specific functionality?


If you statically link with musl, then it ...

So now, how about having a truly portable, cross-platform version with ALL the binaries ?
And with update support !
(Factorio's overall installer size has grown so much that some people might appreciate the convenience despite the cost of a slightly larger installer size...)


Each binary is ...

There's a weird referer URL in the debootstrap link in the blog post. Is that supposed to be there?

But it is very nice that you link to everything used, makes it a great reference for others to learn from!


Thanks, that was not intended and I have removed it. The debian wiki appears to do an ...

We don't deal directly with system-level components such as X11, Wayland, or Pipewire - that is all handled by SDL. I would try a small SDL test application, and if that has the same issue, feel free to report it to the SDL developers. (though I expect they will give you a response similar to mine)

What do you mean "no window manager"? Are you starting the game directly from a TTY? If so, then that is an unsupported usecase - please use a window manager.

Thanks for the report. This has been fixed and steam should serve you 2.1.17 builds now.

Would it be possible to add a radio button to the gui which toggles the fluid box between "Reserved" and "Shared"?
So in reserved mode, the fluid box dynamically changes size to one recipe instance, and in shared the fluid box is set to not hold any?
Or would that be too complicated?
Or have I ...

Probably a temporary hiccup, as we have been changing some things on steam recently. I cannot reproduce, and if it works great now, then all's well that ends well.

Thanks for the report. We updated to SDL 3.4.14 and it had a scrolling-related change on macOS, so we have temporarily reverted the change for the next release until our macOS guy can look into it more.

That "issue" is exactly how it is meant to work in 2.1, but apparently it was a misguided decision.

In the first and second diagram, why is the pump not in the same segment as the pipe? If that would be the case, you would not hit the said limit at 6000/s


Because that's not how the system works. Segments are a set of fluidboxes connected via bi-directional connections. Pumps have directional ...

I'm going to move this to technical help - this is undoubtedly something weird with your environment and/or SDL, and in either case it's not something I can directly fix.

I specifically tested this when I updated to SDL3, but only on Windows 10... it's possible this is Windows 11 specific. I will ask someone with Windows 11 to test it.

I can't reproduce - it can take any temperature of steam.

This also happens with Moshine Start. There's no fluid indices, but there's an assembling machine with a Fluid Energy source and an fluid box, both passthrough.

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Fluid boxes part of the entity

energy_source = {
type = "fluid",
maximum_temperature = 165,
scale_fluid ...

Something in your environment is preventing the game from detecting the wayland socket. Moving to technical help.

Would this mean reverting the current thruster behaviour too? I don’t really have any strong opinions on this topic, but I’ll miss how easy it is to run thrusters at 10% consistently. (Due to them not sucking in fluid up to 100%)


Thrusters are an interesting case, because they already have a ...

I have been thinking about this for a long time, and the solution I am leaning towards is to re-introduce isolated buffers for passthrough entities as it was in 2.0, but setting the volume of the segment portion of such an entity to zero. This solves the double-fluids and hidden-buffers issues ...