These new combinator changes are cool, though in a way, I will miss the more simplistic barebones approach akin to building with very basic logic chips. A necessary evil to improve their capability, I suppose. The selector combinator has rocket capacity as a condition, and what I'm assuming is that,...

This is just an all around fantastic addition. Glad it''ll be in the game. As a purely personal aside, I would like it if there was some option to have super replacement consider the full length of the undergrounds rather than only the minimum distance required to build around super replacing entiti...

Someone on Reddit attempted it with a different tool, and their results have the opposite problem, they seem to fit the blur patter fairly well, but they make no sense as planet names: Muffintop Spatula Caligula Lanolin Portugal OK, I can almost accept Muffintop and Caligula as planet names... but ...

This is pretty sick. Think this is also marks the first time we're able to cross bodies of water directly in vanilla without having to either go around or committing to putting down landfill. Barring something else being in the works, of course. It would be neat if big electric poles also received s...

It’s almost like people are choosing to not read the entire FFF content. Maybe because it would get in the way of holy outrage? 🤷‍♂️ Put aside the unequivocal support for a second. It's ok for someone to be skeptical of incomplete information. Tell you a story: I worked closely with Earendel on Spa...

It’s weird though, it’s almost like the new infinite productivity research and a 300% cap is there to help make quality eventually get better over time as well, as you shift some productivity modules to quality ones and now don’t lose the productivity in exchange. It’s almost like we may see a bit ...

In the game circuits are made of copper, iron and plastic, when in real life it's a bit more complex no ? That's not a problem as much as the "quality" feature ? the devs took some decisions to make a game, like when they simplified the early oil processing and it sparked controversy on t...

Wube already knows how to design game systems better than more than 99.9999% of the player population (they made Factorio after all, the best game). This isn't a valid point. Not an attack on Wube, this is just a generalized statement, but the ability to program (and do it well) or lack there of ha...

I'm still apprehensive about quality. I've said my piece about it last thread, so I'll just say that this blog post didn't really do much to address my grander concerns of samey solutions and item bloat. But at the very least y'all acknowledge that a mechanic being optional isn't meant to be an excu...

Given the positive comparison to gambling in the FFF and Kovarex's comments on Reddit, anything that ameliorates the issues quality has is almost certainly going to be a response to its negative reception and not actually something prepared beforehand. That in part encompasses what I find to be rat...

New unique items and structures would clutter the inventory just as bad. I doubt it'd get five times as bad at worst. Either way, new machines are being added with the expansion on top of the quality, so I guess we both lost on that front. Yes it's optional. Just like it's optional to research work...

I'd like to preface this by saying that I do think there are a couple of things in this blog post that I do appreciate, those being the introduction of the recycler and some attempt to further improve the progression of the player and their factory. The recycler does solve a long standing problem of...

I would prefer not to have any user interface, either the idea is implemented, and trains skip stops, or they don't. It is just a change to how trains work. If you don't want a stop to be skipped, you add one of the conditions like time passed or inactivity. Such is valid. I mainly suggested a UI c...

What I'm looking for is how the train knows its conditions are fulfilled if the destination station does not (and thus unable to lower its train limit), or how decreasing the station limit doesn't help? The train stop limits, if not set to a constant, are defined by the circuit network. In order fo...

Way too much text for me to read through right now, but can you boil down for me on how a train skipping a station where all conditions are met will solve the below problem if you can't get the new train limits to do this? There was no way to have a train prioritize a station over another station, ...

TL;DR: A train should skip a stop it is set to skip if it already fulfills the wait conditions of that station right when it is departing. Background: A few years back, I was inspired by other circuit-based train managers to create my own, one that deploys the minimum number of trains between avail...

At present, when a mod is marked incompatible with another mod, and both of these mods are selected as active, one of these mods will run, and the other mod that marked the first mod as incompatible will not run. This is fine, the problem is that this is done silently. When a mod does not run as a r...

I noticed a new bug that was introduced with 0.17.46/47, where aircraft can take damage from spitter/worm acid that's on the ground. Rolling back to 0.17.45, this doesn't occur.