TLDR: New machines and items to close the life cycle of waste material.
Description:
I'm proposing several new machines and items they produce.
Grinder (machine) - little or medium pollution, inputs all ingame items and grinds them into following materials
Scrap (item) - Based on the ...

TLDR: Assemblers could be able to send and receive signals from the circuit network.
Description:
People are capable of building glorious things using circuit fucketry. My proposal is, that assemblers should be able to send signals to circuit network such as working/not-working, current recipe ...

TLDR: Placeable and nameable rail object, that the train must go through if it is in the train's schedule, but doesn't have to stop there.
What:
An object similar to railway signal, that can be put to a train's schedule. The train then must go through this point.
If you ever played Cities in ...

dood wrote:Sounds like no plates, circuits, etc.

Of course, that's the point.

My point was, logistics shouldn't be ridiculously specific to 1 item type.
There are no inserters that only work for plates or pipes that only work with water after all.

It's funny you mention pipes, because pipes, storage tanks and fluid wagons work with only a handful of entities.
I never ...

dood wrote:That's only usable if you even transport ore.
I smelt on-site so this would just sit in my menu and never see any use.

There are people, who play without bots, trains, solar panels, circuit logic or on peaceful mode. The fact that it is there doesn't mean that you must use it.

+1
Calculator can be very useful.

TLDR: An alternative way to transport and store ores and some intermediate products.

Description:
Pile spot
- 6x6 entity with capacity of 36 steel chests
- capable of loading and unloading hopper wagons and belts without the need for inserters
- can interact with inserters if necessary
- can ...

In early game I had small iron and copper smelteries. However the output was a little too much for the factory and I didn't like to see the furnaces idle, so I started stockpiling items. 18 steel chests full of iron plates and 18 more full of copper. Moving it to the new place was hell.
And I wasn't ...

I like how signs look in Dectorio. If they could display text and some pictograms, you can even make warning for yourself, such as "Railroad crossing ahead".

Thank you for agreeing with me, and if you already proposed this topic than the developers have a higher chance of implementing this because more people would want it.

Yeah, tell that to people who proposed smarter trains.

Also I don't see nerfing as progress. People recently want stuff to be ...

Corner tiles for gates, that would allow to build a gate in multiple directions at once and make it still act as one gate. This would allow us to build diagonal gates.

Yes! Yes! Yes!
And as a bonus, an option to toggle exoskeletons too.

mrvn wrote:

Atlas wrote:+1
I would also like to see snowy biomes with frozen lakes.

And if you build a nuclear reactor on it then the ice melts and it sinks?

This might work with every building that produces pollution. Belts, pipes and storage only.

+1
I would also like to see snowy biomes with frozen lakes.

I think you can do this yourself with programmable speakers. Connect them to a drill, set them to work when the mine is empty and set a warning, that will be displayed next to the toolbar. It will even show an icon on the map.

Nice work

So if I understand it right, the two combinators on the right read what is on the belt and send it to the inserter as negative and the one on the left reads contents of the chest and sends it to the inserter too. So I suppose the inserter is set to work if the signal =/= 0, right?

Maybe combinator clock would be better. Something that would read the current game time and send it to circuit network. It may have broader usage.

I'll support anything that would lead to decreasing the area of combinator contraptions. Else function is a standard counterpart to If function, and so it should also be in Factorio.