Quite logical.

Only if buying as a gift is very rare.

I think the link "Buy Factorio: Space Age again" is much better than completely hiding the purchase page.

I wanted to buy the game as a gift, but the website was impossible to actually find the buy page for the base game while I was logged in. I spent 20 minutes with half a dozen people on discord and we eventually guessed the url:

https://factorio.com/buy

https://factorio.com/space-age/buy

I'm ...

TL;DR
Higher quality combat robots should last longer than lower quality ones.

What?
Today, quality combat robots get better health and damage with higher quality tiers (though damage is not listed on the wiki at the moment ). In addition to these benefits, quality could also increase the robot ...

Edit: The wiki pages show quality damage scaling now.

The wiki shows that quality combat robots have more health, but does not show that they do more damage (they do). This applies to Defender, Distractor, and Destroyer capsules.

The wiki should show how much damage quality robots do for each ...

TL;DR

Staged blueprints that would place a compatible upgrade of an existing entity should mark that entity for upgrading instead of blocking placement or requiring super force building.

What ?

It's fairly common to make a series of compatible blueprints that are designed to be stamped on top ...

Awesome thank you!

Hi!

It would be much easier to add screenshots as attachments if the forum supported pasting images from the clipboard. The popular phpBB extension Clipboard Image (23k downloads) claims to add this capability to phpBB forums like this one. The browser feature that enables this is now widely ...

But the one thing I absolutely hate is that it seems like the rail support having a different hitbox depending on whether or not its rotation is directly along the X and Y axis or somewhere in the middle (looking at the picture with the different rotations of the support).
Should imho just be a ...

So who's gonna make the first diverging diamond train crossing?

When you have a large number of ghost items (say to place landfill or concrete) a Spidertron directed by remote with roboports, bots, charge, and inventory in Trunk will only sporadically/inconsistently send construction bots to place items on top of ghosts. "sporadically/inconsistently" meaning ...

Shift+Right Click on one Spidertron then Shift+Left Click on another does not copy Trunk filters, Color, Name, or Auto targeting settings from the first onto the second.

I would expect it to do this for Trunk filters because it works for cars, tanks and traincars; as well as color settings because ...

Ah my train stacker is signalled incorrectly. For train stackers you need a single chain signal feeding into a set of normal signals where trains park, and chain signals on exits. I had these backwards.

Edit: jockeril, I just missed your post with mine, but that was it. Thanks!

Maybe I'm confused, but doesn't a chain signal prevent trains from stopping at it? My understanding is that the train has to have an open normal signal ahead for it to actually path through a chain signal. I thought I understood train signals pretty well but this one is baffling me.

If I'm just ...

Yes actually that why I posted this. If they're experimenting with different options, now is probably the best time to present a possible solution.

Edit: Me whinging with no context. Feel free to ignore.

So coming back and re-reading this post I realized a couple things. This is literally a data structure/algorithm design document. By the post alone, the best even the devs could say is that it has some neat ideas, but it would need to be ...

It works fine. As in, it can work just like it does now. But I've also added a fix for multiple fluid types where the type with less fluid is pushed back (see my last FAQ question, if you can make sense of it).

Looking closer at your links (very relevant, thank you!), this is more of a very strong ...

I have an idea for a new fluid box update algorithm that I think has some nice properties that could make it faster. In general, I think the current idea of simulating fluids on a per-tile basis can be optimized to the point where it's not a bottleneck and we can fix some quirks along the way ...

You shouldn't be able to put productivity modules into beacons at all.

I just tried in 0.16.21 vanilla, and there is no way to put productivity modules in the beacon.

Are you sure this isn't an issue with a mod you have installed?

FasterJump wrote:

FFF-218 wrote:

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Well that's why rendering is using so much memory, silly. One of those textures is huge!

My goal would be to make all smoke immutable . It's current state is directly calculated from starting state and current tick, and only for the rendered region; it's never updated until it's removed. This would turn a read/write loop on the whole map into a read-only loop (+some calculations) in ...