Summary: On the last step of the Ghost Rail tutorial (Plan any path through the walled area), the pathfinder will sometimes plan a route which takes less than 50 pieces of rail. This requires you to place more rail even though the objective is complete. Steps: - Complete the Ghost Rail tutorial up t...

Summary: One-time crash shortly after entering the Ghost Rail tutorial. I had entered and exited the tutorial 3 times to reproduce a separate bug. Steps: - Played for about 15 minutes. - Entered the Ghost Rail tutorial. - Finished the tutorial. - Entered the tutorial again. Result: Game crashed, and...

Defense in Factorio feels to me like it should mostly follow the arc in Total Annihilation or Supreme Commander: 1. Small amount of weak defenses / units, micromanaged. 2. Mix of lots of weak defenses and smaller number of long-range defenses or tough/powerful units. Some micromanagement. 3. Extreme...

First thought was "ohhhh this is going to be a problem, I better clear my schedule."
Second thought was "how do I unequip the thing I'm holding?"

I threw together some awful code in Autohotkey if anyone uses it, for demonstration. Makes rail construction much nicer for now. Shift-T to switch to Train Mode, R to rotate right, Shift-R to rotate left. $+t:: IfWinActive, Factorio { SendInput +t If TrainMode = 1 { TrainMode := 0 } else { TrainMode...

Currently, the curved track uses this pattern. Building a circle clockwise takes 5 rotations per track, building counterclockwise takes 3. http://i.imgur.com/0it8ZzS.jpg If the pattern were switched to this, building clockwise would only be 1 rotation per track. http://i.imgur.com/RCiXg78.jpg Withou...