At the moment the Lab research speed technology is described in English as "Unlocks more efficient research practices". I suggest this be changed to a wording that does not imply efficiency gains, and that it be moved later in the tech tree.

At the risk of making two bad suggestions in one day, I'm ...

ETA: well, TIL, and I think given the movement speed thing this is a bad idea.

Pistols don't need to exist as normal items at all. A pistol could appear in the first free weapon slot (if any) any time the player does not have a submachine gun in any slot, and vanish any time an SMG is slotted. This ...

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~damerell/games/factorio/endoftheworld.png

I built a railway to the edge of the world!

(Yeah, I'm aware some well-known youtuber has already done it, but I wanted to do it myself).

I did it with Recursive Blueprints, but other than that I think I steered clear ...

mrvn wrote: Wed Nov 17, 2021 6:56 pm This problem is solved by the train limit.

What would stop the train cycling between dropoff and refuel in this scenario?

Sounds like a variation of existing suggestions, like dynamic schedules and the like?


From what I've seen, suggestions of that kind tend to be complex. It's easy to have scope creep in such a proposal. My aim here is to make a proposal which is specific, limited in scope, and which I personally ...

After reading this reddit query (which is described below), I'd like to propose a facility where a stop on a train schedule can be marked in a way that will cause the train to regard it as a closed station if only one (or no) station on the schedule which is not so marked is open.

The OP had a ...

Thank you.

I was attempting to make a direct (via IP and port) connection to a friend's Factorio server.

It attempts to connect and finishes with a notice: "Could not establish network communication with server."

After a bit of fiddling with tcpdump (the server runs on a nonconventional port) we asked the ...

Icons were being designed as "caricatures" of entities they represent for a long time now. The original nuclear reactor icon back from 2017 was caricatures as well. As Vaclav wrote in FFF: "Reworking all icons is a gargantuan project, but redoing individual icons can be very quick and done ...

I'd like to propose that the tutorial lead the player to automate the production of something that's not a component of science packs (or coal).

We had a Discord discussion in which one participant mentioned they were handcrafting all their red belts, fast inserters, etc. Indeed, when I was new I ...

I am against the suggestion. In my opinion, there are better suggestions for the circuit network to receive information from trains.

I agree if these were implemented they would eliminate the need for what I suggest, but they also are more complex; it might be more practical to implement what I ...

Because bug report https://forums.factorio.com/75143 was rejected, it is most likely that trains only path to waypoint until brake distance reaches waypoint. After this, train no longer keeps pointer to waypoint it was going through (only part being updated is path extending). In that sense, i ...

You can give a train an order with no wait conditions, causing the train to pass through the station without stopping - a "waypoint".

I suggest that when the train does so, the station should, for one pulse, send a signal on the circuit network if it has the option which is now called "Read Stopped ...

Glowing heat pipes make me feeling smth wrong and willing to fix pipes wasting energy for glowing.


Very much this. The way steam pipes don't lose any energy in spite of being apparently just lumps of iron already picks at my suspension of disbelief, but heat pipes that glow orange is pretty ...

Devs can't just remove these names from the game. It was a reward for backers who donated at least €50. (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/factorio#/)

Equally seriously, then; it would seem extraordinary, and rather foolish, not to have reserved the right to reject such names if they were ...

<NO_NAME> wrote:I actually like these names but maybe it's just me having a sense of humor.

The Bernard Mannings of this world often do think their kind of humour is the only one that exists, yes.

A friend of mine has just built their first lab. It has been assigned the name "Lab traps are not gay".

This is not in the best possible taste and I submit it should be removed from the list of random names.

I suggest that when selecting items to request from the logistic system, the current amount of each item in the system should be shown. This would give an idea of whether requesting this item would actually serve any purpose. This is particularly true in MP where there can be all kind of useful ...

damerell wrote:I just finished a game using Treefarm (the full mod).

... having apparently started just before the new version that addresses my bioplastic gripe, so, er, thanks for reading my mind and anticipating my comments.

I like the idea of having a steam train, water and the whole nine yards..
I'd prefer it at the late red, early green science stage, buildable using Iron ingredients ideally, could even take a boiler and steam engine.
two tiers of train carriage?, iron carriage with the current 20 slots, then steel ...