As per title i'd like to propose reducing the quality upgrade mechanic to a single machine. Something like an "upgrader" which takes 10 equal items of equal quality and puts out 1 of that item of the next quality. Quality limitation is enforced by only permitting inputs up to a certain qua...

So seen it makes sense to add this button to every inventory. Even players inventory when he turned off auto-sorting. This gave me a weird idea: Auto-sort for player-inventory is an exception to auto-sorting changing the game-mechanics because players don't interact with inserters and stuff. What i...

Probably a good idea to change the title. I really meant it to improve the players ability to deal with inventories other than the personal one and not as a global potentially-exploitable change of the game mechanics. I can easily see how sorting every chest-inventory on every content-change could k...

Ok, here's my data so far, more tests depend on my mood. velocity change of 1 locomotive hitting (killing) a medium biter (75hp) column 1: velocity before impact , column 2: velocity after impact L1m.txt velocity change of 2 locomotives hitting (killing) a medium biter (75hp) column 1: velocity befo...

I assume train push-back is not implemented because it is not trivial to implement properly and the effort isn't worth it. Is there a documentation of the impact mechanism somewhere? I would have sworn to have seen it once but searching through the wiki i couldn't find it. As long as the exact mecha...

Simple and stupid: Would it be possible to enable auto-sorting for chests? Since it is mostly for the player one could do the sorting only if a player has the chest open if it would otherwise have computation-limiting issues. I did a quick search and found no related posts nor did i find anything ex...

I would like to revise my previous statement of barreled fluids being useless. I remembered an edge-case where they are invaluable: When you play in high difficulty settings, setting up large pollution-producing outposts is hard, especially for far-away patches. Like oil. Also, in the beginning one ...

Does someone happen to know how to control repair behavior? E.g. how to enable/disable repairability for a unit? Because i´d like to try my above suggestion in a mod. Should be quite simple with https://wiki.factorio.com/Types/EntityPrototypeFlags#.22not-repairable.22 Exactly what i was searching, ...

Does someone happen to know how to control repair behavior? E.g. how to enable/disable repairability for a unit? Because i´d like to try my above suggestion in a mod.

-Change bot stats to : 60hp, 90% Acid resistance, 95% Fire resistance -Make bots unrepairable (idea copied from some other post in this threat) The stats are copied from destroyer bots. The increased fire resistance should make it much more likely that bots can survive repairs during fire. Acid resi...

Items i consider useless: -lamps (except for visual signaling, which i don´t do) -piercing level ammo (gun/shotgun) -tanks (and related ammo) -distractor robots Items i don´t use due to playstyle/preferences: -cluster grenades -slowdown/poison capsules (rarely i use poison for worm sniping) -destroy...

If you run in a very small circle, your average velocity is 0, so the spit will be aimed at where you are (and hit). If you run in a larger circle, the aim will be off the mark, but still closer than without averaging your velocity (probably?, i didn't go through all scenarios). At least it should m...

I agree that acid pools are kind of OP, especially their stacking slow and since vehicles don't have the characters dodging ability i would very much welcome some sort of change. As far as i'm concerned the change could be to have spitters/worms use the character speed averaged over the last half-se...

One of the challenges with finding a place for efficiency modules is that their only effects are to reduce energy consumption and pollution production. Both issues can alternatively be dealt with by building more power plants and more defenses. The only situation in which I see efficiency modules b...

At first and second readings, you appear to be saying that Factorio won't ever be optimised enough until a saved game can be expanded until either the player's death of old age, or the universe winds down enough to make life as we know it impossible, whichever comes first. I wouldn´t strictly say i...

I´ve seen a few answers saying basically "Improving performance won´t do since then people will just build bigger factories until they hit performance again". I would like to argue that this is not true. Building a factory takes time. Building a bigger factory takes more time. Humans have ...

Counterpoint: The right side was already cluttered with stuff, map, entity info, so might as well keep all the stuff there and have a full free screen to the left.

And I saw the option to move it to the quickbar. Didn´t do it for me.

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Please Please PLEEEEEASE give me a checkbox to move the Armor/Gun quickbar to the right again. Bonus points for explaining the reason for moving it.
Please.

As far as I understand, the prime reason that throws you off of testing your theories yourself is that you simply lack the finger skill required to keep up with your thoughts. Have you thought about writing a bot to do that for you? Building a factory is basically just executing a very elaborate scr...

Military research may not be theoretically infinitely usefull, but in practice, reaching that point (killing behemots with anything with one shot) will not happen anytime soon. On biter-heavy maps, upgrading damage can heavily reduce the effort you need to put into defending your territory as well a...