Sometimes it can be a bit annoying to mine a strangely shaped ore patch. Wouldn't it be so much easier if you could reshape ore patches to be nice and rectangular? With the Ore Excavator, you can. It's placed anywhere that a miner can be placed, and it will scoop up ore from within it's range and du...

This is an idea for an "eyedropper", an item which the player can use to move small amounts of fluid from from one fluidbox to another without any piping between them. A newly crafted eyedropper is empty; when an empty eyedropper is in the player's hand, and he clicks while hovering over a...

This is a request for a tiny mod, which adds a better type of burner inserter -- one which runs faster the more energy is inside it, and slower the less energy is inside it. If it's just started burning a piece of coal, it runs a bit faster than the vanilla constant speed burner inserter; as the ene...

This idea is to add a dozen or so machines which make all aspects of blueprints automatable. A machine which scans the world for tiles and/or entities and/or ghosts which are blueprintable, and generates information on the circuit network it is connected to. A machine which takes information from th...

This idea is fairly simple: intercept the event which occurs when pollution causes a live tree to become a dead tree, scan the area around the tree for empty spaces, and for each space, try to spawn a new, live tree. By "try," I mean generate a random number between 0 and 1, and if it's le...

A beacon you put in your modular armour and which effects both handcrafting, and machines around the player.

This idea is fairly simple: What if each biter corpse temporarily absorbed pollution from it's chunk, and when it had absorbed more than a certain amount, the corpse disappears and all of the pollution it had previously absorbed is instantly re-emitted to the chunk. As far as I know, long range bite...

I wonder why factorio doesn't have a C modding api... that would in turn allow mods to be written in any programming language which has some form of ffi... python, ruby, javascript, java, lisp, perl6, etc

Nothing keeps you from usung an inserter to pull robots out of the "wrong" roboport and putting them into a provider chest, to send them to a requester chest in the area you want them, and then insert them into the "right" roboport.