And an alternative idea: New generic train station parameters to be used as destination stations for interrupts, such as 'previous station' and 'next station' (of the original schedule). That might also be useful for some of the interrupt conditions. Imagine checking 'at specified station', 'station ...

TL;DR
Interrupts/Temp train stations option 'Return to previous station' (or a generic destination placeholder for any previous station)


What?
Manipulating train behavior for Interrupts / temp train stations with a checkbox or something: returning to the previous station instead of the next ...

Reading your post I got this idea:
Same loading station, multiple unloading stations. The train normally does a schedule to check for, to load and to unload common quality, but an interrupt checks for higher quality in the train and sends the train to the other unloading station. The unloading ...

That would fit however I just realized... this, full cargo, empty cargo, any cargo ... could all be replaced with a single % based cargo meter. Set to 95%, 100%, 0%, (>=) 1% respectively.

In effect exposing the status of the green progress bar of Full Cargo as a condition itself. Honestly all ...

How important is it to get that last iron plate? If your production is that thin, then your train is going to be waiting a LONG time anyway, so you may as well set "inactivity OR time passed", or "inactivity AND item count > N" where N is the smallest load you want the train to bother with ...

Hmm... *brain storms*

My problem with this is, that this would mean the train leaves the station just because the next (valid, insertable) item is en route and *somehow* it just decided to take a little longer that usual ...

This happens all the time in my outposts. Off the top of my head, direct ...

There is a machine in the game that can do mixed quality just fine.

The science lab. You could just feed your surplus quality item into additional science production chains specifically of that quality.
Surplus Steel plates might be harder to deal with, but you'd just need quality plastic and ...

TL;DR
Making trains able to wait for the condition of all storage slots (40 per cargo wagon) not being empty.

What?
Train wait condition, like 'Full Cargo', except it specifically checks all storage slots of all wagons for not being empty instead of all them filled strictly with full item ...

TL;DR
Make it that the 'Open Inventory' (E) action opens the object menu GUI (of the currently remotely driven vehicle), instead of just the generic ghost selection GUI.

What?
When Remote Driving:
Make it that the 'Open Inventory' (E) action opens the left mouse click menu (of the remotely ...

Very much agreed, and I'd also very much suggest being able to access the main menu (ESC), or more importantly, at least access the game saving and game loading screens all while remote driving (without exiting the remote view).

Amazing! So many opportunities to expand on it, just imagine the possibilities!

A: Define specific sub-items to choose from, depending on what is selected as the top item. Equip blueprints with their own elaborate forms to fill out before placing. You could define whole trees and sub-trees full of ...

This is nice and all... but does this FINALLY give us a way to 'sanitize' our inputs? Specific case: I was working on making a station using LTN that would allow me to load multiple types of cargo. The problem is that LTN's station, alongside expected cargo, also dump out a whole bunch of other ...

Love it!

Idea: When two railway tracks are offset by 2 tiles, side by side without gab; display a different railway sprite that shows both tracks being ontop the same track ballast / trackbed.

THis is great and here is an idea for a technology trigger.

Put items into lab like research packs, blindly do research with them (using them up), and unlock new branches of the technology tree. Especially with new resources this could be great. Eg. 50 uranium ore inside the research lab, research ...

Honestly this is better than productivity modules + beacons everywhere. Speed modules decrease quality for speed, quality modules decrease speed for quality. Both increase power consumption, efficiency modules decrease speed for power saving.

Honestly get rid of beacons, get rid of productivity ...

I disliked it at first, but now I'm warming up to the idea. Obviously it needs better sounding names and be less unpredictable.

I think this is already a better tiered productivity system than modules if it is a bit toned down on the effects. At least it's better than productivity modules, which ...

Also unhappy with Oil changes. But I don't agree with Heavy Oil + Cracking from the start either!


If they exactly and precisely want to help pure beginners, just add even simpler processing recipes for refinery on its first research: 1 Input → any 1 Output.

Just break up Basic Oil Processing ...

Seems to work so far. I loaded up an old 0.16 save with HC + tons of other mods, hundreds of hours in; no problems anymore.

However I had one strange startup error with HC (game traced it back to the 'data-final-fixes.lua' file), but only once and I can't replicate it anymore. I then deactivated ...

Well, dang it.

That one download was me and I can confirm problems with autoplace. If we could only get around this last obstacle we'd have Hardcrafting working again on 0.17. Sadly I have no experience with Factorio modding.

I would love a 0.17 version.

I can't start a real game without this anymore - I need it. Please be so kind!