Awesome updates as always! One thing I haven't seen anyone talk about yet in the thread is the new rail planning from map. I noticed you can't see the ghost rails unless you have radar coverage. Personally alot of the times when I'm expanding rails are one of the first things to go in. The feature ...

My suggestion is: when multiple departing trains(stations) are at the same priority, the one who is waiting the longest should go there It's deliberate that it DOESN'T do that, actually. Trains always take the shortest path. Which sounds reasonable, of course, but also includes deciding which of se...

Since you've added manual pushing of wagons, I would love if you could I update the wagon model slightly. Adding a ladder at the end like North American boxcar, that our engineers would hang off of when riding them would be very amusing to me and hopefully others. I second that. Adding a visual ind...

I made an assembly language for combinators to sidestep most of the issues that fiddling with combinators and wires manually creates: https://qon.github.io/combinassembly/ Some instructions: https://github.com/Qon/combinassembly 2D-layout is a planned feature. Size issue kind of fixed: https://mods...

I would straight up not bother with the radar transmission at all - why bother wasting the resources to craft them and the power to run them, when powerline circuits are free on both accounts? Besides, it doesn't remove the need for a multiplexer anyway since there's only one channel. Fair. And run...

Is there a mod that implements the radar feature in the current version of the game? Yes. I don't know for sure which one, but the current modpack for "space exploration" has a uplink/downlink pair of machines with an infinite number of named channels. Not sure if they're available as a s...

Would it be bold ask for an "integrated circuit" a box 2x4 tiles which opens a virtual surface (a sort of space platform of a fixed size, one chunk , 32x32 tiles ). Box has 4 inputs and 4 outputs wires connectors. Only combinator's items are allowed to place inside the "integrated ci...

Eh, I'll double up on the "weight limits are a weird thing to do" that other people have voiced. And it's true! Are there even ANY in existence games that have both a slot and weight based inventory system. How does that work? Given the lack of visual ques that I'm seeing even in the rocke...

I'll second who ever said we should be able to directly edit train stop names in a trains route. Losing a complex rule hurts, man. Especially if it's several, and you just need to change "iron" to "copper" and be done, but NOOO.... you have to redo the whole condition, and hope l...

The rail updates look really good, except for one thing. You briefly mentioned the problem of manual control when going through complex junctions. How would manual train control be implemented in the final graphic in your post, where one rail splits into five parallel tracks? I think it would be pr...

And it would at least make the "I'm so powerful I can ride a train and build a track as we go!" work a damned sight better. It's maybe naive, but that was the expectation that I had when I first built a personal roboport. I was kinda pissed when it not only didn't work but upgrading made ...

TL;DR: For personal roboports only, we really, really, really need jobs sorted by distance from the player. ... This could honestly be done as a tweak to the deconstruction planner/blueprint deployer, at least I'd guess... Just adding tasks in a different order onto the queue, so the close ones get...

TL;DR: For personal roboports only, we really, really, really need jobs sorted by distance from the player. ... This could honestly be done as a tweak to the deconstruction planner/blueprint deployer, at least I'd guess... Just adding tasks in a different order onto the queue, so the close ones get...

Well, when people speak of pathfinding, they usually refer to dynamic obstacles and collision detection. Since bots are flying, none of them is applicable. There's just a number of static waypoints. Unlike the true pathfinding, this operation is quite cheap. Waypoints is pathfinding. It was popular...

Robots don't do pathfinding, because it's too expensive. And it will almost certainly always be too expensive. Did you know that pathfinding lag is what kills most games of Dwarf Fortress? It is. Pathfinding doesn't have simple, efficient, solutions. Particularly in scenarios where the map can chan...

honestly the nvidia linux driver is total trash and they have fewer and fewer sysctls they can plug into in the linux kernel since there's more GPL-only symbol export restrictions Those export restrictions only apply to people who don't compile their own stuff. "apache" was originally a s...

You've already made so many improvements in the cleverness of the behavior of various entities that it might be worth considering adding a "better software" item to the research :D (Seriously, it would feel great to suddenly unlock such improvements after using dumb robots for a while.) A...

TL;DR: For personal roboports only, we really, really, really need jobs sorted by distance from the player. ... This could honestly be done as a tweak to the deconstruction planner/blueprint deployer, at least I'd guess... Just adding tasks in a different order onto the queue, so the close ones get...

[...] Regarding the pathing over lakes: it seems that now you are using the selection of a roboport closer to the destination basically as a failure mode for when the robot needs to charge. Wouldn't it be possible to check immediately after a job is assigned to a robot if the distance is actually r...

TL;DR: For personal roboports only, we really, really, really need jobs sorted by distance from the player. This is awesome. Stupidity of construction and logistics robots has been a problem for a long time. But it didn't address my personal worst case scenario, which happens ALL THE TIME. So this i...