There's plenty of structures that look remarkably different from their icon representations. Just part of design. It's meant to look recognizable, not exactly the same.

Maybe there is discoloration? Seems unlikely though, and based on response, even more unlikely.

I like this redesign, it's more authentic. I was somewhat fond of the old design and it never bothered me but the new sprite looks good. The fact that it digs a 5x5 square area was just a seemingly believable logical extension of the fact that it was designed like a square - a shape so ubiquitous in...

If they're still in the trash slots, you can just drag them back into your inventory, I do believe? Admittedly I do forget whether turning off logistics means it won't autotrash items either, which may be of relevance... That aside, as Zarylo was hinting at, I think this wouldn't be added because it...

Love the progress! Lots of great features.

Looking forward to see if I find any changes from the proofreading, and I hope you can get some of those fluid processing improvements!

Changes Disallowed saving over autosave files or making saves that begin with '_autosave'. Oh come on. I sometimes use autosaves to save something temporarily without any intent to keep it for longer. What about an option in the pause menu that performs an autosave immediately? Perhaps this could b...

To add to my previous post, is this issue perhaps more common than we thought? Via TheSkiGeek on Reddit at https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/gn3ps4/factorio_is_the_most_polished_game_there_is_out/fr7j11k/ : The autosave system is confusing enough that it eats people's worlds with some regul...

I don't quite follow. If you set the stack size to 1, do they not load a predictable amount of science packs every time? Afaik they will. If you don't set the stack size to 1, they will load however many they can grab and this is intended behavior. edit: Inserters are not meant to solve everything a...

Is there a potential problem with how when you load an autosave, the system will next time automatically prompt you to actively save over the same autosave? Even though this functionality is logical, it is against save file principles and can be unexpected behavior, because autosaves are not the sam...

Golden! Not only can I refer friends and strangers, owners and potential buyers alike to exactly the thing I want, but I can refer them to the same thing . These missions are what I think really sealed the deal for me when I bought the game and started playing it. They're what I keep referring to wh...

As long as it doesn't end up corrupting player data, I don't see a problem with having occasional issues like this. As stable as Factorio is, this is the experimental branch, like others also pointed out. Extra layers of testing could be worthwhile if it helped preventing big problems such as the af...

It breaks the flow of the game a bit that I'm able to unlock facilities and recipes without having unlocked prerequisites for using them. For example, steel smelting which requires oxygen is researchable without having researched electrolysis to get the oxygen. Similarly, the crop processing plant r...

You need red circuits to produce roboports, which are needed for robots anyways, especially if you're making enormous amounts of robots! So I would go about automating production of those. And as was already mentioned, you can't have too big of a stash of plastics or red circuits.

I run into these belt seams (or very similar ones) all the time in vanilla. Specific zoom levels just seem to exhibit that kind of behavior.

Just wanted to add: First of all, amazing work. So much detail and atmosphere! (Small exploration spoiler: Darn, you can't pick up the rocket silos for yourself! ) Secondly, the map runs perfectly on my machine. Takes a LONG time to load and save which is perfectly understandable, but it runs at a s...

That definitely seems wrong to me. First of all, I didn't know anything about the expiring, which is already a shortcoming of the mechanic and its UX. - Is that actually what the purple bar on ghosts is, a countdown timer? That would be very interesting... I always thought it was a weird health bar ...

What that code snippet will do (presumably) is reset the explored areas for each force. Run it in the chat in the editor. Prior to doing the editing, you can also avoid the issue to begin with by changing forces in the editor, so the explored terrain won't show up for the player, but for the enemy (...

So does it happen consistently? If so that sounds like enough cause for a real bug report even though it's a minor issue.

I think Raynquist's balancer book has them.

https://imgur.com/a/Y6sesVL
https://pastebin.com/igs2CvVd

Nicely done. Doing this without bots is definitely a significant challenge! For those willing to cheese, I heard you can also follow like Nefrums' speed run guide and just play along with the explanations and still be able to finish with time left. I haven't tried said method myself though because I...

While those features would be very cool, I think the team would be doing themselves a disservice if they didn't polish up the game as a whole, with how thoroughly crafted many of its parts are. Not to mention, it's about time they work on getting a full release for the game. They have mentioned addi...