While you're at it, it would be a really nice idea to be able to sort saves by date!

And if you feel inclined, maybe a list of the last servers you played on?

So even when it "connects" to the cliff like in the second pic, there can be a gap? I use terrain for defense very frequently but I forget if I checked for that. I do know that sometimes even when I bring the wall as close to a cliff as possible, there ends up technically being a gap there. This hap...

The old campaign had a good reason for restarting the base in each mission: not only was there a narrative which mandated the change of both scenery and base, but it added new things to take into account during building, which synergized well with the learning process. Now, I can understand that som...

Edit: next issue is that the tutorial just stops a few minutes in. IMO you should almost downgrade to 0.16 via Steam or download via Wube's official website. It has a tutorial/campaign that's a lot longer and immersive, and most importantly it works even if some of the design is definitely showing ...

I forget, are you capable of adding ghosts to the blacklist? I do remember the last tab in the decon planner has stuff like "item on ground" and "ghost". Regarding the UI, it almost seems like the blacklist and whitelist should be separate tabs too, not a one-or-the-other toggle. For filter inserter...

I would definitely be interested in checking this out if I get back into Factorio modding. if they can't get something working Isn't the point that it should be a (mostly) working library? :P You can still make use of it as you learn about things, if that's the position you're in. most developers pr...

Tileable Wasteless Nuclear setup (v6) godlike final iteration :-p https://pastebin.com/VfQLnLv5 I've had issues getting this to work. Now, I only have 4 reactors in it, but to be honest, that's all you want to begin with. It keeps filling up the reactors to max (5 cells) when it runs low, when you ...

I'm using the mod from now on. I'll reply here if I get any different thoughts about it as I use it, though I do feel pretty certain that this is a useful QoL change, period. I mean, placing and removing entities have their own sounds, so I'm pretty sure rotating should as well. In fact, you can't p...

+1

I absolutely believe rotating entities should have a sound, even if it's the same one for everything.

For me it depends not on the science pack but on the discussion, who I'm talking with and how. That being said, I do think referring by color is the easiest since it's obvious, requires no other knowledge and is far less error-prone.

I always thought the new 0.17 demo was a great take on a demo, but that it lacked the soul of the old campaign, so much so that I would take the old one over the new, despite how dated and less polished it is. I suppose kovarex is onto the same thing here. I loved the pacing of the old campaign and ...

Biters will typically only ignore walls if there's a turret within shooting range and the wall isn't directly in the way. This means you still need more or less a solid line of turrets at the border, but biters are willing to take a slightly longer path. Using this fact, many players create addition...

It is true, Kenira's mod has the specific entities hardcoded. I looked at it a lot while extending it and modifying it for my purposes.

On another note, I tested Randotorio + Kenira's Random Recipes and the two seem to play well together out of the box.

This is funny, last month I attempted to create a similar randomizer mod myself, based on Kenira's Random Recipes mod. I'm glad to see there's a mod that does it correctly. I'll give it a try. In making my mod, the two major issues are separating tech tiers and ensuring that you don't get circular d...

Main issue I see is steam engines vs turbines. You need to make the difference obvious somehow. I found it to be relatively straightforward to figure out that steam is different from nuclear reactors since all the machines are different, but that would've been far from obvious if it weren't for the ...

I would personally recommend these two: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=14556 https://wiki.factorio.com/Tutorial:Circuit_network_cookbook Neither is amazing, but they both teach in their own nice fashion. I will add, that combinators were pretty difficult for myself to pick up on, e...

My (updated?) short thoughts on turret creep: Yes it is very powerful. Not necessarily too powerful, given how powerful turrets are meant to be as a defensive tool. The strategy of using hotkeys and going 1 + mouse left + drag then 2 + ctrl mouse right + drag is probably the strongest form and almos...

The only real way to empty tanks is by using pumps. Unfortunately, this doesn't work easily with your setup, because the pump has to be connected directly to the tank and any tanks connected by other means will suffer from the residual issue. You could use bots and blueprints to rebuild the tank clu...

That old particle system is really wasteful and ugly design, yikes! Not that I noticed until you pointed it out. Guess it goes to show that when so many aspects are already well optimized, it's hard for even me to spot issues with existing designs. I always assumed mass nukes and so on were slow bec...

Thanks for all the detailed info, I appreciate it. It's interesting to hear what thought you put into everything.