Coming back to this, man the electric crackling on Fulgora (from the lightning charging the lightning rods) is way too loud for something that plays nearly constantly. That sound effect could stand to have its volume reduced by like 3/4, though worst case scenario I could just edit the file on my end.

I doubt it's intentional because the resemblance is pretty slight, but the first half of the mystery planet music reminds me of the title theme to Ecco: the Tides of Time but in a major key. Maybe I'm just Ecco-brained, though. Even stronger vibes of Glassworks, particularly Island and Facades but w...

Taking a close look at the map, I spy some dots that look the color of biters (easiest to find are at the top left) :{}

I'd venture any mobs would be robotic.

Fun stuff, and very tickled that all the stuff that was hinted at last week is real. Looking at the scrap recycling products, I'm reminded of how the advanced electric poles all use copper plates instead of wires. That was always kinda weird, but it seems like it'd be a lot more jarring on Fulgora. ...

I've used barrels of heavy oil to kickstart coal liquefaction at times, and I've used sulfuric acid barrels extensively in all four full games I've played. I have a have a hard time imagining a reason to barrel water or petrogas, but barreled H2SO4, heavy oil, and lube all have pretty obvious uses t...

I haven't been playing for a while so I feel like it's out of my lane to complain, but I really really don't like removing heavy and light oil completely from the green science tier, or requiring water/steam piping to generate them. Among other reasons, being able to craft solid/rocket fuel with onl...

Not exactly, but https://mods.factorio.com/mod/SmogVisualPollution I'll look into that because it does seem like a fun toy, but it doesn't help you distinguish pollution sources within a pollution cloud. For instance, look at this screenshot I found: https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/77959...

What: Have electric mining drills emit dust/smoke particles. Why: Electric mining drills are tied with pumpjacks for most pollution per megawatt of any machine, and in my experience stay the #1 or 2 source of pollution in my whole factory until I start loading up assembler 3s with tier 3 modules. Ho...

0.17.48 no longer crashes for me. Very mysterious.

This was the only thread on the subject I could find, but it's still a good idea. The car's niche is off-roading, since in built areas you're better off either laying rail or just sprinting down a paved road in an exoskeleton. Having to slow down below top speed, or else zoom way out and lose the ab...

Same issue. My Intel and NVIDIA drivers appear to be up to date.

Sorry, I meant in the tutorial in the wiki. You've got documentation so you've done your job as a developer!

I know this is from 5 years ago but this is some really basic, important information that's not in the wiki or the stickied tutorial thread. The code is different from what Angel and Bob's Mods seem to use, but I couldn't figure out how to repurpose them while this worked right out of the box. If yo...

I only just got started modding yesterday, but I thought a simple change to PLD would make it a lot more interesting: .25x damage and 4x rate of fire. I've only tested it on a small biter nest so far, but changing the damage per hit made it work way better imo. It mows down small and medium biters l...

Once the initial setup for the nuclear is done (which indeed does take some time and resource investment), it's pretty much a "I win" power generation method. I'm not saying nuclear should be nerfed, just that it crushes solar on many aspects - which is fine to me. Once nuclear becomes af...

Nuclear also requires the biggest logistical investment of anything other than space science. Even if you ignore circuits to optimize fuel consumption, you've got to: Transport fluid to a resource patch Set up a production line for a unique resource (versus solar panels using resources that you alr...

I'll add that the current sprite is virtually invisible on yellow transport belts.

So it will make clear that uranium IS the transition between coal energy and solar energy. At the moment the transition is not clear, you can directly make solar panel without using the nuclear energy. I think it's intended : solar power is available significantly before nuclear. Solar panels and a...

I want to say that Factorio's trains allow the best fast travel I've ever seen in a game. Unlocking the ability to fast travel to a location requires 1) visiting the location, 2) investing a modest amount of time and resources along the route, but it's not at all onerous. The act of traveling isn't ...

And trains: Do the tutorial *now*! They're not difficult. But everybody (even me, having played a lot of train games) played the first 50 hours or so without just because "oh but belts work fine so far...". But once you try trains you'll never want to go back. And that particular knowledg...