I like the progression from the semi-virgin wilderness in the bottom left to the orderly layout in the center to the utter madness of the upper right.

Since they explore the area before exploding, you can zoom in and watch the impact.

Who says there is no fanservice in this game?

Hey just wanted to offer some quick feed back in regards to the broken decorative train tracks.

I am not so worried about the [why are there so many train tracks already here?], but I fee like individually, specifically, the way the metal rails are bent outward make it look like the whole line ...

I seem to have a unique problem. I try to startup the game in linux and I get this:
Error Util.cpp:57: Failed to set default mixer!

Does anybody know what could be causing this? I had no trouble having the game create a map via the --create flag, so it's not as though it can't find it's files or ...

Upon starting up Factorio just now, I was presented with this amazing offer:
http://i.imgur.com/po0Qr5P.png
Scenario Pack version nine hundred and ninety nine? Wow.

I am currently playing with version 12.22, but unless the code for checking the version of the scenario pack has changed for 12.23 ...

If there's one thing I'd add (besides naming trains) it would be a countdown/fullness indicator to that trains summary window. Granted, some people are going to have ludicrously complicated conditions, but for most it will be a simple combination of "Wait until X% full" and/or "Wait until X seconds".

"The way to slavery" five stars from me.

(Also really cool icons)
Even as a relative left-winger this stuff irks me. Nitpicking stuff to death (the aforementioned vacuums) doesn't help anything. The idea shouldn't be to fight the market or micromanage the market but to use the market. Go after ...

To pick the least important thing to talk about: on the subject of that picture, it's nicely made but there's no focus . It's a random chunk of factory floor doing God knows what. There's no sense of scale or purpose.

Imagine looking at the horizon. There's an enormous rocket assembly blotting a ...

Minecraft saved when you hit escape to bring up the menu. That was a good time because you were already interrupting game play.

Maybe autosave could wait to fire until the player is bringing up the research or recipes screen. The game could freeze to a halt behind the screen and you wouldn't notice ...

There's a certain amount of time taken for the train to go on it's loop. In that time, the filling station will fill X barrels.

Here's the system I've been using:

Put a smart chest next to the train and wire it to a smart inserter so that it will fill the chest with those X barrels. This chest ...