When the previous armor gets used in a recipe, all the installed armor modules get destroyed. That's a real bummer and the existing game mechanics don't give much of a better better alternative. So instead the old armors go into the magic box.

But will all vehicles be allowed in blueprints? Asking for a tank chest build.

Did anyone ever do the math on nuclear fuel?

The only reason to use nuclear steam is for the lulz. Reactor fuel cells are better in every possible way, no matter how BAD you are with using them.

My question: if you have a mod that includes allowing equipment grids in a train, does the train's equipment gets added in the blueprint? I guess a more general question would be "what sort of modded elements can a blueprint handle"? If a modder can add completely new elements to a blueprint that w...

When will the new robot assistant get giant spider legs and a death ray? Asking for asethetics of course.

The biggest difficulty hump with 10x science is staying ahead of the biter evolution curve. Fire will absolutely annihilate anything that isn't a behemoth(and is super effective against behemoths) while being pretty low tech. Rush fire and you'll be pretty secure for the rest of the game.

If we add shallow water to Freeplay (which is not as simple as it sounds), then some people might be sad that there is the occasional Biter nest where you cannot use turret creep...

Just like landfill it yo. It'd be far more punishing to have terrain that can't be landfilled, at least.

Rocket silo technology only unlocks the Rocket silo and the Rocket part item the silo crafts internally. Rocket fuel is unlocked by researching its own technology which has Rocketry and Engine as a prerequisite. This means you can get rocket fuel for your vehicles way before the rocket silo. Rocket...

It's a very simple QOL roboport buff.

Your math is incomplete. Steam power isn't green, and the energy savings of eff1 modules are highly competitive next to solar power.

Miners, then assemblers, power gap, then solar panels. Grab nuclear power the moment it is available because it is awesome.

There is currently no point to put efficiency modules in assemblers as the pulution generated from them is marginal.

False, but thanks for playing.
Miners, then assemblers, then solar panels absolutely last. Full nuclear is so green that it even glows!

Shrinking the construction zone size of personal roboports is a huge buff to their functionality for this very reason.

You can launch a rocket for the price tag of placing Prod3's in all your labs. The cost is simply too high and the payoff is too far beyond the first rocket launch. Prod1's on the other hand pay off extremely fast. Prod2's also have a respectable time to pay off. If you see someone online try to pla...

Sounds like your ratios are off. Reactors produce 40MW per core and an additional 80MW per adjacency line. A 2x2 produces 480MW and every pair of reactors tacked on the end is another 320MW. That's the true limit of your nuclear design. Nuclear components work at full strength down to ~500C and a sm...

Can't say I really feel bad about losing the research queue. It never seemed like an essential feature and there are already automatic research mods to take care of the 800+ hour player. For the new player, picking and pondering their every research topic probably is the right solution since it lets...

I used to do that, but running out of lubricant over and over made me.reconsider.

It's still a good idea to beeline advanced oil. If you need more heavy oil, jump to coal cracking.

What you are attempting is called a "sushi belt" and they are not something for beginners. Every belt in factorio has two lanes. Assign a resource to each lane and it will make your life much easier. All inserters are automatically smart inserters when they point into an assembler. They will only gr...

Steam storage is pretty over rated. Nuclear components will store an impressive amount of energy on their own. Everything between 500C-1000C is potential energy storage and it's a very easy bank to use. Steam tanks are still necessary as a point for the circuit network to plug in. But it only takes ...

It's not allowed because it's not fun to make hot swap batteries a mandatory mechanic. You may argue that "it's not mandatory" but if it exists then it exists to be used. It's not a fun thing to use. The only thing that needs to get fixed are personal solar panels. They are simply awful and are lite...

Wiping the battery charge is a balancing mechanic for the very reason OP has tried to abuse. A backpack full of batteries represents unlimited power and armor modules simply aren't intended to work that way. Otherwise what's to stop you from doing the same with shields or roboports or any other item?