It felt as though Rseding91 was having a bit of fun about the 'max playtime' until one does the math for 6o ticks/second on that amount of time (4.2billion ticks, max 32-bit number). I imagine this is 'will not fix' situation for the rare 2.25 man-years required to hit this edge-case. Figuring the o...

Does factorio have any means to enable/attach a debugging tool to the userland lua interpreter to break on, inspect, and debug mods? If so, how? What is the address:port to connect with an ide? Does a particular library need to be included in a mod to enable? If not, why not? Certainly the lua engin...

macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 factorio 0.16 -> 0.16.3 Steps to reproduce: Updating factorio via in-game updater Updates downloaded and applied in order via response from the in-game dialog. >> After updates finish and current instance closes, routine will spit out generic Factorio error message: "U...

General Ideas for combat engagement: The current premise is that biters expand in all directions, including TOWARDS pollution. What if we change, and biters behave more like trees? Effectively moving AWAY from pollution ?! Revamp biters and nests to the following (much of this already generally exis...

I'd just be happy if there was a way to make sure the GM's team doesn't pick "Forest Green" and then force your team to use "Hot Pink" and promptly get your team blown out when you can't see them in the forests. Couple ideas on that front that I haven't seen mentioned: a) Standa...

OSX does not have the zip installation option that Windows has. So this little applescript launcher will automatically launch factorio with optional adjacent mods folder and/or config file. With this, you can have an alias to the game setup launcher you would like to use. If you just need simple, th...

A single tile, belt object, that has 2 input (North and South) and 2 output (East and West) belts. This would serve the same functional purpose as the standard splitter, and behave the same way as far as combining and/or splitting inputs/outputs. Except, that the inputs are 90 degrees from the outpu...

The metered route does work for certain circumstances, but is tricky to implement well. Caveats: The goods will of course still have the ability to compress and collect at the end of the belt. Even on yellow belt, things like burner-inserters have difficulty grabbing goods from belt-to-ground tiles ...

One simple example: Some setups use a loop of ammo around the base perimeter, supplying guns along the way. Having such a belt represents a huge investment of materials to fully laden and supply. Proposed idea: Belt that only allows one item per segment. The standard belt (fully laden) holds 8 items...

Idea: A flying drone that flies far and wide, noting resources and biters in areas covered. Discussion: For the sake of idea conveyance, this is effectively a really long range radar. Graphics of actually displaying a moving drone aside, the mechanics would be as follows: A base station is placed do...

Using the OSX Command key in combination with W,A,S,D makes said movement sticky. For example, Command-S 'toggles' on movement south until the S key is pressed again. Steps: New game, get to where player is in control of character Verify WASD movement working as expected Press key combination Comman...

A logistics network filter for 'Damaged Items' would facilitate this functionality. As it it could be applied to a requester chest > items passed into fictional repair machine > then dumped out into provider/storage chest. I see the following being points of discussion: - This would require that 'co...

I redownloaded, started a new game, and it is the wrong icon all together!! The optics icon was showing the explosives (I did not grab a screenshot of that). However, per a previous post, I went in an set a custom UI Scale, then set back to system default, quit and deleted crop-cache.dat again. On a...

SS attached: (sorry, I have been incredibly busy of late)

I had opportunity to try removing crop-cache.dat file as recommended -
> graphical corruption remains

I do not use UI Scale, the Option is set at 'System default, 100%'

ver: 12.17 os: OSX - 10.11.1 The technology icon for Optics is showing as corrupt (graphical static/noise) when bringing up the technology dialog (T) However, the image appears fine if navigating directly to the file in Finder. I originally noticed after updating via in-game update mechanism. Howeve...

Improvement Idea: A method to call the aircraft to your location. How many times how we driven a vehicle to a location, then get carried away in construction or biter killing only to forget where we parked our vehicle. It would be nice to be able to press a button and have the vehicle arrive at our ...

Thanks. Good job in broadening its scope and usefulness

As we know, 0.12 made the change that belts now have to occupy the inserter pickup zone for goods to be sourced. This limits the potential variety of any given tile to 2 products (one per lane of the belt) In 0.11, it would have been possible to have up to four belts aimed at a blank tile, from whic...

FYI: The current 0.12 mod 'Gameplay/Convinience' category name is misspelled, should be 'CONVENIENCE'