Are passive chests useful? I think NO.


As someone who generally plays without logistic bots: I use passive providers on every assembler output in my mall, storage generally just for deconstruction, and don't use the other three. So can't agree with you there.

On Gleba, where I did use logistic ...

Would having a train (instead of robots) deliver the fuel for that local heating tower work for your design requirements?


That... is a neat idea, which I hadn't thought of, and it would definitely work , but given that roboports have to be placed every 50 tiles, it really sounds like overkill ...

I think the most worse thing of the tips&tricks related to Aquilo is, that it doesn't tell you to take vast amounts of stuff with you, e.g. stacks of heatpipes, pipes, inserters, concrete etc. and everything to build a rocket silo and a rocket, to be able to escape Aquilo again.


Actually, that ...

If you want to make a self-expanding construction network you ultimately need nothing more than electric poles and roboports outside your "mall" area.

Back on Vulcanus when I wanted to add a long rail line remotely, I already had a full mall setup with roboports and construction bots, so I just ...

The in-game Factoriopedia gives you briefings on planets. For Fulgora and Aquilo these are really misleading in one particular way.

Fulgora's entry doesn't explain that rails (and related entities like signals), and trains, are immune from lightning strikes. Back when I first set up Fulgora I ...

I would also like an option to turn off automatically destroying cliffs in the same circumstances (when using them as walls on Nauvis, or for aesthetics).


Ha, yes! +1 to this too.

So far I have deliberately avoided researching cliff explosives, for this exact reason... which created the ...

+1

Also, a button to toggle positive/negative would be great. I frequently use constant combinators with negative values as it's a more compact way of calculating "how many items remaining".

I don't think the x100 and /100 buttons are needed, you can just click x10 or /10 twice.

+1

I only have 2 pins at the moment, so that wouldn't give me much extra space. Even with 0 pins some things don't show the full tooltip - e.g. logistic network storage.

An alternative solution to avoid the minimap jumping around would simply be to put the minimap at the top.

+1ish, because...

I don't want "auto-hide minimap while hovering an entity", I want "auto-hide everything on the right EXCEPT the minimap when hovering an entity".

So: While hovering, hide research, hide the buttons under research, and hide the pins. Leave the minimap visible for reasons explained ...

+1, landfill (/tiles) should only be placed with super-force-building.

I actually feel I need to -1 this... Or at least request that if this is added, have an option somewhere in graphics options to turn it off.

I really like the current vibe from being on a space platform - like "you're all alone it's just you and the stars" - I'd really miss this if there were ...

+1 from me too, having just obtained the mech suit.

It's such a simple QoL feature - they're probably secretly working on it already

Bump...

Can we please have this?

I'm running into more and more situations where something is either outright impossible (the obvious candidate being cargo landing pad - "read contents" + "set requests"), or where just the obvious simple solution is impossible and I have to design something much ...

I chose Gleba first, because I wanted to get its rewards (rocket turret, advanced asteroid processing, epic quality) before going anywhere else.

About two weeks real time after landing (averaging several hours a day) I'm still there, have got a reliable ore-producing factory set up, currently still ...

I did actually originally want to suggest adding a "Rocket part assembler" entity, which'd be a standard 3x3 assembler with a different look that would only allow placement directly adjacent to a rocket silo - then, rocket part ingredients would have to be inserted into the assembler, while anything ...

What:

If an inserter is pointing to a rocket silo, you should be able to click on the inserter and then configure it to either:

1. Insert into recipe ingredients
or
2. Insert into cargo.


Why:

Currently this is a Bad New Player* Experience.
*of Space Age at least

As described here , and also ...

One thing I would love to see would be a rail planner that allowed you to plan long distance rails with multiple parallel tracks and the ability to separately (and/or together) route around trees, rocks, or cliffs. Personally, I really hate harming trees, and can't harm cliffs until I have cliff ...

What does a roundabout look like now?

I'd like to see this too.

My standard rail building method one I've not really seen elsewhere, but I just like it: 3 tracks, 2 spaces between each, middle rail reserved for 2-way manual use, signals on the inside of the outer rails (so trains drive on the ...

Loving the new colouring.

Perhaps darker/less saturated tones could be used when in a polluted area though? Then you would really feel the effect of destroying the native area.