Joined -- ssilk I've seen various threads on research but I haven't found one about starting a research then switching over to another research and it keeping the progress of the previous research. I have a tendency to start a long-term research then look back at other things I could get, find out ...

This is my second round of playing it but trying to remember the first time playing it, some games have a feel that even though you have freedom you're boxed into a certain way of doing things anyways. This didn't feel the case with Factorio, it had the feeling of 'my dad threw me into a desert and ...

One of the recent updates said the trees start decaying due to pollution, but if I turn off the factory for a while do the trees go back to original condition? If the trees wither enough do they turn into the 'dead trees'?

I do think it would be great to specify a splitter to 1:3 and such, it's annoying placing a pyramid of them to get a specific split, does make your map look geniously complex though.

Oh, that worked. Thanks for the solution!

I thought the new change of having to add an extra belt to the end of every beltway wouldn't be much of a deal, until I started using my setup. I have my machine that makes belts. I made two inserters take belts out of it and a third inserter put cogs into it. Before this wasn't a problem because th...

I felt my suggestion was similar but one thing I find annoying is that I either have the sandbox godmode (with the all research) or the custom scenario with all items but the problem is that I'll want to test something oil related from scratch and I need an assembly machine 3 and the research for hi...