Very interesting and pretty! Although I must say I miss some cracks and other patterns to disturb the landscape.
There are some really interesting photos here to give an idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterns_in_nature#Cracks

10/10 blog post as usual.

I'm trying to dynamically set the filter of a logistic storage chest through the circuit network. I can connect it to the circuit network just fine and read the contents, but I cannot set the filter since the only 'mode of operation' available is 'read contents'. I have two questions: Is this a miss...

eradicator wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 24, 2021 1:33 am

Also wrong subforum for suggestions.

This thread didn't start out as a feature request/suggest. I can't predict the future.

It is quite useful if you design your ore mine blueprint in a tileable fashion. I usually have a blueprint with about 4 drills - including infrastructure (belts, poles, relative grid) - that i drag over ore patches until the patch is "full" which is easily seeable because drills are only ...

posila wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 24, 2021 12:49 am

I am sorry this mechanic creates compilcations for you.

Geez, no worries, mate. It's all good. No need to apologize for gameplay mechanics. <3
I'm just providing constructive feedback.

did you try the editor? it can create arbitrarily large patches. I just designed my mining outpost blueprint in the editor and placed it in my regular save. The blueprint has a bug I need to fix. The process for this is highly convoluted: figure out fix in regular save switch to map editor apply fi...

But then I can only design outposts around weird, big blotches that I encounter. So in order to design an ore patch I use in my regular map, I should REALLY design it inside a creative map with the resource sizes turned all the way up. Murphy's law says you're always gonna run into a bigger ore pat...

I'd like to design a mining outpost for my own use, blueprint it and then later deploy it on an ore patch. But I can only ever design an outpost around an ore patch I have because mining drills can only be placed on ore! So I can't place my mining drills. I can't just plop down 10x10 mining drill gh...

I suggest the following feature improvements up for debate: enable a slight hue change to yellow on the background of the signal selector widget as a visual warning for 'unset' values. The whole reason this bug report exists in the first is because I forgot to specify the stack size signal. There's ...

Oh damn. You're right. Not a bug I guess. But don't close this bug report just yet! Maybe the stack size should be equivalent to the circuit input respective to each signal? This would be a very elegant 'solution' and would allow the player to set a per-item stack size rather than a 'one size fits a...

Factorio: v1.1.12 Summary: When filter inserters have both 'override stack size' enabled AND the circuit connection 'Set stack size from circuit network' toggled on. This greys out the 'override stack size' checkbox & slider and yet the inserter still prefers to listen to the the manual stacksiz...

Let's say I create and host a game new multiplayer game using the Factorio client. As soon as I create the game, I immediately get my own private cutscene. Players who join the server don't get this cutscene (I think?). And that's a quality of life feature. Either: play the cutscene for each player ...

I just got done watching the first episode of Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams , a new sci-fi show named after Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? . Now, if you're a massive Factorio fan, you might know that Philip K. Dick's Autofac inspired the Factorio devs as explained in Friday Factorio Facts #...

Yeah, I can't get this working. Installed the blueprint to data\base\scenarios\StrandedAtSea\blueprint.dat Launching this in the latest steam version [spoiler](0.14.22, build 25342, win64, steam)[/spoiler] just hangs the game for me. I'm probably doing something wrong here... edit: yep, confirmed f...

Considering I knew I was trypophobic at the time, I told someone about it ages ago and turns out she had it too (genetic predisposition?). Ever since that day, she's been going nuts over it and telling me about it everytime she sees something remotely like it. So much so that this one time I was mak...

Turn off your music for a minute when you watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8

A current hip and trendy design practice is to make user interfaces "flat". Just google "flat UI" and you'll get good examples: https://www.google.com/search?q=flat+UI&tbm=isch . When I say "flat interfaces", I mean GUIs characterized by Monochrome widgets/elements ...

This screenshot gave me idea of passthru tubes for several assembly machine / chemical plants recipies. This way you may stack them together very tightly having long rows of of assemblies fed by just one incoming tube :) It'd have to be an assembly-machine upgrade tech you can research in order to ...

Because I like pushing buttons people tell me not to push.

That oughta be obvious when a lot of Factorio guys are programmers?

Steps to reproduce: connect to a multiplayer server server starts timing out hit escape and try to save wait for server to completely time out A message box pops up (about the server timing out and the game not being able to continue) Tadah, unhandled exception! Logfile: Sorry, it was overwritten.