Monday is a terrible day to release a game like Factorio. How am I expected to put in 8 hours of efficient quality work, when I have to think all day about how badly I want to build a new factory? And then again on Tuesday, and then again on Wednesday and on Thursday until finally on Friday ...

TL;DR
Lock moving of blueprints only on vertical or horizontal axis with modifier key.


What ?
Aligning blueprints can sometimes be difficult especially on big screens. It would be much easier if normal drawing program functionality: locking direction is implemented.

f.ex. if I want to copy ...

Here in Finland local Nazis are actually funded by Kreml. One of them moved to Ukrain to make propaganda for Donetsk and Luhansk rebels and now he threats other finns with nuclear strike if we do not agree that Putin is hero and our saviour against western threats. Another nazi leader moved to ...

Donetsk and Luhans was crisis setup and fueled by putin. And now putin is leading Russia to doom.
Around 5 billion people wants to eliminate him, he really has no exit route anymore. Either Russians themselves eliminate putler or existence of human race is endangered by full scale nuclear war.

The connections inside the blueprint are strictly following the original, while the connections to the entities already existing on the map are being automatically created as before. It is eighter unfortnate statement or unfortnate functionality.
Test case: Make a regular grid of poles conecting ...

I have always disliked biters, they interrupt your building projects and are just nuisance. However playing without them didn't feel right either, whole military science is then needles. Never quite understood how that can be fixed and what actually is my problem with biters. Until spidertron ...

I have always disliked biters, they interrupt your building projects and are just nuisance. However playing without them didn't feel right either, whole military science is then needles. Never quite understood how that can be fixed and what actually is my problem with biters. Until spidertron was ...