With 2.0 introducing new rail functionality, a lot of us intense rail optimizers are going to be taking a fresh crack at a whole new assortment of layouts. Having to manually check whether trains fit in blocks (instead of relying on the visualization) is going to jump back to the top of my tediousne...

What can we do to fix the masking problem?

With FFFs announcing new information coming to the rail block indicators, this feels like a good time to refresh this request. The indicators disappearing under grid lines makes them less useful overall.

Another use case for this request is my new mod https://mods.factorio.com/mod/fake-new-rails. It fakes 8-way rotatable entities with two 4-way rotatable entities, then provides a blueprint book containing 8 blueprints, each with one of the two entities in a different orientation, so that scrolling t...

Entities with a build_grid_size of 2 and a width (based on the collision and selection boxes) of 2, 4, 8, 12, 16, ... follow the normal 2x2 rail grid. Otherwise identical entities with a width of 6, 10, 14, ... are placed on a grid that is offset by one tile if you consider their bounding boxes. If ...

If I do `factorio --load-game foo` to load the save named foo, but a mod fails to load so I'm prompted and I choose to Restart (having disabled or fixed the mod), the game relaunches to the main menu rather than into the save I specified. That option should persist in a restart.

I would like to be able to specify a build_grid_size of 2 with an offset. Valid offsets might be {1,0}, {0,1}, or {1,1}, shifting the grid one tile in the X and/or Y directions.

I know this is shouting into the void, but I'm already subscribed so I'll keep getting the reply notifications either way...

It would be considerate to use new threads in the appropriate subforums to ask general train questions, rather than using this single thread for every train related topic.

TL;DR When adding filters to a combinator, logistics requests, etc, hold CTRL while clicking OK and the dialog will stay open to select another after adding the current selection. What ? Various interfaces allow you to select multiple items or signals, such as the constant combinator, logistics req...

I think the grid nature of your base, and especially the roundabout intersections, is exacerbating the problem significantly. You've built a pathological case for the pathfinder.

Can you give some entity definitions for the things in question? Or perhaps a proof of concept mod and save game that's one step away from the crash?

0. Install a few mods 1. Open mod settings dialog 2. Change to the Player tab 3. Click the magnifying glass or press ctrl+f 4. Type "e" The Startup tab will be selected, even though there are matching settings on the Player tab. This behavior might make sense when there are not any more ma...

TL;DR Add an option to blueprints so they will rotate 4 ways, 2 ways, or not at all. Ditto for flipping, similar to how some blueprints already cannot be flipped due to entities like train stops. What ? When editing a blueprint, near the grid options there would be one additional three-value option...

Following up to mention that the wiki docs at https://wiki.factorio.com/Application_directory are in pretty awful shape.

Can we get that expectation/constraint mentioned in the prototype docs?

In a reddit thread about using a simple circuit to create priority merges, the topic shifted to dense rail layouts, particularly where crossing rails are too close together to insert a signal. Someone pointed out that the game Sweet Transit has a novel solution to this. Their rail network implementa...

I've fixed the drill so it won't delete the last item it is trying to output if mined before it happens (for the next release). Other changes can also be done but that is the root issue that I'm seeing. That might help with robot256' use case, but it doesn't address mine. I need to detect the ore s...

I have wanted this behavior in the past.

I also want "Q" when hovering the hotbar to put the item on the cursor.

If there's any fluid at all in the storage tank, which the alt mode icon suggests there is, then the pump should be able to put the last unit(s) of fluid into the fluid wagon. If you have a save showing this situation, I recommend posting it as a bug report.

4lane BufferedSuperCompact

For a right turn, the inside lane can only exit to the outside lane and vice versa.
For going straight or a left turn, the inside lane can only exit to the inside lane, and the outside lane to the outside lane.