What?

Let mods add custom buttons on the top right button bar to open their interfaces.

Why?

In vanilla, the top right bar is used for various interfaces - trains, achievements, production, etc.
In vanilla, the toolbar is for tools - special items and toggles.
Currently, mod interfaces are ...

2.0 will alleviate the issue of researching too fast with the introduction of trigger technologies. You would have to produce or mine a certain item to unlock a branch of the tech tree, which means you can't research things before you can use them.

In general Factorio is a game about linear power ...

Another request for this feature.

In the mod FilterHelper, we do interactions of all 3 mouse buttons, using sprite-button.
I want to add support for Q on the buttons when using Cursor Enhancements (or 2.0's Q on anything feature), and found that the way to do it is with a locked choose-elem-button ...

The game Sweet Transit (made by a former Factorio dev!) has this feature.
It lets you put requirements on signals according to various attributes - train length, train speed, certain routes, and more.

Walls can be passed with a walking speed bonus somewhere between 546% and 564%.
Considering quality armor with quality exoskeletons, this might happen now in a vanilla 2.0 game, depending on what bonuses exoskeletons get from quality, with a large enough equipment grid from a quality armor.

Sorted by priority of unclearness:


layer_group/draw_in_water_layer - It's not clear the similarities/differences between layer_group and layer
effect_is_opaque - when false and effect_color has a<1 this doesn't seem to affect tiles which are above water
trigger_effect - What trigger is this ...

The EquipmentPrototype page shows energy_source specifically as ElectricEnergySource rather than a generic EnergySource.

Some mods, e.g. Jetpack successfully use a battery equipment with an energy_source of type = "void".

There are many other places where energy_source is set to specific sources ...

In my mod, I add overlays to various icons, including personal equipment.
The icons look OK when viewed on the armor equipment grid, but are completely off when hovering over the armor, which also shows the equipment grid.

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This is the code I have used to layer the icon:


if ...

It doesn't matter how it is implemented, the only thing important is that it chooses one of the signals, in some way that doesn't really matter to me. My use case is sending just one signal anyway.

That said, it indeed would be nice if that signal was the same signal chosen as filter. Again, won't ...

Arbitrary means it's not something specific i.e. it's not max, min, or anything useful for users. Yes it's an internal index, that's OK.

I've been wrong about the "Everything" one, the "sum" part is because it's a combinator so it's added in the output, irrelevant for our case.

About which signal ...

It means any arbitrary one. Just like the "Anything" output on a decider chooses an arbitrary signal.

You could even have an "Everything" to sum up to the signals, the same as how the condition works.

TL;DR
Do not limit inserters to just use specific signals, and instead allow "some" signal to be used as stack size


What ?
Inserter stack size is currently limited to a specific input signal for their stack size. This omission is inconsistent with their circuit condition.
They should be able ...

TL;DR
Shortcut bar should be consistent with the quickbar, allowing easy customization of positions and contents


What ?
Currently, the shortcut bar is quite obtuse, relying on a tiny "three dots" button to customize. Reordering shortcuts is not where the icons actually are, and they move ...

TL;DR
The new tips are ignored by many new users for the wrong reasons such as missing the "mark as read" button or don't know how to reopen old tips.


What?
Many new users underutilize the "New Tips" on the bottom left.

The game should indicate better to the player to click the "Mark as read ...

Thanks. Couldn't find it in my search.

"Select new blueprint contents for blueprint" and "Upgrade items and entities in the blueprint" automatically save the blueprint, even though escape/cancel is pressed, without clicking "Save blueprint" or clicking "E". This is confusing compared to right-clicking entities, changing name, icons or ...

Agree, or mark for deconstruct or upgrade, i assume?


Absolutely : place the ghosts that can be placd as is, fast-replace/upgrade what can be, and finally mark for deconstruction and setup a ghost for the rest.


Manually shift-placing things allows for fast-replacements, upgrades ...

What I want is a blueprint mode that places blueprint ghosts as if I went manually and placed all those ghosts one-by-one.

Currently, ghost mode (shift-click) is a very powerful tool, allowing for upgrades, downgrades, changing direction, replacing belts with undergrounds or splitters, replacing ...

'Alt' mode already does this. IMO, we should instead be encouraging new players to enable 'Alt' mode.


I've seen several people, with ALT mode on, and still connect the pipes incorrectly.


I think it is more useful to show all the pipes, so new players can see where there are inlets to avoid ...

TL;DR
To reduce confusion for new players, the oil refinery should only show input and output pipes that are used for the specific recipe.

What and why?
Many new players that see the oil refinery for the first time get confused by the amount of pipes that go in and out of the refinery.
A common ...