You have to be wearing either modular armor or one of the power armors to use equipment. To get to the fitting dialog you just right-click the armor.

I can confirm that the game runs perfectly fine on windows 8.1. No idea why it's not listed on the download page.

This is what worked for me: Save can be migrated to "scenario" by running factorio from the commandline as follows (let's presume we have save foo.zip in the saves directory): ./bin/prod/factorio --map2scenario foo Factorio will start, load the save, store it as a blueprint (foo in the sce...

How about adding an 'infinite' richness setting for the map generator? That would allow everyone to play the game the way they like it best.