I remember when I updated from 0.12 to 0.13 it took a few weeks for my mods to get updated. Obviously this isn't the responsibility of the developers. Expect the popular mods to get updated within the first few weeks. Don't expect EVERY mod to be updated. (Unless you're willing to update it yourself.)

Thinking some more, a 200 tile glider already gets a 200 tile penalty to the final score. So this is only exploitable by, say, a 50-tile glider that temporarily extends to 200 tiles at the start. Is that true? This is the relevant part of the rules: Final score is similar, but based on your right-m...

Hi. I'm preparing to enter the contest!

The official rules say "Smart Trains" but the name of the mod is "Smarter Trains." I just want to make sure I'm not missing something or doing something wrong...

Edit: This is hard! (But fun.)

Yay. Still looking forward to 0.15....

That grey goo thing is awesome! I think there should be a mini-tutorial for total newbies: hand-mining of resources; hand crafting; mining with a burner mining drill; placing transport belts and burner inserters; power generation with steam engines; using a assembling machines to create gears and re...

Considering the amount of settings that exist now, it might be useful to be able to have presets, so you can pick one that is close to what you want, and don;t have to change much. It is then also useful if you could save your settings as a new preset. Yes I agree. Many games have options like: eas...

I posted about this last week. I did a quick Google search. In the definition of the UDP protocol, a checksum of zero means "no checkum" and you're supposed to change it to 0xFFFF instead. I have no idea why a router would drop packets with a checksum of 0xFFFF.

With the possible simple fix of checking outbound checksums and "fixing" the packet to make this particular one impossible. (Is this possible? I haven't worked with UDP much) I did a quick Google search. "UDP has a special case where 0x0000 is reserved for "no checksum computed&...

It would be great to have some visual indication if an underground pipe is placed on the ground and not matched up with another underground pipe. This would eliminate most of the debugging issues.

Thanks for the feedback Rseding91. I've put in over 600 hours into this game. Certainly sharing your own blueprints across games is valuable, so the only question is whether it's also valuable to share with others.

Thanks for all your hard work in making this game great! Happy holidays.
Matthew

TL;DR: Make a Blueprint Portal (similar to the Mod Portal) to allow players to easily share blueprints with each other. Or add the Blueprint String mod to vanilla and let people use FactorioBlueprints.com . FFF #170 discusses various options to make it easier for players to share their blueprints a...

I'm glad to see the blueprint library is getting some love! Let's start with single-player to keep things simple. 1. I start with a fresh install of Factorio. Then I create a blueprint in my local inventory. Does it automatically show up as a "game" blueprint? Can I delete it from my inven...

Completely different idea: What if we would have specialized bots, that do some charting. We could call them "explorer bots" and they will try to explore uncharted land. Yes, I like this combination of factoriouzr's and ssilk's and daniel34's suggestions: roboports do charting (but not ro...

I would like to change this topic to "Bots and vehicles will chart invisible map chunks" I believe the original request was that players, bots, and vehicles should function like radars. This means they remove the fog of war for some area around them. This includes discovering new chunks a...

I think the best way to implement this:
1. If there are no players on the server and someone wants to join, always pause for him/her. (Only pause for the first player joining the map.)
2. Create a simple yes/no option: should the server pause for new players when other people are playing?

ssilk wrote:I move this to won't implement.

Ssilk right now this thread is in "implemented suggestions". Is that correct? No argument with your decision not to implement it.

For example, at 13m35s in this video: https://youtu.be/yoARJG1wWP0?t=13m27s This is what I see: 1. Player creates inserter to handle output for the assembling machine. 2. Player places a chest one square below the output square. The chest doesn't get filled because it's not in the right spot. 3. Pl...

I don't see the benefit of this idea for the vanilla gameplay. And why only trains? what about the assemblers or the steam engines? This sound more like tedious "realism" gameplay which is not really fun for me. +1 This doesn't make the game more fun. If you make locomotives and cargo wag...

OMG. This is beyond awesome. I can't even imagine building anything that would top this.

My point is that different people have different favorite numbers. I don't think it makes sense to have one-size-fits-all. It would be better if the game remembered the five most recent, or if there was some way to choose your favorites.