While this would be really low on my priority list, I actually like this idea a lot. But then again, I guess I have some sort of neatness OCD

ssilk wrote:You can place robots also like capsules into the air. They fly to the next task or next roboport.

Ah, I didn't know that, thanks

Oh please, this one bugs me a lot - I want to be able to see trees on the minimap as well!

I am curious about how logistics robots (and to a lesser degree construction robots) work. When you add new robots, you add them to a specific roboport. Is that roboport their "home" which they will return to after completing their tasks? Or will they just go to the nearest roboport? Will ...

I don't understand your suggestion - I am usually not stupid, but it seems to me you skipped a few steps in your explanation: The only reliable way to affect pathfinding algo is by changing penalty of some blocks (yeah, and it is not possible at this moment), but what does this penalty mean? For the...

These are all very good points, and I do not disagree in any way. And of course there will be ideas that stray too far from the theme/idea of the vanilla game to ever be implemented in vanilla, and therefore they can only be done in mods. However one important point has not been mentioned: Authentic...

It's possible but will increase the memory footprint and require quite a bit of duplicate calculations. Absolutely! Or some extra lag. With an update frequency of 60Hz, lagging for one tick should not be noticeable. For example an inventory can check which inserters are trying to pull from it and t...

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quadrox wrote:Does concrete increase pollution? I hope not?!

It doesn't increase pollution, but it doesn't decrease it at all -- whereas regular grass does slightly absorb some pollution.

Ah... I shall have to delete all the concrete from my base then, what a shame.

Since sharing state between threads is an issue for parallellism, wouldn't it be possible to make each thread use the previous state as input? Since the state from the previous tick will no longer be updated, it can safely be shared across threads. This would introduce a tiny amount of lag before co...

Does concrete increase pollution? I hope not?!

Sometimes items are produced in a central location, but are requested (typically by the player) in places that are farther away. In order to reduce waiting time for the items, it would be nice if the items could be stored in special chests in the outer part of the base. AFAIK, there is currently no ...

Wow, thanks for the quick response I will read those blog posts with great interest when I get home from work later.

Again, the work you guys have done so far is simply amazing, so thanks for that as well:)

As a programmer I am quite impressed with how this game can simulate a huge world with thousands of objects interacting with each other. We can have thousands of tiles with transport belts, each of which can contain a mixture of various resources, factories are constantly producing new items, aliens...