I've spent the last hour trying to see if this has been reported, but I can't find anything. I'm seeing a weird issue where one belt backs up on the input of a standard 4x4 balancer despite no output belts being blocked. You can observe the behavior here: https://imgur.com/LewXrJy The input belts ar...

I really like the new look, but I like the grid pattern and smoothness of the current concrete more. :/ It would be great if we could somehow get both.

For the people asking for various additions and changes to how to do schedules like GOTO's and conditional exit conditions and conditional grouping to control order of operations... ... Just make train schedules modifiable with combinators, and we can create any complex system we can imagine on our ...

Looks great! With the lamp update, would it be possible to address the over saturation effect of having a large number of colored lamps close together? If they behaved more like white lamps where they only light up the respective colors of the surrounding terrain to full brightness rather than addin...

Those new stone paths are fantastic! I'd love to see what they look like bordering some concrete. Re bots, the invulnerability thing bugs me. It could be exploited as others have pointed out. Personally, I consider combat and biter management an important aspect of the game, and bots should need to ...

What would happen if you replaced the iron belt in the attached image with underground belt? Would it trace the belt, replace part of the copper belt, replace nothing or something completely different? Also: What happens with items on the replaced belt? are they moved to your inventory or placed on...

I fully approve of this pre 1.0 scope creep! This will be really useful. Thank you!

I also propose CRC -> SHA-* as you don't use it permanently (only when loading/saving) so performance hit is a non-issue and it's more future-proof. Actually, I was astounded to get to know you use a meager CRC for creating object-hashes... You can throw as many bits onto the checksum as you like, ...

Would it be too performance intensive to do a full compare if checksums match? Everything that optimizes comparisons with checksums has to deal with this eventuality, from hash table data type implementations to filesystem deduplication engines. The item stack change is a cool example of a little ch...

As somebody who doesn't use the spacebar heating feature, thanks for the diagonal station names.

Why is all the code so closely coupled? Isn't it good design to loosely couple stuff? Especially between GUI and networking stuff, that sounds crazy. Generally, but that has a cost, usually in terms of performance. It gains you easier to maintain, read, and modify code. For many applications that's...

I discussed this issue at great length with that same friend, and we both agreed the new inserter behaviour has merit and application which will expand possible gameplay and inspire new methods and ideas, this is a good thing. While preparing for the possibility that it would not be reverted I was ...

This increases the complexity of a lot of circuits using things like decider combinator feedback counters by forcing an edge detector to turn a pulse into a sustained signal, and even then, as others have pointed out, you can't be sure when the inserter is done and stop it before it picks up another...

These all look off to me. and I think I know why. In my head (and I have no idea if this is how it is meant to be) the structures of Factorio are to scale with the player. Everything is smaller than what we encounter in real life simply because the engineer is limited in that way without cranes and ...

[*]As a one-time migration, enemy spawners will reset their absorbed pollution to zero when a save from a previous version of 0.15 is loaded. (https://forums.factorio.com/48662) This is to avoid an extreme temporary spike in difficulty that would happen after loading a save with many spawners that ...

Holy crap! The way that north facing inserter bug got fixed is epic as hell!

Combinators have always been based on signed 32 bit ints afaik. This behavior has even been (ab)used in the past for some interesting effects. See: https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/5f7x13/is_there_a_risk_for_integer_overflow_in/ Funnily enough the two uses documented there are no longer ne...

But with pumpjack for example, I just craft it when I need it on place, and it just slows the game down. The slowdown is not enough push to automate the production, so the only effect is the extra time to wait for crafting which makes the game just less fun in my view. Funny thing is, on my last la...

Loving the new underground belt distances, but, as many have pointed out, 5,8,11 would be a better distribution... +1. Here's a comparison of different gaps relative to the typical main bus design: 5-8-11 allows to cleanly upgrade from yellow to blue ug belt: 4 x yellow pair = 2 x blue pair 3 x yel...

Thanks for fixing! I know this has been classified a few times before as not a bug, so thanks for reconsidering.