Presently, though they're certainly aware of their charge level for optimization purposes, the bots act like they have no idea when their charge will hit 20%, and instead always fly straight towards their destination until they reach 20% charge, then divert to the nearest roboport, leading to paths ...

TL;DR Flip dot display pixels, for making alphanumeric displays or bar graphs that are more readable than ones created with lights. What ? A one-tile entity that implements a single flip dot, similar to one of the individual flip dots in this display: flip_dot_display.jpg I thought there was a mod ...

Yes, you just open it up and click the "connect" checkbox to connect it to the logistics network.

Filter inserters' filter setting is not kept when built from blueprints under certain conditions. 1. Place a new filter inserter. 2. Connect a circuit network wire to the inserter. 3. Configure the circuit connection mode of operation to "set filters." 4. Remove the circuit network wire. 5...

Well, we know what happened then. As for the bug report side of this, look at it from the perspective of someone who hasn't seen all of the other error messages, and thus doesn't know that "couldn't establish network communication with server" doesn't cover all of the other error messages ...

I thought this made much more sense under "bug reports" where I originally put it. It's not like I'm proposing that Factorio do something new here. Factorio already displays error messages. Someone just needs to look at the error messages and ask themselves "what other situations coul...

When trying to connect to a friend's server, I got this error: "couldn't establish network communication with server" That is far too vague to be helpful. What exactly does it mean? I can think of many things it might mean: 1. DNS look-up failure: Maybe I typed the domain name wrong. Maybe...

To help out my friend, I wrote a Windows utility to brighten Factorio. Afterwards he told me "in your screenshots i didn't like it but here it i do." So maybe everyone just needs to see it in-game. My Factorio Brightening Utility: http://www.ecstaticlyrics.com/secret/brighten.zip You have ...

I'm really at a loss to understand how anyone can think the original brightness is better, other than simply being in shock at seeing something different than what they're used to. I didn't start out with it that bright, but after I got used to my first smaller increase in brightness, it clearly nee...

The gamma curve seems to be fine. The problem here is simply one of brightness. When people render 3D images, they have to choose how bright the rendered image is, either by changing the lighting or by changing the exposure. However, many people make a mistake in choosing the exposure, in that they ...

I suggested this a year ago, and so far the developers have ignored it, so let's try again... To see exactly what I mean, look at these examples: https://imgur.com/a/C5PNs Seeing them side-by-side, Factorio's current appearance is just crazy dark. Even in the middle of the day it's difficult to see ...

Another example, with version 0.15.18: hexedit.png The byte that must be changed to 00 is the one highlighted in orange. This is with the Factorissimo 2 mod, causing it to be near "Factory floor 2" instead of "nauvis." To find it I executed "/c game.player.print 'hello me!'&...

It is widely recognized that comparing two floating point numbers via == is bad. I don't think I could explain it better than this FAQ entry . I believe this applies here, despite any additional contributing factors to inaccuracy. Factorio requires determinism which means that if any of our compile...

I ran memtest86+ for five hours, but it found no errors.

Log file and save game attached. Uses Factorissimo 2 mod. Unfortunately I have no idea what caused it. I reloaded and repeated the same actions (nothing unusual, just setting up a machine), but it didn't crash again. Hopefully the log file is helpful. Possibly (but probably not) worth noting is that...

1. New games should clear the previous/default save game name variable, forcing the player to enter a new name for their new map or choosing another from the list. Actually this just needs to be changed from being a global variable to a map-specific variable. Load a map and you might want it to sav...

There are still 1 million more things that are absolutely awesome about this game, than the few significant flaws (none of which are unfixable). Oh, absolutely. I've got probably 300 hours in this game (though it's probably going to stay there for a while as I feel rather burnt out now), which mean...

I also think if they hadn't changed it by accident, nobody would have even bothered to think about this issue. I was thinking about it in 0.12. It seemed totally broken to me, as the thought of chaining things together rather than using star topology was nowhere on my mind's radar, plus there was t...

The best explanation I can think of is that he only got as far as "several of us actually preferred the old (new) behavior" and thought "well, we can't have it both ways, so someone is going to be disappointed no matter what" and made his response based on the assumption that I j...

Everyone likes something different. The whole "options" menu is full of stuff that could have been discounted with "everyone likes something different." Yet the options menu exists, because good software is about giving everyone what they want. So rather than say "no matter...