Hmm, it brings me to think why don't normal inserters have this function for stack size bonus. I think it comes down to looks, in large part. Ideally, I'd want to see something like a gantry mounted inserter or bridge crane , as those two items seem like they'd be visually suited to picking up a wh...

As someone who was concerned about the loader, I can say without reservation that I fully support this new inserter type. It meshes well with the current build system (which it obvious would) and no matter how it works in the specific, I imagine advanced users will find that uses for other inserter ...

As much as I like the Ringworld reference, I must disagree with this idea: It's not that fast transport isn't useful or possible to balance, it's just that the teleporting specifically doesn't really mesh with Factorio. It's a bit too far future, as opposed to Factorio's diesel-future aesthetic. Lik...

This probably won't be needed, as they're reworking rails and railway in 0.13 to only use straight rails, but with a sort of pathfinding algorithm, so that you click and hold on the point you want the track from, and then drag it to the point you want it to end, as far as I understand it. Anyhow th...

Isn't this accomplished by portable roboports and shift clicking?

I really don't see why pollution needs to be a factor of material out. In real life, pollution increases as ore supply runs low because you're going after worse ores. What starts with high grade oil or native copper end up with pit mines to go after dirt and rock with a 0.1 percent copper content o...

I really don't see why pollution needs to be a factor of material out. In real life, pollution increases as ore supply runs low because you're going after worse ores. What starts with high grade oil or native copper end up with pit mines to go after dirt and rock with a 0.1 percent copper content or...

Alright, I haven't seen any ways to make this work, so I'll detail the best way I can think of to make belts use energy... and why I still don't think it's a good idea. --------------------- A large portion of the problem with belts drawing power is that if the belts themselves draw power, then it's...

You place a power pole, then another next to it, and get a free wire between the 2 poles. Press Shift(I think, might be control) and left click, the wire is removed, it consumes a copper wire to put it back. Same with coloured wires, it consumes a coloured wire to wire it up, but you get nothing ba...

I may point also to https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=14465 Make colored wire "free" (which makes sense, cause there is nearly no game-value added to produce wires) Indeed. In fact, IIRC, Wires are free when using a blueprint and robots. This is just a logical extension ...

My opinion is "Can you make it interesteing." MeduSalem brought up, with the idea of "expert mode": In a game like Factorio I'd quite like to see difficulty modes affecting not just health and damage but also things like recipes. Imagine if, at higher difficulty levels, steel was...

This is a simple quality of life improvement for long distance circuit network connections. When placing large electric poles, they should automatically connect red and green wires to other large electric poles, and ONLY to other large poles. I think this is a fair trade to allow players to run wir...

I also dislike the long handed inserter sometimes... especially in combination with green circuits. They are just too slow to deal with the input/output. Either they are slowing the Iron ore input or the Circuit output. That's why I favor layouts similar to this one: OcLNt2b.jpg That one is a bit o...

This is a simple quality of life improvement for long distance circuit network connections. When placing large electric poles, they should automatically connect red and green wires to other large electric poles, and ONLY to other large poles. I think this is a fair trade to allow players to run wire...

To expand on Twinsen's note: One of the most useful parts of the circuit network is that it allows you to throttle or stop production once a certain goal is met. Even today there's good use for it, as it allows you to have limited storage for oil products without complicated setups. That turns these...

It's worth considering with advanced circuits that the tech to unlock them is "advanced electronics" which, like all the "electronics" line of techs, is a gateway technology that leads to many more technologies. Requiring plastics for that would mean that all the research it lead...

Let's see. There's "Distrubutism", a map where I tried to set everything far apart and link everything together via trains. There was a map that was "Oh dear" saved after a bug warped the terrain tileset. (reloading fixed it.) And "Factory5Revisit" (Would have been &quo...

This does look interesting. I'll show it to Albert and see what he thinks. Nice :) Glad you like this idea ! Not a new idea, I've had it posted in my subforum before, but it is a very good idea non the less. Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't found it ! I really tried to look for, but... haven't found ^^"...

I've been mulling over the RTS side of Factorio for a while and here's the conclusions I've made so far. 1: The logistics equipping and maintaining a fighting force, be it mobile or stationary, should be just as important as the combat itself. This fairly simple in concept; Tanks need fuel, lasers n...

20kW is an incredibly small price to pay per turret (the specific value is up for debate though), and chances are you'll already have power poles in place for the inserters that put ammo in the turrets. So why introduce it then? I mean, it won't really make turret creep much harder (only a bit) and...