- Wood chopping: Of the multiple chopping sounds, the new ones are less satisfying compared to the old chopping sound.

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Also possibly a bug:
- Double sound when getting items out of a chest / putting in a chest with opening inventory and ctrl / shift clicking a stack. Sounds like there's ...

For example we now have the listener position on the centre of the screen by default
...Where was it before?


At your character. The change makes it so that map view gives you the ability to hear things at a distance.

Somewhat concerned about the possibility of missing out on important sound ...

As far as I'm aware, the player normally uses only the best type of combat robot they have available.


It may not be as common now, but the oldschool common practice was maxing out on destroyers, and throwing distractors in all directions to ... do exactly what their name suggests. 8-)

So ...

Regarding map colors, there's some question about consistency with previous definitions on a technical level:
I don't get why they put the new pipe, beacon, etc colors in default_color_by_type, when all the other unique building types are in default_friendly_color_by_type


Maxreader is ...

I can snip too :evil:

Don't take that sort of thing personally--it's meant as a courtesy to others, putting in extra effort to create a direct reference without flooding the forum page with the entire contents of every message over and over.

Anyway, I did suggest the mechanic of an additional ...

I would expect the same behavior when the other station can not be repathed to because it's locked down because of "max number" reached.


That is not the behavior boskid has been testing. If you do want to prevent trains from getting stuck with " Destinations full " on the main line, you can ...

Some of inbound train limit effects are possible to produce with circuit-controlled signals if you wire up every branch of every stacker where a train might be waiting, but it will not affect trains that are moving and potentially re-pathing with a resulting overload of simultaneous trains.

This ...

Firstly, for clarity let's try to use Train Stop for a specific destination, and Station for all possibly scheduled stops of the same name. It may be a bit late to introduce that formality, but it's good to avoid confusion where possible.

A train stop max-inbound-cap (ideally set by circuit network ...

Object avoidance mode is in the game again, activated with Ctrl instead of Shift for the rail planner.

I found this thread while trying to remember where its reintroduction was mentioned, only to discover how few people know about it...

Discoverability truly is one of Factorio's greatest challenges.

It may be possible to do a hybrid between types 1 and 2. Like, when the first part is done and red science is running have a "cutscene" sort of thing that results in the player being pushed away from their base for whatever story reason, there is now water in the way of their going back, and they ...

Either he's drowning in all the steam money or kovarex is up to something new.


As mentioned on the reddit discussion: WoW Classic ate a chunk of his time around its August release, and even without that he makes high-level decisions about game design even when not making commits directly. See ...

Glad to hear the tutorial situation is being revisited. Continuity and careful consideration are great, but I always felt something was lost in the switch from the old tutorial campaign. It's hard to explain, but it had a lot to do with the pre-built structures giving tiny design hints rather than ...

I love these new destruction effects.

One problem with destruction of entities in Factorio is that once robots are unlocked, destroyed entities are instantly replaced by ghosts so that the robots will rebuild them.

This interferes with the visual effect at the moment of destruction.

Possible ...

While riding a vehicle with Schall's Gun Pods installed and active, change player's force to "enemy" and a crash to desktop results once the vehicle destroys itself.

Personal laser defenses do not cause the crash if used in the vehicle's grid instead, though they do still attack and destroy the ...

This is actually something mentioned before, by myself and others: viewtopic.php?p=258253#p258253

Given how much of a minefield train logic is, I wouldn't put too much weight on it happening...but it would be nice if there were a clean solution.

Picker Dollies implements a custom event which provides other mods with {player_index, moved_entity, start_pos} when it teleports something. It also provides a blacklist for entities never to be teleported.

It would be useful for generic mod compatibility if there were an official event for ...

Rseding91 wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2019 9:24 pm I just haven't figured out how that would interact with already-built entities and such.

Does this refer to potential interactions like custom filtering of highlighting for entities that would overlap the area?

So... now that we've had these optimizations, what is now the slowest part of the Factorio tick?


The things that you build, meaning what a given save/map is doing, will determine this at any given time.

The scaling factor for each entity and network of interactions would probably be non ...

His mod is the one being depended on, so his on_init fires, then the other mod's, then any other mods that lists his as a dependency. He wants a way to then do something after all of the dependencies have loaded.

It's not completely unreasonable, but it has very few uses.


I've been talking ...

I like most of the changes side-by-side, and I've definitely heard complaints about the game being too dark.

That said, the map could do with slightly less saturation on its terrain colors, focusing on functionality so the colors take a backseat to displaying other important features (resources ...