I last had the crash last week sometime (had it twice total). I can try to reproduce it in the most recent version. I'll let you know if it happens again.

If I'm reading it right, the specialized tree creation still isn't worth it, even with the changes. You are giving up ~3 resin worth of wood to gain 1 resin (same with plastic). It needs to either not lose the wood or make more resin/rubber/plastic or something. Unless the thought is that not needin...

Lead is also almost impossible to see against dark terrain or in the fog of war (since that darkens everything). So there may well be some closer that you just missed when looking for it. RSO generates it in the starting area as well, for an option.

The other question is, why is there a pollution cleaning chip (don't know which kind by sight) in the ingredients without an amount or label? Is that a bug with FNEI or the recipe? Neither. Modules are built by upgrade. You don't just build a max level speed module. You have to build a speed module...

Tech dependencies for modules are messed up. Productivity/Speed/Efficiency 2 requires advanced electronics 2 and P/S/E 3 requires production science packs (for some reason). Pollution creation/reduction module 2s don't require advanced electronics 2, level 3 does (which is how it should be, since it...

I had a similar crash in 17.6, clicking on a bob's electrolyser which had been placed over the ghost of an electrolyser 2 with a recipe in place.

I think you should remove the Fast Inserter research (50 AutomationScience Packs) They are also included in Logistics 3 and they use cobalt. While cobalt is obtainable with transport science, ECBs are way out of reach at the point where you research the inserters as standalone tec and you dont real...

TL;DR Train stops shouldn't always overwrite colors and should be able to overwrite names. What ? It would be nice if train stop blueprints didn't overwrite the color of the train stop if the stop in the blueprint is the default color. It would also be nice if you could set a blueprint to overwrite...

It is a multiple monitor thing. I've had it happen without switching the monitor source, but I also found out how to get it to recover: click on the other monitor. It isn't a focus thing, if I alt tab to something else it is still frozen, but if I click on the desktop of the other monitor it suddenl...

I had it happen again, but it recovered after a few moments. I realized that there was one other thing: I have 2 monitors, one 1080p and one 4K. I had them both attached to the computer I was running Factorio on (Factorio running on the 1080p in fullscreen) and the 4K was also attached to my unrelat...

I had been playing fine for several hours. I was working, so ended up idling for several minutes to an hour in a factorissimo building, so not on the main map, and with the game paused. At which point it froze. Memory usage was 5.4G, cpu and gpu were 0. It did eventually take the click that dismisse...

Having a weird bug with making science packs from liquids. For some reason If I attach the pipes, then select the recipe (or change the recipe) the pipes don't link up. Picking up and replacing the pipes with the recipe in place fixes it and they work fine. Graphically and functionally you can see t...

So is raw rubber (from desert tree cultivation) supposed to produce liquid plastic? I would think it should make liquid rubber...

It would be nice to have a lower level research that let you change your active class. Miner is great to start but I actually want hand smelting to be turned off once I get smelteries set up, otherwise I accidentally hand smelt steel which takes forever and is a waste. I'd like to switch to builder,...

If you are running full angel's you can also get 100 wood for each special tree you cut down (dark blue dots on the map) and also an item that lets you make an arboretum that is the angel greenhouse equivalent. I have taken to just running around while my tiny starter base is researching the early m...

Can you make a splitter that doesn't have any of the filtering/prioritizing options? I think a black splitter without those features and a black underground with a gap of 1 or 2 would fit in perfectly. If you can't, I would keep the splitter at yellow+ but still add in the short underground.

Angels makes it really painful, since you both are short of iron in the beginning anyway and yet you need at least yellow belts to get any kind of reasonable throughput on things. I ended up changing the recipe to one black belt and 2 tin plates and that seems to be a decent compromise (I could at l...

It's part of a change the cost progression to something more linier to make belts more viable when you start to enter the "Robots" phase. Also a move away from "It costs more iron!" to "it costs something else". I'd say harder to produce, but then Titanium and Nitinol ...

Once you get some seeds from the seed extractor (make sure you use the recipe that returns seeds), each seed can be produced from the results of planting the individual seed (with a positive return). Bear in mind that the seed extractor recipe doesn't always return seeds. If it does succeed at produ...

foodfactorio wrote:

Frost wrote:Some trimming of the fat is in order.

careful what you wish for....

we might get a petrochem chain for turning fats into oils, into gas oil and lube

We already have that with the bio-processing stuff tho