Something that you should bear in mind when dealing w/ uranium on alien planets is that you don't have to use the natural enrichment value found on Earth today! U-235 has a half-life of 703 megayears, so uranium ore had a much higher natural enrichment in Earth's past. Enough, in fact, that you coul...

BTW: do you know what ten kilometers in factorio is like? When a tile is about one meter, then it's 10,000 tiles. Ten thousand tiles is by train without stop about 5 minutes. Or 50 radar ranges. I know. Hence why more fully developed uses for Flight would make the current use of radar obsolete. I'm...

Hopefully radars will be obsolete for exploration purposes once we get more fully developed flight, since a basic reconnaissance drone should be able to have a range on the order of 10 km.

Because that isn't that easy. The devs cannot just add new items for every case, they need to find good ways to come out with less items for many cases. Well, an actual underground layer would be a more general solution than these weird 5-long straight-only items we have for underground ops now. Bu...

+1 . I also wanted to suggest such a thing :) One more functionality I think could be added into this "Blueprint catalog" is a "blueprint designer" - an option to open an existing or new blueprint to edit in a new ui, a bit like the map editor or sandbox mode, but with no terrai...

Yes, that did end up working out. It even made it a little shorter!

Inspired by the 3 tile high science 1 assembly line shown here , I tried to make a 3 tile high science 2 assembly line. This is the result: https://imageshack.us/download/840/q3tf.jpg Edit: Right click and View Image for full. Science assemblers continue to the left for a total of 8. As you can see,...

I confess that I've imagined exactly this sort situation before, except as idle day-dreaming instead of as a game idea, where somebody is stranded on a planet and has to bootstrap a one-person industrial revolution. I had forgotten about it entirely until reading this post. Not even Factorio itself ...