Situation from yesterday. I'm placing some rails and it turns out that I will require 3 more power poles and 5 more signals to finish it. You cannot plan for such situations.

Don't you think that "cannot" is a bit too strong as a statement?
(Should be in the base game IMHO.)

Try to use ...

It's mapped to Alt+1/2/3 for 1/5/10 items in Hotcraft. And Q when hovering over an entity.

HotCraft (and HandyHands ) are awesome, but perhaps a bit too much .
Remember that Factorio is a game about automation, you're supposed to have those items built for you by your factory... especially now ...

Just to get it straight.
I don't vote to remove the option to have ghost hand. It's really neat to have that.
I would like to have an option to craft items from hotbar in addition to ghost hand. E.g. Shift-click to craft an item.

Burner inserters are still useful in late-game to put coal into boilers. It allows to automatically resume power production after temporary coal shortage.

"Pause" or "Postpone" would be much better that "Cancel".

Definitely this.

It's especially annoying when you are placing something which is currently in your build queue. You have to be constantly aware of number of items you have in the hand because if you place the last one, you have to drop the ghost go to your inventory/quickbar and select it again.

+1

10/10 - would use constantly.

That would be really useful, especially in early game.

Do you think my boss would notice if I don't go to work this week?

Ah those were the days! I remember making my first flamethrower, and making my husband come play so I could show him how it worked, because as we all know flamethrowers are really cool... And then I, well you see, I sort of... set the forest on fire... and then we couldn't run back to the base ...

Couldn't you make a rule that the legacy behavior is used only when an image from the gallery is used as thumbnail.
You already have ways to check it so it should be a matter of adding one condition.

BlueTemplar wrote: Sat Feb 23, 2019 11:44 am factorio_2018-11-17_16-25-43.png

Argh! My eyes! What monster places pavement under ores? And how is this even possible?!

Todays FFF explained how to add a thumbnail to a mod file so of course I've immediately updated all my mods and removed thumbnails from galleries on the mod portal.
While thumbnails are still showed correctly, one of my galleries is now invisible to players.

I suspect that the mod portal assumes ...

When the rocket is inside the silo, it is very brightly lighten in comparison to the interior of the silo. Moreover, silo doors don't cast a shadow.
These two things combined destroy the impression that the rocket is really inside.

Hype train has no brakes!

https://wiki.factorio.com/Achievements
Enabling peaceful mode or setting enemy bases to anything lower than default disables the following achievements: There is no spoon, No time for chit-chat, Raining bullets and Steam all the way.
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In multiplayer, achievements can only be earned if the ...

I agree.

Achievements have to be challenging to get or they are not achievements but just some stuff you get for playing long enough.
It doesn't have to be the difficulty level of Super Meat Boy where you have to be pretty good at the game to get even the easiest badge.
Tying some achievements to ...

The new version is coming!

ALL ABOARD THE HYPE TRAIN!!!

This screen with a train looks really nice.