Why not have two nightvisions? Nightvision mark one doesn't have an internal battery, and is 2x2. Nightvision MK2 would be 1x1, and have batteries. You could use the excuse that nightvision is an incandescent bulb (return the power draw to the old value) and nightvision MK2 is LED (smaller, more ef...

In regards to other milestones... we might have something else to announce in the weeks to come .

Spidertron?

Easy holidays because, no surprise release... what euphemism , even Santa seems to expirience ups drop, by overstretching his logistic network.

No. Such a device is unrealistic and do not give interesting gaming mechanics. I would prefer for example ecological modules for advanced pollution control. They could reduce pollution at cost of speed, power consumption and maybe productivity. It would be more consistent to reduce pollution by add...

You also can‘t connect boilers to the circuit network. My point is, the heat exchanger temperature will, once started never drop below 500 deg. any temperature of the heat pipes above 500 is effectively speaking storage. Aside from those technicalities, there is no other use for it, then creating st...

Something like this?
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/air-filtering-patched

TL;DR Extend the functionality of the upgrade planner to upgrade buildings from an empty slot with modules. What ? Pretty straight foreward, buildings and beacons should be automatically filled with modules via the upgrade planner, without prior manual insertion or via bp-workaround. I suggest to u...

Good idea, the old slot is needlessly empty. I would go one step further and propose, to reserve it for a number of things like: grenades, cliff explosive, repair packs, fitting the playstyle and the players progress level.

Appart from uses outside Imported bp-book in early game, there wouldn‘t be much applications. Your proposed shift-click is inconsistent to the regular Blue- and redprints, so a special downgrade planner would be required. Besides correct me if I‘m wrong, can‘t you already define the upgrade planner ...

And let‘s not forget, that all of this polish as the HD-graphics is optional, because the player can turn it off.
Seems like a optimal choise how to add such features to a game.

Okay so I found the "make new upgrade planner" feature and found out how to use that. But if I got it right, I still have to stop and drag a box around belts to see what is what. I would really prefer just easily spotting individual wrong colored belts while just running through the area....

An upgrade planner, configured for belt Updates already takes care of it. Either by fixing it directly or at least highlighting lower tiers of belt if bots are not avaliable.
Anyway any modestly sufficient throughput makes the problem obvious.

Reffering to this (In the unlikely case anyone is NOT familiar): https://youtu.be/DR01YdFtWFI?t=54 Watching that old trailer again now gives a pretty astonishing impression of how much the graphics have changed, and how "flat" it all looked back then. The art department (and the engine de...

Small deposits of water can spawn, according to your map presets. They are somewhat of inland water wells. Colloquially refferd to as lakes. Whats more appealing, now then beautification is on the table, to maybe implement the greenish water texture from the 2016 and 2014 trailer. Water flooring und...

Okay, with optimizations like this it's more understandable now, why we have still less than a year at hand before release. Factorio appears to be the only game, effectively achieving its sequel before even reaching 1.0.

Nice observation

Good request, but it is already been taken care of as of version 0.17.77

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=77985

Wonderful news, it's really reassuring that you guys upkeep the same standards even this late in development. Although the date is almost a year from now, it is a somewhat strange feeling to see something like Factorio officially called 1.0 . Of course considering development won't stop (Spidertron ...

The tank could be renamed Bulldozer, especially in base, but then again, nothing the con bots couldn’t handle (or if I‘ve forget to avoid the space bar, while carrying nuclear rockets). Just don’t drive near anywhere expensive, like your reactor blocks, or silo(s).

You know you can put items on blocked stacks? By hand or when you lower the limits. So in any case: The limit says nothing about, how "full" a chest can be. At least manually overfilling chests with a set Stack size shouldn’t be that prevalent. But for such cases some visual indicators li...