Ah, just what I was looking for before making a suggestion. Rather than just "Fuel Full", make it so fuel gets treated like cargo (minus the empty condition for obvious reasons). That way you could have something like Fuel Full OR Fuel: Coal > 25 AND Circuit: Coal < 1000 as a way to ration...

For a newbie-friendly way of skipping stations, I'd suggest just adding a "Skip If" section to the train schedule editor which can use all the same conditions as the "Wait Until" section. I would expect the Skip If section would be evaluated when the train meets the Wait Until co...

https://cdn.factorio.com/assets/img/blog/fff-298-beams.png Target being hit should also get some glow. (At least tiny bit.) When you focus light beam on object - it usually (if not completely black AND matt) reflects some light onto surroundings. Add a light source at either end of the beam. Dim re...

Oil wells catching on fire could be something interesting to deal with if you're careless with the flamethrower and start a bushfire that also ends up starting the wells burning. As if you hadn't shot yourself in the foot badly enough with the bushfire drawing the hoardes, the oil fires are going to...

Alternate solution: When the tree amount is set to none, use alternate recipes that don't require wood. Maybe an extra iron plate, or some stone, or something like that. Stone poles, perhaps?

A short and simple request: Show units on the graphs in the Electric Network Info window. Being able to read off just how much that peak when your laser turrets were shooting was would be useful for planning how much more to build. Given how high the graph is, I think just three or four levels, coun...

I like the idea of separating the satellite from winning the game. Now I might actually get to try something that uses space science, rather than thinking "Ah, done!". I mentioned it last week, but with regards to space science, do we really have to have it appear in the silo? Couldn't we ...

One little thing that's been bugging me for a few versions: The portable fusion reactor seems out of place with no predecessors. It was fine back when we needed alien artefacts to make it, as it could be justified as alien technology. Since they were removed (and good riddance!), it doesn't really ...

One little thing that's been bugging me for a few versions: The portable fusion reactor seems out of place with no predecessors. It was fine back when we needed alien artefacts to make it, as it could be justified as alien technology. Since they were removed (and good riddance!), it doesn't really f...

This instalment drew my attention to a couple of things that bug me: 1. The Logistics System . I know, I know, it's very much a love-it-or-hate-it thing. This is just about its place in the tree from a technology perspective, not a buffing/nerfing one. Promise. Yeah, production science being a requi...

Will you have both [color= and [colour= tags supported?

POVRay Scene Description Language supports both.

HTML only supports the American one (or this was the case last time I was writing HTML by hand), which gave me a lot of trouble when coding pages and not getting the expected results.

Finally! The Laser Beam Turrets mod goes official! One less thing I need installed to play the way I like. On another topic, if the graphics engine is going to get a rewrite, anyway, have the devs given any thoughts to using Vulkan for it? Vulkan 1.0 has the same hardware requirements as OpenGL 4.x,...

I don't know how you'd implement it, but I like the idea. Could make for a nice challenge to find here and there on the map.

It's baffling that the US spelling would be supported by developers who aren't even from the US in the first place. When I was learning HTML back in the mid-1990s, I got tripped up by the use of US spellings of "colour" all the bloody time! Contrast this to POVRay scene description languag...

Yes, please! This would be hugely useful when trying to implement more computer-like systems. Decimal is great for many things, but computing isn't one of them.

Can't do the Jazz Jackrabbit theme without some brass.

Maybe just making the wires a little bit thicker and having a gradient to them would make them easier to see? The backgrounds tend to be fairly light, so maybe having the wires go from light in the middle to dark on the edges might make them stand out a bit more? I do agree the wires can be hard to ...

One is the tone height, the other the velocity of that tone. I don't know what you mean by either of these terms. I could try and ask how they correspond to MOD pattern data, but I'm afraid that might just result in more cases of us not knowing what the other is talking about. As a common reference...

Your first two suggestions (fluid wagon and liquid inserter) are already in the game. Just start playing the v0.15 beta branch. The in-game version of your proposed liquid inserter is really just a special behaviour of the pump if you put it next to a track where a train car will stop. The rest coul...

If you mean how to set it, Well, we already have a perfectly good approach of a slider and text box. Just duplicate that. One for minimum, one for maximum. Can we put both sliders on the same bar? Probably not without a lot of new coding work. I don't really think it would be necessary, anyway. One...