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I always use a burner miner for stone early, apart from maybe one game where i scavenged rocks. Something like double the stone, triple the iron cost wouldn't make very much difference to the game start IMO. Yeah, maybe the "lazy bastard" achievement would need tweaking. (Did this get easi...

Brainstorm: (If trains came earlier/there was a locomotive that used a steam engine instead of engine unit) Basic Rail - Wood Board, Stone, Iron Sticks Fast Rail - Stone Brick, Steel Plate Express Rail - Concrete, Steel Plate Interesting idea. I think an "iron stick" rail would have troub...

Regenerate the map a few times until you find one you like? At least it keeps any custom settings, so this is quick to do.

PacifyerGrey: here's a charger for you (again!): https://mods.factorio.com/mods/DaCyclops/ModularChargePacks Solar panels work okay if you add a lot of them and only use nightvision and one or two roboports. Trying to use shields early on I don't find useful unless you really need to do much combat,...

Yep, the panels work okay for night vision and one roboport maybe, but not much more. I've found Modular Charge Packs a really good alternative. Can we make this stock, please? Add a battery charger building Batteries should keep charge level in inventory To make it practical to manage charged and u...

I don't really see the point? You can already place blueprints and single items (shift-click) without having to worry whether there is a tree or rock in the way.

Given an inclination of 10 degrees, the horizontal length of the hill needs to be around 6 times the height. You can't really make train track steeper than this. To get a train under level ground you need a long slope!

It looks like some of this was already implemented: binary AND, OR, XOR. Also a decider combinator with "each > 0" output "each, 1" can be used to "standardise" input. Two remaining issues: We can't directly compare green and red signals, e.g. "each red - each gree...

The original idea looks a bit overkill (bitwise arithmetic, shift operations), but I definitely miss a few of these: Selecting input source: to compare "iron plates" from the green wire with "iron plates" from the red wire, currently you have to use an arithmetic combinator with ...

But then why not upgrade belts via research the same way? It would solve those blueprint issues (being unable to build blueprints created with high-tech belts in another game).

"Wait until fuel is full" won't work if you change fuel types, unless you have both types available or remove the old type somehow, so inactivity is better. If your depot is out of fuel, well, probably you've got a problem anyway.

Train-roboports would arguably be even more useful than a gun carriage. (But they would need some control to stop robots flying out while the train is moving fast.)

If you want hard biters... I like the brood mother idea. But also something like a suicide bomber or battering ram which will try to break walls before many more biters swarm through the gap.

Big biters that chew up lots of ammo are just boring.

Please fix this! Please! Please!

Happens to me more using trains than any other time. When fighting in a tank I usually end up putting all my construction robots into the tanks inventory so that they can't fly.

That removes the need for the usual logistics getting science packs of all types to each lab. Big complexity drop. No thanks.

Working out how to do this kind of stuff in vanilla is fun :) (Hint: you can have a train wait in a "requester" station until empty or needing any resource, then send it to a supply when necessary via the circuit network. You can set filters on wagons by middle-clicking.) There's also a mo...

Please make this stock
https://mods.factorio.com/?q=chargepack

(It may be a little over-powered: I have no problem powering 4 roboports in mk1 power armour now. No shields, 1 exoskelleton, 2 charge packs.)

And maybe remove the reactor entirely, or make it very very expensive.

There are already several mods to get water anywhere. As for moats/canals/landfill... I feel that there should be two depths of water (there are already, but I think it's just visual). Shallow water: can be filled, can be created by digging, medium & larger biters can cross but at slow speed. De...

It's not science. It should be renamed magic research.