You are correct at nailing the real problem of bots. They just don't present enough problem to be fun. There is just not many optimisation tricks you can do with bots. Unfortunately, I still think that any change to bots except for complete overhaul won't cut it to raise its complexity. That's why o...

Honestly, even if bots are nerfed to the ground, they still have the fundamental issue of being simple. There is much fewer optimisations trick you can do with bots than you do with belts. That's why the idea of replacing bots with cable car seems the best solution for me. UPS-wise, you can buff bot...

How about decoratives?

Hello, is it possible to use tint for terrain graphics? To reduce atlas as well as file size.

I noticed that a lot of assets are just a recolor of each other, is it possible to just use tint while referring to the same file to reduce atlas? Also to reduce file size as well. Edit : it's actually impossible for terrain but fine for decoratives https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&...

I don't know if it is intended but I think those trees don't belong there. Disabled all terrain except frozen, then this thing happened.

This is actually good. Part of why I don't use bots isn't because of their cheaty throughput. Even if they are nerfed to the ground I still not interested in using them. My main reason being they are just too simple. With belts, you have to deal with space limitation, routing, belt weaving, compress...

I don't know, it's not my idea so I haven't think of that, if SHIFT+H is unused, you could use that also I think. H for helicopter for both hotkey seems nice.

CTRL+H maybe, H for helicopter. Besides as long as it is configurable it's not a big deal.

Whatever you do, only 1 lane of belt can be shown in an intersection. The current overground belt is functionally the same as your suggestion.

Also, is it possible to make the helipad have no health so that biters don't attack it? Seems weird when they attack what is essentially paintings on the floor.

Feature Request :
-Option for clean helipad that doesn't come with heli-pad-concrete.
-Option to hide the controller gui and use a hotkey instead to open it, similar to helmod.

I thought it is just indicating which rail it is attached to.

Updated for 0.16 with fuel tank overhaul so it doesn't use some weird workaround with hidden fluid wagon anymore. Overall it is a lot more stable than the previous version but some animation no longer possible. Now also use the old Factorio locomotive graphic to differentiate with vanilla locomotive

As the title said, changing main inventory trigger an event, changing cursor stack trigger an event, why can't this be an event.

Hello, is it possible to add support for multiple filtered fluid to fluidbox, I need that for my mod.

I'm making a mod that needs large number of entity prototype, around several hundreds in number, mostly as a hidden entity that replicate the behaviour that I want. How does these prototypes affect performance in any way provided that all of them only use core/graphic/empty.png (a 1x1 empty graphic).

I have noticed for a while that if you put an "input-output" pipe connection on an entity type pump, it behaves exactly like "output" pipe connection. Is that intended or not? I thought it should behave as a connection whose type is governed by other entity connecting it. Like if...

Hello, how do you disable the red/yellow triangle for an entity prototype when an entity is not powered by electric network. There is LuaElectricEnergySourcePrototype:render_no_network_icon and LuaElectricEnergySourcePrototype:render_no_power_icon but no idea what to put on data.raw

Hey guys, any idea what is "category" field in LuaElectricEnergySourcePrototype object is? I checked on every electricity using entity and they all return "basic-solid". What are they used for?