I'll second the praise (realized I never did that in this thread), I was actually disappointed the first time I started a sandbox in vanilla Factorio, like "wtf there's so much resources, this is too easy" and fiddled with richness and frequency without ever getting something I was happy w...

That mission confused me with it's text too, but you actually need the train outposts to get enough resources. The "assault" mentioned in the text happens in the mission AFTER, not in reclaiming the train outposts. So it's more like * Develop train technologies * Reclaim train outposts * K...

In that case, steam engines ought to retain the water they use instead of letting it boil into the atmosphere. I guess they'd need an output pipe on one of the long sides?

Nope, just get a shotgun and keep upgrading it and you'll stay ahead of their evolution. Oh and circlestrafing with a car helps a lot too

It would be cool if it was possible to pack up and leave the starting location, especially once the small plane is in the game so you can just fly over all the ocean and biters, but right now this is impractical at best due to enemy difficulty increasing as you get further from the start spot. Still...

While holding it in your hand, just click whenever there are biters chewing on your ankles and it'll fire. But the biters need to be really close, and you need a lot of power.

It's not worth the armor space and materials though.

I think I caught them in the act once, a group in the middle of nowhere all gathered together, far from pollution. After wiping them out I came back later to find a single worm.

Oh yeah, actually I noticed this too, had 200 Processing Units in inventory but when I moused over the Power Armor MK2 it said I had 75/200... didn't have enough other resources to attempt crafting it though, so not sure if it's just cosmetic.

Does it help if you attempt to rotate it?

Wouldn't that just be the Rocket Defense? Though you don't get to see it in action, the game is basically over at that point.

Right now worms are the worst part of dealing with biters; there's no way to avoid getting hit, so it doesn't really feel like I can deal with them in a skilful way, but you have all the time in the world to repair and regenerate while they sit there, waiting to die. I was thinking they should be mo...

Come to think of it, I think I saw a mod where you could construct a Roboport train . That would work perfectly for making outposts, with the bots laying the tracks in front of the train - at least, if the trains' inventory works as a storage chest. But where did I see it? Hm. Break systems and supp...

Yeah, left range undefined for similar reasons. As for other uses than moving buildings outside the roboport range, I was thinking they could pick up alien artifacts, but then I realized you wouldn't want them flying in before you wipe out the biters, and then you can just collect them yourself... M...

Yeah they definitely need way more range than regular bots. I was originally thinking of them as nearly car-sized, needing a landing pad of their very own to recharge, and how this would result in large fields of "parking lots" for them if you want an army of attack drones - cue Ride of th...

I love watching my construction robots build everything for me, but it gets impractical with extending the roboport network to mining outposts, so some way to deliver a roboport and some construction robots (and some form of power generation) would be lovely. I'm imagining a larger, heavier kind of ...

Actually I thought the instructions were pretty clear. After researching railways the game literally tells you that it'd be a good idea to start working towards utilizing the distant ore mines. That's the problem, it tells you to start working towards it and gives you a bunch of objectives at the s...

While I agree with LIFO behaviour by default wouldn't the belts in the forbidden slots be ignored regardless?

It is interesting to play on a map like this, because it is not just everything flat. and the resources are a lot more sparse and distant than on default. That actually makes trains useful, because before that, my trains were just like a huge waste of time, because everything was basically nearby. ...

The richness of oil areas gets divided by the number of pump spots, so more wells is actually slightly worse, in so far that they need more pumps. If you skipped any with few wells, go back and check their yield.

Although, come to think of it it's not just sulfur - solid fuel is the same, and all liquids (I think? Not sure how big a "stack" of liquid is), so I'm not sure which recipes are the odd ones.