Assemblers, and other building, may have recipes that use more fluids. Theoretically, You may have recipe that use water and acid, so auto-sharing may be impractical. Also, You do not place miners next to buildings that accepts other fluids, so mishaps is not real threat. Assemblers are different, b...

Or just have an option to have factorio autoplace signals as you build track. (You probably need to place one signal at the start to tell factorio what side of the track signals should go). It would not work if You are upgrading one-track to two-track. When You are building one-track, You do not pl...

Eh..., I am disappointed, both with Your defeatist attitude and graphic skills... ;) Most entities in Factorio are just multilayered textures. Separate layers of graphics, shadows, animations etc. All You need to this single aspect of this idea is to: - make simple texture for "pile of plates&q...

You say it's possible to automatically allow wagon to accept ONLY full cargo of copper ore OR full cargo of copper plates, while not allowing to take any fuel at "stacker" stations (with multiple fuel inserters to "service" trains with many engines, both one head and dual head? T...

Or, maybe, allow bitters to cross shallow waters... Ballance saved

Title tells everything ;) In openTTD, there is great feature - You press some key combination, and Railroad Signals are automatically placed in equal steps along tracks. How it would work in Factorio? On long track segment, You place first signal manually (just after intersection). Then, You place s...

Simple wagon with ONE inventory slot, able to fit eg. 3600 of one type items, plus few filters slot. PROS: - Higher capacity for ores and other similar cargo. - No more annoying tile-by-tile middle-mouse-button filtering/restricting. - Possibility to get full wagon of ore, drop it at smelting, go fo...

Nuclear power has risks and challenges, but an atomic bomb like explosion is not one of them. Maybe not anymore, but in Chernobyl, few day after initial "mishap", there were real threat of Bomb scale explosion. Not because failure or radiation itself, but because of molten core burning th...

I wish there were some risk of industrial incidents in Factorio (as an option). However, mashines degrtadation will end just in pacing roboport with repairpacke next to it...

"Don't panic"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbSwFU6tY1c

...to insert a car into Rocket? I expected some easter egg, but have currently no rocket ready to launch...

After some deeper thoughts, it may be harder that it seams. If preview map data is "cached", and updated only after placing or removing entities (trains, ranges etc are separate layers), it may not refresh lights colors "live". Maybe once a second... And It may be hard to trace a...

Chest with trigger device + Inserter for each cannon do the trick.

EDIT: ...and some wires to trigger inserters...

Or, give the player Laser Pointer, that lure aliens, like a cats, to some point

So, that is flaw in Your desing - to many trains needs to use that loop to turn back. Just make roundabout at main line instead of X-ing...
Make waiting ares before roundabout if more trains want to use thet station.

Something like this, but I will just make dedicated loop way before, just above main line. And, as I see, You use Signals wrong. Just after the fork You MUST use non-chain signal, so train may enter there and wait there if necessary (if it fits there). And use Regular Signals at enter to one-track s...

Just make a smaller loop before station. Other trains will use it instead.

I mean any tutorial, available in "Square Academic Cap" menu. It's separate, scriptable world, with grid instead of background (what is fantastic for editing blueprints). Inventory is totally unrelated to "real world" inventory, same as available items. Just load blueprint instea...

As in title. Simple little thing: active light color on map view, instead of "generic blue" dot.
Profit - visible on map live displays and status indicators, without placing radars and zooming.

Same thing for Rail Signals.

Furthermore, (still in ideal-world mode), the visual part of the GUI would employ a fully-featured factorio surface, effectively embedding a mini "creative mode" in the base-game. That last part is a pretty big ask though. It's already in the game in the form of tutorials. You have separa...