Why even bother with where the items are stored. You request them by bot anyway. The Point of item requests is to not to have to bother where every single item goes. When needed, it just gets ordered. Only thing you need to take care of is that there is enough space overall and to bring "trash ...

A ground Robot which can pick up a complete chest and place it somewhere else. you have three Docking ports for a Special type of chest, the "ground Robot chest". One port is placed at the starting Point, one at the Destination and one in between to store the spare chest, let's say the buf...

Plan ahead and integrate purple science pack production since blue and purple share almost all intermediates. blue -> purple motor -> electric Motor red circuit - > electric furnace electric miner and assembler 1 share all basic components. My layout isn't the best but it works and is relativly bala...

Out of curiosity does any game simulate AC/DC and voltages and so on that isn't an outright circuit simulator program? When I first learned about the different poles in Factorio I was worried that I was going to have to learn all of it, but my fears were quickly abated when I actually placed one :l...

Creating water is way too overpowered. It keeps the Aliens from attacking you completly. Since you don't need Alien artifacts in 0.15 anymore you can just nuke yourself a water ditch around your base and be super safe. It's not implemented (yet?) but it seems unrealistic that Aliens can't cross wate...