I just like to say, that I'm so happy about announced 0.16 release.

A little .lua program + a .cmd file can do that (had to write both myself), while I still think there should be a standard Factorio way to create an image from a map string, that I just did not found.

I can't find a way to generate a map preview picture for a string.

I dunno how to pass a map string in command line, so I launched Factorio normally, generated a new map with a map string, saved it, then tried to launch command line:

factorio --generate-map-preview map20.bmp --map-preview-size ...

I think variety is a good thing. So if I got some trees around starting area I'll chop them down or reroll, depending on my goals for this game.
More annoying are trees on a car trips around, I often collide with them. But I dunno will it be good if we see less trees, or bad, since they prevent ...

Could be nice to hear when we will see .16 release. At least a month. Or dev's thinks it's a bad idea to announce until it's 100% ready?

Looking in Factorio API.

There is a class LuaStyle , that has property
maximal_height :: int [RW]

There is a reference there to LuaGuiElement, and sample
game.player.gui.top.add{type="label", name="greeting", caption="Hi"}
game.player.gui.top.greeting.caption = "Hello there!"
game.player.gui.top ...

No one knows? Or it's technically difficult?

I thought all interface windows have some properties, like current height. For inventory it's probably recalculated every time when something adds a new recipe to available list. But there should be maximum allowed height, that is probably calculated at ...

Where and how to change maximum allowed vertical size of inventory window?
Console command? Config string?

More detailed explanation, why I want it:
When I play vanilla mode inventory window have reasonable size.
As soon as I try to play with mods (like Bob's or Angel's) inventory window grows from ...

In other topics, devs were speaking about '"should be some reason to explore the map".
I do agree with it. In whole, a player should have much more motivation to explore around.
I'm writing this post using impressions from 0.15.37 version of the game.

1. Different biomes, like in Alien Biomes mod ...

Non flat terrain will be more fun to play. But, as I understand, that are possible plans for "far away time". And we should not hope to see it next year, right?