There is nothing in the tutorial about pollution, and therefore no way for a new player to know that the green circuits that they are still producing are causing the massive waves of biters to attack! The attack waves should be capped at a level where a couple of turrets on each side will hold them ...

Either the whole point of Factorio has changed since 0.16, or the intro gives completely the wrong impression of the game. Is Factorio now a sort of "Tower Defence" game which relies on memorising enemy attack patterns and frantic clicking to desperately shore up your defences? Some people...

After moving east and beginning to set up a base I had these two crashes: 3618.641 Error MainLoop.cpp:1085: Exception at tick 4250745: The scenario level caused a non-recoverable error. Please report this error to the scenario author. Error while running event level::on_tick (ID 0) __base__/lualib/c...

With the latest version of Sea Block, Upgrade planner can upgrade speed module 0 to speed module 1, but does not upgrade productivity module 0 to productivity module 1 either manually or using bots.

Note: Factorio has a scalable GUI. But the scale is device dependent. So on full-hd I have to set the scale to 100% while on 4k I need 200%. If you take the scale set in the config and use the DPI into consideration to generate an internal scale factor then the GUI would look&feel the same on e...

With the new feature which allows roboports to output "available logistic bots" and "available construction bots" as signals, it is possible to automatically make more bots and inject them into the system whenever the number of available bots falls below a certain value (say, 100...

TL;DR Make the "worker robot cargo size" research infinite to allow larger bases that rely on logistics robots. What ? The worker robot cargo size research could be made infinite, probably with exponential cost, like the worker robot speed research. Why ? The infinite robot speed research...

Just a small factory ... around 1.2 kspm (kilo science per minute, so over one rocket per minute plus all the other science) I decided to switch to bots for almost everything, including unloading trains, and ended up with around 60,000 bots. The sky over the railyard and smelting area gets a bit cro...

Re the 7x7 symbols: us ancient ones can remember when 8x8 bitmap fonts were considered "high resolution". The 8x8 grid needed to include spaces between the characters, and descender (letters like j, p and j that extend below the baseline). So of course a 7x7 grid is enough for any symbols ...

This might be the same bug. No mods are installed. I am on Linux 4.4.68

To reproduce the crash:

1 Load the save file S01.zip
2 Press T to bring up research
3 Click on laser (which is unavailable) see that it needs plastic
4 Click on plastic
5 Crash!

HanziQ wrote:Fixed

It is indeed. Wow!

I just downloaded 0.15.2 x64 Linux and logged in with my username and password and I get this popup: Update failed Download failed (status 500; Connection to the authorization server failed.) The log message is: Info Updater.cpp:743: Downloading https://updater.factorio.com/get-available-versions?us...

ssilk wrote:Well, it leaves out moments, when you die in multiplayer; for example. So I'm not for permanent increase.

We just reload from the last autosave whenever somebody dies in co-op multiplayer!

It is great that the power armor causes an increase in inventory size. However, when you switch from Mk1 to Mk2, your inventry size drops back to normal in between. Everything in the extra slots gets dropped: in my case this was all the cool stuff I had taken out of my power armor, some of which lan...

Initially Peaceful mode is just what the name suggests: you start in peaceful mode (aliens do not attack unless you attack them), but as soon as you attack an alien the mode switches to normal mode. Better have all your defences set up before you "declare war" on the aliens with an unprovo...

You can replace belts and assemblers by their upgraded versions, so it makes sense to do the same with power poles.

I never mine any resources by hand, apart from a few trees to power the first few miners and furnaces.

So a toggle which turns off hand mining (apart from trees) would be useful in map generation: something like "Allow hand mining".

Forest clearance: Construction bots are the fastest way to clear forests. You can even use the wood in your furnaces automatically. They will also pick up alien artifacts for you. I research bots as soon as possible: before upgrading the shotgun or armor or capsules. Construction bots placing laser ...

Did you consider using contstruction bots to speed the building process?

They take time to research and make, but then you can copy/paste your entire mining/smelting/circuit production setup in one go.

A totally different approach to, not eliminate but at least reduce the need for mining base expansion, is a slight change to the terrain generator. Currently it appears that there is a maximum size for resource deposits. If the maximum were rasied to a very large value, with a correspondingly small ...