I always wanted to try out the map editor and thought I could do that and at the same time try this experiment.

So I set up this map:

Complete map:
http://i.imgur.com/gnzw2X9.png

One of the four outposts:
http://i.imgur.com/JodcQPl.png

This map is exactly 256x256 tiles (8x8 chunks) big. In ...

I must be one of the very few players of Factorio who doesn't like Minecraft. And yes, I watched a lot of different Minecraft videos on Youtube and tried the singleplayer myself (just in case it wasn't that bad), but i almost use the word "hate" when talking about Minecraft.

I was introduced to ...

I don't know whether this is a bug or intended behaviour, but when I try to generate a map with even height or width (10, 20, 50, ...) it always gets rounded up to the next odd number. Forum search didn't yield any results.

Trying to generate a map with a height of 6 tiles results in a map 7 tiles ...