Um. The various inventories already scroll? Presumably they continue to do so in future.

How about clicking on the recipe tag copies the recipe as if you copied the settings of a machine crafting that recipe?

Given UPS concerns, it would be marginally more efficient to manufacture the maximum tier, and just place that, rather than building increasing tiers of solar panels. Getting to megabase scale it may or may not be better to keep upgrading tiers, or just using vanilla solar until you've unlocked the ...

Apparently coal cracking --productivity-> solid fuel yields more energy than burning coal directly.

I'm reasonably sure there's a post where someone's shown the math, but I don't have a link at hand.

How about Recursive Blueprints + Bot Landfill? It's not quite 'just build this thing', but once setup it should require 0 attention for infinite power. There are also a number of mods that offer more dense nuclear power (in terms of W/entity). Notably Bob's power and Advanced Electric, for example. ...

I can see not wanting to remove complexity, as complexity is part of the fun; that said, (Edit:) for new players, I think it would be better to have explicit complexity; ie. complexity explained to the player in tooltips, rather than complexity that's discovered by "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do t...

How about seconds to craft in what you're selecting the recipe for?

As far as I am aware 0.17 will be released when it's ready enough; I don't believe that there's any particular date planned yet. I've not played around at all with the AI stuff in Factorio or elsewhere; I have neither the skill nor inclination to write such a mod. Also, in late game you generally us...

One part of what you want to achieve is easy (using the mathematical definition of trivial :) ), in the sense that @canidae has built Brave New World , which does a large part of what you're asking for; catching a player's commands, and queuing them to be performed (in the case of Brave New World, b...

From what little I know of player/character interaction, it could be feasible, though perhaps not straight forward. The brave new world mod does part of this; preventing a god controller (what a player controls if they're not controlling a character directly) from actually doing anything. Edit: it c...

As a test case, would it not work to either composite the base wall (shifted appropriately) to produce a visually taller wall, or perhaps edit the sprite sheet?

I presume your end goal is something like castle walls, rather than what could be a wall of sand bags on the front lines.

Given the building is compressed, and expanded on-site, perhaps animate the building expanding?

I think it would be useful to cache data.raw, given that it can take a significant amount of time to recalculate, especially for more complicated mods. It could work something like the following for each mod, checksum all of the .lua files (to account for requiring files) if the checksums match the ...

Have you compared the performance of compositing sprites on-the-fly in the GPU, as opposed to pre-compositing a stack of sprites (probably also using the GPU, but as part of loading the sprites) and storing the results in VRAM? In theory, for an electric-mining-drill pre-compositing could potentiall...

Updated to actually support ores other than uranium, with help from staviq. Also added support for palleting/boxing mods by creating the rubble items early, and hiding unused items in data-final-fixes.

Huh. I had assumed that curved rail would require { "straight-rail", "straight-rail", "straight-rail", "straight-rail", "straight-rail" }, but never checked to confirm.

I want to store some data associated with a logistics network (specifically ghosts within the build area of a logistics network), and I'm wondering if there's some sort of identifier that I can use. It appears that a LuaLogisticNetwork is derived on the fly upon request (or at least, a new Lua objec...

I never really got the point of 'research' in strategy games; the majority of the stuff you're researching (at least in a high-tech campaign) is stuff that you should be able to look up in an encyclopedia to find out how to do, rather than nominally figuring out how to do this entirely new ground-br...

A thought occurred to me about barrels vs fluid wagons vs pipes, and I couldn't find any other post that suggested it. What would it do to the barrel/fluid wagon/pipe balance if barrels were to be unloaded at closer to their real-world speed rather than at ludicrous speed ? A quick google search lea...

On the subject of the arrows in the inserter image; if you use a miniature map, rather than a static image, would it not be best to use inserters and the standard inserter arrows to indicate what the inserters allow you to do; it avoids needing a second graphic for an arrow, a different choice of co...