TL;DR Add 7-zip archiver support to game engine What ? 7-zip is a popular free archiver with a stronger compression ratio than ZIP. Add its support to the game, along with ZIP, for mods, save files and anything else that uses ZIP packaging. Why ? Using 7-zip will save storage space on servers / loc...

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and bring back the ability to place map tags on an unexplored map

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eradicator wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 01, 2021 6:55 pm

FactorioBot wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 01, 2021 4:16 pm

LuaEntityPrototype::resource_categories now supports characters.

What, mining drills can mine people now?

Not people, but worms and biters

It is almost as if the font is rendered with different settings, especially "weak" vs "strong" hinting, or as if there is unintended font replacement happening in the background. There is definitely some OS-specific thing going on here. This change does not happen on my Linux sy...

* Choose another font... Ok, I would choose Zapf dingbats. :mrgreen: Ok, Zapf dingbats is your choice, but if you can play with it, you're true genius :D Here is some fonts (with Russian sample phrase), including Lato (1.1.37) and Lilittium (1.1.38). As you can see, the new font has fuzzy outlines ...

After update to v1.1.38 main font changed to Lilittium, and many people didn't like the new font, especially Cyrillic version. It has become smaller, the smoothing is worse, the eyes get tired faster. Well, then as developer I would fix THAT instead of introducing new problems (text not matching in...

TL;DR Add font selection option in the interface options. What ? On different computers, different screens, different operating systems, the fonts used in the game look different. Add the ability to customize the font (name, size, scale) in the interface settings, and, possibly, select a font from ...

What about adding 2 (or more) fonts to the interface options?
Or ability to choose font from OS fonts?
And size of font?

Upd:
There are several fonts included in Core/Fonts folder, and font selection order in Locale/XX/info.json file.
Maybe add option to adjust that font styles order?

From what I understand, this change was triggered by this discussion over at crowdin: https://crowdin.com/project/factorio/discussions/195 I believe the actual font "Titillium" that Factorio shipped with previously had no support for cyrillic whatsoever, so the "old" font that y...

This new cyrillic font... It has become smaller and bolder, the readability has deteriorated. :( Hello, We took quite some care in comparing before and after, making sure that the new font was as good if not better than before, considering all the different label styles, sizes, and colors. Can you ...

This new cyrillic font... It has become smaller and bolder, the readability has deteriorated.

Other idea about server: Maybe add feature when start hosting game from main menu, add button "Start dedicated server" with selected options in GUI? Why? In the graphical interface, it is convenient to configure the server startup parameters and then start it with one button. It would als...

Other idea about server:
Maybe add feature when start hosting game from main menu, add button "Start dedicated server" with selected options in GUI?

TL;DR Show changelog frow newest to oldest changes in in-game changelog viewer. What ? In the changelog files and on the mod portal, lists of changes are shown from new to old (generally accepted standard). Make it sorted from new to old when viewing changes in the game, for more convenience and ov...

Landfill icon with grass, but when you place landfill, it is without grass
Maybe need to wait some time for grass grow?

Mod name/title length limit inspired by this?
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Rohlinhea ... e-atnsasri

You are right.
Merge my post with this.

Hello. One of my mods ( https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Warptorio2_Language_Pack ) had a sudden increase in download count after a recent update. The number of downloads is increasing for all versions of the mod, both new and old, starting with the very first one. It is unlikely that this is actually ...

There is localization mod for Industrial Revolution 2 on mod portal:
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Industria ... guage_Pack

Everyone invited to translating