For performance reasons, Factorio only checks a limited number of ghosts per tick. I'm going to bet that it's supposed to be 600 ghosts, but there's a fencepost error.

Do you see the same behavior if you copy and paste 800 blue belts?

I'd love to implement that so people can't mine construction robots out of the air. I just need to get buy-in from the other devs. For what it's worth, I typically play with a mod that adds this rule. (among other things) Lol fair enough. As a counterpoint I'd like to point out that personal robopo...

Note that the option to handcraft the recipes is not enabled by default; you'll have to turn that on in order to get the requested handcrafting.

This seems like something that should exist as a mod, but I can't find one right now.

For a completely different solution to this problem, try Recycling Machines or Reverse Factory; these will allow you to turn things back into their ingredients.

Don't complain about this too loudly; the devs might fix it by making it impossible to mine construction bots.
Until/unless this gets fixed, I'd recommend undoing first and mining the robots second.

Also, what are you trying to undo in this situation?

This is a duplicate of viewtopic.php?f=182&t=68768

You need to provide more accumulators, provide more power in general, or use fewer laser turrets. The laser turrets have highest priority, and are consuming all the power they need. The remainder of the factory shares whatever's left over, which, even with the accumulators discharging, is not enough...

You seem to be saying "Logistics 2 is prereq for building a rail network, and the rail network doesn't require bronze, so I want to be able to research it without knowing how to make bronze plate, even though all three of the recipes it unlocks require bronze plate." Even ignoring the conf...

Vanilla, Bob, and AngelBob all agree that Railway depends on Logistics 2 and Engine. Now, it happens that Logistics 2 depends on Bronze in Bob and AngelBob, but I don't think "Rails can be built without bronze" is a good justification for breaking the Logistics 2->Railway link. Rails can a...

Can you attach a screenshot and saved game, please?

Every sprite in the entire game is available for use, as-is or edited, in mods: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?p=49122#p49122 As I read the TOS (I am not a lawyer) the same applies to sounds. If you're worried about the hassle of creating animation, what are the chances that the devs will...

This is a duplicate of one or both of https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=67932 and https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=69242 I don't, however, have a good answer for "What is the 'Robots inactive' wait condition good for" question. It seems like it only a...

Fixed the game would not respect remapping of modifier keys (Ctrl, Shift, Alt) in operating system It's not fixed. Control-C shoots, Control-X toggles the toolbar, 0.17.32 does not respect remapping of modifier keys. Are you pressing the physical CTRL key, or the one that you remapped to CTRL in th...

Duplicate of viewtopic.php?f=7&t=68544

Picker Tweaks will do that for you. (Along with several other things you can choose to disable.)

Does https://mods.factorio.com/mod/color-coding do what you want?

It might also be relatively easy to change https://mods.factorio.com/mods/Klonan/E ... olor_Lamps to support 0.17, or you can ask the mod author if an update is planned.

There's something that looks odd between about 2:00 and 2:45 in that video. Is that where the coffee break happens?

If so, please post a save from just before the robots go on break, or at least post a video showing the robots that are on break.

You have almost exactly listed the features of a mod called Multi-Product Recipe Details.

@enchant Are you sure your other game is making processing units with an "Electronics assembly machine 1"? Or is it an "Assembly machine 2", an "Assembly machine 4", or an "Electronics assembly machine 2"? What mods other than Bob's Assembling Machines are yo...

I can repro it in 0.17 vanilla. I've attached a save game. Both assemblers have 100 iron plate. Turn on the switch. The speed boosted assembler will produce up to 70.1 gears, while the productivity-only assembler will produce far closer to 70. For extra fun and games, the over-production of the spee...