Very nice. You could generate, say, 4-6 of these randomly, and then use the belt variants feature for disordered stacking on belts. I was going to use it to visually pick a single icon that looked the best for in-game icons I wanted to stack. I had not thought about belt variants like used for ores.

The plastic bars in the 4th row column 3 and 5 look the same to me. Is there one configuration missing while you have one twice? Its just the order of the back two icon are different. Its hard to tell the difference with most icons as they are soild. However with rails you can see the overlaps are ...

Can you PM me some sample python code on how you would merge a factorio stock icon image 3x times with a slight shift ? Thanks for the code example, sorry it took me a while to investigate further. I worked out there were 44 combinations that 3 icons could be placed. Different in-game icons look be...

Within the config.ini there is a new option added since 0.18 (this is an experimental option) that will help with start up times when using lots of mods. cache-prototype-data=true The second time you start your game after using this flag your startup time should reduce quite a bit. I went from 80 se...

There is another mod I use "train-scaling" to clone trains and their schedules.

I have made a post for the mod to see if cloning the equipment grid would be possible.
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/train-sca ... 000b4d00b1

This coud be related to my post .. viewtopic.php?f=7&t=80985

The ".working" property that sets the animation for the bots while busy appears to have been removed.

Something changed for "Construction Robot" in 0.18.4 and the "working" property for RotatedAnimation has been removed. I am told the WIKI is a little out of date, but in the 0.18.4 release notes there was no mention of this property being removed. https://wiki.factorio.com/Protot...

Yup 0.18.3 looks to be a good fix for deadlock loaders .. my modified version and test save now work as expected.

For an empty world I like this mod

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/lab-floor

Or you can go into `/editor` and in the surfaces tab and make similar changes there.

posila in 0.18.2 has attempted to fix the migration of "loader" to "loader-1x1" so that the correct direction and roation is kept. https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?p=476023 But I am getting some weird behaviour with the belts -- the red box shows the belts on the output ...

I have been working on deadlock loaders to get them to work, 0.18.2 appears to fix the direction of the loaders, but getting some oddness still Screenshot_1.png -- the red box shows the belts on the output not joining to their next section correctly -- the green box shows the loaders are not putting...

A few of us have been looking, but we found that the direction/rotation of the loaders gets messed up when loading a save from a 0.17 to 0.18.

I have started to look at a migration script to auto-correct the "direction/rotation".

This appears to be fixed in 0.18

That was an in-game bug with "0.17" .. reported here viewtopic.php?f=182&t=79927

Within 0.18 this has been fixed and the research speed has been correctly displayed in the hover tool tips.

See examples

Personally I have never had any issues with my QNAP devices, and I have been using them for 5+ years. One is in the garage as a backup target, the main one is in my office and I have it hosting a couple of virtual servers. I wonder what grade of hard disks they were using, from what has been said in...

I was playing about with a mod to add some mk2/3 labs which would increase module slot and researching_speed per tier. When I had a look in game the tooltips did not show the "researching_speed" effect, all I could see was the ingame bonus from research. If I look at the item in my invento...

Not near factorio to test this currently, but this code snippet should work in the "data-final-fixes.lua" file. local resistances = {"fire", "physical", "explosion", "acid", "impact", "laser"} for _, bot in pairs(data.raw["co...

Have you looked at .. https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Repair_Turret .. to support repairing your walls ? You could also take a copy of .. https://mods.factorio.com/mod/fireproof-bots .. and edit the resistances in the file "data-final-fixes.lua" If you want to stick with robots, look at the ...

Have you tried using "Factorio Extended Plus" ?

You can find all the primary mods under https://mods.factorio.com/user/jimmyjon711

My tentative plan for when we get the high res base game icons is to set up some kind of automated way to generate stacked images from a base image, which if that worked out I'd provide to mod developers who want a quick path to make stacked icons without fiddling pixel-by-pixel in an image editor ...