Thanks ! :>

The nighttime lighting looks STUNNING!!!! I am sooo excited for this, its been one of my most wanted features for ages and ages. The existing coloured lights have a "painted" appearance and don't seem like proper light sources, but the new lighting just completely solves this. I totally lo...

Awesome changes, I love the fast replace for the ghosts and the preservation of wire connections in blueprints - that really helps to make Power Switch worthwhile. Spidertron changes are great too - it really needs the logistics requests as there's no way to insert items into it with an inserter, un...

The trains limit is a really good, insightful idea. That solves the thundering herd problem which until now meant lategame base architecture needs to be designed around solving it. Hopefully this will mean more organic rail architectures are now possible in ultra late game.

I KNEW IT!!! Spidertron, wooo!!!!! Really looking forward to trying this creepy looking thing :> Seriously congrats on the 1.0 release guys. You are the best dev team in the world. I really believe that in the future, students of computer game development will study Factorio's development process in...

Kovarex this story was wonderful to read, thankyou for sharing :>

I absolutely love the changes to the blueprint library. Building blueprints from the map is amazing too!!

So cool.

Now that 1.0 is nearly here, there has never been a better time to rename "Biters" to "Bitters". Those foolish bitters may as well become official, right? :>

The new website looks simply awesome. I love it! Really looking forward to seeing the new trailer. The difference in quality between the very first trailer, and the more recent one with the train running over the bitters, is massive. I also loved that it did a good job of conveying the core of the g...

New website looks stunning!

I agree with your reduce-the-javascript bloat approach also.

I love this drill :>

Wow lots of news this week :> The new icons look awesome - wow, that must have been a ton of work. Ian, the new sound effects are really cool!! I'm so happy the "can't build that there" sound effect has been changed to something softer. The landfill sound effect is good too, I suspect it w...

I keep hoping for new, significant, impactful features, some random ideas: [ideas] These are all possible with mods. If you feel like you've exhausted the content the game has to offer, try adding some mods - they can completely change the experience. A lot of the things you mentioned are already a...

Shell casing looks great :> Unit collision group stuff is cool also. If I collect enough fish will I be able to unlock that water bitter? :D

What is the reason for storing/reading the data in that way, instead of storing a representation of the world with each tile a boolean either true or false, traversable or not traversable? A biter can have any size of collision box, and any collision mask, checking for tile collision isn't a simple...

I see, thanks for explaining that. :> So the 5% slowdown is because of the extra time needed to look at those adjacent tiles, to check whether this tile is therefore traversable or not. What is the reason for storing/reading the data in that way, instead of storing a representation of the world with...

I'm not sure I understand why 5% speed is being lost? My (perhaps wrong) understanding is like this: There exists a "map" of traversable tiles - the tiles where bitters can or cannot go - which the pathfinder consults when obtaining a path. When bitters pathfinding pays attention to these ...

I've been thinking about what would be the best "vegetation adding/removal rules" and I think I have a nice idea. As well as being removed during explosions, I think vegetation should also be removed automatically when concrete is placed. Concrete with vegetation on top makes for an "...

I don't understand why laying tiles doesn't remove vegetation, or why would I prefer having craters instead... Craters are temporary and disappear after a little while, leaving nothing but beautiful clean concrete. As for why laying tiles doesn't remove vegetation? Well, maybe it should.. But from ...

Being able to clear vegetation on paths is AMAZING!!
This is going to be a change we'll all rapidly wonder how we lived without.