I didn't read until May so I didn't even think to check the date on the post. Only realized it was a joke when I clicked the shortlink at the end and recognized the destination URL (I never click through bit.ly links for this and many other reasons. I saw YouTube and got suspicious, then I saw the f...

okay I know this FFF is a few months old, but I've been taking a hiatus from the game so bear with me (besides, it's not as though there is another FFF thread that will get bumped if I reply here while the blog itself is on hold) and furthermore, someone literally replied while I was composing this...

Alert arrows Yay! (about freaking time, TBH. I'm really tired of hearing "structure under attack" alerts, but by the time I figure out where the heck it was, the icon has nearly faded) Belt building in line Yay! One less thing inconveniencing me due to my disability and accessibility conc...

I like it, does this mean you can now build a wall of rails to prevent a spidertron from going somewhere? Spideyboi can still step between the rails: Also when all those rails are curved? I don't know what kind of intersections you will be making but I think it will be okay https://forums.factorio....

Well the solution we missed is so obvious. The connections inside the blueprint are strictly following the original, while the connections to the entities already existing on the map are being automatically created as before. So you should be able to use blueprints as before even if you don't care ...

do you have a tip for wiring up things like transport belts that you wouldn't necessarily think could be connected to a circuit network (speaking of which, I think the tag "wireable" should be included in the tooltips of applicable items. On more than one occasion I've tried to wire someth...

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In case you don't know, the forum has a similar thread: Simple Questions and Short Answers …

oh, good to know!

edit: sorry for the over-a-month bump. I usually check the discord WAY more often than I visit the forum... oh well!

as an aspiring game developer, moments like these fill me with pride and drive my personal ambitions. To see a game eight years in the making reach a point where it's developers can say with confidence "It is finished"[*] is inspiring to me. congratulations Kovarex and everyone else at Wub...

The second problem is that blueprints are often designed to work in a grid, but there is no way to enforce it. Either you have to build slowly and cautiously, or you misclick often. And with the new feature of building in map, the problem was just elevated. This is what the second checkbox is for, ...

Thanks for sharing this story! Now I ponder letting my 4 yr olds play some Factorio as well maybe... :mrgreen: Here are some other games they enjoy: - Putt-putt series from the 90s in the SCRUM adventure style of Maniac Mansion or Monkey Island, and with lots funny interactive elements and child-fr...

This isn't going to happen. It simply doesn't work as anyone imagines it would. If a blueprint saved the connections when it was created when you built it, it would literally never connect to your existing network(s) because it was not connected to any of them when it was created. The idea is that ...

I wonder if the slow effect bubbles wouldn't look much better if they got an offset of a few pixels up. Now it looks like flying ball under biters legs. If it was on the main torso it could look much better in my opinion. but it's the biter's legs that are being slowed down/made "sticky"?...

Oh, didn't realize that. My bad!

(although to be fair, it's not exactly the most obvious thing. I'm just sorry I made a thread instead of finding out about this via the #quick-questions channel on discord)

since the idea of the copy & paste tools is to avoid having to make temporary blueprints, I find it strange I still have to do so when I want to copy some tiles that are under whatever else I'm copying. It doesn't happen often, but when it happens (most often when I'm deploying train tracks near...

any chance someone will stream the celebration for those of us living a whole continent away? (Hello from Pennsylvania, US by the way!)

I am a bit sad that the whole development ride is coming to an end. 1.0 is right around the corner! I hate to think "ah man, that's the last FFF." I know right? Of course, they could always continue the tradition, but find other things to talk about that have happened recently related to ...

[...]and we even use Electronic Circuits to build it ;) yes that particular detail is peculiar isn't it? While I don't particularly care about microscopic balance issues, or at least not ones that have no easy solution short of making basic power generation WAY more complicated (for starters, we'd ...

the Hi-Rez pump looks SO much nicer than the existing graphic (no offense to whoever made the current one...), especially factoring in the point you made about how the one side can overlap land in small enough bodies of water. Looking forward to the update!

Aw, no escape pod anymore? I was really looking forward to being able to obtain space science parks (thus enabling work on infinite technologies) without winning the game. Why? Because I want to keep my achievements as impeccably funny as they are currently. As it stands, I have "So long and th...

a scorpion species named after the game? Interesting. I'd like to think that makes all of the scorpions of that species just a bit better than the rest. I'm looking forward to seeing how these changes to the fluid system pan out. It seems like it might complicate things a bit by telling the player &...