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... drove around with explosion motors. Yes, for really big machines explosion motors are still important. For such really big machines (like in ships) you can use other techniques like blowing in carbon or cleaning the exhaust much, much better. For the current individual traffic this isn't ...

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... would add a lot of possible depth (pun intended) to the mechanic of water. For example how much landfill it takes to fill the area. And assuming ships are ever planned for the future, features like a pond, a lake, and an ocean all having different depths could add some of the necessary backbone ...

... capacity. No system in Factorio is "one size fits all"-"place and forget" (well except solar power). Sidenote: One 2L-6C-2L ships 24k plates at once. Shipments like that can keep 1rocket/0.5min bases running without problem. We need to estimate, how much trains can be handled ...

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Agreed, otherwise, we'll have to live with quitting the map and re-generating it, which is also fine. But some kind of fix, either a water or aircraft (at least one) somewhere in the game would solve the huge problem (for me at least) when I start on an island. I mean that would be cool because now ...

... Spawner: Color: Green. Only appears in shore area nests along coast. Low frequency. Alien: Partially submerged unit. Latches onto buildings and ships. Deals electric damage.

... all the changes since the last autosave. However, not only players should be able to travel between worlds. Trains, and if they will ever exist, ships can travel between worlds. This allows the players to set up different factories on different worlds and transport goods between them. This is ...

See also this thread, it includes much more ideas around that: viewtopic.php?f=80&t=14024 Travel over Water: Boats, Ships, Canus / Bridges / Tunnels

... or something) and set up an off-world factory, have space barges to transport resources to and from space, with perhaps a new structure to build ships. Could include new resources and new technology, such as next tier processing units to be used in zero gravity(and streamline resource production ...

... all the saves are within that game. On the disk, the game is a folder, and the saves are files within. Bonus : In KSP, there are subfolders for ships and subassemblies, I'd see "blueprints" in Factorio. Every single blueprint could be saved that way in its own file within the game ...

... There are a lot of ideas around the subject. From fishing to algae farm, from bad enemies to bridges, water depletion to swamps. Ships to harbors. And many more. Related Lists https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=262 Water as limited ressource https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=3756 ...

Before would have ports we need boats.

So logically I put it into viewtopic.php?f=80&t=14024&p=128695#p128695 Travel over Water: Boats, Ships, Canus / Bridges / Tunnels

Yes, boats are discussed in the links from this list:
viewtopic.php?f=80&t=14024 Travel over Water: Boats, Ships, Canus / Bridges / Tunnels

My thought is this: The idea is interesting and space ships are cool but that's a completely different game than it's now (while surely within the variability range of the game). And it's equally unlikely that it'd get done within mod suggestions (anything that is not *.lua is really a bottleneck).

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See also viewtopic.php?f=80&t=139 Enemy Variations / Enemy Variety / New Enemies / Boss
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Getting stuck is a pain true, and simple terraforming or bridges would solve that. Id love proper ships though so can have map gen modes that create islands and larger continents. After a while you would use up the resources on your starting island, and need to invest in ...