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Hello everyone!!! I am new to Factorio.

I love the addition of Factoriopedia, but it would be nice if the game would pause while consulting it.

Thanks!

Same here. It would be glorious it it was an option in the Interface settings for single-player games.

You can hit the Pause key on your keyboard to pause the game, you can still interact with the Factoriopedia while paused.
Not sure automatic pause *sholud* be the default. I like my science to continue in the background while I'm doing some research.

valneq wrote: ↑Tue Oct 22, 2024 11:03 pm You can hit the Pause key on your keyboard to pause the game, you can still interact with the Factoriopedia while paused.
Not sure automatic pause *sholud* be the default. I like my science to continue in the background while I'm doing some research.

Wow. That works. Thank you.

It would be nice (but maybe waaaay too hard to implement ?) to be able to hit pause first, and still be able to Alt-click on items (or click on the Factoriopedia icon).

BTW, it's not strictly true, if you hit Pause when browsing Factoriopedia from alt-clicking an item in your inventory, it first closes all windows before pausing. Inheritance issues ? Not closing windows while pausing would be nice too ?

Also, pause is kind of hidden, maybe add a button on the top right, now that it uses multiple rows anyway..?

P.S.: Maybe the "pause while in tech tree" setting should be instead "pause while (some?) windows open" setting ?

I just wanted to say that I would really love this change or option as well for Factoriopedia to pause the game. It actually seems a little inconsistent as it is right now since both the tips and tricks as well as the research screen currently pause the game when you open them. All of these things could require a bit of study and they each cover most of your screen, so it gives a bit of peace to me and maybe other players to know that evolution isn't ticking up or pollution spreading while they are trying to learn the game.

I've been going into the tech tree view (press T), that pauses and then you can access factoriopedia by alt-clicking on any of the science packs or items in the upper left.