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Ok when i'm building i find it intensely irritating to get beeped at all the time because i'm half a pace from the limit to put things down on the ground.

Im lucky that i have 27" monitors and i dont play zoomed right in so it's all blocky i play further out which causes this problem.

Can you add an option for those of us who want to work further away from where we are stood so it easier for me to be zoomed to see a greater overview of what i'm doing and still be able to place an electric pole just near me without having to run over and put my toes next to it.

Hopefully their might already be an option, if not can we at least double the distance

Many thanks

This is planned for 0.13 (well, only the mod support, but I'm sure somebody will write a mod that does this then):
[Request] Variable to control manual action distance [Modding interface requests]

As long as it isn't implemented: https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... layer#zoom

ssilk wrote:As long as it isn't implemented:

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/c game.player.zoom = 0.1

https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... layer#zoom

I tryed this but that only gives me zoom which i have when i scroll the mouse

I want to be able to place and object much further away from where im standing when in a zoomed out state

[MOD 0.12.x] Long Reach [Mod Packs / Libs / Special Interest (0.12)]

obstinate wrote:If this mod is active, you can reach basically anything you can see in the viewport.

Ok thx that sounds good now i just need to learn how to use a mod

Ok i found the folder and chucked it in there but it fails a dependancy my game is not 12 think im 11.22 so i cant use it
Checked updates no updates to be done?

There have been some problems with the update from 0.11.x to 0.12.x, just go to https://www.factorio.com/download/experimental, download the experimental 0.12.20 and use that setup file to install it.

Ok found the experimentals and went for the latest one but it seems to be a incorrect file as it installed the demo?

Had to go back one to 12.19 i think to get the proper installer file

And its working now
Many thx that was exactly what i wanted