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Before 2.0.x Space Age: player could craft indefinite amount of pistols.

After: nope, nein, nada, нет, няма. Player is like Jack Sparrow (Captain Jack Sparrow!) - but instead of Last Bullet it's Last Pistol.
No known tech to unlock, no known recipe either. Rocket Capacity of 10 000 (ten thousands) on top of that looks like a joke.

Bug or feature?
Should pistols be brought back?

Player never had an option to craft a pistol.
Player just got one on game start or respawn and this didn't change.
Why should anyone want a second pistol?

The wiki has a page for Pistol and it has a recipe. The current game version is inconsistent with the wiki, and prior game versions. This is a bug and should be moved there.

woodmaker wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2024 4:44 pm Player never had an option to craft a pistol.
Player just got one on game start or respawn and this didn't change.
Why should anyone want a second pistol?

of course you could craft pistol before 2.0

thus I agree no need to be able to craft it if you ask me remove it from the game entirely. Or make it have more damage than submachine gun or more range, cause the gun is just useless in the game.

BraveCaperCat wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2024 5:01 pm The wiki has a page for Pistol and it has a recipe. The current game version is inconsistent with the wiki, and prior game versions. This is a bug and should be moved there.

The wiki is still in the process of getting updated. I fixed the wiki page by removing the recipe. The change to hide the recipe is intentional.

woodmaker wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2024 4:44 pmPlayer never had an option to craft a pistol.

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-375 sez:

Not only it solves one of the biggest problems in Factorio of how to get rid of all the pistols Trupen made.

Now, since over the cource of the year the decision could be made to get rid of these in a more radical manner, I didn't posted this theme in Bugs but in Suggestions&Feedback instead.
Dying and respawning 10 000 times just to launch 1 meme rocket is a bit of an overkill though...
(and having a Legendary sidearm in one's pants is never a bad thing)

Recycling the pistol with the new recycle thing (I didn't get it yet and I didn't spoil me much) making infinite resource by dying, one pistol at the time, running a factory only using pistol as resource. New challenge unlocked.

I've fixed this using a mod. Here it is.

Bilka wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2024 7:01 pm

BraveCaperCat wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2024 5:01 pm The wiki has a page for Pistol and it has a recipe. The current game version is inconsistent with the wiki, and prior game versions. This is a bug and should be moved there.

The wiki is still in the process of getting updated. I fixed the wiki page by removing the recipe. The change to hide the recipe is intentional.

In the recycler FFF you mentioned recycling Trupen's pistols. Please unlock the pistol recipe with the recycler.

computeraddict wrote: Wed Oct 23, 2024 5:01 pm In the recycler FFF you mentioned recycling Trupen's pistols. Please unlock the pistol recipe with the recycler.

That was talking about the pistols you get when you respawn. (and how you're able to pick up the pistols from your dead body)
Either that or they were using that mod which randomizes all the recipes. Actually, probably this.

Stargateur wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2024 8:02 pm Recycling the pistol with the new recycle thing (I didn't get it yet and I didn't spoil me much) making infinite resource by dying, one pistol at the time, running a factory only using pistol as resource. New challenge unlocked.

And I'm adding that as a mod too. Though, since you're only able to gather Copper Plates and Iron Plates from Recyclers using Pistols - you'll need to be able to use other weapons as well.

BraveCaperCat wrote: Fri Oct 25, 2024 11:47 am That was talking about the pistols you get when you respawn. (and how you're able to pick up the pistols from your dead body)
Either that or they were using that mod which randomizes all the recipes. Actually, probably this.

Nope. Pistols before 2.x were craftable, and Trupen had a habit of automating their production for lulz. Even in multiplayer.

computeraddict wrote: Fri Oct 25, 2024 12:20 pm

BraveCaperCat wrote: Fri Oct 25, 2024 11:47 am That was talking about the pistols you get when you respawn. (and how you're able to pick up the pistols from your dead body)
Either that or they were using that mod which randomizes all the recipes. Actually, probably this.

Nope. Pistols before 2.x were craftable, and Trupen had a habit of automating their production for lulz. Even in multiplayer.

Great!

Yes, i did rename the subject of this post JUST for this:

computeraddict wrote: Fri Oct 25, 2024 12:20 pmlulz.

BraveCaperCat wrote: Fri Oct 25, 2024 12:31 pm Now you're going off topic.

Huh? This is direct from the quality FFF:

Not only it solves one of the biggest problems in Factorio of how to get rid of all the pistols Trupen made.

He's got multiple vids on his YT with automated pistol production. It was a thing.

BraveCaperCat wrote: Fri Oct 25, 2024 11:47 am

computeraddict wrote: Wed Oct 23, 2024 5:01 pm In the recycler FFF you mentioned recycling Trupen's pistols. Please unlock the pistol recipe with the recycler.

That was talking about the pistols you get when you respawn. (and how you're able to pick up the pistols from your dead body)
Either that or they were using that mod which randomizes all the recipes. Actually, probably this.

EustaceCS wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2024 7:49 pmhttps://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-375 sez:

Not only it solves one of the biggest problems in Factorio of how to get rid of all the pistols Trupen made.

mmmkay...

EustaceCS wrote: Fri Oct 25, 2024 1:26 pm

BraveCaperCat wrote: Fri Oct 25, 2024 11:47 am

computeraddict wrote: Wed Oct 23, 2024 5:01 pm In the recycler FFF you mentioned recycling Trupen's pistols. Please unlock the pistol recipe with the recycler.

That was talking about the pistols you get when you respawn. (and how you're able to pick up the pistols from your dead body)
Either that or they were using that mod which randomizes all the recipes. Actually, probably this.

EustaceCS wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2024 7:49 pmhttps://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-375 sez:

Not only it solves one of the biggest problems in Factorio of how to get rid of all the pistols Trupen made.

mmmkay...

https://youtu.be/zkkvNQeVm_M?si=aUkjfHPrRCFY5ciz

computeraddict wrote: Fri Oct 25, 2024 2:08 pm

EustaceCS wrote: Fri Oct 25, 2024 1:26 pm mmmkay...

https://youtu.be/zkkvNQeVm_M?si=aUkjfHPrRCFY5ciz

https://youtu.be/asDlYjJqzWE
Now if we could return to more traditional means of information gathering, processing and communicating...

EustaceCS wrote: Fri Oct 25, 2024 2:29 pm https://youtu.be/asDlYjJqzWE
Now if we could return to more traditional means of information gathering, processing and communicating...

EustaceCS wrote: Fri Oct 25, 2024 1:26 pm mmmkay...

?

EustaceCS wrote: Fri Oct 25, 2024 1:26 pm

BraveCaperCat wrote: Fri Oct 25, 2024 11:47 am

computeraddict wrote: Wed Oct 23, 2024 5:01 pm In the recycler FFF you mentioned recycling Trupen's pistols. Please unlock the pistol recipe with the recycler.

That was talking about the pistols you get when you respawn. (and how you're able to pick up the pistols from your dead body)
Either that or they were using that mod which randomizes all the recipes. Actually, probably this.

EustaceCS wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2024 7:49 pmhttps://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-375 sez:

Not only it solves one of the biggest problems in Factorio of how to get rid of all the pistols Trupen made.

mmmkay...

recycler FFF, respawn and made. Is there some pattern I'm (deliberately) not getting?