Provide a way to make bots transparent
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2026 7:56 pm
For dense and late game bases, bots can become a hinderance to gameplay because they can literally hide everything else underneath them.
As a solution we are thinking of using this mod: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/transparent-robots
But it makes you choose a transparency value at the start of the game.
Its not ideal. I feel something like this should really be done at the Factorio level, where by simply clicking bot layer button should hide bots. Or maybe provide some option to choose transparency. I know the ux for all this doesn't fall into existing patterns in a straight forward way, but I feel something like this should really be implemented somehow by Factorio devs.
Hope this gets looked at.
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But it makes you choose a transparency value at the start of the game.
Its not ideal. I feel something like this should really be done at the Factorio level, where by simply clicking bot layer button should hide bots. Or maybe provide some option to choose transparency. I know the ux for all this doesn't fall into existing patterns in a straight forward way, but I feel something like this should really be implemented somehow by Factorio devs.
Hope this gets looked at.