Distributable Blueprints

[rlerner]

It would be awesome if I could render a blueprint of something (for example, my recent posts here & here) -- and then it is in a %appdata%/factorio/blueprints folder.

I could then take the file I exported and use it in other save games, or share it on the factorio forums for other people to use. Some sort of "blueprints" menu that shows a screenshot of it, a title, and maybe a by-line?

Would make sharing contraptions easier than sharing an entire save game, and would make implementing them in existing factories (or using prototypes I developed previously) much faster.

[ssilk]

They said to make so, but not in this release.

[Spider]

I hope -once the game is on steam- that we can share missions/blueprints/etc via the Steam Workshop someday!