Today we've got a very fun project to talk about: The FUE5 project, explained in this article by *Hurricane*. It's Factorio, but *3D*! Dreams do come true sometimes. It's not quite a game, but more of a stunning re-imagining of its visuals. There's lots of technical details on how this was achieved,...

New year, same old Alt-F4! Issue #64 is not just satisfying for lovers of the binary format, but hopefully for everyone else as well. First-time contributor OceanPhantom is here to share the exciting recent developments in the space of automating the train network even further via the use of modific...

After a somewhat lengthy pause, Alt-F4 returns with an issue reminiscent of the good ol' FFF: A dev blog! Only here, it's not about the game itself, but a very unique and slightly crazy mod. Credne brought Dana into this world, and it took quite a bit of doing to get there. Lots of technical detail ...

This week's issue #62 is an exciting one, as first-time contributor Laurence makes their debut by tackling a question that a lot of you probably asked yourselves at some point: What's the difference between some of these big modpacks again? And why might I enjoy one over the other? Laurence played t...

For this week's issue of Alt-F4, we return to the roots of being a spiritual successor to the FFF by going deep on a technical topic. To that end, redruin1 presents his newest invention: Factorio Draftsman. Sure, there have been other projects trying to build a library for generating blueprints for ...

On the diamond anniversary of Alt-F4, local madman Sir Fendi returns once again with a deep dive into Factorio’s thermodynamics. Or, said another way, he wants to find out how you can get the most out of your coal by further processing it into different fuels. Isn’t that nice of him? Modules are nat...

A couple of weeks after the chaos that was r/place, resident historian *stringweasel* took it upon himself to go through the chronology of how the Factorio community tried to leave its mark on the canvas. Battles were fought, alliances were forged, and a lot of fun was had! If the article reminded y...

For no special reason, on this particular Friday, *Sir Fendi* took it upon himself to highlight up a few humorous mods that might not be useful, but sure are fun. We'll will start with mods that only change visuals or audio to add some unique flavors to your eningeering experiences. Afterwards, we'l...

Another week, another Alt-F4 …? I guess we’ve been away for a while. It’s totally because we didn’t want to steal the spotlight from the FFF, which returned this year! Either way, let’s stop distracting from the great piece we do have this week: First-time contributor Sir Fendi wrote a very detailed...

For the last Alt-F4 of the year, on the very last day of the year, we wanted to take a look back at *ye olden* days of Factorio. Back when it was still a diamond in the rough, with definite potential, but concrete issues and annoyances as well. We hit up various people in the community and got their...

For issue #55 of Alt-F4, stringweasel prepared a very special treat for everyone, getting various modders to talk about the deepest, dankest hacks they’ve come up with to make their mods work. We’ve got MagmaMcFry, raiguard, Deadlock989, Anachrony, PFQNiet, and Earendel all confessing their sins! Co...

For the first issue in the last month of the year, first-time contributor GreenFlag presents their first big modding project that aims to add a proper RTS-style campaign to the game, in the spirit of the game’s tutorial levels. It’s pretty involved, and a lot of fun! Continue reading: https://alt-f4...

For the very prime real estate of issue #53 of Alt-F4, grandmaster *Therenas* himself returns to grace us with another article. Following up his previous masterpieces that mostly talk about his own mods, here's more words about exactly those things. Those words explore the topic of automatically tak...

For issue #52, stringweasel returns with part two of the Fluidic Power Experiment where he dives into the rather surprising performance implications of his creation. If you liked last week’s article, you’ll like the second part this week. What a surprise! Continue reading: https://alt-f4.blog/ALTF4-...

For issue #51 of Alt-F4, long-time contributor and editor extraordinaire stringweasel delights us with a deep dive into the history of mods trying to make Factorio power network management more realistic. All of them have their own issues and trade-offs, which is why he then introduces his own take ...

This week is the golden anniversary of Alt-F4, it being issue #50 and all. No special festivities though, feels like we are doing that often enough. Instead, garr890354839 makes their first contribution by talking about some of the weirdnesses and some of the math surrounding rocket silos. Then, eve...

After an involuntary two-week break (please join our Discord to contribute your amazing article *hint hint nod nod*), Alt-F4 is back with issue #49! There's two returns in one week actually, as *Dysoch* returns to talk about Dyworld once again, this time about the release party and all the fun leadi...

After a long while, an ancient contributor by the name of Lovely_Santa is back in his writing pen! We’ve last heard from our hero all the way back in Issue #2 where he was experimenting with the modding abilities of the new (at the time) spidertron. This time, he actually stays on the topic of Angel...

After a three-week hiatus, Alt-F4 is back, more motivated than ever! We start off with a bang as *ilbJanissary* goes into depth about how the calculation engine behind [FactorioLab](https://factoriolab.github.io) does its magic. It might seem complicated at the surface, but the process is broken dow...

Oh man. It really has been a year since I started this project. Can’t quite believe it’s already been a year, while also not quite believing the project carried on for a whole year. In the beginning, it was just a silly idea that I wanted to try out and see where it would go, not really expecting it...