I came up with this research line when I was trying to clear a forest and was getting annoyed at how long it was taking and how none of the wood was useful. This line is supposed to make it so that wood is a resource that you want to mine too Lumber Jacking: Allows the burning of wood to produce cha...

FreeER wrote:Interesting, but why did you make a new topic/thread for this instead of including it in the old one?

I couldn't figure out how to be honest

I over looked a couple features in my last time travel post. First is the Day/Night cycle (thank you MF- for mentioning that :D). Since time is sped up or slowed down in these time fields there could be pockets of day during the night or pockets of night during the day, this just sounds like a backg...

No im not saying to convert the car into a delorian so you can go back in time. What im suggesting is a Temporal Time Annomally (TTA). It would be generated by a large device and would only work within a limited range around the device. This field would require massive ammounts of energy to create a...

Alright so far if you want to remove machines you just click on it to pick it up, i think it would be cooler if you required tools to remove it. Maybe they could be made like picks. Anyway if the wrong tool is used, or the random creeper attack occurs, the machine should explode causing damage to su...

how would one tell it which way to go? when would it know when you want to turn?

I don't like having to go around large bodies of water on my trains so it would be cool to add crank bridges. They'd be like draw bridges but could be activated by some sort of electric signal. They would have to have a limited range, so far I haven't seen any islands so the idea of isolating yourse...

The idea of this belt is that it is fed items through one end, then its settings can be edited to let certain items out in different directions. This interface would act like the smart inserter, there would be five item filters for each direction. Any unsorted items will go through the direction wit...

Since the regular planet is fairly plain why not add different sections of the planet? Such as a cold mountainous north region where you have to build heated drills to bore through the ice to get to the resources (I would imagine these drills would have lava pumped directly into it). Or maybe a volc...

So I went hunting for alien artifacts and died horribly at the hands of some rocket turrets. This was the first time I had died on free play (I had died before in story mode and had to restart the level which seemed reasonable) but on free play I had to restart from my last save which was an hour be...

I think we need more way of killing creepers and so I suggest the Tesla tower: a small building the same size as a regular tower that will stun enemies that pass near it, but since its attack is an aoe attack it requires a cool down after usage. The creepers it attacks wont be stunned like most elec...

This is an idea that i came up with when i spawned with a bunch of nearby lakes. A turret that shoots steam to burn enemies,it would create a splash affect hurting multiple enemies and even the player and the burns would slow down enemies(have you ever been burned?) It would require a pump and a few...

In the research tree there are logistics robot upgrades for speed and cargo but they are automatically applied to the existing robots. There may be more flexibility if there were different robots sort of like how there are different inserters. Say you want certain materials to get places faster than...

This is more of a joke than a serious suggestion but seeing as fish are technically the only health item for now why not have schools of fish that spawn like ores? Then have a building that you can build over top of them "mining" them 1 every 60 seconds providing you with a nice supply of ...

With more options for electric power in the works i hope to see some way of controling the flow of the currents like a fuse box of some kind that can be turned on and off redirecting power to different sectors. Maybe too much power can overload a machine or worse an entire black out? Just a suggesti...

Seeing as how there are so many creepers that attack at once maybe add a forcefield? It could have a health of 100 and its purpose would be to let the player prepare for the attack (most attacks are untelegraphed- maybe have the radar warn of "approaching entities"?) after creepers get thr...

traveling between point A and point B can take a long time and cars and trains take lots of resources, so why not make teleporters? They would have to use a LOT of energy (maybe when the batteries are implemented they drain them dry) that way you can have mining operations set up far away sending su...

yeah the title screen feels pretty empty, some wallpaper and a custom cursor would be nice additions

while talking about return points, could it be made that they can be assigned to certain assemblers or requester chests?

Cars also make great bulldozers that easily plow over aliens and their bases