Holy fuck, I bet no one expected this. You magnificent bastards.

Awesome changes. There is one thing I don't quite understand yet, and would love some clarification: Why must rails be constrained to grid at all? I'm asking because I'm curious what bad things would result if rail control points could be placed anywhere. By default they could be snapped to integer ...

The amount of "I AM NOT A SPEEDRUNNER BUT SPEEDRUNNERS WILL HATE THIS!" is just comical XD Also the amount of "we, the people"... Please, all, speak for yourself, don't project your opinions on others... I, for example, like those changes and have no say in what others will find ...

One thing I am worried about with the quality of items is how they behave in GUIs and item stacks. If I put a quality 5 (supreme?) cog in the assembler and want to add another cog of other quality 1 (subpar?) — are the qualities summed/averaged/combined somehow or is the slot "locked" and ...

Awesome! I liked the quality idea in the previous FFF, but now you even addressed the thing I was almost sure won't ever be addressed — the "raw" feeling of completing researches in bulk. The triggers have huge potential for other mods and they seem like very interesting addition! I imagin...

You can and investigate all of those locations first

Oh yes, this is one of the most tedious things for me right now. It would be good to support mouse button 4 and 5 to go back/forward between screens as well. If it could be implemented for other things like technology, a mod manager page, options, settings page, BLUEPRINT BOOK NAVIGATION(!), it woul...

This does look good, and is a clear improvement, although I'd love to see the kind of orthogonal tracing stuff you see on PCB layout software, where setting a corner sets the position of the previous corner, and locks that axis, then waiting for you to place the next corner before deciding this one...

The same mechanic could be used to draw pipes.

Btw if someone want's to use the code, it is MIT licensed so go ahead.

If the uninstall scripts/migrations were to be too much of a pain to add, then at least some API to add an opt-in notification on mod uninstall could be added. Any mod author could provide an appropriate message, and when the mod is uninstalled/disabled (in a mod manager or during save load?) a conf...

I know that the topic was moved to "won't implement" and it staled for 4 years, but I would like to maybe hear some new thoughts about it. My experiences so far that led me to looking for this topic: Recently I've tried installing BigBrother mod that upgrades radars. After a bit of playing...

Updated link: https://wiki.factorio.com/Tutorial:Script_interfaces

+1 because it would be useful to have a proper way of adjusting circuits network anywhere on the map.

I created a demo of this new "waypoint mode". All the info can be found there : https://t3st3ro.github.io/stuff/factorio-waypoints.html Quick controls descriptions for the demo: use CTRL+LMB first time to enter "waypoint placing mode", next use LMB to place a single strip of bel...

I might point you to mods that could solve your issues: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/bp100 https://mods.factorio.com/mod/blueprint-stages I think you can achieve "ordering" even in vanilla game - if you want order under siege, then you probably want separate blueprints for walls with turr...

Gonna say it right now: no to any removal of obstacle avoidance. The devs removed it once thinking that no one used it and a lot of us spoke up until they added it back. This is most helpful for pathing around cliffs before you have cliff explosives, but also for planning manual rail laying before ...

ambiguity: [SHIFT] for ghost planning and [CTRL] for planning with obstacle avoidance produce almost the same result. From personal experience, I've never used Ctrl for rail planning. Are there any differences between the two modes? I don't recall there being any differences conflicts: [SHIFT] duri...

Generally, rail planning is working well. Sometimes, however, the work doesn't go as smoothly as it could with the current implementations. Below, i'm gonna assume default controls with [CTRL] for an obstacle avoidance mode, so I'll call it a [CTRL] mode sometimes. Problems Controls for rail plannin...

I wrote myself a mod for that: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/barrel-stages

Imo this is an inconsistency/bug. I remember being confused when I was just starting factorio

This is not a bug. Rails are locked to the global grid in 2x2 pieces, any blueprints with rails have to be locked to the same 2x2 grid spacing to be valid. I think you may have missed the point. As you can see below, it's impossible to create a RELATIVE grid for the blueprint with a rail: https://i...