On the production graphs, it would be nice if there was an easy way to see the aggregate of production+consumption, so you can quickly tell if something is trending downward (negative numbers) or upward (positive numbers). For example in the platform picture, the bullets being in different positions...

If the game engine uses 2 different memory pools for data that's "read-only" and data that changes every tick, then the amount of memory duplicated in copy-on-write can be minimized to less than "doubling the memory usage", but I don't know if Wube uses any memory management str...

If it's possible, it might be worth exploring if the forked Factorio instance could unload essentially everything but raw entity data or similar. I don't know much about the internals of the game, even after reading all FFFs. If the fork() finishes and the forked process checks if it is the child a...

I've used Linux for literal decades, and have been Linux-only since Vista. So I greatly appreciate Wube's and raigard's efforts to provide and support native Linux builds. And other games that run natively on Linux (Rimworld and Starsector are two other favorites I play often). Edit: I can't think o...

I noticed something odd in the Fulgora Video, yeah yeah there are a lot of weird things in that base, but one sticks out: The trainstop seen at 1:13 has not only some Requester-Chests with Inserters pointing towards the Locomotive, but also some Active-Provider-Chests with Inserters coming from the...

I don't understand the laser turrets on the backside (engine side) of the space platform. Unless in space there's some sort of danger that can come upon the ship from behind.. Space bugs? Or maybe its defenses for when docked?

I'm noticing the space platform has a circuit controlled reactor, which I like. I don't recall if that's been mentioned in a FFF before.

FunMaker wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 12, 2024 2:23 pm

In my opinion the 2 missing planets are:

• Aquilo
• Glieba

Excerpted from the screenshot list recording schedule. Aquilo matches with the expectation of a water planet...

Was just going to comment on this same thing. Might be Gieba?

From the FFF.. "And of course, if we have the fluid filter, it makes sense to also make it part of the circuit network control. We are sure there will be some ingenious designs that will utilise the new power... Sushi pipes anyone?" Does this mean that the game will no longer prevent diffe...

Love the new changes. Perhaps you could still add the option that if one clicks on a specific item (or member), the minimap will add icons of where that item is stored/located? So you can re-add the functionality of showing where things are, but it is less obtrusive as you do not need all the differ...

Water, Lava, Oil Ocean (to get offshore pump) :shock: Yeah, that's what I picked up on..... What planet will that be?? I assumed they were talking about Fulgora. https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-398 : As day breaks, the sun glistens off the dark substance below the plateaus's cliffs. The surface ...

Could we maybe have a way to configure how many slots wide the toolbars are?

Personally, I'd rather have 2 toolbars 20 slots wide, than 4 10-slot toolbars taking up 4 rows of screen space (which can make driving south on a laptop screen harder, or attacking nests to the south).

I would like to add the ability to zoom in on drawings in the drawings window. When you use huge drawings, and you need to remove some kind of traffic light, it is not even visible in the preview of the drawing. This would be great. Or if we could open a blueprint in some sort of empty temporary su...

Awesome updates as always! One thing I haven't seen anyone talk about yet in the thread is the new rail planning from map. I noticed you can't see the ghost rails unless you have radar coverage. Personally alot of the times when I'm expanding rails are one of the first things to go in. The feature ...

Something I'm noticing about the FFF's last video of the Rail Planner.. When they are dragging rails across water, I see it change sections to elevated rails when it crosses larger sections of water. Which is cool and great. But it also seems to switch to elevated rails on tiny sections of water, wh...

Love and appreciate the QoL updates. One minor thing that I find out of harmony.. It's nice that we can do so many things now from map view, like remote driving trains, connecting wires, changing combinator settings, etc, all from another planet even. How is it that getting signals across a single p...

Dial-up wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 08, 2024 1:03 pm

try clicking on the rocket at the bottom of the article!

haha that's cool, how long has that been there?

The last time I checked, you can not recycle solid fuel (liquid) or stone (already in its rawest form and can not be processed further). ... None of the visible belts in this footage have a stone outlet through inserters or splitters for the main loop. The secondary row of the recycler on the right...

One thing no one is talking about are those cliff-sized alien walls in some areas. They were clearly built by someone. I wonder if a tech coming from this planet is walls 2.0 that are basically buildable cliffs: larger and thicker segments (maybe 2x2 or 3x3) that are damn near indestructible. Seein...

One thing no one is talking about are those cliff-sized alien walls in some areas. They were clearly built by someone. I wonder if a tech coming from this planet is walls 2.0 that are basically buildable cliffs: larger and thicker segments (maybe 2x2 or 3x3) that are damn near indestructible.