I'm fairly new to modding the game but I got the idea stuck in my head for part of a mod the makes laser turrets that run off heat with the intention of having nuclear reactors closer to the front lines for some risk/reward fun. But from what I've been reading in the API Docs the ...

It would be nice to be able to override a FluidTurretPrototype used for flamethrowers to use different FluidStreamPrototype based on the input fluid. As an example I made a basic mod to implement a gas based flamethrower here:
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/ak-gas-flamethrower

This modded turret ...

While looking at the remaining technologies to research I noticed that the Railgun is not a required prerequisite for the Promethium science. Since the huge asteroids have a 99% resistance to explosive damage and 3000 defense against physical damage, railguns are an in-game requirement to be able to ...

A later thread 122826 got more attention on this and 2.0.23 seems to have fixed the issue. On loading their current save the person who didn't get the tips previously had the Asteroid Defense tip available as well as a few other new ones.

I'm posting this on behalf of someone I've been helping through the game with the Windows version through Steam.

They researched all required technologies to be able to fly to and land on Vulcanus but were never shown the Asteroid Defense tip. I've attached a save they made right before traveling ...

+1, I didn't research all the planets before I first left Nauvis, only when needed. I wanted to drop down a little more ice for water on Vulcanus to kick start some production so I researched Fulgora since it was farther out and figured it would have more ice around it. So I ran a space platform ...

If you don't oversaturate your network with drones, you won't have to solve the problem of them hibearnating happily at some distant roboport.


I want them spread throughout the network, buffer chests with bots always near by is good for rapid response.


Wired inserters can listen to quantity ...

I agree with this idea to add a maximum to the roboport requests.



How about adding an inserter that takes from the roboport robots in excess to dump them in a provider chest ?

Well yeah that would fix the clogging but then the robots wont actually start working, they would just be sitting in ...

My initial reaction is that I dislike anything that depends in train ID. Train IDs change whenever the wagons in it change, or one gets destroyed, or it goes through a SE space elevator or other surface teleportation, etc.


I did not realize the IDs were so fragile, that would make it more ...

TL;DR
Add a train schedule condition for a signal matching the train's ID.

What?
I was re-reading the train schedule FFFs while working on a complicated train stop concept in 1.1 and had an idea. It would be powerful to be able to have train interrupts trigger when a signal matches their Train ...

If you are playing on Linux or macOS, please enable asynchronous saving [...] and report any issues you find.

I know you're looking for negative results to fix, but I wanted to mention that I used asynchronous saving on a 24/7 server for months on a bloated (~300MB saves) Space Exploration modded ...

This really must be a joke way of introducing the recycler right? The implications of RNG attributtes to every item in the game would cause massive cascading problems. All production planning and blueprints would be useless except for the max level.

We have made it so that quality is 'invisible ...