And an anecdote on how this confusion and/or inefficiency can affect gameplay. On another scenario, I had a limited number of blue science packs, so I put them towards laser turrets and calculated that I had just enough to finish the research. I did not - the research progress bar ended up at 99%, ...

I'm not talking about placing blueprints , but placing the buildings after you've already placed the blueprints in the world. This is for when you've already made blueprints, but before you've researched construction robots. My bad, Sorry I've misunderstood you. That makes a lot of sense indeed.

you can already do that by activating the snap to grid option. After you do, a blue rectangle will appear around your BP and you can choose between relative (to start anywhere you want whilst dragging) and absolute (helps ensure that if you start placing blueprints from different positions, that the...

I think that's already taken cared of for 2.0: https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-380

I work around this by placing a (yellow) storage chest, and placing one of each item that I expect to be deconstructed in it (belts, inserters, AM's, power pole,...). All bots will dump the deconstructed items in the chest and go wait in a nearby roboport, and once you start reconstructing, both bot...

Great idea. Or maybe based on a GUID or other unique identifier, generated at the start of a game (or first time it is saved) and stored into the save file?
I can imagine map exchange strings being reused...

disiclaimer: I'm not legally schooled... ... but by the looks of it, I have as well the impression that they (unknowingly?) forbid you to mod any game they sell. I think those clauses are generic clauses you'll find in most UA's from company's that sell software, written by lawyers that have no clue...

Having blue belts with 45 items/s always seemed a little strange: where a red belt has double the capacity of a yellow, a blue belt only adds 50% more. Splitting a blue belt in half results in 2 uncompressed red belts. So with that in mind I'm certainly not opposed to a new tier of belts that can do...

it looks like there already is some kind of mechanism to prevent you from overwriting a saved game:

I think there's a maximum of 5 connections per power pole. If the power poles on the corners of your blueprint have a diagonal connection inwards your blueprint, besides horizontal and vertical connections, you'll exceed that limit.

thanks for the help. I'm somewhat confused, as 12GB should be plenty according to the system requirements. But I'll check my memory usage next time the game crashes.

Hi I recently started playing factorio. Love it, but unfortunately about 1 in 4 game launches results in a crash ('Unexpected error occured at game start). So far I'm not able to pinpoint the trigger for this error. It happened as well when Factorio was restarting to sync mods, after 1h of single pl...