At the moment it just counts. To expand on "just counts": FactorioCalc can be used to do more than just compute maximum rates. For example, if you analyses a blueprint for space science that includes the satellite, it can take into account that the assembling machine producing the satelli...

I guess this didn't exist 2 years ago yet but now you can use the --dump-data CLI arg to get factorio to dump the entire data.raw table as a JSON file ( with some quirks ) and use that to get recipes, items, etc instead of a custom companion mod :) Thanks for the tip. I was not aware of that option...

When I first started playing Factorio one of the first things wanted to do was express my factories symbolically. For example something like: "2 electronic-circuit() + 3 copper-cable()" (for 2 assembling-machine-3 producing electronic circuits and 3 producing copper cables) and then simply...