I use steel furnaces in every save. In fact, with the release of space age, I normally transition straight from steel furnaces to foundries!

The reason I find them so handy is they're a great in-place upgrade to stone furnaces. I unlock them pretty early into green science, at which point I ...

Pinning vehicles is a really useful feature, otherwise I would lose my car every time I jump out of it!

However, when driving a pinned vehicle around, the pin is constantly visible in the centre of the screen. This obscures what direction the vehicle is facing with the giant marker and gets in the ...

Yep. This is expected.

There are three sizes of islands on Fulgora:

- Large, barren islands with plenty of building space but no scrap.
- Medium islands with a small amount of scrap for jump-starting a factory as well as a good amount of building space.
- Smaller vault islands with very dense ...

I can safely move this to Won't implement : Inserters not being able to interact with cargo bays is on purpose, to prevent item teleportation : one would only need a long line of cargo bays running across a space platform to remove any kind of logistic challenge, the items inserted on one side ...

For the first question, you can read logistic network contents by connecting a signal wire to a roboport. This can be connected to an inserter in "set filters" mode, though you'll probably want to select the signals you need using combinators first.

Any chance this issue gets assigned? The visual teleport is quite noticeable and occurs on all planets when enough robots are charging at the same time, not just on Aquilo.

If the naive prediction is just to project the position forward using speed and a number of ticks, it would only be a single ...

When entering editor mode using the `/editor` command, the UI scale automatically sets to 75%. This change is not reflected in the settings UI, and cannot be changed until exiting editor mode.
I would expect the UI scale to remain the same when switching into the editor.

I've attached a ...

When using keyboard shortcuts to change the UI scale whilst within the Interface Settings menu, the display current selected UI scale does not update. This causes the value to not accurately reflect the current UI scale setting, both the current scale (75%/100%/etc) and strategy (Manual/Automatic ...

I've observed logistic robots rubber-banding when running out of charge during a delivery. I would guess this is related to the smarter robot updating mentioned in fff 421 https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-421 . When the robot appears to run out of charge, it teleports backwards a short ...

There's an interface setting for showing combinator settings in alt mode. You likely have it turned off, which is the default.

Incidentally, why does it evaluate Coal(1) as equal to Iron(1) here?


This is because of how the circuit network works. The network isn't comparing Coal(1) and Iron(1) - it's comparing (1) and (1).

Maybe think about the signals as being labels for the number. The circuit looks up the value for ...

I've played entirely on Steam Deck for nearly 3 years now. In my experience performance is never really a problem, I only started running into slowdown at about 30k SPM in a mid-tech Space Age megabase. However as you mention the controls can take some getting used to!

I was playing before the ...

Is your space platform hub full?

Cool analysis! The only factor I can spot that you're missing is rocket part ingredients import to Aquilo, but I doubt they'd make much of a difference at 300% productivity.

I think the theoretical maximum botless SPM is actually much higher if you put labs on your space platforms. In this case ...

This got a bit harder with 2.0's logistic groups, due to having multiple logistic sections on the same entity.

You can get the logistic points of your chest entity with get_logistic_point https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/classes/LuaEntity.html#get_logistic_point
Then create a new logistic ...

Whilst this is not appropriate as a base game feature, I can see this being entirely doable by a mod.

Press B, or click the icon in the top right of the screen, to enter the Blueprint Library.
You can store blueprints in there. There are two tabs. One tab stores blueprints within the current save, the other tab is available across all saves.

If you need to transfer blueprints across different ...

Looks like the discussion tab in the mod's page has your solution.
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/BlackMark ... 5e9e1a8058

Good news: this feature has been in the game for a very long time.

Head into the settings menu, navigate to Interface settings => Interaction and enable "Pick ghost item if no items are available".

Enjoy picking ghosts from the inventory, from entities in the world, or anywhere else.