I ran into this as well. As a work around, you could set some other parameters to some other placeholder value. However, that value then also becomes the default when placing. Allowing us to set a default value might be easier to implement than an option to split the values.

TL;DR
When hovering a pipe, show a tally of all the connected buildings in the sidebar.

What?
When hovering a pipe it highlights the entire pipe network. This also shows all the inputs, outputs and the feed-through buildings (e.g. turbines, thrusters, flame turrets). In the sidebar it shows the ...

TL;DR: Allow clicking a disabled checkbox to toggle its check mark.

The words enabled/disabled refer to two separate states:

Whether the checkbox can be toggled.
Whether the checkbox is drawn grayed out.


What I want is for the disabled status to only affect how it is drawn. However, in ...

I've been running into this issue as well. Especially the first time, I was confused why my ship wasn't receiving resources from the planet. Turns out there is an "import from" setting hidden away in the "set orbital request" dialog. I had not noticed that before. Now I can manage it, but it is ...

Nice to see the wire shadows finally fixed. I remember thinking about it ~5y ago and coming up with an easy fix. I am happy to see that exact fix got implemented. It indeed does look a lot better.

Pop quiz: can you spot the shadow problem I want to fix next?

Shadow stacking. Where all the wires ...

This is kind of what made me quit the software industry. I've used these practices in my hobby programming projects for years and knew how well those worked. Then when working at a company, I was forced to abandon these practices. Whenever I mentioned them, I got accused of lacking experience or not ...

Version: Factorio 1.1.35 (build 58756, linux64, steam)

How to reproduce
Build a constant combinator
configure a value
focus the text box
enter a value
hit ctrl+z


What happens
The constant combinator is marked for removal

There is no redo function, so trying to remedy this error by ...

TL;DR
When right-clicking a non-focused, single line textbox select the text contained therein.


What ?
The current behavior for non focused single line textboxes is that when you click them they get focused, which allows you to type in them. There is no difference between using the left or ...

One neat solution that would completely bypass all the rendering order issues, is to also export depth information when rendering the images. These can then be used during rendering to fill the depth buffer (or z-buffer) for occlusion. Another benefit of that is that you only need 1 image+depth info ...

an infinite number of books
Books can now also store [...] every item in the game.

So... infinite inventory?
It is based on proposal 4, where "the quickbar is just an action bar idea explained in the FFF-191 ". So no infinite inventory, only infinite actions. Would be fun though, as those ...

Proposal 1 & 2:
Those introduce different types of blueprint: Those linked to the library and those which are not linked. What happens if you clear a linked blueprint? Is it then also cleared in the library (i.e. the library now contains an empty blueprint)? So I'm against linking blueprints to ...

To me, the correct solution here should be to not allow landfilling the area that the pump is in.

I agree with Kovarex on the Queue button.
First the semantic meaning of the labels is inconsistent:
Queue = Action
Queued = Status
Researched = Status
Unavailable = Status

It is not clear whether clicking 'Queued' will in turn unqueue the research. Is suppose it is not, as it is not rendered as ...

[Edit] I'm curious... does the blue belt handle the amount of fuel needed at this kind of power generation? 6252 fuel every 200 seconds at full burn... 31 fuel per second... ~16 fuel per second per side. Yea, blue belt will handle that. Had been wondering what a belt design could handle reactor ...

olafthecat wrote:A tinsy bit of Necro going on here.

OP referenced this thread in the thread on the latest FFF: viewtopic.php?f=38&t=56218&start=160#p331077. It makes sense to further discuss this topic here than in the FFF-thread, because there it is downright impossible.

I've looked into what it takes to turn this into a mod. I found that it can be done, but only as a proof of concept, or in a very limited fashion. The biggest problem is drawing the belt lines and animating the buckets.

One approach is to bake the belt lines and buckets into a single animation ...

A lot of the posts here talk about why bots are overpowered, I agree with them.
A lot of the posts here talk about why bots shouldn't be removed or nerfed, I agree with those too.
If you don't like bots, don't use them. Factorio is most of all, a sandbox game, so in the end, it should be the player ...

Second tier belts huh? Why not use buckets:
bucket.gif

There is a forgotten feature that you could put cars on belts as a way to significantly improve their throughput. However, cars are too big to be used for this purpose, and wouldn't look right. I hacked a mod that adds buckets (prototype: car ...

I found myself in need of something like this, though managed to come up with a work-around. If the signals are all positive then:

Create a constant combinator with all the signals you want to keep set to 1. If you need more than 18 signals, use multiple combinators and connect those.
Then ...

Rocks used to look different: I'm using the creative mode mod, so I can just use the deconstruction planner to remove them. However, I have to do this every time before I can chain paste a blueprint.