Yeah, I've been using Klonan's Laser Beam Turrets mod for quite a while now and it's so much more satisfying to see the enemies being mowed down by those compared to the vanilla silly projectile versions, even if they do take equally long to kill the enemies.

I'm not opposed to the idea of a tank of fluid slowly cooling down to 15 degrees C if the contents is warmer than that.

Or, as an alternative, provide a way to make either oil, or one of its products, without requiring oil or its products. Even modders don't seem to do this. I've tried several mods which can make crude oil from other materials, but they've all required either crude oil or something made from it in th...

Yes, the logistics chests that are currently locked off are not that much of a leap in technology from the Passive Provider and Storage Chests we got unlocked with the bots, which makes the current requirements seem very artificial. The Requester and Active Provider Chests are really just taking the...

I wonder, now that in 0.15 are the heat pipes and heat exchangers for nuclear reactors, there could be alternate ways to get heat: Geothermal - special nodes generated on map, where you could draw heat from the magma in the ground. Solar thermal - concentrated solar power to generate heat. Solar be...

Not strictly an idea for the game itself, but still something requiring the devs' involvement.

Run a competition with the following goal:

Make the Factorio trailer music with the programmable speakers.

Prize money of $20, $10 and $5 goes to the three best renditions as judged by the developers.

Forget about the rocket. The silo is an assembler. It turns 100 rocket parts and 1 satellite into 1000 space science. Normal assemblers refuse to run (consume inputs) if the output slot is full, even if there's a full set of input items available. The silo should, too, for consistency. Fair point, ...

I'm hoping they'll add spatial (I guess directional would be more accurate here) audio for the production release, it'd be awesome to "follow the sound" to find/get to/identify sources. One little thing I keep finding myself wondering whenever I get my mind turned to the subject of positi...

2.) Second problem comes in place, when I mostly need heavier fractions for processing. For example, a huge amount of Lubricant for Express logistics components without need to worry about the plastic (ex. I have a separate factory to handle it far away). Since processing gives me Light oil and Pet...

Yeah, I have to admit I was a little surprised when I went poking around the game's data files and found the sounds for the programmable speaker were a half-second OGG file for each note. I was expecting something more akin to a MOD file. Quick primer on MOD files: They're a family of music file for...

Good point. Expanding on it, if you have two tanks linked and one separate, then the two linked ones should be covered by one icon, while the separate one has its own, for a total of two icons on the wagon.

Valve did it with Portal 2's co-op multiplayer. Seems like Factorio's focus on the same would make it an ideal candidate for it, too.

Yeah, it's like how the rocket silo needs concrete but the tech tree doesn't require it to research it. The way I see it if a research node is focussed on a particular item, its research prerequisites should include what's needed to build that item. If it also unlocks other items as well, those are ...

I don't mind having alien artefacts brought back, just as long as they're an alternative rather than a requirement. I didn't like being forced to fight them just to finish the game. Yeah, I'm fine with fighting them now and then to blow off some steam or if they're in my way, but I should still be a...

The Omnibarrels mod adds a fluids tab containing all the barreling recipes. It's very convenient and a shame that the devs haven't done likewise with the main game. Putting everything in the intermediates tab is going to cause headaches if you install a few mods which add new fluids.

That would fit in with the "retrieve the crashed ship's computer" mission in the campaign.

Nice idea. You have my support.

Mooncat wrote:By the way, why not implement Klonan's laser beam turret to vanilla?

Yes! Oh, so much, YES! That mod makes laser turrets so much more satisfying to use!

There's two solutions to this problem already in the game: 1. Filter inserters. There's a few ways to sort mixed resources with them. The devs have even provided one in the Factorio trailer. 2. Logistic robots. If your drills output to an Active Provider chest and the robots empty it, they'll do the...

At the very least, the surviving trees should turn green again after a while. To take a real life example from my own country, Eucalyptus trees are well known for sprouting all over their trunks after a bushfire (and their leaves are very flammable, too). Heck, you could have seedlings show up where...

Have manually-drivable trucks unlocked along with the car, and self-driving trucks as a follow-up research project. The self-driving truck could require a regular truck a radar unit and a couple of processing units to build.