It's not science. It should be renamed magic research.

I find it kinda hard to believe that someone can have no oil on standard settings, because I always play with frequency of all resources lowered, and I've never seen complete absence of oil. I've had to abandon at least one game because I couldn't find any oil without hard early battles vs biters. ...

If that is true (the optimisation part, not the old behaviour part), with the new belt optimisations, is the inserter optimisation relevant anymore? Can it safely be removed to give us the old behaviour back? That's not the way code optimisation works. In any case, removing a feature to improve per...

What kind of science does one do in space, anyway? Run fun experiments in zero-g? Take cool pictures of distant stars with a giant telescope? Send probes to nearby planets to check what they're like?

Oh, sorry, it's not like any of the other "science" stuff makes any sense anyway

That would make no sense. Perhaps they should just make crafting less "cheaty" and only remove resources from the inventory after completion (but "freezing" items in use).

You can do this in 0.15 by using the circuit network to disable stations. Mind, it doesn't work well with multiple trains and might require you building long-distance circuit networks.

They don't work well over long ranges, so most people work around this by having multiple smaller bot-networks.

But your suggestion is still a good idea.

Trains will now ignore stations in their schedule which are disabled and go straight to the next one, so you could almost do this now — but you'd need a) each train stop to read the train contents — but this doesn't include fuel! b) use the circuit network to send a signal to the refuelling station ...

I consider this essential now, I like being able to pull from/output to underground belts right next to factories. :) But why not do as others have suggested and combine the output distance/fine adjustments into a single shortcut? There are currently six positions possible: near-side or far-side, le...

Then I agree, but I'd like it even more if something like that mod were stock. (It could be just one key to toggle between near/far or left/right sides of the belt, and one key to rotate the pick-up point.)

Bob's version is just over-complicated (and over-capable).

It doesn't happen to me often. But it's one of those surprising and weird things.

For transporting items on trains, I've often wished they had a little "cabin room" for player storage only.

Are you planning on increasing train fuel consumption 100-fold? Because right now they can carry enough fuel to last multiple hours of my usual usage.

Or not launch when the player is moving faster than they can (averaged over the last second or something). I hate bots jumping out of moving trains.

Hmm, storing hot gasses should at least require insulated, pressurised tanks. Without pressure the storage density of gasses is very low.

Of course a high-pressure tank full of hot gas holds a lot of kinetic energy, so it should explode on over-pressure

IMO the whole "additive multiplier" thing is wrong. I've done quite a bit of modelling (mostly epidemiology & bio-stats), and modifiers are almost always multiplicative. E.g. speed 3 modules have a 70% increase in energy consumption, productivity 3 modules have a 80% increase, so 2 pro...

This mod lets you customise output location (and pull form the side). I consider it essential now.
https://mods.factorio.com/mods/GotLag/Side%20Inserters

Find a quick-start / early bots mod.

I can't dig this mod enough for personal power: https://mods.factorio.com/mods/DaCyclop ... hargePacks
It should probably just replace that personal-fusion-reactor-magical-thingy.

The current zoom mechanic is quite clever: it keeps the mouse pointer on the same position in the world when zooming. This is great for zooming in, but for zooming out, it counter-intuitively means you need to move the cursor in the opposite direction to where you want to move the map. Instead, zoom...

This would be super useful. (It should also work for concrete/stone paths of course.)

It should be possible to get a "ghost item" in the cursor from the player's construction menu too, perhaps by shift+clicking.