Another and very important thing about pipes is that the fluid pressure decreases with distance. Pumps increase the pressure in pumps so you an transport fluids further and more efficient. https://forums.factorio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7952 What kinds of distances are we talking about, t...

I tend to use a bit of Heavy for Lube, crack the rest of the Heavy down to Light. Then I use some of the Light to make Solid Fuel, and try to crack all the rest down to Petro which is the one you really, really need (to make all sorts of useful stuff). But as for ratios, no, sorry... I'm not that fa...

I personnally prefer local steel production. It makes a narrower main bus. Thus I can't tell how I balance steel/iron production. I'm not as far into the game as you others are, yet, so I can't comment on that thing, but I do know that for every Iron Ore smelted much less than 1.0 Coal is required,...

Factorio is very much a game about not doing things manually. The ideal player performs as little work as possible. Yet there's on "odd man out" here: The removal of Trees. Early and mid game, you have to do that manually. Only in the late game do you get Roboports so that you can automate...

I'm not really sure when Small Pumps are actually useful? It seems to me that fluids, e.g. the various Oils, distrubute themselves evenly in any connected network of Pipes and Tanks, and isn't that good enough?

What is it I'm overlooking?

Why isn't there any Research in the vanilla game to do this? Range 1, costs SP1 only, +1 range (to 18). Range 2, costs SP1+2, +1 more range (to 19). Range 3, costs SP1+2+3, +2 more range (to 21). Range 4, costs SP1+2+3+4, +2 more range (to 23). That still lets Laser Turrets have superior range (25),...

I'd just like to be able to build Bridges to let me walk above the Rails to cross them. Quick and simple low-tech solution, doesn't involve signals or anything electronic, just a bunch of Stone or Brick, and a little Iron or at worst Steel. edit : Oh, and I'd want to be able to drive over the Bridge...

Is there some mod, that adds a Pollution meter to the game?An item you can place in a given chunk, and which then shows you how polluted that chunk is, not as a colour code but as an actual numerical figure?

Radar? The Radar shows only what's happening right now. With the Motion Sensors I've proposed, I become able to "go back in time" by a few minutes, and see what path the aliens took. I can see that after I've killed them. This is for early game, when the player character is just about to ...

If a "Kill All" console command is used, won't that make it impossible to harvest those purple Alien Artifact thingies?

I'd really like to be able to build a slightly-more-expensive Iron Chest, maybe with the "added cost" of a basic ElectronicCircuit, where this new type of chest has an indicator light on it, off when the chest is empty, red when the chest is under 1/3 full, yellow when between 1/3 and 2/3 ...

It really annoys me that I don't know what path the aliens are taking when they move to my base to attack. Often, early game, I'll find them in the center of the base, with no clue as to whether they came from north, south, southeast or what. I'm thinking some kind of cheap-to-build electronic gadge...

1. The game should have a Grid Overlay that you can enable and disable with a keypress. I'm thinking initially 1x1 tiles, but with larger (thicker or darker lines) every 5 tiles, and larger again (thicker and darker) again every 20 squares. If the G key doesn't do anything, then that'd make sense as...

I've never gotten to the trains stage myself, but I'm just curious... Is there some item you can build you make crossing the tracks safe? Avoid getting hit by the train? Or is it less dangerous than I'm assuming?

I've been onboard for about half a year now, but when I arrived 11.x was already out, and all further 0.1 increments have been largely bug fixes. 12.0 sounds to me as if it'd be about more content added, at least the rocket/space stuff but hopefully also more options, more stuff to build, maybe a ba...

Okay, **** this! I'm not having fun with this game. Biter aggression early game takes the fun away for me (they attack too early, even on Very Large starting area setting), yet playing the entire game with reactive Biters would be unfun. So I want to start the game with Biter aggression disabled, th...

I often find the map difficult to use, in terms of seeing certain ore types, because of the consistent use of the checkered pattern. It often contrasts badly against my favourite terrain type, the Desert. In the in-game view, during the day, ores are eminently visible (unless obscured by Trees),but ...

How can I know ( see ) which pats the Biters and Spitters have taken to reach my base? In my most recent game, I'd sometimes find Alien incursions in strange places, like I'd sit there thinking "how did they get to this point, why are they only attacking this built item fairly deep inside my ba...

Yellow triangle = enemy is taking damage Red triangle = your side is taking damage Orange triangle = your side took damage a few seconds ago Thanks! That is not intuitive at all. I had thought maybe red means extreme danger, orange meant severe danger, yellow meant mild danger. So very useful to ge...

Oh, one more: 14. I often use space-limited Chests to get my Assembly Machines to make a limited amount of something for me. For instance I limit all but one slots in the Chest that's the output of the Assembly Machine making Gun Turrets for me, and this means that when I come back to it after a whi...