Tertius wrote: Sat Mar 28, 2026 11:39 am I intend to publish a book titled "Steam Achievement Tea‑Leaf Reading" later this year.

Ooh I have some tea-leaves you can use
Also, I would buy this book!

Yep we have been asking for this for a long time!
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Now I am picturing a spidey that is out of ammo, dancing around trying to target the biters

Hey there could be target priorities for what it tries to step on first!

For items that spoil in a loop into each other, especially with short timers, when sitting on belts it can sometimes be visually noisy to have the spoil bar visible (when in alt mode). An API like this defaulting to true would allow modders to disable this behavior.

Or an option for players to ...

Making nutrients: I start with a stockpile of spoilage. Once the chest is full, spoil can go to be burned in a heating tower (or eventually redirected to make carbon), but that chest gets filled and stays filled as my emergency restart kit. This stock feeds an assembler making spoil into nutrients ...

It would be nice if the information move-to_hub was available somewhere, perhaps Factoriopedia. It would also be helpful if the concept was introduced in the tips and tricks for the space platform. Right now it is somewhat trial and error. I ran into this removing an assembler that was partly loaded ...

Thanks!
Almost every day I scan through reddit and the forums, and I am constantly amazed by how good y'all are... if there was an Olympics, the staff at Wube would be gold medalists every year. Thank you again!

Minor issue noted over on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/1rc7qmy/requester_chests_pulling_from_storage_before/
Specifically the wiki page for the requester chest says buffer chests have priority over storage chests, where other pages on logistics correctly show that storage and ...

JackTheSpades wrote: Thu Feb 05, 2026 9:06 pm a simple heat map of where things are most frequently destroyed

This would be a good start.

Also, in the production statistics pane, the kills tab shows buildings 'killed' by enemies. It doesn't help with location, but it does provide a little more information for analysis and planning.

This would also be very helpful for looking at space platform designs and how survivable they are.

Kyralessa wrote: Sun Feb 01, 2026 10:34 am But again, I could see both achievements, one for doing everything from scratch but with construction bots, and one for doing everything from scratch without them.

I could go for having two achievements, one hard and one hard core

Love it! This could be another achievement, the Why Yes I do have Gold Plated Rocket Parts in my SIlo.

I would see this as complementary to the proposed From Scratch achievements, where you don't take anything except what is in your armour grid when you drop to Gleba, Fulgora, and Vulcanus. Taking nothing means you have to do some hand crafting to bootstrap your way up. For a Really Lazy From Scratch ...

I would go for the hard core version: nothing dropped except what is in your armour grid, specifically not even bots. Having done all three planets that way, it really doesn't take that long to "rush" bots.

I see... right now filters are exclusive ALL the coal AND ONLY the coal, and you are asking for a non-exclusive filter, yes ALL the coal, but I don't care what else goes with it. That would allow a whole bunch of new designs, I like it!

I copied a design that used a deconstruction planner as the NO ...

TIL... I would rather see it on the map, but the mini map is better than nothing. Thank you!

+1 It would also be very helpful to show the coverage when you are placing a radar. No more guessing and having to move a radar once or twice before getting the coverage I want.

This made me think of the planet with all the meteor showers in Enemy Mine

It would be even nicer if the combinator displays were more useful. For example, make the icons small enough to put 4 in a row, then when all your operands are EACH, you could show EACH, operator, EACH, and implied output EACH. The operands could have a plain background if both red and green inputs ...

My solution was to track the current and previous status of the planets, and if a status is now 3, and previously was not 3, then send fuel/oxidizer for one tick, just enough to enable the platform to leave.