Good observation. If asked I would (general principle and feel is the same, and it's low tech as well). I think I did not considered it when I said 2 to 3 times slower. I'm personally a very bad driver and can't take significant advantage of it, but I assume it's potentially massive, further nullif...

That would be an impressive achievement !
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/recursive-blueprints

3. Game resources could be more optimized. I had a system with a bunch of steam engines (around 80 of them?) and whenever my system goes over that area, it just slows to a crawl. You're totally right! Why don't the devs ever work on optimization? I think that is factorio's biggest fault. If this ga...

Solution 0 : Building by hand. Solution 1 : going on site, using personal roboport, running around, babysitting construction. Solution 2 : going on site, dropping a temporary roboport, babysitting construction, dismantling roboport and repeat. Solution 3 : open radar view and drop blueprints contai...

Woo! So many improvements !

Though please, this time, make it so the dead spawners look more distinct from the alive ones !

Achievements are separated into unmodded and modded : And there even are mods that add new achievements !
https://mods.factorio.com/query/achievements
(for popular mods for instance)

Especially since achievements are already separated into unmodded and modded game : And there even are mods that add new achievements !
https://mods.factorio.com/query/achievements
(for popular mods for instance)

I think on a very rought scale, you can say there's two type of games, "thought" games and "reaction-time" games, which fundamentally contratict each other so you can't have both at the same time. I like factorio becaues it is a thought type game. I like being able to plan ahead...

But 6 is already quite a lot for a game ! How much improvement do you see going from 1 to 2,3,4,5,6 cores?

Just how low of a price ? Integrated graphics might be kind of a waste in a full-sized desktop? An older dedicated CPU and GPU might be better? Though I guess that the PC could be built in steps : - first a CPU or motherboard with an integrated GPU. - then latter a better, dedicated GPU - then later...

Defending against migrants... that have trouble crossing water... using machine gun turrets... brings up uncomfortable associations !

He won't be saving money in the long run if he buys overpriced, top of the line components - (isn't an i7 complete overkill for anyone not with very specific computing work needs? Heck, even an i5 is probably overkill, but might pay off in the long run - and would help with Factorio single core need...

Yeah, I was going to mention liquid cooling too... but then I remembered that I heard that you could get some fairly cheap setups these days - pair it off with parts that overclock well and you might have a budget winner? (Could have been with my setup - got my AMD FX 8320E for only 140€ - but it's ...

OP asks for the best-bang-for-the-buck budget PC.
=> Gets recommended an i7, 32GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD !

Bumping for a request :
Wouldn't slightly changing the default minimap zoom level solve these issues?
(Or would it cause others?)

Otherwise, how can we change the minimap zoom level and/or resize its "window" ? (without changing overall GUI scale)

Arcania85, an idea was mentioned recently about a "player-mounted" inserter that would auto-place items (with limited range and speed) : https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?p=369022#p369022 ( There's also the (consumable) Nanobots mod that seems great : https://mods.factorio.com/mod/...

1.) Gun Turret / Bullet Damage 2 requires no MilSci, I'd rather compare with Gun Turret/Bullet Damage 3 (100 MilSci each). That's +40% damage each, +96% damage total. For 9.8 damage per shot for normal ammo (5), and 15.68 damage per shot for AP (8). Against a big biter (8/10% physical resistance), t...

You cannot use bots in "large quantities", as when you first research them you can only have 1 at once. And the research is pretty damn expensive, at 150 MilSci, and with a lot of pre-requisites (a lot of which require oil to be useful). So by that point, on DeathWorld, you'll be likely fa...

Well, indeed, that's what I use... I got it from your GitHub, where it says : https://github.com/Artentus/ModMyFactory#download You can find the latest release of ModMyFactory here. ("here" Linking to the "latest" 1.5.11 version : ) https://github.com/Artentus/ModMyFactory/releas...

EDITED EDITED BIS All/None of the above : "Proposal 5" : Default blueprints would be linked to the blueprint library, they could be added to the action bar as a shortcut. Library-linked-blueprints could be transformed into items - which would unlink them from the library - (and vice-versa...