On the zany side of things, it may be possible to have an interface akin to the old "RCI Meter", that would tell you at a glance which science pack, if any, was the problem. So a glance at this indicator might reveal that blue science is a problem? ...only half serious, I'm sure someone co...

The science research progress indicator on the top right of the screen is quite useful and informative as it stands: Factorio-Better-StalledScienceIndicator-618ec141.png However, when you have a large base, the first sign that "something is wrong" can often be that "the percentage has...

I've got the same problem. I can't seem to figure out how to close the window, or even how to "mark the tips as read" (as another poster suggested as a workaround).

Related to: * https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=87744 I would like to create a partially full "buffer" chest that: * will always have at least N items in it, filled by assemblers * will be unrestricted, so that robots can easily overfill it * will "recycle" its ...

I've been musing on how I see people use circuit networks: 1. They are usually point to point 2. They have to manually select the target value, even though there is "logically only one" 3. They often select the wrong signal (like 'oil barrells' or 'heavy oil' instead of 'crude oil', or the...

An alternative to fuel-burning scout drones (as again, I don't know how hard this stuff is to implement or what kind of in-game load it would have), perhaps the scouting drones could be solar-powered, and only move/scout during the day?

At the moment, I have tended towards playing "train worlds" with the settings for biters to be more sparse then the (comparatively quite dense) defaults. The only downside is that when the need arises to go get more resources, I have to aimlessly drive around in the black to look for ore p...

I think it would be interesting, particularly for the end-game & creative modes, to have yet another assembly machine that: (1) takes only a 1x1 grid space, and (2) "ejected" its product in one direction much like mining drills If we're being honest, there have always been some "t...

I imagine that this is already documented somewhere, but I was not able to find it in the forums, so I thought I would post it just in case. At present [v0.17], module specs are easily copied into blueprints, and can be changed by an upgrade planner, but there is no way to manually set the flag, and...

Still an issue in 0.17.68 that I trip over now and again. I've even seen it happen on a youtube let's play video!

Steps to reproduce:
1. navigate to https://www.factorio.com/
2. hover over the left side of the "Game > Starter Page" sub menu option
3. in one quick motion, move left (out of the submenu) and back right (to re-enter it)
4. enjoy the show

Seen on Firefox v69.0.1

running in windowed mode was putting coal into a chest by ctrl-click-dragging a quickbar entry no interesting diagnostic output the game is not paused hovering over ground tiles & buildings "works" (right panel shows info) clicking on buildings/chests open them unable to click/drag any...

I couldn't figure out how to remove items from the new quickbar until I read up on them in the forums (it's middle-click BTW). Since the "only thing that seems to work" for putting items into the quickbar is dragging (personally I would like to be able to use a number key [maybe with a mod...

It's much better in 0.17.4, probably below 100ms.

Without actually measuring it, it "feels" like the delay between pressing the character menu button and the screen becoming visible is... 10ms in v0.16.51 250ms in v0.17.2 Just long enough to wonder "did it register that keystroke?", which is quite distracting. :) This might be a...

What happens when you have 2 or more dependencies available at once? Does it choose randomly, or the cheapest? Exactly... that's the whole point... it doesn't matter, it is under-defined, it's up to the game [developers]. It can just pick "the first one that would appear in the available resea...

I think that the 'research' button should be present and clickable on unavailable science technologies, but having a "deep" effect (researching the dependencies in turn in order to fulfill your request). Sometimes, I would like to not have to micro-manage the science research order, and I ...

At the moment, it seems that shadows are (1) rendered with a point-light source, and (2) are baked-in to the object sprites. Regarding the first, this has the effect of making sharp shadows even for highly-elevated objects. As I recall, the first time that I saw the shadow of a long-distance power p...

Disabling personal roboports beyond a certain speed would also be nice (at least as an option) I wonder if the 'correct' cutoff speed is actually quite low compared to a train, such as: " if you would outrun them " (so the speed-cutoff changes with the worker-drone research & exoskele...

I've thought about the principal objection to this idea (losing drones by training by a mining outpost), and realize that this is, in fact, an entirely separate (and IMO independently fixable) bug. Namely, that drones often operate contrary to your desires. Consider the case where a player meticulou...