... my eyeballs are popping out! I'm keen to play this... is there any sort of time-frame yet on when it will be available? Even if it's something like "after January 2025", or "after the factory finishes building it" (although in that case, I'd be asking on what the current thro...

I haven't figured out how to tell how big the pollution cloud is yet... *kill nest*") Go into map mode! There are a couple of helpful overlays (pollution, electrical network, turret coverage, logistic coverage) that you can toggle. Oooooh! I used the map a lot, but didn't catch the overlays! (...

I haven't figured out how to tell how big the pollution cloud is yet.

I've been using a certain (eyeball) radius from anything I have (which was based off of "they are coming from this direction, is there a nest out here? yes, there is... *kill nest*")

Thanks, slippycheeze. I'm familiar with beta/stable process (I actually like playing Early Access games... silly me!). I just wasn't aware that the tutorial had a major uplift in the new version (as the whole game is new to me), which is why I was having so much trouble with it! I did swap to .17, g...

Ah, so in the most recent update, the tutorial got more love, but it's a "beta" version?

I can swap to that and try again (although I'm tempted just to go flat out into "just play the game and see what you can build" mode.... )

Thank you, Serentiy, for the prompt response!

I hope I'm posting this in the correct forum. Any feedback from devs/community to point me in the correct direction would be much appreciated: I thank any who replies in advance! I just picked up Factorio (which I'm enjoying so far), and I dug around in Steam, the Wiki, and the forums here, and I ca...