+1 to this. I'm surprised we don't have this already, given how many similar QoL things were already added (drag to reorder for example, which is fantastic).

(Maybe it's secretly already been implemented for 2.1...!)

I'd also like to +1 having an option to finish playing the current track before switching.

It's cool that there's hidden settings for it! - but it should be available as a regular option, and not be based on an amount of time either :)

Here's a possible way this could be implemented without causing pathfinding/performance hell:

1. Something I've always wanted is the ability to simply manually split roboport networks without having to keep roboports far enough away from each other for them not to combine. It might be a bit tricky ...

FWIW I haven't seen this problem again since the update to 2.0.66, so I assume it was either a bug that was subsequently fixed without being mentioned in release notes (perhaps without the devs even noticing at all), or just one of those weird extremely rare edge cases.

If it happens again I'll ...

Does that explain why single-tick requests are, intermittently, outright ignored though?

I understand that there's a cooldown, but sometimes I can watch the platform/landing pad for several minutes and nothing drops at all, despite requests being pulsed with no items in the landing pad.

I took about a 6 month break from Factorio, then carried on with my save about a week ago. I run the Steam stable version so it updated by something like 40 patch versions to 2.0.60.

Since you cannot set minimum payload sizes for cargo drops (from platform to planet) (gosh, I wish they would ...

I haven't tried this out yet since I run the stable branch, but from the way it's written it sounds like it'd be useful.

Maybe make it a setting?

Are passive chests useful? I think NO.


As someone who generally plays without logistic bots: I use passive providers on every assembler output in my mall, storage generally just for deconstruction, and don't use the other three. So can't agree with you there.

On Gleba, where I did use logistic ...

Would having a train (instead of robots) deliver the fuel for that local heating tower work for your design requirements?


That... is a neat idea, which I hadn't thought of, and it would definitely work , but given that roboports have to be placed every 50 tiles, it really sounds like overkill ...

I think the most worse thing of the tips&tricks related to Aquilo is, that it doesn't tell you to take vast amounts of stuff with you, e.g. stacks of heatpipes, pipes, inserters, concrete etc. and everything to build a rocket silo and a rocket, to be able to escape Aquilo again.


Actually, that ...

If you want to make a self-expanding construction network you ultimately need nothing more than electric poles and roboports outside your "mall" area.

Back on Vulcanus when I wanted to add a long rail line remotely, I already had a full mall setup with roboports and construction bots, so I just ...

The in-game Factoriopedia gives you briefings on planets. For Fulgora and Aquilo these are really misleading in one particular way.

Fulgora's entry doesn't explain that rails (and related entities like signals), and trains, are immune from lightning strikes. Back when I first set up Fulgora I ...

I would also like an option to turn off automatically destroying cliffs in the same circumstances (when using them as walls on Nauvis, or for aesthetics).


Ha, yes! +1 to this too.

So far I have deliberately avoided researching cliff explosives, for this exact reason... which created the ...

+1

Also, a button to toggle positive/negative would be great. I frequently use constant combinators with negative values as it's a more compact way of calculating "how many items remaining".

I don't think the x100 and /100 buttons are needed, you can just click x10 or /10 twice.

+1

I only have 2 pins at the moment, so that wouldn't give me much extra space. Even with 0 pins some things don't show the full tooltip - e.g. logistic network storage.

An alternative solution to avoid the minimap jumping around would simply be to put the minimap at the top.

+1ish, because...

I don't want "auto-hide minimap while hovering an entity", I want "auto-hide everything on the right EXCEPT the minimap when hovering an entity".

So: While hovering, hide research, hide the buttons under research, and hide the pins. Leave the minimap visible for reasons explained ...

+1, landfill (/tiles) should only be placed with super-force-building.

I actually feel I need to -1 this... Or at least request that if this is added, have an option somewhere in graphics options to turn it off.

I really like the current vibe from being on a space platform - like "you're all alone it's just you and the stars" - I'd really miss this if there were ...

+1 from me too, having just obtained the mech suit.

It's such a simple QoL feature - they're probably secretly working on it already