Maybe you should consider jumping technology at some point: http://arewegameyet.com/
GFX looks quite promising and there are a couple of windowing libraries.

I'm hoping Factorio 2 will use 3D rendering from the start

Pollute more. Pollution is their food

Proactively clearing out any nests near your pollution is a good way to reduce attacks. The other part is biter expansion; if that's disabled they won't move back towards your base.

I've noticed a bunch of invisible entities which just show a cross if trying to build on them (presumably zero-size hit-box). The only way to destroy them is to run them over with a car/tank. I think they are the remains of the spawner eggs? They really should get cleaned up, I imagine there are hun...

Those "spawner spitters" certainly are interesting to fight, but sometimes I end up with thousands (or even tens of thousands) of spawner biters to fight (or which just hang around). Really kills the FPS and gets monotonous. I think part of the problem is that the spitters can end up in a ...

Just had a crash with this message (Rampant 0.16.16):
I will upgrade but it doesn't sound like this bug was addressed.

Thanks guys, in my case disabling railway-painter fixed the crash. But sounds like Rseding91 has a proper fix; even better!

Same. I'm using a lot of mods (some custom) so it's not trivial to upload a save but PM me if you need more info. 0.000 2018-02-01 16:19:17; Factorio 0.16.21 (build 35356, linux64, alpha) 0.000 2018-02-01 16:24:49; Factorio 0.16.21 (build 35356, linux64, alpha) 0.015 Operating system: Linux (Fedora ...

Nice FFF, I agree. But have you considered that maybe modules and especially beacons are simply over-powered? To me it makes sense that Assemblers tier 2 and 3 are a bit faster, but seems like a "megabase" should be huge. Many of the ones I've seen are not much different than my "medi...

The real reason logistic bots are over-powered is that lack of collision modelling means that hundreds or thousands per minute can visit a single chest. Maybe you can find a way of limiting bot density without killing UPS but that's probably not easy. Actually, I think you should go further and let ...

I agree about the pipes. The exponential relationship between speed and distance is weird. How about keep the current mechanics for partially-full pipes, but do holistic (whole-pipe) calculations for full pipes, with a maximum fluid speed (depending on viscosity) and friction calculations determinin...

Yes. I tried placing a burner lab, can see it but can't access it, put anything in it or remove it.

I also had compatibility problems with several other mods which needed disabling on start.

Agree with the smaller fluid wagon capacity. Barrel capacity should also be reduced. This mod has nice balance in my opinion: Smaller Fluid Wagon & Barrel I agree with others that trains wagons have ridiculously high capacities. But so do so many other things for their size: steel chests, cars a...

Even with cliffs, terrain feels really flat. Hills you can walk on but not build on would make a difference, but I've no idea how to make that work graphically. And being able to destroy cliffs just sounds wrong! *I* think rail bridges able to cross cliffs and water (and maybe also factories) would ...

Currently the in-game mod installation and update tool restarts the game a lot; also downloading the list of available mods takes a while (at least on my connection). Suggestions: Cache the list of available mods and only auto-update if >1 day old (there are already refresh buttons) Don't auto-resta...

Cool idea, feels a bit pointless though since providing enough chemical fuel is going to be much more difficult than nuclear

Also, the logistic delivery system is still not scalable to infinity (eventually you'd hit charging problems due to travel distance I suppose).

Cliffs can't just be lines. There need to be jagged peaks and whole areas which are unwalkable.

So, I worked out the ratios for coal liquefaction to petroleum.

• add recipe light oil cracking with production 3/7 ~= 0.42857 ~= 42.9%
• add recipe heavy oil cracking with production 1/3 ~= 0.33333 ~= 33.3%
• add recipe coal liquefaction with production 1

Bug report against Factorio (But I don't know if it's better to work around this issue in the mod. I'm fairly sure the engine update is what broke the mod for me since nothing else changed at the time.) Edit: closed, because mods are supposed to work with the game as-is (or report issues with the m...

I've been using the Vehicle Wagon mod. Prior to 15.22, this worked fine. From this version, the winch no longer works: instead of clicking a vehicle, then a vehicle wagon, the winch gets removed from the cursor when clicking the vehicle. As such, it's impossible to load onto wagons any more (possibl...

So this is like using the warehouse mod (6x6 container) but without using the warehouse mod. Ingenious, sorta.