Agreed on longer dwell time in the ground. How is the ore getting from the drill head to the "dumps onto the spinning crusher" area? The long rails that the drillhead travels along do not have a pipe, conveyor, or anything else animated to get the ore bits there. They just teleport from dr...

Congrats! It's great (and rare) when software runs ahead of schedule. I've heard of CDPR (Witcher games), and maybe I live under a rock, but I haven't heard of Cyberpunk 2077 at all. I just looked it up, and it looks like it's probably got a heavy Deus Ex inspiration. Modern/future modern RPGs set i...

Something is wonky with blueprint deletion. I discovered an obsolete blueprint in my blueprint book (about 20-30 blueprints). I used the shift+scroll wheel method to select it as "active blueprint", which by the way is a mechanic not used anywhere else in the control scheme, and then when ...

I didn't even know there was a production measurement tab/tool in existence! Something that this reminds me of - could we get a "turret status" window for monitoring turret ammo status? There is no easy way to check and see which turrets need to be manually refilled at early stages of the ...

Yay, brighter Factorio! This is a good change.

I am a very conservative man. We don't have TV in our house, etc. I sometimes play Factorio with my 5 year old and my 3 year old sitting on my lap. They like trains, robots, lasers, giant bugs, etc.

I like how most of the games that I played the heck out of and enjoyed the most are represented in these bios. The only one missing is Baldur's Gate 2 (and BG1 was listed).

They look really good. I didn't even realize that the uniform resource icons could be improved on.

We all like the product we're seeing from Wube (+- a few details as there's always some disagreement), and I think everyone is extremely happy with the communication and regular updates your team is putting out. The game software industry is brutal, with failed and failing companies all over the pla...

Great post, great links too. Some kind of deliberately-shareable announcement post/new trailer that a bunch of us can repost or share on Facebook might work. For viral-ness, consider a "Craziest things that happen in Factorio" type post, possibly including highlights like the programmed mu...

I'm happy to report no bugs and no crashes. I like the new research recipes. I think they make more sense, and introduce more variety, especially the sudden need for more stone for infrastructure research. I have seen a lot of comments about biters being worse, but they have barely touched my base (...

The attack alert sounds are too quiet!

Luckily the biters seem less aggressive. Maybe I turned the settings down too much, but a simple slow conveyor around my base perimeter with turrets and inserters did a great job holding off the random attacks until I got laser turrets.

Really?
I feel a bit silly for posting the obvious, but someone's gotta do it.

Thank you!

How do I clear an entry out of the new quickbar? I have 4 different cells all showing my 3 yellow belts.
The only way I've found to clear the cursor now is to re-open my inventory (E) and drop stuff back in it.

What am I missing?

Further update: I deleted a bunch of folders modified 2/27 and later, and reinstalled Steam. It started successfully, but showed Factorio as not installed. Within a couple of seconds of hitting "Install" for Factorio, Steam crashed. When I start it back up, I get the library for about a ha...

Minor update: Searching my HDD for factorio.exe found a file in the "downloading" Steam subfolder, along with a pdb. I am guessing that a download may have failed?

Update: My internet filter, which I hadn't even run the updater for, was the problem for some reason. Downgraded to old version. Factorio beta was a coincidence. I have two PCs. The last thing I recall doing on Steam on either one of them was opting in to the 0.17.2 beta. I got busy with work and d...

Ham radio. Great reading all these stories. I am 35, and my 4 year old loves sitting on my lap watching me play Factorio. He really likes anything with trains (duh!) and always make sure to let me know when I have alerts that my turrets are shooting aliens are being destroyed. My dad has never been ...

A starting island that can be bridged to a mainland (via landfill) sounds good. A starting island with nothing but water around it sounds like a recipe for a factory that dies because it can't get more resources. I'd like some clarification on which one we're getting. A starting island with nothing...