Lol I just went into the original thread nm the missing buttons

The game itself wasn't unplayable because my keyboard shortcuts filled in for the missing buttons, but the world gen customization screen definitely had unusable parts.

I'm on 125%

if there are some other widely used layouts that would benefit from auto-reset (Dvorak? Colemak?), please let me know. Dvorak user here. I went straight into the tutorial and Compilatron told me to use WAR to move. I was throughly confused and then I realized all my keybindings were completely jamm...

I want to say it worked for me as well. I only saw Raneo's post (I got here through the forum search) and I can honestly say that if I had seen D0SBoots' full writeup at the beginning it'd have helped me a lot. At the 4 hour mark I had everything but modules and rocket speed, but that last stretch t...

The NV goggles are great for fighting, but I don't like how it stops you from putting lights everywhere in your base Yeah, I agree. When the NV was that ugly green I'd put lights anyway and I liked how that created a very stark distinction between "in base/outpost" and "off in the wi...

Am I wrong here? Are many people driving science production from intermediate products produced in your main factory? On my first factory? You bet. I still open that save sometimes just to spend an hour or two there, taking in its chaos. :) On factories I built after my 100-ish hour? Of course not.

This has been brought up a few times, but not addressed, so I'd like to bring it up again in its own post: since there has been an effort to bring more attention to modules though science packs, is there also an effort to make them easy to use? Right now the only action that doesn't require going th...

Oh that's very good! I brought this up because I have a friend on a WhatsApp call right now. I'm hearing him stumble with basic problem such as keeping his boilers with coal right now and it feels so endearing and nostalgic. I directed him to the demo download in the Factorio site. He just got the z...

First time you run the game it behaves exactly like the 9999th time. Which isn't bad per se, but, if language is a barrier, the current is state to release this problem is pretty bad: Main menu -> Options -> Interface -> Huge screen with ~100 words -> manually leave the game and open it again My rec...

featherwinglove , quit acting like you represent entire audience, This is curious for a first post. Well, his curious first post mirrored my thoughts perfectly. When you claim to speak in name of the community, that is patently false, because I am part of it, and I disagree. You are only entitled t...

Fluids as ingredients make some sense but it's super ugly in the crafting menu because that science pack immediately gets red background because you can't hand-craft it. If all of the higher tier science packs had that, it'd kind of look fine. Well that's easy. Just make them all explicitly "c...

but just basically trying to shut them down with one sentence. The role of the rulemakers in an open forum is, mostly, to say "no, this is not up for discussion at this moment" or "yeah, that's worth thinking about". That doesn't make it less frustrating when the answer is no, b...

A lot of respect for actually going out and trying it out! Nice work!

It took me a while to notice the conveyor belt in the second image. These are very cute!

You should allow a player to be the rocket payload. :D ...then, if you click "Continue" in the victory screen, you drop-off in a far-off spot in the map with your inventory only. Preferably without a way of returning. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NewGamePlus The only thing ...

I got late for work today because I read the full FFF before leaving, but thankfully nobody minds if you're a little late to the office this particular week of the year.

When I put a pump in the middle of a fluid system, does it split the system in two? If that's the case, I would think working with a depleted pumpjack (no modules of course) could cause up to 50% disappearing crude oil.

Can you give us a bit more info on how placing pipes will work with the new anti-mixing logic? Can you confirm or deny that this will allow running parallel pipes without them accidentally intersecting? I could see this being a problem potentially (esp in blueprints) if pipe connection order is dep...

Nice work! I'm really excited about playing the new version! :D https://cdn.factorio.com/assets/img/blog/fff-274-no-mixing.gif My first thought: oh nice that's convenient My second thought: wait we now could safely run surface pipes side by side... we could press the rotate key to choose or something!

The invariants discussion feels truncated. What case it did vary?