Thanks, I'll give that a try.

Yes those mods are relevant and one of them might indeed solve the problem... I understand that when mods are considered, all things are possible... but I'm a pure vanilla player, I don't like to use any mods :) With mods I feel like I am creating my own game and then playing it, which for me takes ...

Should also mention for context that my situation is an end-game situation where biter waves are always killed off completely with minimal damage to walls. I have two rows of walls + a bunch of sharks teeth + many advanced laser turret power upgrades from science. The only issue I have is the bots k...

BUT currently there is not good solution for it. Because walls are not possible to connect to circuit network too to check attacks. The second option is to use detection in turrets via decreasing number of Piercing rounds magazine. BUT it is NOT possible too :-) So the last option which I have is t...

I am looking for the 0.16 version of the wiki (i.e., the one that would give all the recipes as they were in 0.16) and found this post, but the link appears to be down. Can someone bring it back up or give a corrected link? Thanks

I'm sure this has been asked a million times before, but some quick (~30 sec) searching in this forum did not immediately turn anything up :) It never seemed right to me that the player can't launch himself in the rocket to return to the home planet (or has that been added in recent versions?). With...

Even though Artillery is a late-game feature, sometimes it still feels too powerful. With artillery I don't really have much need anymore to go to biter bases an engage in combat using all of the other possible weapons and tactics. Factorio has many weapons that each have their own associated strate...

Question for devs -- I believe if I'm not mistaken that you said that you (kovarex?) had regretted using Lua as the scripting language for factorio -- why?
Thanks

+1 for this idea, I think it makes sense.

Here is something that seems important that I have not seen mentioned in this thread yet: Productivity modules have a basic difference from efficiency and speed modules that in a sense makes them more powerful than either of those two. That is, the effects of productivity modules can accumulate mult...

Others have raised the question before as to how belts can operate with no electricity. Here is an idea on how to make belts require electricity but not disturb existing game play too much: Idea: Belts conduct electricity! That way only one end of a long belt need be in range of a power pole, then a...

Help prevent the frequently-nerve-wracking death-by-train by introducing a new technology called “Personal Wireless Rail Signal” that allows a (late-game) player to craft a special signal that can be inserted into armor and that causes normal rail signals to interpret a player standing on tracks (or...

Some nice ideas here! Perhaps your satellite could have some sort of nuclear power source? That's a good idea! And if that requires used nuclear fuel cells then, as some have mentioned, that would also require the player to setup nuclear power, which I think is an interesting part of the game. ... a...

Currently, one can launch a rocket and win the game without ever mining uranium (or creating nuclear power, uranium ammo, etc.). I think that the developers should find a way to make uranium mining more essential to the game for the purpose of better integrating it. Some possibilities might be: 1) Y...

I think it would be really useful (and more intuitive) if the “total raw” on the wiki were actually expressed in terms of raw elements instead of stopping the breakdown at non-hand-craftables (if that’s what is happening); for example, I was just looking at yellow science and it it lists blue circui...

@eradicator Sorry just realized I called you exterminator instead of eradicator

Ok so basically now I am envisioning a mod that does precisely the following (no more/less): - Start of game there is a hand-crank generator that the player can craft and must use it for all electricity needs - The player cannot initially craft burner mining drills or electric miners, so mining must...

I like the idea of the Hand Crank generator actually, I think that might be a cleaner solution than making burner variants of the various other buildings (like burner labs as you mentioned). That way it would allow pushing electricity just a bit further still into the game since the player could in ...

thanks, but that looks like more of a game overhaul -- I am just looking for something that adjusts the very start of the game, not adding any items/units, only adding a few technologies that would be required to e.g. build burner mining drills and electricity.
David

Hi there, I would really like a mod that does the following and so I am wondering if it is already out there. Background: normally at the start of the game the player is able to build some basic items such as: * burner mining drill for mining * burner inserter for logistics * offshore pump, boiler, ...