Boilers have three connection points. Two are for water, one is for outputting steam. The steam output is perpendicular to the water input/outputs.

I'm glad that artifacts and their associated grind are gone from the game. Destroying biter nests is boring and tedious even when you're only dealing with them when you're expanding.

I second this. It confused me the first time I was looking for heat pipes that they weren't included in logistics.

Biters are long overdue for an overhaul anyway. They're useful for creating trade-offs between expansion and defense, production and military. But mechanically, they're uninteresting and tedious to deal with in the later stages of the game.

Heck it's a game.... make the recipe take 100 ore and produce 99 U238 and 1 U235 with 100 duration instead of fooling around with milli-items produced. I strongly agree with this idea. The random production of U235 is confusing for new players, and it creates uncertainty about when they'll get thei...

This would be a very nice option to have.

Huh, that's interesting. That one oil spot isn't being grouped with the other two when moused over directly, but is correctly grouped with them when one of the other two is moused over. Curious.

After researching fluid processing, the crafting menu gets cluttered with the barreling/unbarreling recipes, since there's two recipes to handle each fluid type. This is a problem that will get worse if mods add their own fluids, since each of those will then need two recipes for this purpose. To re...

Belt optimizations are still planned. Multi-trheading is not.

Which boiler outlet did you attach the steam engine to? The steam engine needs steam to run, which comes from the perpendicular outlet.

More seriously, the current version of enrichment interacts oddly with productivity modules, as can be seen here: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=44635 Since this is likely unintended behavior, I think that a different recipe model is needed. The catalyst model is perhaps the sim...

Since achievements are open with any settings, I think it would be fair to either adjust the achievements for *official* presets, or to somehow let players know that changing from the defaults may make them difficult or impossible.

Due to the increase costs of technology and recipes in this mode, it's impossible to complete Lazy Bastard. By my calculations, it requires 224 crafts to make the bare minimum items, while you're only allowed 111 crafts. Wooden pole (3) 1x wooden board 1x copper cable 1x pole Offshore pump (15) 10x ...

I'm of two minds on this one. On the one hand, the need to feed back the products of the enrichment process to keep it running is an excellent reason to make use of circuit network logic, and introduces an interesting level of complexity. On the other hand, this makes nuclear power much more difficu...

With the addition of difficulty presets, it would be nice if players could make and name their own. I personally use a custom set of settings that doesn't match up neatly with any of the official presets, and it would be nice if I could save and load them. Yes, map strings let you do this, but that ...

This is a more general issue where the technology count for the infinite research items jumps from the regular research. Combat Robot Damage goes from 5 to 7. Follower Robot Count goes from 6 to 8. Flamethrower Damage goes from 6 to 8. Gun Turret Damage goes from 6 to 8. Laser Turret Damage goes fro...

That night vision view is amazing. And tutorials! A long overdue and welcome addition to the game.

0.15 is going to be a great release.

Is there a chance of users being able to make their own difficulty setting presets?

With the new difficulty options introduced what I would like to see is making a big switch for the preset difficulties like Easy/Normal/Hard/Insane/Custom with only Custom letting you use all those sliders while other having hard preset values. This will make it more convinient for the majority of ...

Very nice. But I have 1 advice. Please a function which saves the last game settings and one button for random settings. That already exists: it's the map-exchange string. Doesn't that also include the map seed? And even if it doesn't, a way to name and manage those strings in-game would be very he...