Pistols.. In vanilla, pistols have a recipe for both manual and assembler crafting. But I can't think of a single scenario where either would be used. Every time the player respawns, they get a pistol. How would you ever actually really need to build another? If you drop it on accident? What about ...

Touché!

Rate Calculator and/or Max Rate Calculator are useful mods to have in-game for these calcs.

What's an efficiency module?

+! to the original suggestion. I have recently had a need to do so, and obviously someone else beat me to the suggestion.

+1. =4 now

The only minor issue now is laying down rail. I was gridding the entire map with roboports and radar before and it worked amazingly well for a lot of things, but that was a little tedious and I suspect very non fps friendly. Also, not researching logistics so there's that. What works for me is sett...

You could install the "Rocket Silo Stats" mod to check what has been launched. (Although I'm not 100% sure that it will record what has been launched prior to the mod being installed.)

Gainedbedrock wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 24, 2021 5:57 am

I found a bug, I just pressed shift+c

Update the mod.

...Im also having trouble with my remote construction Spidertrons not dropping off excess wood, rock, (and even modules and etc that I dont even understand HOW or WHERE they picked up all the way out there). They are in range of a storage box but refuse to drop off the materials despite being progr...

Nice one. There are a few other options over at this thread: viewtopic.php?f=193&t=19825

Good points - I guess I play (relatively) unmodded that I couldn't see some of the more specific use cases.

How is this different from the upgrade planner (OK, requires robots), or "quick-replace" (laying the new belt directly over the top of the existing belt)?

I even recently accidentally sent 7 copper ore to space, as I was using an unfiltered chest to store satellites. "Expensive" mistake!

Something like this? I'm enjoying it.

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/SciencePackGalore

'Alt' mode already does this. IMO, we should instead be encouraging new players to enable 'Alt' mode.

Without giving too much away, have you considered using other entities rather than walls as a barrier? There are some items - admittedly with fewer hit points than walls - that are much cheaper to construct (time and materials) but can be nearly as effective, so long as the player can't squeeze betw...

I'm far from an expert at analysing those stats, but it looks to me like your electricity updates are larger than expected - are all those small networks independent? I believe separate electricity is bad for UPS. But the main culprit appears to be the "Render Preparation", which makes sen...

The splitter/long-handed combination is cool. I wouldn't have thought it would be fast enough to feed that copper wire machine on it's own though...

I was having this "issue" as well, with my thinking being that the setting didn't persist between loading/saving, but I couldn't replicate it. I never knew that "Alt" would turn these on and off in map view! :o And I can't see anywhere in the settings that suggests Alt does this,...