Now that Factorio is starting to become popular and as it approaches the mainstream, I feel it's appropriate to have proper spelling and grammar on all official announcements from the team. ^.^ I also made a few small changes to improve the readability: (All changes in red.) Hello everyone, {H} ere ...

For some reason when I go to the download page, it still links me to the 0.2.8 version?

Or is that actually the file for 0.2.9?

Anyone else have this problem?

Edit: 0.2.9 is further down on the page.

I thought about this actually this morning.

At first I thought, rare artifacts would be cool. Though, the problem is artifacts themselves are too valuable.

I recommend a new item called 'artifact component' which can be used to craft alien artifacts.

The game's current response when you are not close enough to build an item is to make an annoying sound and display 'You need to get closer...'. Perhaps the developers feel lonely and I'm sure we would all be happier if we got closer, however I have a proposal. 1) Create a build/destroy queue. When ...

Alright, it appears I'm trying to run a alpha map in the demo (meant to download alpha), which makes sense that I couldn't do that.

The error, however, is very unintuitive.

It's far too easy when you can zoom out and see everything There should be some hidden part of the map, until technologies are developed.

Don't feel bad. I once saw this same typo on a college survey.

In fact, it would be useful to move all types of building with a special technology.

I think the best way to display a disabled equipment would be an icon like this:



Which would appear over disabled devices in case you didn't realize what you were doing.

So I know this is a technology that does not exist at present in the real world (and neither do coal-powered grabbers), but there are numerous advances in this general direction. Essentially, it would be a giant battery/capacitor that would store up charge and release it later. So, if you use solar ...

I did. It didn't start burning, but I just realized that was probably because I hadn't started it. How do I start the car then?

I'm trying to figure out what I could use to power the car...

It doesn't take coal or wood, and I can't see a way to craft anything like gasoline?

I thought there was no food aspect in this game. I was wrong.

In my factories, I always try to put just one type of item per belt. Why would you need more?

The world is infinite, so why do you build so tight?

How do you zoom?

You can also press T to change what you are researching.

Personally, this should either be configurable or the full amount should be put in. It's what I would expect and very annoying when systems stop working almost immediately after the coal runs out.

This game is so amazing and addictive and I cannot stop playing it. So these are just a few minor suggestions. 1) I get an error if I try to resize the game (or full screen it). The lighting just shuts off. Lamps stop working, night is pitch black, etc... The error continues if I size it back to nor...