I think that particular part of their lifecycle has been slaughtered on the sacrificial altar in honor of his majesty Yuu Peyes the Alaccellerating. Of course would AI cost CPU time - but AI is relatively easy to parallelize and Factorio can't currently fully utilize 8 hyperthreads / 4 cores (wich ...

There is also the option to put it in the force. Makes it easier to make it research adjustable. Power armor based tweaking would also be nice.

Even just doing the same filter with ores isn't possible anymore. AFAIK there is no way to change the mining filter on the player entity mid-game, so you either have the option of "Can always mine all ores" or "Can never mine certain ores", previously you could use the hardness ...

I really hope the "3 inserters" comment refers to a future FFF of the upcoming version, not just a dead thought that won't be seen for a long time.. implementing doesn't sound all that hard, for every time a bot is assigned a construction task, search nearby the destination (5 tiles or so...

honestly if properly marked limiting recipes from certain assemblers is not a bad idea.

But linking it exclusivly to number of ingredients isn't the best and restricts you from excluding some items to higher tier assemblers.

this gives me an idea for a assitant mod where you can send compilatron and access buildings through him

though it's going to be tricky regarding inventory and only letting his inventory (if any) interact with the buildings.

Red-Green Dichromism is the most common form of colour blindness, especially amongst males. Therefore, it should be considered first and foremost when considering colourblindness friendliness. It's also the easiest to avoid problems with if you know what you're doing. Either way... red arrows does ...

The default implementation doesn't do any optimizations apart from tail-call The only native data structure is a hybrid array/hashtable and depending on how you filled the table you are not guaranteed that all numeric keys are in the array part. I believe factorio already changed these to get consis...

Bugsies getting some love? May i ask if you have any plans to make them more of an actual threat than just PITA? Cause if we could get some more sophisticated bugsy behaviour, it would be cool maybe even functionalities for pvp hoomins against bugsies scenarios Except a lot of players don't want hi...

I think this is really the right thing but people with non-US layouts might have got used to those shortcuts in other apps. Is Ctrl+Z actually Ctrl+W in MS Word, for example? What about browsers? Ctrl+W usually closes the active tab, is it Ctrl+Z for the French layout? It's kinda controversial for ...

It sounds like the logic should be something like if cursor no longer in range of any network, place pole in last valid location. if cursor is in range of network with different ID place pole connecting the networks otherwise don't place pole condition 2 can be refined to avoid placing poles with ma...

Much more predictable starting area resources that don't overlap each-other and are not covered by water. Maybe I haven't understood it properly, but from the screenshots it seems like this goal hasn't been achieved ? It seems from the screenshots that while you're guaranteed to have all of the res...

If we add shallow water to Freeplay (which is not as simple as it sounds), then some people might be sad that there is the occasional Biter nest where you cannot use turret creep... Wait... So turret creep is allowed now? Also, you can landfill the shallow water tiles and place turrets on them so h...

that'll break the 5-coloring used by factorio for the train blocks, you'll need at least 7 colors to ensure no 2 blocks of the same colors touch each other.

If several stations have the same name the train will pick the closest one

with judicious use of chain signals you can make the train pick the open station when pulling in.

It's probably never going to happen. The blueprint library stores blueprints and only blueprints. Making it store other stuff is essentially completely re-writing it and nobody is going to do that any time soon. in 0.17 it (and books) will also store upgrade planners, When a mod needs a ton of sele...

In FFF number 0xFF it was mentioned that selection tools cannot be stored as blueprints in the library or books The big limiter to that would be the possible extra state associated with it. The upgrade planner for example stores what is being upgraded to what. This state needs to survive during expo...

Also in the clipboard menu definitely have an option to turn it into a proper blueprint. This would integrate copy-paste with the blueprint library a lot more workflow will become: ctrl+v and select the area to blueprint, then if temporary use ctrl+v to past wherever, if you want a more permanent c...

When pressing Q with a new blueprint the blueprint should become the ctrl+v blueprint in the clipboard. Also in the clipboard menu definitely have an option to turn it into a proper blueprint. This would integrate copy-paste with the blueprint library a lot more workflow will become: ctrl+v and sele...

Hmm, it could be pretty neat to have a second type of train that has a much larger carrying capacity but is significantly slower. It would be an interesting challenge for them to share the tracks adequately with the current trains. or a cargo wagon with the same physics as the artillery wagon (heav...