Friday Facts #219 - Cliffs

[Klonan]

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-219

[ske]

Cliffs confirmed! Praise the LOrd of bits!

in Factorio nothing should stand in the way of automation, so if you don't like cliffs, you can always blow them up

I don't know how to feel about that. It just doesn't feel right. This is just like landfill. Very useful in certain situations but given enough resources it makes the whole map flat and void of features. Good for a sandbox where you copy-paste blueprints but it takes away from the challenge. I'd rather have landfill and cliff-explosives as a mod that needs to be enabled.

Anyways... Hoooray for the cliffs!

[bigyihsuan]

Those cliffs look amazing.

[tvardero]

Bridges? Ramps? Tunnels? Leap of faith (and fall damage)?

upd: New enemy type - spiders that can climb up walls and cliffs?
Nest inside cliffs? Caves? omg i have too many ideas to ask

[White_lapin]

As a suggestion, could the player make a ramp that can be driven up etc to ue the multiple layers, or a belt that can traverse the slope? The cliffs are a brilliant idea though and look cool

[sillyfly]

This looks awesome!
But I'm a bit feverish, so I really hope I'm not hallucinating it.
Cliffs! In Factorio! Awesome!

[tobsimon]

Yeah, Cliffs!

[torham]

Love the cliffs and the new decals. Anything that makes the map more interesting is good.

[Mooncat]

It is the most exciting feature in 0.16!

Now we need enemies that will ignore the cliffs, e.g. flying aliens.

[Ghoulish]

A big change so late in the day! Can't wait to see what the final design will be like.

[Sparen]

This is really getting my hopes up for some kind of proper grade separation~

Perhaps artificial craftable cliffs (cough cough ramps) and railway viaducts may be coming?

[DasMonzta]

Excellent those cliffs. First good idea since years.

[mietok]

OMG, love it!! Flying monsters next?! Maybe attacks from the sea

[ske]

Excellent those cliffs. First good idea since years.

What have the Romans ever done for us?

[JimmyJoJameson]

No more than five minutes before this week's FF, I lamented the lack of proper terrain elevation. Then this happens. Truly, there is a god and I'm in his favor.

[wlfbck]

OMG, love it!! Flying monsters next?! Maybe attacks from the sea

This! And then it's only a matter of time until someone makes a Age of Factorio mod

[aklesey1]

Bridges? Ramps? Tunnels? Leap of faith (and fall damage)?

upd: New enemy type - spiders that can climb up walls and cliffs?
Nest inside cliffs? Caves? omg i have too many ideas to ask

Spiders?
If devs will add new enemies like spiders or birds or huge lizard-like bats it'll be awesome
I think we really need flying enemies that can fly over water and through walls

[ske]

Maybe attacks from the sea

I actually think this is a very good idea. Right now when claiming a lot of land, a square perimeter of turrets is the most efficient shape. You only need to defend the borders but not the area. When creatures start crawling out of the sea, the cost of defense goes up proportional with the area instead of the square root of it. This would be quite the game-changer.

[mietok]

Maybe attacks from the sea

I actually think this is a very good idea. Right now when claiming a lot of land, a square perimeter of turrets is the most efficient shape. You only need to defend the borders but not the area. When creatures start crawling out of the sea, the cost of defense goes up proportional with the area instead of the square root of it. This would be quite the game-changer.

Yeees, floating turrets and seawalls No more mainland choke points

[ske]

No more mainland choke points

The creatures coming seaways could be very weak and very rare. They would be very easy to defend against in the early game. Using lakes as chokes in early game would still work. But those little creatures start nesting if you don't shoot them down and then the trouble begins.