Excellet, thanks for the responses. I look forward to LuaEntity::belt_shape for sure. I'm basically doing what you described currently. I can confirm that it is indeed quite annoying. For the second point, that's what I had presumed would be the way to do it. I'll work towards that solution. Thanks ...

First: Is there a function in the API or a characteristic of the belt entities that I can exploit to determine if a belt is a corner belt? For example, a West facing belt is, as far as I can find, programatically identical to a West facing belt with a South facing belt adjacent to its North side. Cu...

There's something "off" about the thrusters visuals. I think it's the smoke. It moves backwards - shouldn't it just stay put (edit; or at least move away as fast as the platform is moving)? Maybe it works different in a vaccuum? I don't know. It looks weird, though, when the smoke is produ...

The new graphics look oddly colored. Also too "clean".
Is there a reason the visuals have been changed?

Not sure if it's been brought up yet (haven't read all 28 pages yet) but do we really have to have the usual suspects of "common", "uncommon", "rare", "epic" and "legendary"? Can you not do something else - something that makes sense in a manufacturi...