It's on the list of changes. But I agree, it should at least be configurable

You should still get the visual alert when something is attacked, like you do when turrets fire, just not the sound until something is destroyed

Stone Rock can now be mined and deconstructed by robots. It gives some stone as resource.

omg thank you so much. So many unexpected changes/features.

it's 8:20pm here in western Australia.. I could stay up until the release, or I could try and get to sleep now and play in the morning before work

Hi Bob, Your gas vents are great but it'd be good to have a way of disposing of liquids too. I suggest a pipe outlet that you can build on the water edge to dump liquids, which creates more pollution the more you dump. Sodium hydroxide dissolves well in water, so you could also add a new recipe to m...

Hey bob,

I thought you'd be happy to hear that I was short on sodium hydroxide in my current game

Hi, Factory looks great. I am liking all that extra space. I would suggest storing any excess iron in a chest so your smelters/drills are always working, you need loads of iron later on so it's nice to have lots stored away. Also I would automate ammo production and make a conveyor feeding it into t...

There should be an ultimate giant battle robot that you can build late game and control, with long range rockets, multiple lazers, fusion reactor & shield equipment

I like the idea of the command centre allowing you to scroll around the map and place ghost buildings, this was suggested by the devs to take the game in the rts direction. The other suggestion by the devs was land bots you could control from the command centre. These could be sent far away to setup...

I also played with bobs to begin with, but i never had this problem. You can stand on the belt and press F and you will pick up what in on the belt.

Very excited about the blueprint book, electric switch, & connecting more things to the circuit network

wow this will really change factory designs. I think if i played this I would only use circular belts

Installing factorio mods is really simple...just download and copy into the mods folder. There's one zip file for each mod. Why would anyone need a mod manager?

Yes those were my thoughts also

Yessss this is exactly what i was wanting Hopefully the core game will have a similar feature in future.

ah great, finally a way to get rid of those old burner drills.

Can you adjust the squad size & search radius in game? Last time i tried this mod it needed adjusting in the config file

What happens with artifacts on belts? Can they hatch?

Cool, i think other players will like this, but i don't like the night so i usually disable night time in console.