I'm really not interested in getting bogged down in semantics...

Smelters aren't factories though. Chemical plant recipes work like factories, except for sulfur.

You guys are missing the point; all factories produce like 2-3 spares of whatever they're set to produce even if it's not being taken out of them, but sulfur is produced until the slot is filled at 50, which is inconsistent. Probably more of a bug than balance issue though.

It would be enough if they were smeltable... wooden boxes are usable as fuel, so it doesn't seem unreasonable for burner drills or iron armor to smelt into a bar of steel.

Or an Assault Rifle, with superior range and like +200% damage?

I finished the campaign, you don't get to use the plane. Tried creating one in the map editor, it's just a useless placeholder item; it does nothing.

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I always run the belts for ore and smelted product in opposite directions, so I can ex. expand smelting westward indefinitely while expanding factories eastward. Takes a bit more underground belts but it's not like those slow down the flow.

Even just spamming 20 grenades on the nests works pretty well, given their splash damage lets you destroy more than one nest at a time. Tricky to do while fending off biters if you're not real good at multitasking while driving though.

Uranium isn't all that radioactive on the timescale Factorio is concerned with - in fact, depleted uranium is used for radiation shielding thanks to it's density and high halflife (4b years).

While artillery sounds cool and setting appropriate, I can't help but think that any feature that allows you to sit in your base while destroying biter nests is going to do more harm than good, gameplay-wise. Making it expensive, or difficult to use, or it attracts worms to burrow into your base... ...

+1 from me, too.
If the upcoming tank is able to mow through trees without damage it'll be worth crafting for that alone...

Yeah but the only one I saw in there like what I was looking for is Oasis - which is too hardcore - and it's sequel - ditto. There's only 22 threads... In fact I think what I really want is a Richness setting for the starting area - so I could set all resources quite high but the starting area richn...

I've been trying out everything at minimal settings because I felt like the fields I started with lasted forever, and I wanted something like the campaign map with the trains where you had enough to start with but ultimately needed trains, and had to defend the mining outposts against biters. Ended ...