@dee- I'll concede your first point. For point two I'm giving the devs the benefit of the doubt and assuming they can do it better in C than how it works in lua not to mention it could lead to some interesting api hooks for future mods. As for point number three... scale you need it for rails becaus...

Its funny I've been thinking exactly the same thing. In fact because of this I don't think we need an "End" Game so much as just more new and different mechanics and an even more robust api so that we can make factorio what we want to play.

To keep the burner inserters working on copper and iron

No words needed really.

I'm sure SSilk will point you to the magnet mod he uses

Ok now lets write a mod that calculates the cleverness index of our factories and use that as the score for the game.

I have "min_amount = 350" in config.lua If I understood correctly this should mean that the smallest pile of ore should have 350 ore in it. Except that I most piles have only 50 ore in the game I am playing. Is there anything I'm missing? Just in case here is the whole file (I've made othe...

Try setting a requester chest requesting a ton of stuff and restrict it to one stack (or no stack if that possible).

I came across a bug report today that implied this would do what you want

hmm I've seen a few people asking how to gather their bots together in one place this seems like a good way of doing it if I interpret that screenshot correctly.

I'd imagine this is because sleeping inserters don't require any power

Weather here is a balmy -14 C

Maybe make it possible to make boxes out of various materials? For example - have a recipe for a steel box and a recipe for plastic box, both resulting in the same item, but giving the player a choice of which packing material they want to use... This probably only makes sense if the box is destroy...

Thanks for these, they are greatly appreciated

That mod once again just to be sure everyone got the name is F.A.R.L. or you can write it FARL, a search for Fully Automatic Rail Layer would probably bring you to the right place . Automatic Rail Laying Machine is dead, long live FARL!!! P.S. If I'm not mistaken one of the functions this was using ...

The devs plan to extend to a second level like in Starcraft. But not much more. I mean: I can think of an belt-elevator, which brings stuff from current level to level 1. Or to be able to generate water-power etc... Really?! This is the first time I here about it but that sounds fantastic. Never th...

Just off the top of my head, I think part of the problem could be solved by playing around with target priorities and large biters. If large biters took lasers a while to kill and laser focused on large biters first then you would need a mix of turrets to stay safe.

take a look at this https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... =14&t=8189 it is exactly what you asked for.

Hmm I've gone back and corrected my original post where I posted my answers because there was a pretty bad typo in my response to #1. To be clear what I was trying to say is that the ropeway should be as straight as possible WITHOUT being a chore to place. So in fact we DO agree on this point :D . I...

this is dead mod ... person who was maintaining it did a full rebuild which can be found here : https://forums.factorio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=8189 As for automatically cutting down trees and putting them into the wagon ... I believe the new mod allows you to turn it off but I'm not sure...

I don't have any links or suggestions cause I haven't ever used any of them but I know there are some out there for phpbb

It would be a shame for such a popular Idea to slip away just because it had fallen from the first page.