The problem with building in an airplane is the same reason you're safe from biters. The train is on the ground, an airborne vehicle is not. Thanks for the tip about debug mode! And thanks for your vote of confidence. I'll see what I can get put together, and then I'll put this mod in the WiP forum....

I don't really have a good idea how areas are measured. To me, 2x15 is measured in building tiles, meaning 2x15 transport belts would fit in that. You're right, that would be very small, your measures are probably much better. All planes would be fairly fast, but not ridiculously so. The biplane wou...

I've found that for really taking out large swaths of resources early on, it's hard to beat a row of burner drills being fed from one side by a row of electrical inserters. The smaller operating area means you get more resources per unit area over time, even though burner drills run slower, at least...

Actually, even supercapacitors have the problem that you need progressively higher voltage to fill them up, and they won't charge any higher than the voltage you give them, while charge speed is determined by amperage (and super-high amperage can potentially burn out supercaps with their tiny intern...

One thing I've noticed with my logistics network is that I don't find automatic storage useful. This is because the items offered at provider chests are offloaded into nearby storage chests with only distance as the deciding factor between them, and these chests are filled randomly with whatever pro...

Hey, I'm new to modding Factorio (as in, I barely know Lua!), but I'm eager to get started. One idea I've got is for geothermal energy, with lots of stuff going on there... but the other is a mod that adds airplanes, airports, and automated flight. The latter is what this post is about (obviously). ...