Hmmm, they might not be discarding their previous target or something, seems like its an internal AI problem (I.E, not the mod script doing anything wrong)

Just keep finding the bottlenecks and fixing the bottlenecks :)

No bugs in 2 years 😎

the promised DLC has failed to materialize

failed to materialize so far

Changes

• Disabled the Command+W keyboard shortcut for closing the game window on Macs. Command+Q will still quit the application. more
• On macOS, left and right variants of the Command and Option keys are differentiated when not bound as a modifier.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a desync between ARM and x86 platforms when the pathfinder was overloaded. more
• Fixed a crash when trivial smoke was defined with bad movement speed values. ...

Sorry, it is not really possible in the engine to get units to 'shoot' at nearby friendly damaged units.

Yeah that's only about 20 times more detailed than our actual 3D model for this. (:

I'm pretty sure we have a computer somewhere in the office

Changes

• Updated SDL to version 2.26.5.
• Replace "Version" column in mods install menu with "Last highlighted"

Bugfixes

• Fixed wind sound not changing its volume with zoom level.
• Fixed that productivity values did not show correctly in some cases. more
• Fixed texture compression artefacts on Apple Silicon Macs. more
• Fixed that playing music with master volume and music volume set to 100% would mute all other sounds.
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I'm not exactly convinced the word "need" was the design goal here XD

I think this console command should work: /c global.pvp.config.victory.space_race.active = false

Sorry for the bugs everyone... now get to back to work

Bugfixes

• Fixed LuaRendering::draw_sprite and draw_animation throwing an exception when orientation_target was not given.

Use the automatic updater if you can (check experimental updates in other settings) or download full installation at http://www.factorio.com/download/experimental.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a crash when maximum-sounds is set below 16, for example by using --disable-audio or on failed audio initialization. more
• Fixed that some effects would sometimes be performed twice in multiplayer when FPS is lower than UPS.
• Fixed LuaSurface::find_entities_filtered would not accept force indexes. more
• Fixed that solar panels on multiple surfaces would all produce electricity based on a daytime of one of the surfaces when the...

The way I look at these things is the return of investment of modules.
Since the actual production is the amount of beacons (lets call it B) multiplied by the amount of assamblers (lets call it A)

A) For cases with a lots of beacons for a little of assamblers, you have basically two assamblers per 1 beacon, so 3 buildings gives 8 output, so the ratio is 8/3.
B) For cases of rows of assamblers and beacons, each assambler is affected by 8 beacons, and each beacon affects 8 assamblers, on avarage 2 buildings (beacon + assambler), gives you production of 8, so the ratio is 8/2.

In conclusion 8/2 is bigger than 8/3, so the rows are generally better.

Minor Features

• In the blueprint preview window, deselecting all train fuel items disables the 'Train fuel' option. (This was already the case for modules. https://forums.factorio.com/102804)

Changes

• On macOS, when AZERTY keyboard layout is used, the shortcut for Undo will default to Cmd + Z instead of Cmd + W. more

Bugfixes

• Fixed loader would ignore ElectricEnergySourcePrototype::buffer_capacity. ...

Beautiful

Yeah you wouldn’t want to witness seeing the blender file for these…

Graphics

• Added support for Wayland on Linux. To enable it, set SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland in your environment. (thanks to raiguard)

Changes

• Music no longer fades out on technology screen. more

Bugfixes

• Fixed 'on_string_translated' event having incorrect localised_string parameter for fallback groups.
• Fixed that LuaPlayer::cursor_stack_temporary returned false for pasted blueprints. more
• Fixed size issues ...

Its possible, the code wouldn't look so complicated apart from the 'return to previous speed' part.