Minor Features

• Cars and tanks will auto-refuel. more
• Relation between offshore pump and fluid tiles added to Factoriopedia.
• Statistic GUI precision is preserved across instances.
• [space-age] Space platforms can be built with quality starter packs. more

Changes

• Increased spidertron walking sound volume.
• Using the "craft all" hotkey on free recipes queues 1 stack of the results. more
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Yes its actually a hiccup we experienced ourselves, but its low priority for now, we want to make it work like you expect

Changes

• [space-age] Changed self-recycling recipe statistics to be ignored in production graph.
• Changed sprites with scale between 0.5 and 1 (exclusive) to apply downscaling to low resolution (affects base game biter sprites).
• Changed cargo landing pad mining time to 1.
• Moved the mods GUI search to be with the content it is searching.
• Added linear interpolation method (used by default now) for audio resampling when playback speed is changed. more
• Added an option to disable animated ghosts to aid performance on integrated GPUs. ...

I don't find it tedious. Lets say you spend hours expanding gleba production and quality related stuff, and then, finally you have enough of legendary stack inserters, so you can use them everywhere, but the part of few seconds to upgrade your upgrade planner is tedious? I don't understand.

You never want to upgrade every item in the upgrade planner at the same time, so why would there be a tool for that?

In all of our playthroughts we were always choosing different kind of items to be upgraded at different times based on need, and then we upgraded the master upgrade planner to reflect that. The master upgrade planner could be used anywhere, even repeatedly, and it always upgraded stuff to the current tiers. Having an upgrade planner which upgrades everything to the next tier is quite theoretical need, the same as the current feature of an empty upgrade planner which upgrades evertyhing to the next tier of thing (normal belt->fast belt etc)

But why? If something I would remove the "auto-upgrade" weird feature of an empty upgrade planner. Upgrades always work better when they are explicit decisions. Like, oh I have enough of rare bulk inserters already, lets update my upgrade planner to reflect that. As opposed to, yolo, lets upgrade everything to legendary.

But why? For what? Why would you ever want to upgrade every single item to a higher quality at one time?

It would be much worse, because people would complain, that their precious legendary items were consumed and lost because of a simple filter inserter misconfiguration.

Yes, you can sprikle few quality modules into the factory (assuming it is a final product, and you properly filter it). But we never said that you can just sprinkle the modules everywhere, it is very clear.

Also you absolutely don't have to go 100% all-in on quality, there is a whole spectrum of the involvement of quality in the factory, from completely ignoring, to putting it everywhere and dealing with the complexity.

All I see is a complaint about "when I just randomly put modules into a factory, it will not just magically make everything better", and yes, it is not that simple, but I see it as a feature, not a bug.

Hello, what do you even mean by "highest available quality", where exactly would you like to use it? or "Any quality above X", These sentences are very abstract, and I can't imagine anything specific when reading these.

Yes, you can't request uncommon or higher, because it would be very unclear what it means. And yes, you can order two rarities of the same item.

Why would you want to upgrade everything to higher quality, it makes 0 sense to me. Also, you can alter the blueprint to make just one entry for entity/item you care for, and make it quality < target -> target

Minor Features

• [space-age] Offshore pump speed increases with quality.

Changes

• Curved rails cost 3 rail items to build.

Bugfixes

• Fixed Remote View sometimes flickering to the wrong surface when using Next Surface/Previous Surface hotkeys.
• Fixed that the Surface List would react to the Home and End keys after it was clicked more
• Improved diagonal character movement which should help slip between things easier. ...

Bugfixes

• Fixed rocket silos requesting more items than necessary. more
• Fixed a crash when reading owner_location on simple item stacks. more
• Fixed mini-tutorial scripts crashing or not granting items if player switched to remote view.
• Fixed that LuaControl::opened write did not work for several GUI types. more
• Fixed that elevated rail entities would still work without owning space-age. ...

Features

• [space-age] Asteroid collector filters can be modified by blueprint parametrisation.
• Programmable speaker can be modified by blueprint parametrisation.
• When imported blueprint is placed, assembling machines will be configured with the recipe even when recipe is not yet researched.

Changes

• [space-age] Fulgora ruins now also drop iron sticks when mined so electric poles could be crafted without recyclers at the start.
• [space-age] The "Custom minimum payload" slider for orbital logistics now offers more sensible values.
• [space-age] Orbital logistics "Custom minimum payload" is now checked against largest possible payload before setting the filter.
• [space-age] Cargo bays will show a warning icon when they are not connected to a Hub or Landing Pad.

Optimizations

• Improved performance of technology GUI when viewing only essential technologies. ...

All systems but the metric one were long forgotten in the Factorio universe, so I don't see any ambiguity.