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I stayed on Nauvis resources for a long time. I was in the exact same thinking as you, thinking I am in critical desperation for copper. But when I went far enough on Nauvis, I found patches worth millions. I don't know if that was just my luck with generation, or if there's some inner range that SE just reduces resources, but basically for normal resources Nauvis is fine for a very long time. I'm running a bit low on uranium and I need to push into biter territory a lot, but nothing unsolvable. Also I've been using a lot of uranium ammo so that's probably why.

My first planets were when I needed vulcanite (I switched my entire smelting to vulcanite block infused for the +50% ore efficiency), and later the special resources for space sciences.

The rocket reusability tech, together with the aeroframe scaffolds used in Low Density Structures alternate recipe, and on top of it all the best productivity modules you can afford, are to me the most important things - tryin...

There is still a colour picker for the player, similat to how Locomotive has it. The Flat character gui setting still exists in 1.1, it's just turned on by default.

Uhm, what for? Or, if you've already gone through the trouble of refining crude to petroleum gas, is the one extra step for solid fuel that much of a hassle?

Haha, I'll consider it. But having the icon look a bit unnecessarily complicated isn't a bad thing at all. In fact it could be making it look more interesting. The amount of arrows in it is already ridiculous, so building on the joke is better than trying to hide it. :P

Yes. Posting more news doesn't discard the previous posts. ;P

Not a stupid point, however most people who play Factorio read from the left, and once you learn that the player inventory is always on the left, this consistency is really helpful to read GUIs quicker.

We know custom inserters exist, and it's much, much more impact than just "QoL".

I personally strongly dislike inserters behaving in any other than the one way they do. This way it's perfectly readable, and all the "problems" can be solved at the moment already with belt layouts.

You can have Logistics in one tab, and Crafting in the other tab. The Character tab doesn't exist anymore.

If you enable "Flat character gui" interface setting, you get all three of them visible, without tabs.

Spidertrain obviously.

Your tab with armor and weapons is always visible, when in a vehicle you have another tab for vehicle. Instead of it being replaced like now.

This looks really fun. :)

Oh I don't feel bad by any means, quite the contrary. I just can't do everything at the same time, and fixing the mod should be more of a rewrite so I know it will be a lot of work, is all. :)

You're welcome. I should fix the mod instead, but I don't really have the energy for it now.

It's my edit blueprints mod. :) Sorry! ... Resizing the window or entering the editor should fix it I think.

Just don't have more than 1 beacon per machine, that's it.

The biggest benefits to me are:

- you can fit beacons in your starting base, don't need to tear everything down and re-build for beacons

- the beacons eat soo much less power, space exploration also lowers the power consumption of beacons, and you need much less of them

- the space exploration productivity modules decrease the machine speed progressively more with the tier of the productivity module, which gives more incentive to update speed modules, as getting higher productivity does slow down the machine more

True :)

This. It's better to have the icon always look nicer, and have it never work with any rotation, rather than having it work with only one rotation.

The menu simulation is a part of base mod, so if someone removes base, the original static image is used.

We considered it before 1.0, but it seemed too different, with some serious drawbacks like delay between issuing the command and the spider starting to run towards it. I don't know how many of the drawbacks are feasibly solvable for now.

Never say never, but for now it's simple as is.

The FFF is just a demonstration of the concept, in the game it's moving, and the simulations each take about 10-20 seconds.