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Let me show you around. That's our lab table and this is our work-stool. And over there is our
interplanetary space-platform! And here's where we keep assorted lengths of wire.
Whoa! A real live space-platform!
We designed it ourselves. Let us show you some of the different lengths of wire we used.
Electric pole improvementsboskid
This will be more of a technical journey, a peek behind the scenes of what we have to consider when adding features, and it will be wired to one of the features I had to refactor in order to allow more features: manual ghost wires.
The technical starting point
Traces of the first implementation of copper wires can be seen in Factorio versions as old as 0.2.10 from 2013 and they actually survived up to the 1.0.0 from 2020.
Copper connections between electric poles were just a targeter pointing at another electric pole saying "I am connected to this electri...