Had to stop for IRL reasons. Was about to build a coal depot but I knew that saving at a blank screen would be confusing.

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I’ve often thought that Factorio needs a comment block / sign post / notepad for just such a thing

I often leave my reminder on a post-it note on my monitor. Sometimes those get lost and then I have to depend on my own memory (dubious)

Recently I was in the middle of fixing up a facility that wasn’t working right when opposite sides of my base got hit hard by bugs. They broke through walls while I was travelling to repair the first attack, just a mess all around.

Anyway, I decided I didn’t want to deal with the cleanup right away because it was already getting late, so I left a sticky note. Then it took me a couple days to get back to the game and the note went missing. I remembered to clean up and shore up the defenses, but I forgot that the thing I had been working on before the attack wasn’t quite finished. Came back to it a week later to see why my resources weren’t getting shipped before I realized what happened.

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I’ve often thought that Factorio needs a comment block / sign post / notepad for just such a thing

They added a display panel just recently for this! It’s actually pretty nice and can display on the mini-map if you wish. It can even display different things based on circuit conditions, if you want to get fancy!

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Oh, “always show the first line” makes the line shown “independently of the mouse being over the device” and not “independently of the logical condition”.

I still think that setting needs a better name.

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This is exactly what I’ve been using since 2.0. Right before I close the game, I plop one of these down nearby with text reminding me what I’m gonna do next.

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