I'm aware of the minecraft and factorio mods that do this. It seems you would use a sub-factory for:
The main appeal is making modular pieces, but you can already do that. Make an auto-smelter factory and have a stack of auto-smelters in your backpack. Develop a system so all your factories have magnets and rollers in the same place so they can easily link together. You could make a generic "A-B-A" factory since a couple recipes all use that pattern.
The 1x1 challenge is cool, but that's pretty much a whole different game taking place in a non-euclidean world.
(implementing this would also mean having a block with more than 4 bytes of data, so that's a big technical challenge)
i see...
by the way, the yellow core only switch gravity for a while, right? But it seem like my drill machine doesnt move when i connect to it, trying to make the dril move backward. I think you may need to fix the code because of:
Note: i use the conveyor as a wheel :)
Also my English may be incorrect cus it not my primary one
Force (yellow) core is effected by gravity, but should go on forever if it has space and is powered.
Rollers have a mechanic where they only work of there is a normal force pushing it against what it rolls on, usually gravity. Do you have a screenshot of rollers not working as wheels when you believe they should?
Blueprints in factorio are more often used to automatically build structures with bots than as a guide for the player. You can already automatically build structures with the existing mechanics and even stack multiple in your inventory.
When a blueprint is used as a guide for the player, it usually either removes the tedium of say, counting exactly 24 smelters in a row to fill a belt, or it just gives you a design that you pulled from the internet. Having a feature were people can easily copy designs is not a high priority since it removes a lot of gameplay.
