Is there a production statistics menu somewhere?

[Sleeper Agent]

Is there some menu where I can see ALL production and consumption for a given good (i.e. how much was produced, how much was consumed by industries, used for furniture, traded, etc.)?

[Malorn]

Yes, there is. It's the goods menu. Also shows prices over the last year.

[MOK]

The quickest way to access the details of a particular good is to click on it's stock quantity on the right side of the UI. I've been using it to troubleshoot product balancing more and more as I scale up.

Additionally, the tooltip from hovering over the stock quantity on the base UI is useful, but it doesn't account for 'access consumption,' only industry consumption. So balancing items that get used for both is kind of tricky, and requires accessing the detailed graph from clicking the stock quantity.

It's interesting that this part of the game is great about giving you all the metrics you'd want, but actually keeping it balanced requires constant revisiting, tweaking, trial and error, and head-math. Despite all the solid numbers and trends, it could use some QoL to make it less laborious.

[BeheadThoseWhoInsultKane]

Originally posted by MOK:

Despite all the solid numbers and trends, it could use some QoL to make it less laborious.

Or not. Because very streamlined metrics lead to modern factorio cookie-cutter gameplay which sucks all fun out of it

[MOK]

Nah, there's lots of room between the present state and the extreme you describe. For example, it would be common to want the same amount of smelting capacity as your ore output. Pretty straightforward, yet it's a batch of settings you'll continually revisit to tweak for various reasons. Most industries have some extent of this. But this process can be reduced, without turning into full automation, nor paring it down to one template to rule them all.