Trashcan?

[M6Hurricane]

Hey all, I just fired up the game for the first time in a long time. I remember that there wasn't every a way to dispose or recycle items. Has that been added or are we still making wooden chests and exploding them?

[The Chaotic Coder]

Are you talking about stuff like your burner drills from the beginning of the game?

No, there still isn't a way to dispose of stuff like that without putting it in a chest and shooting it. I don't think there are any plans to add that in the future, either, since (with the exception of a few pieces of burner equipment from the early game) everything can be reused in some way.

[M6Hurricane]

Yeah I'm talking about burner stuff and old weapons and tools. It's not a big deal. I was just wondering

[AlexMBrennan]

(with the exception of a few pieces of burner equipment from the early game) everything can be reused in some way.

Debateable - steel furnaces have always been a dead end, and with the addition of nuclear power regular furnaces, boilers and steam engines are all reduced to garbage in the endgame.

I am strongly in favour of such a mechanic because making the player choose between two bad options is just plain not fun: slow progress (skip steel furnaces and very slowly upgrade to electric furnaces) or lots of waste (build steel furnaces, and discard them after maybe 2h)

[Captain Freefall]

You can use this mod to get recycling machines, which will break down items to the base components used.[mods.factorio.com]