It looks strange not to have some method for how buildings are placed on the space platform. Perhaps specialized space spidertrons for construction would be nifty; instead of pointy feet, they grab hold of the platform to move around, and ideally, their animation is impacted by how much thrust is be...

From the point of view of maximum laziness; reuse the screenshot layouts for main menu scenarios and/or test cases?

Also, I think there's an option to tell factorio to load a map then run for n ticks; though I don't know if you can use graphics in that mode.

Two methods I know of to nearly do what you're describing; fire artillery where you're exploring, or the scanning radar mod; it allows you to describe minimum and maximum range, and start and end angle from the radar.

So... a spidertron with floaties (pontoons, I guess), or perhaps one with really long legs?

Sounds like something that should be easily doable by a mod. Some mods that do parts of what you're suggesting: * https://mods.factorio.com/mod/platforms <-- removable tiles that go over water Any number of mods that override and/or modify terrain generation. A trivial solution would be something li...

Edit: To actually address the topic: I suspect that one reason to want to know if the event was raised by a script is to avoid two scripts duelling over what precisely should be in the equipment grid or not. I assume that that's a large part of why the script_raised events exist. --- At least in 0.1...

Perhaps an optional player field in on_equipment_inserted, if nil, it wasn't a player?

Do note that an inserter can... insert equipment into a grid under the correct conditions.

I like spiders; they tend to eat all the other creepy-crawlies.

In terms of a practical solution, replacing the leg graphics with empty graphics seems the most compatible solution for multiplayer.

Perhaps a zip file of empty png files to overwrite the base graphics?

One of the FFFs suggested that the graphics are first rendered, and then possibly distressed, and then for icons, the individual mipmaps tweaked to look good. The impression I get is that Factorio buildings tend to be weathered, while Angel's, and even more so Pyanodan's, are shiny and new, as if th...

You might be able to use the graphics from https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Surfaces or perhaps https://mods.factorio.com/mod/subterra ?

I think you would basically need the equivalent of, or perhaps precisely, a blueprint string to make that work, including the ability to specify sub-tile locations, circuit connections, etc.

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A freetext "tag=" on PrototypeBase would be sufficient.

Ah, but what if you want to make something magic in two ways; if you have just one tag, only one value can be associated; you could also do a set of tags, so this thing is interesting to mod 1 and mod 2.

I've been working on updating Pallets for myself.

I just uploaded my take on it here.

It would be useful to be able to declare that a given entity is magic (has additional behaviour that is supplied by a control script), so that if a mod creates a derived entity, it too can be flagged as being magical, without requiring explicit support in both mods. something like: data:extend{ { ty...

It could be useful to have a new prototype that can encode the components of a compound entity (one where a proxy object is built, and immediately replaced with a set of other entities). As an example use-case, it is not possible to create a Battery powered Cargo Ship without explicit support from b...

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/RITEG/dis ... a405f0bf3a

Crash on changing map-wide settings, possibly due to RITEGs being cloned by warptorio2?

Have a look at aai, spidertron logistics, or logiquipment?

None of them are exactly what you're after, but they do work in the same general area.

For the benefit of combatability, I (attempted to) calculate the approximate fuel value of the various nuclear materials, and here are my results: Edit: Presuming that I haven't made a mistake somewhere, I think I'm going to pretend that Classic mode doesn't exist. TLDR, the results: Classic: https:...

The main reason why is someone (not particularly seriously) suggested playing on the surface of a 4D object, which I don't think it would be feasible to represent with a 2D map, so I tried to think of what could be feasibly implemented, and I think you could implement a cube. You can only implement ...

I imagine what you'd need is something of a cross between a rail signal (so you can place them next to rail), a power pole (graphically) and an underground belt, for the behavior and cost. I'm guessing the signalling would ideally be configurable, but it would probably work acceptably well to only s...