That's what searchlight does already, and the best it can achieve is a very narrow beam that'll only appear when there's a target and then follow it around. Searchlight Assault does something different, but effectively only creates a spot of light (that sweeps back and forth). Neither of these are w...

Ah, crap, as I was starting to work on this, I happened to remember about this: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=100628 Lamps don't actually have a "direction", thus they don't support a focused beam in a particular direction that could then be rotated. The car, locomot...

You should try watching your computer's ram usage during this and see what happens. But if it is a specific mod, you can do the half at a time method: load with only half of the mods enabled; if the problem does not happen, then the issue is in the other half. Which ever half is causing the problem,...

A mod like this would be trivial for me to make, and is something I'd kind of want, too, due to my use of Clockwork to darken and extend the nights.

However, I can't create graphics, so I don't know what I'd use for the entity(ies).

MisterFister wrote: ↑

Mon May 13, 2024 4:13 am

Is there any way to sock it away offline, so as to delete it from my Factorio directly, but retaining the possibility of re-accessing it in the future if need be?

Create a copy of the file and rename the copy.

Related question: disabling a mod, but leaving the files installed and available to be re-enabled -- does that fully eliminate troubleshooting variables, i.e. does this prevent "contamination" of the install for any troubleshooting purpose that might or might not be relevant for my issue ...

I usually build in 2x2 and 4x4.

But, it wouldn't hurt to have something that goes min (1x1) to vanilla max (20x20 or whatever it is).

If the rocket itself is a placeholder That is not what is being said. And even then, that's only thoughts & opinions, not facts. The rocket will still be around. The RCU is being removed in favor of blue chips. Functionally, this really makes no difference. While a moderator has said that the c...

Something along this line might be in 2.0, as you can't build certain entities on space platforms. Although this may be a simple allow in space boolean, but if that's the case I would hope we can ask them to change it.

Hmm, not that I'm necessarily against this, but this has literally zero interest to me and I'd certainly hope for the option to disable/not participate if it was added. There are also many things that I'd rather see long before this because of that.

Illiander42 wrote: ↑

Sun May 12, 2024 9:01 am

Personal challenge.

Not everything has to be about badge collecting.

Agreed.

Although, I'd rather see them be removed altogether to burn and rot in Hell....

Not true. I think you could load up a 0.18 base and it'll work fine. Maybe even 0.17 (I think that's when they did the final changes to the science packs). Certainly I can load up a base I built on release (1.0) and everything will work. I have that base and I have continued in it without issue, so...

It'll break all current worlds. Even changes to the minor version (second set of numbers) for this game have always brought breaking changes with it, so frankly breaking changes with an update to the major version should be expected . They will increase the amount of Processing Units you need inste...

If you happen to have a second computer, you can try loading the save on that one, too, just as a way of determining if it's something up with your computer, install, or the save itself. Alternatively, post your save for someone else to download and test on their own computer. Anything further witho...

Oh, certainly. I've done it a number of times myself. But not having multiple items on the same line or making sure the opening and closing brackets are clearly visible to each other certainly helps. Examples: icon = sprite '3in1-item.png', icon_size = 64 -- vs icon = sprite '3in1-item.png', icon_si...

Engimage wrote: ↑

Fri May 10, 2024 1:26 pm

And also second this:

zhonbi wrote: ↑

Fri May 10, 2024 1:19 pm

Could we rename the rocket weapons to missiles? Just to avoid confusion with space-launched rockets.

I'd almost advocate for the reverse, if we're talking the weapon itself (and not the ammo; the ammo is likely the same/shared between the two).

The only reasonable fix I see would probably be to make wagons and locomotives 7 tiles long, but I'm unable to evaluate the consequences of this This would actually swap which length trains experience the "issue". Currently, 1-X trains where X is an even number (so the whole train has an ...

I've always wished for target priorities in this game! --------------------------------------------- These rockets are searching towards their target. I see a lot of path finding going on, or does it just move towards its target? Doesnt this really slow down your UPS if you have a full wall rocket t...

Not to take away from the suggestions of better IDEs because, yeah, that certainly can point out things like that faster, but different formatting could've very quickly shown it at least wasn't actually brackets (or at least not in the way the compiler was saying), allowing you to concentrate your e...

So first, I want to note that picture does not show for me. This is probably a CDN issue. Have a look here for how to fix it: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=112882&p=607959#p607959 I use Firefox, though the instructions here appear to be mostly the same, but there is no &q...