Biters will still chew their way through neutral/non-player entities to get to their target. So this might work for rail because that won't be in the way, but not for other structures that might block the biter's path. Huh, is that actually an actual "chewing" behavior? I always thought b...

1. Create 2 radar prototypes / entities, and chest entity attached.The first radar entity is the slow/default scan speed, the second radar is the fast radar entity. When the chest has alien artifacts / purple science, replace the slow radar entity with the fast radar entity, remove an alien science ...

Hehe, didn't you like my super slow start iron axe recipe? I have managed to play through to blue science with these recipes, and haven't found anything terribly unbalanced. Everything is slow, as it should be :) Thanks for the release, and KeepOnBuilding! I removed it because when you start a fres...

How time flies. Has it really been 3 months since 0.5.3 was released? Marathon 0.5.4 is out, with a slew of balance changes, mainly contributed from player discussions here and the contribution of KeepOnDigging ! I've been play-testing this release for over a month, and ironed out any issues before ...

Is there a way to make biters totally not attack something? I'd like them to totally ignore rail. Thanks. I think you want to create a new force, (by default there are 3 forces, player, neutral, biter) and assign the rail entities to the new force. Alternatively, assign the rails to the neutral for...

For the particularly brave users actually playing with Misanthrope, 0.0.4 improves performance significantly during biter AI. There is no more single frame of lag every 60s while biters are planning / attacking player structures.

I believe. It's been raised somewhere already: devs don't support separation of multiplayer and single player mods. Even though you're not forced to ensure mp compatibility. What is game.local_player then? That is a SP only method. It would indeed be nice to have some tool for benchmarking which is...

Rseding91 wrote:The only reason we don't have it accessible now is determinism. You could never use a replay or play multiplayer with any mod that used os.time() (or any variant of it).

If the function only works in SP, that seems like an acceptable trade-off.

Slightly related discussion: https://forums.factorio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=13299&p=89368 Thanks for the link. I think to clarify, I don't care about player time, but machine / operating system time of the host / local player. I don't think the player time matters, just the time for...

It seems the lua 'os' library is not included in the factorio lua sandbox, likely for security considerations. In general, this is a good idea, but in particular, a way to access the unix epoch time would be useful. Epoch time is useful for logging (timestamps), debugging slow code execution (examin...

Error while running the event handler: __AmmoBox__/control.lua:133: petroleum-generator doesn't have an inventory with index(1) A new "Game Breaking Bug", with 12.14 :D As long as you are on AmmoBox 0.1.4 and Factorio 0.12.15, you shouldn't see this. If you do, provide a save & zip of...

I read through the last several posts, and had started a draft where I tried to respond to each argument individually. By then the end though, I realized my reply would encourage exactly the wrong sort of reaction. I think the core argument here is that Misanthrope shifts the game balance from the p...

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Error while running the event handler: __AmmoBox__/control.lua:133: petroleum-generator doesn't have an inventory with index(1)

A new "Game Breaking Bug", with 12.14

Factorio 0.12.14 is totally broken, don't use it.

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Error while running the event handler: __AmmoBox__/control.lua:103: attempt to call field 'get_inventory' (a nil value)

Getting this when i load my 12.13 save...

This should be fixed in 0.1.4!

Confirmed. I am seeing fairly strange results, similar to Choumiko. The objects exist now, but are mangled.

I think it makes sense that biters fight back as best as possible. And it is obvious you put a lot of effort and thought into your mod. So I say if it works for your target audience, then that's great. However, I fall into neither of your two categories. I enjoy a world were biters pose a challenge...

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Error while running the event handler: __AmmoBox__/control.lua:103: attempt to call field 'get_inventory' (a nil value)

Getting this when i load my 12.13 save...

Thanks for the report! I will take a look and release a fix later tonight.

With no forum activity from the mod author and if you plan on maintaining it, it might be better to make a new thread so you'd have control of the original post. Probably. I will do that in a day or so. Thank you very much. But it works until load game. When loading trees are not growing. Alright. ...

My really unimportant opinion is, that it is a bit unfair to attack rails. Cause it's really difficult to defend (and repair) rail-lines which go over 1000 or more tiles. Same for power lines. It's fair for players to wipe out biter spawners, but it's not fair for biters to take out player's resour...

So does that mean with this mod, the player has to defend each single piece of railway, because it will be attacked by biters? Any player built structure is fair game. So in short, yes. So does that mean with this mod, the player has to defend each single piece of railway, because it will be attack...