The person wanting to use a different theme might be able to replace the graphics files in their installation, assuming the new theme exactly matches the placements of everything in the sprite sheet. A bit drastic, perhaps, but GUI styles are prototypes just like most anything else defined in the ga...

The closest thing I can think of is to have the custom input provide the hovered prototype, and try to infer what to do from that. This would, however, not allow you to select a specific item stack, the best you could do with it is "take one item matching the prototype that was hovered", b...

There is no event for machines completing a craft. Such an event would happen thousands of times per second or even more in megabases. Player handcrafting, by contrast, is relatively rare.

Awesome news! How flexible is the auto-landfill part of the super force build mode with regard to modding? Is "landfill" going to be hard-coded similar to the "copper-wire", "red-wire" and "green-wire" items, or is it using some property of the tile prototype ...

I was halfway through writing a suggestion for the game itself when I remembered that half of the idea is already implemented for mods. I would like to suggest an option for chests to have a checkbox allowing the player to toggle exact mode on a given entity. I would especially love it if this could...

I should note that IR3 intentionally makes handcrafting painful to strongly encourage automation. In my personal experience of it, you should focus on automating intermediates so that you're only hand crafting buildings, then work on automating the buildings. I feel that this is a very deliberate de...

Likely should require registration, similar to entities being destroyed, otherwise a lot of irrelevant events could happen.

I don't remember it exactly myself, but the projectile creates a "poison-cloud" entity, which I believe is a "smoke with triggers" I think?

You should be able to loop through tutorials in the prototype tree, and prefix their code with a line to set the character's reach there.

Look at how poison clouds do damage over time, and give that negative damage to make a heal-over-time area.

I think character.prototype.bounding_box should work, right? But aside from that your code is prone to issues in a multiplayer setting, since you've hardcoded "player 1" in there. You should instead do game.players[event.player_index], and you should also be checking that objects exist and...

This definitely feels like it would be better as a suggestion on the base game. As it involves the cursor position (which isn't part of the game state) and the rendered camera (which just renders the game state) it would be very difficult to get it in a mod since mods are all about working with the ...

Forgive me if this is a daft question, but why is the search for selection boxes implemented using collision boxes? I'm guessing code reuse, since collision boxes are used in so many more places?

I'm fairly sure this would actually be worse for performance, since you'd be querying the game engine for the user data rather than using your local Lua environment for it. Interfacing between script and game are the biggest bottleneck for mod performance, and such round trips should be minimised. B...

I'm creating some custom GUI for a part of my mod, and I would like to be able to replicate the visual effect of a filtered inventory slot. To this end I created a `sprite-button` with `style="inventory_slot"`, but obviously just setting the `sprite` to the desired item results in the spri...

As part of my mod I want to create a piece of armour that cannot be removed - this is to allow having an equipment grid that you can place your actual equipment into. To that end, I can give the player this armour item when they spawn/respawn, and replace it with its equipped items in their corpse o...

Unless I'm missing it, the gun inventory size appears to be hard-coded to 3. I think it would be beneficial to have that moddable. Even better if it could be expanded via technology. This would allow my mod to have a progression where you start with only one slot for weapons, and can unlock more as ...

I'm going to second InappropriatePenguin's comment about link colours. It was the very first thing I noticed, and after checking I see it has a contrast ratio of 4.1 with the grey background. Given the relatively thin font weight, this makes it a big fail for accessibility/legibility. It doesn't jus...

Unfortunately not, the mining radius is always a square.