I've built an orbital station whose purpose is to pre-fetch building materials and intermediates from the planet and make them available to passing cargo ships. However I noticed (just in time!) that if I were to have this orbital station request materials for a rocket silo and then build it, I ...

I agree this should be looked into, because I just put two Speed Module 1s into an Assembling Machine 2 making copper cable.

While the float representation of `4 * 0.75 * 1.4` does indeed come out to `4.199999999999999`, it gets rendered as `4.19` in-game. It is being truncated, not rounded.

I'm trying to make a "flight time calculator" tool, and that is a function of:

- Thrust
- Platform weight
- Platform width
- Distance
- Gravity at origin and target

Thrust can be tricky since that's adjustable with throttling but I'll worry about that later. The big thing missing is the gravity ...

When selecting filters, you can't select the same filter twice. That's fine, this works as intended:

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If I select Uncommon quality, I can now select the item. Also working as intended:

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I switch back to Normal quality. The filter claims to ...

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 ...

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", but it ...

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 to select a tile to build there? For ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 are ...

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 ...

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 sprite being ...