Anyway 255 is very reasonable maximum number of tile types. Vanilla uses just 31, so mods can still add more than 200 tile types. Go complain to the mod creators to keep their usage of tiles reasonable :)


The tile limit is easily broken when using the various space mods (they add a lot of tiles ...

https://i.imgur.com/6zI8AzF.png

Idea is to make my own variant of transport drones. I didn't like that drones require petroleum nor the limited controls with requester depots.

I want to use this new mod I am working on to make a "mail" delivery system
Inspiration for the drone is a mix between a ...

I'd like to have access to the assets too. Creating mods that replicate in game entities can be difficult with photoshop alone. Having a set of 3D objects to work with would be very helpful

Actually if you want to follow my work, I'll be announcing when I intend to open it up for a public beta on my "todo" list - viewtopic.php?f=34&t=93708

so is there a beta available to test?


Not yet. I'm going between 4 different projects right now. Right now my next goal is to get my recursive blueprints mod expansion out. Then wrap up my work for Clusterio. Then I'll return here. I'm waiting until Clusterio, because Clusterio also uses RCON ...

Patch is coming along. I am going between 3 different factorio projects right now. I've got this one, Clusterio and recursive blueprints.

Currently, the patch is officially written, however there isn't a client/client script written to work well with asynchronous RCON. That's the next step. I need ...

Actually, I just found it:

From the original Source RCON protocol spec (https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Source_RCON_Protocol#Packet_ID):

The packet id field is a 32-bit little endian integer chosen by the client for each request. It may be set to any positive integer. When the server ...

It is not even close to what i asked. Quoted part says that rcon client has full freedom of choosing ID values, up to using non unique ID's which means server cannot use request ID's for its own purposes (for example it cannot use it for request duplicate removal because client could reuse old ...

What's implemented deviates so much from the "specification" that a standard RCON client doesn't work with Factorio. Since we already have to write our RCON clients to conform to Factorio's dialect there's little in the way for deviating more from it.

I'm pretty sure this still is in spec with ...

Do you have any protocol description references for that claim? responses should arrive in the same order as the commands they requested them, so sending responses in order ID=1 (for request 1), ID=2 (for request 2) then ID=1 (unsolicited) would violate the order preserving property.


Actually ...

Do you have any protocol description references for that claim? responses should arrive in the same order as the commands they requested them, so sending responses in order ID=1 (for request 1), ID=2 (for request 2) then ID=1 (unsolicited) would violate the order preserving property.


Hmm... no ...

Wont implement.


Understood.


RCON is specified to be request-response based. Unsolicited responses would confuse some rcon clients and there would be no specific value to be placed in the ID field of the response.


FYI, you can send the same ID more than one, as long as it is a Response and ...

But if this was added I wouldn't call it RCON any more, there's no mechanism in RCON to send data from the server to the client outside the response to a command. I also don't quite see how this would work. Factorio can have multiple RCON connections active at the same time. How does Factorio know ...

Currently waiting on status of LuaRCON problem: viewtopic.php?f=28&t=93548

- Marked as Won't Implement - so, I'll make a patch myself.

Not a bug.

rcon is valid only during command called by rcon and cannot be used outside of it.


Alright moved it to a feature request then:

https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=93548

Can you explain why it was implemented like this? I understand why disabling the `rcon` variable ...

relevant thread: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=93545&p=528996#p528996
LuaRCON objects should be allowed to print() after calling it

Currently, if you send this to RCON...



/c local remote = rcon
script.on_event( defines.events.on_console_chat, function ( event )
remote ...

If I send any of these to the server (headless) via RCON:



/c local remote = rcon
script.on_event( defines.events.on_console_chat, function ( event )
remote.print( "this does not work. reeeeee" )
end)
rcon.print( "this works" )



or



/c script.on_event( defines.events.on_console_chat ...

UPDATE #1: progress on the GUI

Future Plans:

• Improve stdout (all that white and black text bit

• Add ssh connectability

• Add server settings and map gen control

• Add modloader

• Add Lua script injection

• Post Code

Headless Factorio Server Interface (hFI)

--Currently still in development
--This is a show case of where my work is currently at
--It is compatible with anything that can run Google Chrome + nodejs (electronJS)