Thank you for the assist friends. See the outcome here https://mods.factorio.com/mod/rocket_surgery

A solution has thus far eluded me. If I alter the recipe for a rocket-part with a water ingredient, the silo shows that no recipes are available. This is where I am at: local rocketSilo = table.deepcopy(data.raw["rocket-silo"]["rocket-silo"]) rocketSilo.fluid_box = { { production...

Does this mean I should abandon my attempt to alter the "rocket-part" recipe to include fluids?

Unfortunately, the miner also shows when it can or cannot be placed. It would need to show red yet be place-able for "hiding" resources to work. I solved this problem by filling every empty space with "Earth" resource, which was also invisible. So that was able to work-around &q...

https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=103511 I would like to disable this GUI element https://i.imgur.com/2znShET.png In vanilla, you can hold a mining drill over a plot of land to get the "expected resources". Also, once the drill is activated, this info is also made availa...

Dang it, you called it right. I doubt it is likely but maybe this element can be hidden?

or perhaps this one?

cbhj1 wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 21, 2022 12:52 pm

Another wrinkle in what you describe is the same scanning can be done with a miner in hand. Even being able to place them off ore, their placement gui for expected resources will be the next snag.

Is this what you were referring to? These green squares?

The goal is to cover the whole map, except for other ore patches with a mine-able Earth. This code does work but makes my M1 Mac beachball-spin for about 5 seconds when starting a map. Can anything be done to make this more efficient? local earthResource = table.deepcopy(data.raw["resource"...

I've created an ore "earth" which is infinitely mine-able and covers everything, even other ore patches. But it seems that this means that you can't mix ores. If I place a miner over an iron patch, the miner only ever mines the top layer of earth and never mines the iron patch "beneat...

One more thing- every space is covered in "earth" ore, making every space mine-able. You can now put a mining drill anywhere script.on_event(defines.events.on_chunk_generated, function(event) for x = event.area.left_top.x + 0, event.area.right_bottom.x - 1 do for y = event.area.left_top.y ...

Another wrinkle in what you describe is the same scanning can be done with a miner in hand. Even being able to place them off ore, their placement gui for expected resources will be the next snag. au contraire! local plain = "basic-solid"; local deep = "basic-solid-deep"; local ...

That works

https://i.imgur.com/SdsC6eY.png I'm working on a mod that hides ores from the map and from the "first person" perspective. (See Bland Ores mod) Unfortunately, you can still manually scan the ground with the cursor to reveal otherwise invisible ore. Is there anyway to prevent this? I would...

I have not found a collision mask which will allow building drills off of resources? Is this baked in?

solution: local CollisionMaskUtil = require("__core__.lualib.collision-mask-util"); local nonToxicTiles = CollisionMaskUtil.get_first_unused_layer(); for _, tile in pairs(data.raw.tile) do table.insert(tile.collision_mask, nonToxicTiles); data:extend({tile}); end local toxicTiles = Collisi...

I'm trying to suss this out: if a unit dies on a `garbageFill` or a `sacrificezoneFill`, it should replace that tile with a landfill tile. I haven't so far been able to find the correct combination of collision masks. Perhaps some other mechanism exists? local CollisionMaskUtil = require("__cor...

I don't want to alter the idle lab animation, so I'm not sure why I'd alter the `off_animation`? I only want to change the lights when it's researching.

I am attempting to create a suite of labs, and each are visually distinct by their active "glow". I'm using the white mask provided by DiscoScience, which will at build-time be used to generate a the of colored variants, so my nuclear lab gets a green glow, heat powered lab gets a red glow...

I was looking for my screenshots and the docs point to a folder which does not exist. According to https://wiki.factorio.com/Application_directory, the screen shots ought to appear in `~/Library/Application Support/factorio` but no such folder exists on my computer (Mac OSX)