I think that Custom Licenses or "you can't do that!" are very Silly in this context


I know what you mean, but I think the license is meant as a way for modders to express their wish toward how their mods can be used by other modders, and not really like a legal text for a judge.

In that way ...

On a discord server, we came to have a big discussion about licenses with several modders.

There are some points that transpired that I think should be heard:

- Several people have expressed how lost they were with licenses, and they end up with one that don't represent how they wish their work be ...

Hi, I would like to suggest being able to control several things about the spider-vehicle prototype
https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/prototypes/SpiderVehiclePrototype.html

Right now, we have access to: height, torso_rotation_speed and torso_bob_speed.

Request:
I would love to be able to ...

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Currently amount of lightnings generated is based on the surface's darkness - its not quite the same as LuaSurface::darkness because the darkness used for lightnings is not capped by a value set by LuaSurface::min_brightness. Primary issue is that right now the darkness is 0 at day and 1 at night ...

+1

Instead of just on/off, I suggest being able to set the warning icon based on lightning type. That way, you can make it transparent, or another type of icon.

Lightning has a great potential to become a ton of things for modded planets. e.g. on a Dune project, we might plan to use that system ...

+1, it doesn't really make sense to have color LUTs defined per hub instead of per location


It's apparently per hub PROTO, meaning unless you add a new hub type, you can color space ONCE, and it will always stay at hour 0, so even if you define a cycle, it will keep the same color. Just tested ...

Hi, so far it's possible to change the color lookup table of planet surfaces and apparently, space platform hubs (I guess it would apply to the whole surface if I created a different hub prototype)
But it's apparently not possible to change the LUT of a space platform based on the orbit or spaceway ...

Hi, I have a modded crafting-machine, it has some fluidboxes. I have a separate fluid category called data, and I'm trying to have the specific pipes be infinite, instead of the default 320.
Every fluidbox I have in the whole mod has max_pipeline_extent = 1000000. When I use the flow_direction ...

My bad, i somehow missed that there's already a "not-in-made-in" flag, you can remove this thread

Hi,

I'm humbly requesting a new property in assemblies, furnaces etc (every entity that has "crafting_categories") that allows me to hide it from the "made in" part of recipes without setting the entity to "hidden" completely.

The reason I think this is "important" is that every prototype that borrows from the agricultural-tower prototype becomes basically just another agricultural tower. It's like not having crafting categories for assembling machines
Currently, you can basically do agriculture on my computer tower, and ...

I think there's at least 1 US based developer (Rseding91)

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Hi, I'd love to be able to add qualities (see: Mythic quality mod for example) without losing this big QoL feature that is the quality buttons in the UI. The current behavior is that when there's more than vanilla qualities, it reverts to a dropdown menu. There's space ...

Thank you!

I have here an agricultural tower (I know it doesn't look like one), and I made the soil 2x2, and that works.

> growth_grid_tile_size = 2

But I searched everything in the tile, plant and agricultural tower prototypes for anything that controls the size of the selection box that shows, when you ...

+1 for this request.

Would make sense if all probability added are less or equal to 1.0, you never get more than 1 item, and if it's more or equals than 1.0, it's never less than 1 item.

Doesn't make much difference for base recipes, but in my project, it makes much more sense if the input and ...

My problem:
right now there seems to be no way to restrict what kind of seed goes into what kind of agricultural-tower (when modders add new types), that means anything that has a "plant_result" will be displayed in every agricultural towers.

Proposed solution:
My request would be to add a ...

Hi, I'm trying to create a new sort of lightning strikes (solar flares) and I searched everywhere how to make the lightning strike when the sun is up, which I can't find neither in LightningPrototype , nor LightningProperties . Lightning will always strike at night.

My suggestion would be to have a ...

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