I had a hunch -- "Getting on track like a pro" is the only early game achievement whose steam icon is animated. I wasn't able to figure out how to run factorio without steam, so in all of my testing I had to leave steam open. It turns out the problem only occurs if the "Getting on tra...

I thought it was a strange coincidence that deleting achievements fixed the problem, and the problem came back immediately after getting "Getting on track like a pro" so I did some more testing. Deleting achievements and then restarting factorio consistently fixes the problem, and acquirin...

I have had Factorio on my current machine for a long time with no issues, including late game SpaceEx bases. The worst I get is a little lag when zoomed out in a big forest. I have screenshots from 2021 of getting 60.0 fps and ups, and with "flip" values in the range 1 - 5 ms. Recently I p...

Not sure if this is a "bug", but as far as I searched it doesn't seem to be a known issue. In the SpaceEx mod, you can configure the "space pipe" to have sizes from 50 to 150 units, which is done by changing the "base area" of the fluidboxes. I had a completely static n...

Sorry, the attachments got dropped, I try again.

I've begun experiencing significant flickering within Factorio only; I'm unsure if this is a bug or can be fixed with more appropriate graphics settings. No other application has had any such problem. Issue: Flickering within Factorio. Speed of flickering is often steady around 1 Hz, sometimes slowe...

Great, thank you! I missed it when I was examining the list of events.

I would like to detect when the last of the ore on a tile is mined out, ideally on the same tick, and for all tiles that have been explored. Unfortunately I couldn't find anything in the API that would help with this. Approximate solutions would be okay, including looking at groups of tiles instead ...

On second thought, if you relaxed the 32-bit restriction on signals, there are a wide variety of formulas for pi that could be calculated "in place", and it would be a little underwhelming to have a 20 combinator computer spitting out hundreds of digits of pi. The only consolation for the ...

Thanks for the link. It's quite slick, and is a clever combinator creation, but my own goal was to make a computer that computes pi: the relevant distinction here being that a computer (in the sense of computer science) has a fixed size, rather than growing to accommodate the thing being computed. O...

I put this on reddit and forgot to crosspost here in case anyone was interested. I computed the first 455 binary digits of pi in 3 hours and 43 minutes. Explanation video (I suggest 1.5x speed if you find my typing too slow): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67XC8s5fG_g Reddit thread: https://old.red...

This is surprising to me since turrets do change color when the player changes color. But I just tested and cars only change color if the player is currently inside. (And thus I've found for the first time an actual use for my Rainbow Player Color mod.) By the way - thanks for your changelog tutorial!

Ok, I guess if I don't migrate the values I don't need to worry about the questions I had. I'll try to come up with some way to print a warning message to the chat console so that users can verify their settings are as desired. (Because the mod changes terrain generation, it can have effects that ar...

Maybe a dev knows the answers?

A transitional release was my backup plan if it's not possible to transition directly, but it sounds like even that may not be feasible.

I'm writing my first real migration script and was looking for some guidance on what I'm doing; I've already looked at e.g. https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/Migrations.html , but it doesn't say much by way of specifics. I'm moving some settings from startup settings to runtime-global settings. Th...

Thanks for your help!

Ahhhh excellent. That will be better. I will need some thought to deal with items that already have localized names. On that note, I'm unclear what the following localised_name does: localised_name = { "item-name.filled-barrel", { "fluid-name.heavy-oil" } } since there seems to b...

Thanks, that's helpful. I was thinking of making a mod that randomizes item names (the names visible to user, not the internal names) and icons, but since I think there's no way to change the locale names of things from lua, I figured I could just change every other attribute instead. But then I'll ...

Some items, like copper cable, red wire, and green wire, have special behavior when users hold them in hand and click on certain entities. Looking in data.raw, the only thing unusual I see about these items is the attribute "wire_count = 1". It looks to me like there is no way to control t...

It was suggested in a response to another of my questions that I can ask the user to input a string at the beginning of a game. However, I couldn't figure out how to do that. I assume this involves the LuaGui stuff in some way, which I've never used before, but after looking through the documentatio...