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Manual sorting is already possible by Renaming the Platform. If you have enough Platforms to exceed the Surface selection box size then perhaps it is time to evaluate if they are all necessary or you just like launching rockets.


Yes, manually sorting is possible via naming, but as ...

I second this request. Thought of it independently now that I am building platforms en masse (due to free trading amongst them), and was glad to see someone else already on it.

Rseding91 wrote: Wed Jul 29, 2026 1:35 pm You've clicked the "hide tall entities" button in the quickbar. If you click it again it will un-hide them.

Oof. Sorry. Not something I use, so I didn't realize. Thank you!

My construction and logistic drones started appearing semi-transparent/ghost-like. It occurred when I loaded the game (and re-loaded the game), but this issue had not appeared even when playing yesterday.

I noticed it the first time I used drones in my most recent load, which triggered when I ...

Hello,

What did you do?

I have built several space platforms that move between Nauvis and the other three closer planets without issue.

I built a space platform for my first Aquilo run by blueprinting my Gleeba space platform. I modified it significantly, and once I was ready for a first test ...

OK, that makes sense. Will test that.

Thank you @Muche.

What did you do?
I built a circuit setup to send a signal to a train stop if the amount of items in linked chests went above a certain threshold.

What happened?
The setup unexpectedly evaluates to TRUE when an item in the linked chest is first added and then quickly removed. More specifically ...

Can an interrupt be used if you select the "Allow interrupting other interrupts"?

So, for example, if you have an interrupt to send the train to a depot if no path or station is full.

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DaveMcW wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 8:45 pm
That can be fixed with the anchor property.
https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/Con ... #GuiAnchor

Great, thank you!

Using a hash can be fun and means you don't have to keep track of used IDs. But there is a risk of collision, which can be fun. In ocaml you have variant types, which are kind of a enum. Internaly the name you give for each variant is hashed and that value is used. This leads to:

# type ...

It's this line:

gui = defines.relative_gui_type.linked_container_gui,

That tells the game that new element is only for the linked container.

Note: The name will appear for all linked containers. It's not specific to a prototype but to the base of the prototype. So another mod has their own ...

As for "using that name to set the link ID", you could make use of a hashing function. For example, CRC32 would give you a 32-bit number for any given string. The downside is that collisions may occur if two different names happen to yield the same hash.


Interesting idea. I was thinking of ...

Here is a sample of what can be done with a gui. Paste it into the console.


Thank you @DaveMcW! This has definitely given me some great direction.

I tested your code via the console, and it provided a plain text input field on linked-containers. If you don't mind, I was curious how it worked ...

I recently got my Linked-Chest mod working locally, in part thanks to people answering questions and reading through many old forum posts.

One thing I could not figure out was whether it was possible to add a naming input field similar to those that TrainStops have? To skip ahead, instead of using ...

mrvn wrote: Wed Oct 20, 2021 2:36 am You should use a base image and a tint for the color.

That's my long-term plan. First I'm just trying to get iterating to work at all.

mrvn wrote: Tue Oct 19, 2021 12:06 am Create a linked chest somewhere out of the way, configure it and then copy&paste the config or blueprint the chest?

I had tried these methods, but if hreintke has a gui (that is shareable), that could be a great quality of life enhancement.

That would then be 3 prototypes and WarpChest1 won't link with WarpChest2.

I think you should just try it. According to the docs it should just work without you having to set a link_id at all.


Thank you mrvn. They do appear to be operating independently (my understanding was incorrect). My ...

Entity icon is almost useless, it is only used in the map editor.

What you want is entity. picture .


Thank you DaveMcW.

That got me on the right path.

For anyone who needs it in the future, the final working code was:

--item.lua

local WarpChest = util.table.deepcopy(data.raw["linked ...

I created a Warp Chest, which is just a modification of the Linked Chest. The mod loads, and it has the custom properties related to inventory size. But, when I place the item on the ground, it reverts icons back to the base model.

I have tried numerous approaches looking at different mods and ...

hreintke wrote: Fri Jul 30, 2021 2:52 pm Made a small mod with gui to change the values and visualize the linked chests.

Which mod is that? I could not find it while searching.