I've got a big update! The Kafkatorio servers can now handle data from multiple Factorio servers at once. This means that I only need to have one instance of the Kafkatorio backend servers running, which can handle data from multiple Factorio servers. I've also published the source code, including s...

Thank you for the testing the publish API! Yes I'm aware of OpenAPI, but integrating it into the existing codebase takes a bit of work. At least with the new http APIs I did some internal refactoring so maybe in the future I'll get to implementing it. Even if it's not integrated in the code, publis...

This is incredibly cool! I love web maps like this. The map being live is impressive by iteslf, but it might also be cool to have a slider to view the timelapse of changes. Thanks! A timeline is definitely possible! (making a platform that would allow for that sort of flexibility was my intention)....

I've just updated the server with a new version - 0.8.0! https://factorio.adamko.dev/ https://i.imgur.com/LNHpelp.png Now buildings and ore is shown on the webmap. I've also significantly improved performance! I'd appreciate it if anyone could give it a test (direct connect to the server at this add...

The 'mod publish' API is really great! It was easy for me to set up an deployment task using Gradle. My one request is that you use OpenAPI (or an alternative, if any exist?) to document the REST APIs. It's nice having a parseable spec that's a consistent format. I have a question. Instead of versio...

I've been working on a proof-of-concept mod for a live updating web map. You'll be able to see your Factorio server from a browser, and see who's online and what they're building! You can view the first iteration here: https://factorio.adamko.dev/ https://i.imgur.com/1lVTXSw.png If you want to try i...

I'm using TypescriptToLua and GlassBricks/typed-factorio for exactly the same reason. It's working really well. I'd never used TypeScript (or Javascript) before I started, but I found it easy to pick up. IntelliJ supports autocomplete well.

Thanks boskid! The 'round towards negative infinity' tip was really useful. I have something that's working now. Here's a preview https://i.imgur.com/UhkPlOA.mp4 That's me clicking around the web-map I generated from my Factorio test map. I drew letters in concrete to make sure the map tiles were ge...

I'm exporting tile-data based on events into a file, and I'm trying to combine them into chunks so that I can make PNGs of them. I'm getting confused because I'm not clear on the coordinate system that Factorio is using, and whether it's the same for each of these different positions. I have a lot o...

LuaObjects are now saved using binary format instead of previous format with intermediate Lua table. This speeds up general handling of LuaObjects and makes saving and loading with a lot of them noticable faster. Would it be possible to access this encoded data it in a mod, and then document it so ...

-> Thanks for the hints, both of these are fixed for the next release. Hi, I see that LuaSurface is updated, thanks! But Position x/y is not, they still show ints. Concepts.html#Position -> The Position concept has been removed for the next version, everything now uses the specialized positions lik...

Done, thanks! I'm looking quite closely at the types of fields so it's good to know where to go.

Having the correct types documented makes using https://github.com/GlassBricks/typed-factorio/ even more useful.

I think I've found some mis-typed fields: [list=1] [*] https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/Concepts.html#Position Position x and y are documented as being ints, but when I get the player's position, it returns floating point numbers with decimal places. /c local p = game.player p.print(p.position.x...

https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/Concepts.html#Position Position x and y are documented as being ints, but when I get the player's position, it returns floating point numbers with decimal places. /c local p = game.player p.print(p.position.x.." "..p.position.y) -0.05078125, 46.48828125 ...

Bob's classes and character mod , for example, allows you to construct characters and leave avatars of yourself in the world. Say, your current character is of the miner's class. It's your character (player.character) which you are currently controlling: You move it up with <W>, you let it mine som...

Gotcha, thanks for the details! I understand better now, and I appreciate you taking the time to explain.

Thanks for the explanations - I understand the documentation better now. Would this re-write make sense? ( original ) A list of logged-in characters that are associated with this player. Associated characters are not controlled by the player (TODO what does 'controlled ' mean?). Characters can be as...

In case this is useful for others, I've found two other serialisation files in Clusterio

clusterio/packages/slave/modules/clusterio/serialize.lua


clusterio/plugins/inventory_sync/module/serialize.lua

Is LuaPlayer.position a convenience method for LuaPlayer.character.position?

Players and characters are different. Player is the controlling entity (i.e. you), character is the entity in the world that the player is bound to. Sorry yes, they're different, but when it comes to position they're the same right? LuaPlayer.position and LuaPlayer.character.position return the sam...