What happened
Factorio crashes on <surface>.find_entities_filtered with absurdly large radius value.

How to reproduce
Run this command in the console
/c game.surfaces[1].find_entities_filtered{position = {0,0}, radius = 1.7976931348623e+308}

Why did i try this
I have a script for finding ...

Stargateur wrote: Thu May 08, 2025 12:11 am less is more, I would remove pistol and shotgun from game

I would leave that up to Wube. However both are used in mods, so removing them might require slightly more analysis.

Improve shotgun
I made a mod: shotgun rebalance , and i think some of my ideas deserve to be promoted to vanilla Factorio after having played around with them.


Promoting the shotgun to default unlock.
Move piercing shotgun shells from Military 4 to Military 2.
Half shotgun movement penalty ...

I know rocket fuel crafting time must have been halved sometime in 2.0.x as i have used ratio of 2 blue assemblers to 1 chemical plant in 0.18 and solid fuel crating time was halved in 2.0.7.

However the wiki doesn't list this change.

Thank you.

Circuit Combinator crash when setting signal quality without base signal
The game consistently crash when setting a quality modifier on signal if a base signal hasn't been set on a arithmetic or decider combinator.

This bug has been tested with only Quality mod enabled.

Steps to reproduce ...

BaseAtttackParameters::movement_slow_down_cooldown
This property only applies to the Character firing a Gun .

The current description:
movement_slow_down_cooldown :: float optional
Default: equal to cooldown property

The property in fact seems to be a number of ticks that the penalty is ...

What?
An event that fires every tick like on_tick , but fires after the tick has completed.

Why?
Some code is better to run before stuff happens while other code is better to run after.
In one of my mods i paint the state of machines on top of them for easier reading of where you should direct ...

The description of game.server_save does not make it obvious that it only works in multiplayer mode. Or more specifically that it does nothing in singleplayer mode.

Treating this as a minor issue is fair. As it doesn't interfere with general gameplay and is really just an inaccuracy. That said, i do still believe it is relevant to get it fixed.

For normal gameplay this issue doesn't matter that much. However it is relevant for some modded configurations, for ...

Brief
Crafting recipes, with the character, such as iron-gear-wheel or transport-belt takes 31 ticks instead of 30 ticks. While recipes such firearm-magazine or underground-transport-belt take the expected 60 ticks.

Where?
This issue seem to be reserved to crafting with the character ...

https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/Lua ... ve_enabled is read/write.
So couldn't you just disable it while your mod is active?
Effectively forcing the user of your mod to use your custom timer.

I can try pulling the research queue, the next time I look at the mod.
on_research_finished and on_research_started doesn't really work for me. As that would mean the research tasks are added to the task list on a nearly random point.

Dropping items on entities doesn't trigger any events
There is a fairly specific handling of dropping items on entities where only one item is fast-transferred.
However neither on_player_fast_transferred or on_player_dropped_item triggers when this happens.

Change event fast-transferred
I would ...

I don't particularly care about dequeued technologies, since cancelling research is easily done by going back in time and just not queuing it. But i can see why it would matter for other uses :)

on_research_queue_changed would need to have an indicator of the index and if the item was queued or ...

I can use 'game.auto_save(name)' to save the game locally on demand as a workaround, but it prepends the name with '_autosave-'.


The autosave is also marked as an autosave , which means it can only be overwritten by another autosave-save which is annoying.

I would prefer game.server_save to ...

What
I would like an event on_research_queued similar to on_research_started .

How
Fields:

research :: LuaTechnology -> the queued technology
queue_index :: uint -> the research queue index of the technology
name :: defines.event
tick :: uint


I can probably handle any implementation ...

I don't think it is actually possible to get "my blueprints". At least I couldn't find anything even remotely similar.

I guess you have to choose between Typescript or the mod toolkit. I would choose the latter.

If the problem is that you are changing the crafting queue order, then you can try to iterate backwards.

Would something like Avatars work for you?