If you look at the "used in" of the CircuitConnectorDefinition , you see a long list of individual entities implementing the ability to connect a circuit to it.

My hope is to promote that to some baser entity type (probably EntityWithOwner ) so you can make just about any entity connectable to ...

Considering my understanding is that an entity "wakes up" the inserters around it, I would assume this information is already available in some form.

Don't know how convertible to an api field that is though

Rseding91 wrote: Sat Oct 04, 2025 8:00 pm it looks like currently game view settings only apply if you create a test player through https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/cla ... est_player

Maybe this should be moved to documentation improvements then?

I've gotten a bug report about my mod Biter Memoirs about our LuaRenderObjects showing up in fog of war. With a bit of investigating, I've found it's specifically the use_rich_text option that causes this.

Take this snippet of code, and then hover over an entity near the left edge of fog of war
You ...

As the title states, we cannot do custom tooltips on recipes when we can still do localized descriptions (the old method of custom tooltips)

Since it's on the Prototype I would've expected it to work on at least the major four (Items, Entities, Recipes, and Technologies).
I can concede it maybe not ...

Boskid recently gave pretty good detail about what exactly it means for an entity to be mirrored
I believe it should make it into the documentation


when i was un-messing the entity flipping logic and mirroring logic (and there as a lot of stuff to un-mess), i came up with following rule that ...

Oh... I didn't even notice the latest post was recent :P

I noticed the fact that relative_turret_orientation seems to leave out regular turrets, and then someone shared https://forums.factorio.com/34552 with me

I would assume this is still valid, and if so it should get documented.
Either orientation should expand upon what "smooth orientation" means ...

A number of times people will see "invalid prototype array" and misinterpret that.
Or even just miss those words entirely because of the big block of text that is the serpent.block of what was given

What I want is to reword it into "invalid array of prototypes" to be a little more clear in what it ...

PennyJim wrote: Thu Dec 05, 2024 11:54 pm And while we're talking about it.

Yeah, just bury it in this lesser improvement request past me...

Made a proper separate request for it: 130565

It says "only events generated with LuaBootstrap::generate_event_name and the following can be raised:" and then lists all the 'actual' events that can be raised

This could mislead people to think they have to use generate_event_name despite a prototype having been made for the express purpose of ...

Then... What am I doing wrong..? It's returning false
(though maybe this kinda conversation should move to the discord which can move faster)

Edit: Wait, I'm sure it's related to prototype stuff and `next_upgrade`..?
Edit 2: Or maybe it's the fact that I'm trying to go from ghost assembler to ghost ...

Oh wait nvm... `order_upgrade` doesn't work on ghosts
I just got my wires crossed while testing and forgot which entity I was fast-replacing and which one I had the event upgrade the ghost to

The crux of my problem was that I was fast-replacing a ghost and it was affecting the real entity.

I was not aware of `order_upgrade` (though I should've expected it to exist), and some quick testing shows that it is in fact instant on ghosts.
With a bit of "if ghost then" logic, this should be ...

Now, there's a pretty solid argument that this is an interface or feature request instead. I won't be upset if it just gets moved

If you hover over a chest, and run this command. The original chest will get destroyed (left on the ground).

/c
local entity = game.player.selected
entity.surface ...

Ditto, having it work like a minimum of network limit would be nice.
Would mean there will be a need to police the inputs if you want a full network limit, but that's on the mod creator

Tl;dr it's more work on the backend, especially navigating the full dependency tree, but hopefully they can add it eventually.


I don't think it would need to navigate the full dependency tree, just slap the label whenever a mod is uploaded that adds a dependency with the label or enables a flag ...

+1 I was surprised to realize that hard dependencies didn't pass on the sticker

I've had a couple instances of making a LuaRenderObject to specifically mimic a custom alert. Of course combined with adding the custom alert to every player on a force.

A single static sprite isn't the most obvious, nor does it really mimic alerts all that well. I'd like some way to tap into the ...

Not always. Fluids are usually amount, but items are inconsistent. The most prominent example is that minable and placeable_by uses count, while recipe ingredients and products uses amount.


Hence "generally". I see that specific example more as fluid can take decimals and the Ingredient and ...