hello, I'm working on a mod that use the game.table_to_json function a lot. The problem I face is that, in Lua, setting a table value to nil is equivalent to removing this value from the table and because of this the fields does not appear in the json, but I have plenty of usecases where I need some...

Hi there, I'm a CS student interested in training an AI to play my favourite game so the factory can grow even when I'm not playing. There's a couple of things that would make this nice, and I'm wondering if factorio supports them: - Speed up play: It would really speed up training if I could run f...

thank you everyone i think i have all i need to start my project!

I was interested in this before. But you have already found all the info you need. Rcon for data in, file writing for data out. It's up to you to make a good protocol. But you can send data io as JSON so writing and parsing is trivially handled my your chosen languages (for the external program) JS...

Not sure if this is related to what you want or if you are familiar with it but i have seen factorio game communicating to people on phone using discord. I know it is used for moderation so you can read the ingame chat from discord. You can see research, and i think also receive custom notification...

hello! first thing first, my english is broken, i'll do my best (sorry in advance) so! i'd love to make a mod that allow you to monitor and manage you factory through your phone via an app, by this i mean: - read/write in the chat - kick/ban/mute/promote player (if admin) - see progression of and be...