The *tag* part is already part of the api: https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/classes/LuaPlayer.html#tag
Since it's just a string, you can use rich text to make it colored

I do still want some way to intercept and modify chat messages so I can prefix things like a timestamp on all messages, and ...

Bump, hoping this gets picked.

Exposing a pre-chat event handler API sounds like a low hanging fruit. Improvement in modding capabilities will be huge when it comes to customized chat interfaces.

Alternately an open ended api that allows modders to modify how the chat message appears on screens however they want to organize it.

That way Factorio devs just have to provide a pre-chat event in which modder can get chat message, and return back (or set somewhere) a different chat message.

In my modded server, which runs the Multi Team Support mod, I provide a Global chat vs Team chat toggle.

It looks like this:
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In global mode, chat messages are sent to all teams, and in team mode they are sent only to players on your own team.

The biggest issue I'm ...

First of all, thank you. I have been turning off expansion in my games 100% of the time. These changes will make them an acceptable challenge.

> We could espouse the virtue of being vigilant with checking the map... but we have machines to do that for us. So we've added a new alert: if an expansion ...

bump.

This is a low hanging fruit.

Its really hard when hosting dedicated server.
All I am doing is: " MTS ClaustOrephobic - 3 player teams" and even this gets cropped.

The server name limit shouldn't count tag data like color or icons. Every icon or colored text should be counted as 1 character ...

There is a mod called Negative Space that does exactly this: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/negative_space

FWIW, I too feel such a functionality should be provided as a first class feature in Factorio by default.

For dense and late game bases, bots can become a hinderance to gameplay because they can literally hide everything else underneath them.

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As a solution we are thinking of using this mod: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/transparent-robots
But it ...

Hello,

I have posted about this a few times and never been able to break through.

With Factorio development nearing the end, I will make another desperate plea. Unlike last time I asked, now I have some decent experience of multi force modding.

First some background.
I am the author of MTS (Multi ...

Donion wrote: Tue Jun 16, 2026 2:10 pm I believe the Surface option should also be force scoped, don't you think?

For the Local one, I consider it more of an environmental sound so if a player of a different force can see it it should be able to hear it as well. So I would leave that as is.

I agree with both points you made here.

Global sounds being force scoped makes sense at a first glance.
I don't like the idea of adding another option, though. Is there actually a good usecase for Global (all forces)?


No I don't have any use case for Global (all force). But really force scoping should really help.

Currently in my ...

Bump. This is a very minor but legit ask that fixes the issue of global speakers in mutiple team settings.

It can be hard to easily create a testable scenario. You can use my mod MTS to help with that: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/multi-team-support

Join two players as two different teams, and ...

When playing with multiple teams (Using `Multi-team Support` mod), if a player sets up a Programmable Speaker to alert themselves in Global mode, then the global alert sound should be heard by only those players who belong to the same force as the player.
There is a clear usecase for Force level ...

Remote view can not view areas that are not actively explored by radar coverage. Force chart sharing is not enabled by default.

So it sounds like you’ve shared charting everywhere when you don’t actually want that.


@Rseding91 I don't understand why is it so hard to agree on. That we are ...

So to repeat the earlier problem statement:
I would like to be able to share my team's charting with another team, but also I do not want to allow the other team to be able to interact with my logistics or mess up my requests or rotate some inserter.
Basically the request is the disconnect `share ...

ok you're right that remote view normally requires radar coverage, but I dug into why players can see everything in my current Platformer run. And found the answer: god controller mode.
The Platformer mod (which Solo Teams is using currently) destroys the player's character entity on spawn. With no ...

My mod creates separate forces for players, each with their own surface. Players can navigate to other surfaces via GPS tags printed in chat. Remote view opens on the foreign surface, no radar coverage needed, no friendship set.
So the premise that "players can only view areas with radar coverage ...

Need an API to allow seeing multiplayer cursors even when other forces are not your friends.

I am actively working on a mod called Solo-Teams (https://mods.factorio.com/mod/solo-teams) that facilitates multiplayer mode.
One of the issues I am facing is that I need players to be able to see who is ...

Nevermind, I didn't do my research properly.
This already exists:
https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/cla ... c_networks

Please close this request.

Currently there's no way to retrieve all logistic networks belonging to a force.

The existing API offers spatial queries like LuaSurface.find_logistic_networks_by_construction_area() and LuaSurface.find_logistic_network_by_position() , but nothing that maps forces to their networks directly ...