+1 for Factorio Access. We eventually need a way to launch players through vanilla's mechanism and this looks like it may be the last piece of it.

The Factorio Access use case for this is probably pretty obvious--we need to be able to present a list of groups to the player without going through game GUI at all. Our "workaround" whenever we get that far was going to be figure out if we can edit them by finding all existing sections and ...

We'll also need this for Factorio Access.

I thought it was just going to be some linear combination of easy to find parameters or something, but if this request understands correctly sounds like that's not the case.

This'd also definitely be useful for us since we'll want to announce this to our players (Factorio Access again).

Factorio 2.0 now supports multiple crafts per tick. I think you're also implicitly asking for a filter. Otherwise you're going to get like thousands per second.

(I'm not official, just skimming these because mostly if it's an API request we probably need it for our use case).

Hmmm. This might actually be a hard blocker for us. I had assumed it existed and we're not far enough along for me to have looked. For many other things I am planning a hopefully temporary workaround where we blueprint and then re-place the blueprint, but I'm wondering if this can work with that ...

We would also like this as to prevent needing to rewrite and re-import the blueprint or something. Also the ability to get what the parameters are (which would also require exporting and reading the blueprint string). We'd be fine with ugly in the sense of "it's complex relationships, but we expose ...

We have to rethink how we do combat so we won't need this for a long time, but in order to expose demolishers to our players reasonably we will need to either get it via this or developing some lua-side approximated algorithm.

And possibly the others. This is missing so you can't actually know how many of a thing a research needs, just that it needs some. E.g. for Steam power:


{item = "iron-plate", item_quality = "normal", type = "craft-item"}


I was debating if this is a bug because it's kinda borderline but I ...

It looks like we have lost the ability to configure rocket silos to auto-launch rockets in base. We need this to expose that functionality to our blind players. This existed in 1.1. Any chance of us getting it back?

This also sort of falls under my request for flipping blueprints fwiw. Not exactly a duplicate but I will cross-link that since they are related concerns: viewtopic.php?f=28&t=114819

Another Factorio Access relevant request just wrt registering interest for some of these interface requests. Maybe we can work around this one with bleuprints. (I am assuming it's something one can do in vanilla, which I can't personally check). In general "if the frontend can do it and a mod can't ...

If this is the case, then we're going to need at least message editing but probably also the others (the icon etc. can still be read/written by a blind player, it's just words instead). I hadn't gotten this far, just sort of assumed it was already done.

This will also be critical for Factorio Access, though getting this far is a while out for us. We'll need to be able to implement an alternative UI for it.

In our use case we are also running a background correction task, because for example newly placed resources on new surfaces don't seem to fire either. That is to say that I would be fine just getting it sometimes, as long as "sometimes" is defined. Also this has had a couple hundred hours of ...

So...this one is fun. I don't know what causes it. I have seen it on a new game. I have seen it in multiple saves. It just....happens. Only fix is to not use effect triggers as far as I can tell. Since my other post , I modified our code to just throw the event's important information out of the ...

I've written up a nice system which uses effect triggers to help get information on game features. We use it to gather up a bunch of information about the map. By replacing the created_effect trigger to get reasonably low latency reasonably accurate placement info. I mention this because the ...

We also really want this.

A workaround with edge case issues is to export to a blueprint string, decode the JSON, modify the JSON, and import it back. I'm blind and working "in the backend" if you will by the nature of mods but I believe the edge case is that if the blueprint is in hand then the ...

Pretty much what it says. At runtime a mod can't easily find out about a whole patch of resources save to do the calculations in lua, as far as I can tell. We'd like to do this calculation efficiently, which probably means C++ given that Lua isn't so great at data structures.

We are aware that the ...

If one wants to build from the item stack in hand via using build_from_cursor or directly via LuaItemStack, it's not possible to specify flips. We found out that this is actually only in the frontend. While mods can flip blueprints today via directly editing JSON, the various FFFs make it clear that ...