Heya,

When using the create-entity trigger, there is a property called "as_enemy" which forces the owner to be the enemy force

Would it be possible to make an "as_player" which would make the resulting entity be the player force.

Perhaps that would be at odds with the other one, so perhaps a ...

Heya,

I have a create-entity trigger effect that makes a few entities on creation. These are furnaces in this case.

They are created on enemy death, but as the player force I cannot use them. What determines the force they are created as? Is it inherited from the origin entity owner type (e.g ...

I have had help to solve this

The fix was that the created entity should have its collision mask customised/changed to include the ghost layer.

Yes that works

Many thanks again!

Rseding91 wrote: Tue Jul 08, 2025 5:07 pm Note the reason it doesn't work how you're asking is: it's using the collision mask from the entity defined in the trigger.

Ok that makes a lot of sense. it would use the created entitys collision mask.

Much thanks, I will report back.

Heya,

I have a" create-entity" trigger effect which does this:


{
type = "create-entity",
entity_name = data.entity_name,
check_buildability = true,
find_non_colliding_position = true,
non_colliding_search_radius = 3,
tile_collision_mask = {layers = {ghost= true} }
}


When this is ...

Darn, I was hoping it'd all be on a trigger effect as I don't want to over rely on control stuff.

Unfortunately you can't even use the layer="ghost" as from looking at it, this is only the check for the initial test, but not the outward radius of re-checks.

Heya,

I have a create entity trigger effect that is the result of an enemy attack. It creates an entity where the attack hits.

However, this has a side effect of removing any player ghosts that happen to be on that location.

I'm using the two properties, which I thought may take ghosts into ...

Far as I'm aware it's not possible to make a gun that doesn't require ammo - presumably because some portions of it's attack is based on the ammo used.

You can make one that doesn't CONSUME ammo by setting the attack_parameters.ammo_consumption_modifier to 0. It still needs ammo in the gun but ...

What have you achieved so far?


All I've been able to get is making a new weapon, attach it to the car, but it still requires ammo in some capacity it seems.

ammo_type =
{
source_type = "default",
category = "gun-noise",
target_type = "position",
clamp_position = true,
action =
{
type ...

Something I was looking into a little while back but couldn't get something that I wanted.

I'm looking to make an image layer on a building, that is essentially the 'opposite' of a shadow layer.

A layer that adds an additive glow during the day, and fades out when it's night. As if the sun is ...

Heya,

I want to make a weapon, or gun. something I can attach to say, a vehicle. I do not need ammo in any way, and I can just fire it without any cost.

e.g. I want to make a gun that only "action = ..." is to just make a noise when I press fire.

Is there such a way? I feel like since turrets can ...

Heya,

Really weird interaction inside a mod I am working on recently.

I had an external blender script change some files from "filename.png" to "filename.PNG"

This continues to work if the mod is extracted inside the mod folder (i.e. during development ...Factorio/mods/mod_name_2.2.1/... ), but ...

IIRC, I discovered by accident that Aquilo uses an effect trigger event to create ice under it. (I had copied it and somehow ice was spawning on Nauvis, traced back to the build effect trigger on the resource entity.) That sounds like exactly what you want.


Thank you!

Investigating down this ...

Heya,

I'm trying to achieve a look that is to create a tile under the same location as a certain resource when generating chunks.

e.g.: creating a stone-tile under iron-ore resources.

My current thought is to perhaps have a tile have the exact same autoplace function as the resource in question ...

Heya,

I'm making a vehicle that you can only drive remotely, as there is no space for passengers.

allow_passengers = false
allow_remote_driving = true

It seems that while given the option to remote drive the vehicle, it is already considered to have a "driver" despite not having the capability ...

Currently the only way to check the priority targets of turrets is to call LuaEntity.get_priority_target(index) for increasing indices until an Index out of bounds error is raised (the amount of targets isn't able to be read either AFAIK).


I've used this to create 2 helper functions. For ...

I also would like this

get_priority_targets & set_priority_targets

A seemingly simple request:

There are options to set player mining_speed, and other base properties. I'm surprised there isn't an option for the player crafting speed to be set at the prototype stage.

e.g. I want to make a character start with 0.5, 1.0x, 2.0x etc. crafting speed, as a setting ...

Thanks for the quick reply and fix!

I know it's basically held together with sticks and twine at this point and completely optional; but it's much appreciated that you still support it - as it's a fun mechanic in the mods that use it.

Cheers