+1, the latest suggestion would basically function like extents do already, and no one seems to have problems with them this part of their impelmentarion

base_effect on a beacon would be great since its already a thing on crafting machines

The spoil to trigger result will have to be a script (lua) trigger to which you then react at runtime in control.lua.
There is also a factoriopedia_alternative field on every prototype you can set on the fake item to point to the real item

Do they show even if they have hidden set to true? Sounds like they should not be displayed there when hidden.
But a manual override would be nice too

I don't think there is anything special about shallow water, you can just set vehicle_friction_modifier on every tile that can't be placed from an item

By default, creating entites removes colliding ghosts. In some places like LuaSurface.create_entity() there is an option to disable this behaviour, but seems like there isn't on the trigger effect

+1, more access to existng gui features is always nice. It would also be great to have a similar feature for dropdowns, like LuaGuiElement.open_dropdown(index?)

I have a a mod with a beacon defined like this:

data:extend{{
type = 'beacon',
name = 'beacon2',

selection_priority = 80,
selection_box = {{-0.5, -0.5}, {0.5, 0.5}},
collision_box = {{-0.4, -0.4}, {0.4, 0.4}},
collision_mask = {layers = {}},
supply_area_distance = 0,

module_slots = 1 ...

+1

Possibly related/a duplicate of 129429

The header is draggable, but the filler element is not visible because it has a width of 0

+1

You might be able to get away with setting the quality of resource entities by script inside on_chunk_generated event, but not sure if this will make mining it return oreof thesame quality.
Otherwise the only option would be to replace every mined item by script, which can practically only be done ...

You could set entity.operable to false, and restore it to true on the next tick

Ctrl + F5 and Ctrl + F6
And also you can open the mod itself to have a look.

Yes, as i said, it can be used by entities to have a bouniding box rotated by 45°, for example (or some different angle). I think even cliffs in base game do that.

https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/typ ... ngBox.html
It says orientation is unused, but it is actually used in some places. For example, it can allow to make rotated collision boxes for entities that do not support rotation.

After this report and version 2.0.56, base quality is now also shown, but not other effects, which does not make much sense.

What you could do is something that is reffered to as "compound entities"
Basically, at runtime, when your entity is placed, place another hidden entity, in your case probably an assembling machine with a heat enegy source that produces a hidden fluid, whose output is then connected with a linked ...

It is common for mods' scripts to need some data that is only availible at protoype stage. Some of that could and should be exposed in the relevant LuaProtoype. But that is not always the case.
There exist hacky solutions, like creating a hidden item with data encoded into localised_description, but ...