Both of these options may work.
For the first option, i think you can create linked fluidboxes such that one of the pumps would be conected to the other on each side, so fluid will be able to flow into both of them, and you'd just need to set one enabled and the other disabled. But it might be ...

As per viewtopic.php?p=689843, some new values were added to ElemType, but they do not appear on the docs https://lua-api.factorio.com/2.1.9/conc ... mType.html

Rseding91 wrote: Wed Jul 01, 2026 7:17 pm It should be possible to add a simple setting on the player that makes "escape"/"toggle menu" not leave remote view.

That would be perfect

This can be moved to implemented as it has been implemented in 2.1

That is understandable, and i'm not asking to change that. But it does work on space platforms. And it seems it would only be sufficient to prevent players from switching from remote view on their own, while the physical controller would still exist and mods could switch the controllers whenever ...

Reproduction steps:

/c cam = game.player.gui.screen.add{type = "camera", position = {0,0}}
/c cam.style.size = 300
/c cam.zoom = 3
/c cam.zoom = 5

Expected result: camera zoom will be set to 3.0 and then 5.0.
Actual result: camera zoom is set to 3.0, but the next write makes no observable ...

Only devs have the original 3D models, so only they can make it in such resolution.

Create a new world and do the following commands, in order.
When writing a (different) value to slots_per_row, the element flickers for a frame, and then goes back to as it was before.

/c inv = game.player.gui.screen.add{type = "inventory"}
/c inv.inventory = game.player.get_inventory(1)
/c inv ...

This looks even worse in 2.1

It currently says:
The hub on this platform. nil if the platform has not had the starter pack applied or hub was destroyed but the platform not yet deleted.

If the hub is destroyed the platform will be deleted at the end of the tick but is otherwise valid to use until that point.


The last line ...

+1, would be useful in lots of mods. It could be to the buttons above or below the minimap or both. Could use the same system as shortucts or something else.

Thank you

Some properties, for example icon_selector say

Can only be used if this is textfield or text-box

But read_only, as well as selectable which also looks like it should work but doesn't, say

Can only be used if this is text-box

word_wrap too, but that one does only make sense on text-boxes.

The exact error is "Only callable on text-box.", in case that helps.

text fields derive from text boxes so it should already work. In the same way the "car" entity prototype is also a vehicle which is also an entity. The Lua docs only show the least-required type needed for something.


I know, and i tried, but it errored sayng it only works on text-boxes.
If it ...

https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/cla ... #read_only only applies to text-boxes, and for some reason, not textfields. They two elements should be basically the same in this regard, so given it exists, it would make sense and be useful on textfields as well.

I'll note that mods can copy production statistics onto some other surface before the surface is deleted. You can suggest this solution to the mod author.

+1, some flow to add elements inside machine gui would be useful in many mods. Even if its just at the bottom of all vanilla elements. Like relative guis, but not in an box on the side which looks ugly for some things.

It is possible to force the player back into remote view when a player exists it.
However, doing so will prevent the player from opening pause menu, since pressing escape exits remote view first.

When a player is inside a space platform however, remote view is forced, and pressing escape opens ...

https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/cla ... e_location and https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/cla ... connection say they use LuaSpaceLocationPrototype, but they actually use SpaceLocationID as passing a string with the name is valid.