I made the initial release; https://mods.factorio.com/mod/asteroid- ... -detection

I don't know how much of a performance impact it will have and the UI is a bit 'jank', but it should function.
Please let me know if it works for you!

Hello,

I am trying to find asteroids on a space platform and read that there was a position option, but read over it the "radius" field does not exist, causing some confusion in usage. Similar functions for searching do have the radius option ("find_entities_filtered"). Expected usage;

local ...

I made a similar bug report a while ago; 123575
Here it is that get_filter(1) gives a prototype for a name or a string depending on the type of entity it is called on, I did not realize there were other cases.

I like the idea!
I'm going to make something, will take a few days because I haven't made something with an UI yet, will post here when I made it or have a version that could be tested.

I did not realize this as well and is very useful!
Thank you again!

A few days ago I asked for help on the asteroid-collector how to get/set the filters; https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=123642
Due to the low amount of response I think this does not exist yet, would it be possible to be added?

A summation of what I tried;

Entity.filter_slot ...

Thank you for letting me know, I definitely overlooked that.
I am looking through the 3 doc types (prototype, runtime and auxiliary) but sometimes it is difficult to determine where it is, appreciate your help!

Hello,

Currently ammo_category only works for landmines, for now I made a map from name of entity to turret type, however this is not scalable to other mods;

Rocket turret and Gun turret both have the type ammo-turret and therefore need to look at the name.
You cannot split the "gun" part of ...

prototypes.quality is what you want I think, it is a map from the name (string) to the LuaQualityPrototype.

https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/cla ... otype.html

Idea1:
- Make type of prototype from CombatRobot that is always alive and always follows player on the surface.
- Make it being damaged when on rails and set notification on damage on.

Idea2:
Check with surface filter around the player location every tick, but might be a bit resource intensive.

Few days ago I had a similar problem, this is how I got it from an entity.

local RequestPoint = CurrentEntity.get_requester_point()
if RequestPoint then
for Index, Section in ipairs( RequestPoint.sections) do
-- Groups can be shared between entities, so you might want to do something with it ...

Hello,

These two inventory properties exist, so maybe you can move them in and out when one spoils;

Entity.get_inventory(defines.inventory.lab_input)
Entity.get_output_inventory() -- I suspect this is where your spoilage result ended up


Stack trace that might work;
- spoil_to_trigger_result ...

Can someone please help me with this?
I really cannot figure out how to get it, I also tried the following:
- going through the output inventory, doesn't work.
- Looking in control behavior and then logistic conditions, also doesn't work.

If you think it might not be possible (yet), please also let ...

I haven't tried it myself, however the following chain of properties might allow you to set a function to be called, so you can do anything you want;
- spoil_to_trigger_result
-> trigger (Trigger)
--> TriggerEffectItem with an effect_id (string), I think a separate table for data:extend (data.lua ...

Hello,

I would like to get/set the active filter from an asteroid-collector however I cannot find the function, what I tried:

Entity.filter_slot_count -- always 0
Entity.get_filter(1) -- nil
Entity.mining_drill_filter_mode -- errors, not a mining drill
Entity.loader_filter_mode -- errors, not a ...

I made a mod to expand filters and therefore add functionality to copy/paste. The code below is a MWE to reproduce the issue:


data:extend{{
type = "custom-input",
name = "FolterCopyExpansion_Copy",
key_sequence = "mouse-button-2 + SHIFT",
linked_game_control = "copy-entity-settings",
action ...

I decided to make a mod for it, for everyone interested:
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/filter-copy-expansion

TL;DR
Expand the copy filter functionality to include splitters for the interaction that already exists between inserters and assemblers.

What
Currently there is a feature I like a lot, which is allowing the inserter filter to be copied from assemblers (or other similar machines). This allows ...