I found a few menu sims where the stuff outside of them is visible on high resolutions. I was looking at it with mods, then I came across some vanilla and space age ones.
I'm not asking you to prepare for every resolution, but I don't think that this is too extreme to accommodate. Too many of them ...

You can't hover over a space connection to get information about it, if an otherwise transparent sprite is rendered there.
You can get the menu, if you can pick out the place where it intersects with an orbit's line. It is also kindof inconsistent about when it lets me hover over the path and when ...

Thanks for the report. The current dependency system does not support this scenario and I don't see a simple solution to make it work. Incompatible dependencies require the mod that it is incompatible with have its dependencies resolved before the engine decides "ok, the mod is active and valid ...

Not the answer you want from me, but with 2.1 recipes can affect quality directly so modders can revamp this system.

For me the main problem are orbits and space connections:
- unfortunatly space connection curve selection is actually unsolvable with planetslib currently, if we could at least have a way to define our own curve
- for orbit I proposed that planetslib would get shipped with a set of pre generated ...

If this was added, it would need to be integrated into Factoriopedia which would be the majority of the work. It would also need to account for a given thing spoiling and having any number of possible results. Right now it's simply a trigger that runs - and can do functionally anything.


Don't ...

I'm usually a strong critique of even my own ideas, so I rarely say this. This needs to be in the game.

This is not only added visual clarity (even for space age).
On the top of that it lets mods interact with each other in ways that currently can only be done either by custom apis (different one ...

With module categories, yes I want this.
I was messing with using this to create a custom environmental hazard (affect some machines on the surface), it works but I need to have the local machine set be immune to all surface effects, instead of only "relevant channels". eg, a non-electric machine ...

I know exactly what I want now. Make this field an array, and let us add multiple backdrop definitions.

https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/types/SurfaceRenderParameters.html#platform_backdrop

It has a position and a radius, and we can use those to place and position multiple ones of them.

We ...

This request is not really actionable as is - you are asking for unspecified things to be possible to be disabled in unspecified ways. I'd have to guess whether you mean the ability for the radar to connect to the circuit network at all (which is already possible to disable), or whether you mean ...

Add this as a related request.
https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?t=134210

This would have been to allow planetslib to render moons instead of visible planets in space, as that mod is basically deprecated.


I added it to the main post as a related request, and sure being able to see ...

Add this as a related request.
viewtopic.php?t=134210

This would have been to allow planetslib to render moons instead of visible planets in space, as that mod is basically deprecated.

I did not see anything relevant in the api, but it would be nice if we could display a planet's space rendering from lua. Mainly to cover for one feature of visible planets in space, where it also displays planetslib moons around the planet you currently orbit.
Also to let Cerys use those graphics ...

We got a bunch of new features for radars and space platform hubs, and I'd like to get options to disable them. Sounds weird, but being able to disable cross platform logistics allows mods like this to exist, and let us replace those features to change the gameplay.

https://mods.factorio.com/mod ...

Loewchen wrote: Sun May 31, 2026 9:41 pm Add the version of the game to the title please, see 3638.

Sorry, fixed.

Hello!

I got a report like this, for the Outer Rim , with this other paracelsin k2so compat mod that I am marking as incompatible.
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The circularity comes from me "depending" on this compat mod by marking it incompatible, xy's k2so and its nulls's fork optionally depending ...

Better tile placement rule options, or using them more creatively, would be a better solution than 'just add more collision layer slots'


Creative use is absolutely not an option. You can add some layers to libraries, but that gets organizational problems.
But, if we could get the autplace ...

Would it be better or worse if we tried to emulate this with complex tile placement rules? I'm mostly just theory crafting.

I'm going to necro this to explain the exact situation.

With some mod combinations we are hitting the collision layer limits. We're are also in the spot where we can't even try to merge any of those (that option was already excluded as either not being worth it, or not possible). The surface ...

I expected it to go towards the inventory that it is targeting. Maybe with a flag on the proxy inventory itself? If it needs a hint if the target inventory is anywhere near. It may break if the proxy is on a different surface.

After looking at it more, maybe with an exception of the linked chest as ...