I’m still feeling side effects from workarounds to this bug.

I’d like to link the accidental duplicate bug report that I made for this: viewtopic.php?p=674604#p674604

I hope the alternate account for the reproduction (with videos) helps find a solution.

The Problem
In Space Age, any resource gathered from AgricultureTower gets really screwed relative to resources that are mined due to ballistically high mining productivity.

Example: On Gleba, you need 20 chunks of farm for a stacked green belt of fruit, and that needs to compete with a single ...

I have. The issue is that they are fairly complex OR behind functions of functions of functions of functions across files. I just don't understand the process by looking at the finished product. Maybe I'm just bad, but I have no idea how this places rocks:
autoplace =
{
control = "rocks",
order ...

One thing that has always sucked for me is figuring out map generation. The documentation currently explains how each variable works, and how you're supposed to put things in (https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/types/NoiseExpression.html). The thing I really struggled with was:

"How do I compose ...

https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/classes/LuaEquipmentGrid.html#shield

LuaEquipmentGrid.shield (and also max_shield)

Currently says:
The amount of shields this equipment grid has.

Should say:
The amount of shield hitpoints this equipment grid currently has across all of its energy shields ...

The Bug

1) Make a save file.
2) Place legendary quality entities
3) Save and Close game
4) Change that entity's prototype type to a new type.
Example (execute in data-final-fixes.lua):
local recycler = data.raw.furnace["recycler"]
recycler.type = "assembling-machine"
data:extend({recycler})
data ...

I spelled visualization with a Z instead of an S...

Please delete this post.

The Problem

SolarPanelPrototype is great for entities spammed in bulk for power generation, but it currently only supports pictures. Animations are not supported.

Current Workarounds Don’t Work

1) Tying LuaRender to an SolarPanelPrototype does not work. If the solar panel is invisible, then ...

Thanks. If nothing else, I hope this information helps the devs track down the condition that causes this save corruption.

Given the state of this save file i suspect the electric networks that were orphaned were originally owned by the "trashsteroids" on the planet Rubia since they are implemented as vehicles with equipment grid that has shield equipment inside and i see there is a lot of those entities destroyed. I ...

The Reproduction and Bug

1) Listen to an on_built_entity event with the following in a control.lua:

script.on_event(defines.events.on_built_entity, function(event)
local player_index = event.player_index
game.print("Before: " .. tostring(game.players[player_index].undo_redo_stack.get_undo ...

Good point. This is really handy for anything spage-related.

There are many mods that want to use spage assets without relying on spage, which then requires feature flags + duplicating assets.

It would be cleaner to tell factorio: “Please make spage files available for me to draw from, regardless ...

Context

Sometimes, when modding, I would like to depend on X mod to have factorio use that mod’s assets or libraries. However:
1) Some mods are stuck in 1.1
2) Many mods normally come with code that I don’t want executed. Data stage stuff can be reverted (with great effort) while many things can ...

data-validation.lua


Actually I disagree here, I feel like this could be abused a lot to enforce specific playstyles or


Consider: The alternative is running the exact same code in control stage. I can’t stress this enough:
Data stage tasks do not belong in control stage

This data stage ...

If the interest in actually doing this is real, and not trolling, here is how I would request the implementation look like with an example. Imagine the mod "Rubia" wants to define a "wind restriction" data object, to define how control-stage scripts should operate on a given entity.

Rubia's data ...

+1

If devs want to send new types of data from data stage to control stage, they can add a new prototype type. eg Any prototype with only 1-2 fields is simialr to passing yourself a hashset/dictionary from data to control stage. Modders do not have this option.

As Osmo said, we can already smuggle ...

Yes. Sorry about that, Lou.

Context

I'm listening to these events:
defines.events.on_player_flipped_entity,
defines.events.on_player_rotated_entity,
defines.events.on_entity_settings_pasted,
defines.events.on_built_entity,
defines.events.on_robot_built_entity,
defines.events.script_raised_built,
defines.events.script ...

This wind turbine is "electric-energy-interface" with gui_mode = "none" by default.

06-01-2025, 10-51-24.png

Bug #1) ElectricEnergyInterface.gui_mode = "none" gives no simulation, while a window still opens.
Expectation: "none" => no window at all OR window with just a simulation.

Bug #2 ...

TL;DR Shields regenerate a large fixed amount for 1 tick if you took damage while at max shields

This may be obnoxious to fix. I have had my suspicions that it is slightly off for a while, and this code confirmed it. It looks like the bug where shields get a very large regen boost for exactly 1 ...