Isn't there a common method that's used for blueprints? There's no animations in blueprints for example and a default non-animated graphic is used. Blueprints don't have a complete renderer, they use the surface renderer with minor changes. The C++ surface renderer uses the same process Deadlock de...

Do you have an example that you could link? I'm curious about the size and readability of an icon. Rimworld has very distinct icons, I think looking good on the wiki was part of their design document. https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Apparel#Common_combinations Europa Universalis 4 uses icons AND the ...

It's pretty standard in wikis for other games to use the expansion icon next to expansion features.

pichutarius wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 09, 2023 12:09 am

Now i wan assembly machine to have high mood so they got creativity inspiration.

And if you don't feed them, they go berserk.

Maybe the item-on-ground is generated after on_entity_died triggers?

In that case you would need to add the parameters to a temporary table and run it the next tick.

Unfortunately there is no event for loot entities spawning on the ground. But we have 3 big hints: event.loot[i].name -- the name of the loot item event.entity.position -- the center of the dead entity event.entity.surface -- the surface the loot is on Using those hints, we can run surface.find_enti...

small-alien-artifact is not a vanilla item.

Please describe EXACTLY what a small-alien-artifact is. Preferably with the data.lua entries.

entity.minable.results does not support this.

You could use the control.lua event on_player_mined_entity to do whatever you want when a fish is mined.

AlmightyCrumpet wrote: ↑

Mon May 22, 2023 3:42 pm

I'm confused, why would I migrate in the control.lua?
I only want this to run once, when updating to this version, so surely utilizing the migration functionality is ideal?

You can use migrations.lua, you don't need control.lua.

The reason to use lua is it offers more functionality than json.

You can use script.on_configuration_changed to migrate in control.lua. You need to keep your old data.lua entity names so they aren't deleted.

This works for characters, including characters in a car/tank. /c character = game.player.character target = game.player.selected script.on_event(defines.events.on_tick, function() if character and character.valid and target and target.valid then character.shooting_state = {state=defines.shooting.sh...

The game will only read the data.lua fields that match the entity type. You can't add a recipe to an offshore pump. And you can't add water detection to an assembling machine.

The offshore pump water detection feature is not exposed to modders. What you can do is make two entities. Entity 1 is an offshore pump, entity 2 is an assembling machine. Use the item to place entity 1. Then use control.lua scripting to swap to entity 2 in the on_built_entity and on_robot_built_ent...

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This is the same issue as constant combinators. viewtopic.php?f=25&t=102702

This is already in the game as the "Supply challenge" scenario.

Yes, the iterator can be stored. The stored iterator contains the current chunks, even if they were generated after it was created. It might not catch some newly created chunks, if they are inserted before the current position. When the iterator reaches the end of the list it stops iterating, even i...

Yes, the grid is always created empty. It is hard to catch items when they are created because there is no event for it. You could watch the player's inventory though. function set_spider_inventory(grid) grid.put{name="battery-mk2-equipment", position={1,1}} end script.on_event(defines.eve...