Both great pieces of info, thanks @eugenekay and @robot256. This project has evolved a bit and now I'm building a Factorio MCP server. I ended up using prototype.item to get the list of items I needed for inventory manipulation. Once it's ready for release I'll share it somehow!

I'm using RCON to programmatically get commands into the game. Working splendidly so far. I stumbled across a minor issue and don't know Lua well enough to solve it. If I want to get the output of /version or some other slash command sent to the RCON output, how can I do that? What I'd like is ...

A follow up question...how do you add items at different quality levels? Say I want to add rare iron plates...is that a property of the item insert command or is it treated as a separate item?

Example:
This inserts items into the named player's inventory. How would I modify this command to make the ...

Nailed it. Thanks!

I'm just dipping my toes into scripting in Factorio and I can't seem to find an answer to this question directly...I want to add an item into a player's inventory in a multiplayer game. Say the character's name is "jim123"...what console command can I run to give "jim123" a stack of iron plate, for ...

Hi Factorio devs, you've devoured a ton of my life over the past few years and I thank you for it! I work in tech and would like to use the new (well, new-ish at this point) AI craze to build a mod or standalone site to use an LLM to help Factorio players build better factories. I would love to have ...