yeah, this one:
https://lua-api.factorio.com/2.0.66/typ ... ffect.html

Problem:

There is no way for a recipe to manually specify that a fluid should use multiple fluid boxes.
However, manually specifying is the only real option when using connection_category to specify different types of pipes.
(I.e, Automatic fluid box indexing might send plasma through a normal ...

No worries! Happy to help

Best tutorials I've found are from CGMatter on YouTube. He taught me everything I know about shader nodes

Unsure if this is a bug or not.
Currently the "Production Health Effects" in the "Crafting Machine Prototype" are unaffected by crafting speed penalties.
For example, this machine gets the full healing from "production" even though it's not producing anything.


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It ...

There's probably better ways to do it, but this is what I did:

I used a repeating loop.
Each loop I select the next point, generate a new rock, move that rock to the point (along with random scale/rotation) and then add that rock to the geometry.

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The basic idea is that you can read and write the attributes of points (like radius, location etc) directly.

So instead of creating instances on the points, you would read the location of each point and move the rock there with a transform node, along with a random scale, rotation etc.

By ...

got a little carried away, added a shader and animation to it as well

I see the problem. Instances are designed to re-use the same geometry multiple times to speed up processing time. You can't have unique procedural rocks the way these nodes are set up.

If you want truly random rocks, here's a few possible solutions:
1) Instead of making a rock from scratch and ...

Ah, that's solved it, thank you!

My mod works great from the folder, but once I zip it, I get this error:
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Which is weird, because the file exists.
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Here's the code that's failing
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Again, it worked perfectly before I zipped it.
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I can help with this!

Do you have experience with Shader Nodes and/or geometry nodes in Blender?

The short version is:

Step 1: set up camera to be orthographic at a 45 degree angle, add some lighting and create a ground plane set to "shadow catcher"

Step 3: Add a UV sphere to be a Rock, and ...

Hi, Can someone explain this part to me?
where does that "resource-autoplace.lua" file come from?

Only explanation i can guess from the details provided is that you are creating that entity using LuaSurface::create_entity and you failed to provide a `force` parameter causing the entity to be of `enemy` force. When a container is of different force, inserters will be able to insert items into ...

Thanks for the reply!
Glad to know it's user-error :D

My prototype definition must be incomplete.

Currently it's just a type, name, collision box and selection box.


Local proxychest = {
type = "proxy-container",
name = "proxy-chest",
collision_box = {{-0.5, -0.5},{0.5, 0.5}},
celection_box ...

I've been playing around a bit with ProxyContainers.

Inserting works just fine, but inserters seem to ignore them when removing items. They don't even show the white "connected" overlay when I hover the inserters.

I.e I linked a proxy container to the player inventory, and I could add things ...

Osmo wrote: Sat Jul 19, 2025 9:04 pm As far as i know, LuaRendering always tints the whole image, you need to make two animation protoypes and tint only one of them

Ah beans. I was worried that was the case.
Thanks for the help!

Hi, Looking for some advice

"apply_runtime_tint" seems to do nothing.
Both Layers of my animation have tint applied to them regardless of what it's set to

Code below is in data.lua:

local cargoCrateAnimationLayered = {
type = "animation",
name = "cargo-crate-animation-layered",
layers ...

Request:

LuaPlanet.GetStoppedSpacePlatforms(force?)

Returns a list of Space Platforms currently stopped at the planet (optionally filtered by force)

Reasoning:

There must be some system that tracks this already (for rocket silos, etc). Would be nice to have access to that through the API ...

It would be awesome if the RecipePrototype included an optional trigger that's called when the recipe is completed.

My current workaround: I'm creating a dummy item with an extremely short spoil time, which triggers the effect I want.

Any chance that Diagonal Pipe Connections will be supported in the future?
I've been working on a mod that used them quite heavily, and was sad to see them go.

Even just the 45 degree angles would be great.

Thanks!