One other note is because the Foundry has recipes for each tier of belt, it makes sense for green belts to be unlocked on Vulcanus

If you could disable it for a ship / surface, in both cases it's now impossible to know if something seriously wrong happened. Something unexpected.


A counterpoint to this could be that, if I'm understanding OP's post correctly, the "entity destroyed" alert would still show up. To me, that's a ...

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Now that I think about it, all those examples you gave have been annoying to read at one point or another. Seems like a really simple fix, too.

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This would also be really helpful on space platforms, where the slow repair speed becomes much more apparent when your ship takes a lot of damage at once.

I agree that even before you've unlocked quality, you can usually mass-produce repair packs at such a big volume that increased durability ...

There does indeed seem to be no way of reading whether a certain achievement is gained. There is an event for it, but this wouldn't count achievements gained before your mod got added to the save https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/events.html#on_achievement_gained

You could make an api request ...

I'm working on my first mod and I want to be able to read the status of achievements, specifically to know which ones are pinned by the user. Is this currently supported? I've checked the API docs and haven't been able to find anything, but I thought I'd ask here.