I'll lend my +1 to this as well.

Curiously, the "Space Age" tag does have some utility in its current incarnation, in that it can often indicate when a mod utilises DLC mechanics or requires the DLC for some other reason (e.g. Turbo Belt ), but otherwise doesn't depend on the main space-age ...

You can Pipette from the Components list on the left-hand side, but I don't see why it shouldn't work from the main preview.

+1

Just to clarify, if you define a "spawn-item" shortcut, and both that item and the shortcut have a localised_description, what should happen?

Very minor issue, it may even be intended behaviour, but I didn't find an existing thread so here it is.

To reproduce, open a Factorio world and run these commands:


/c x = game.player.gui.center.add{type="frame"}
/c x.style.width = 200
/c x.style.height = 200
/c x.elem_tooltip = {type = "signal ...

I'm investigating how feasible it would be to add a feature like this for Compact Recipe Pins, for a similar purpose. I looked into Toolbars first to see if you had already done it, since it would be a more appropriate feature for that mod.

After seeing how constrained LuaRecord is in the API, I'll ...

I can attest that, from experience in Minecraft, this would be very helpful even if it only checks the "created" mod according to prototypes.get_history .

It might be practical to restrict it to only working in a few specific GUIs, such as Factoriopedia, Settings, Controls, the player crafting menu ...

Since game.tick is represented in the API as being 64-bit, and I've been told that the tick count is never intentionally truncated to 32-bits before being passed to events, all mentions of the "tick" field here and here should say that they're using the uint64 type.

The reason that I even thought ...

+1

I would like to be able to pick up buildings / order deconstruction on individual entities when holding a blueprint in the cursor.

I'm using Linux on the Wayland renderer if this matters.

Load the game with this debug mod and load any game world:

zzz-ShempDebug_0.1.0.zip

Two new Tips & Tricks items are added at the top of the list. In both, the simulation adds a LuaGuiElement to the top-left corner which has an elem ...

I believe this also affects labs, radars and mining drills.

Presumably this restriction somehow stems from the pumpjack not being flippable, but I can't find the code in the pumpjack prototype which specifies it should not be flippable. Does the game automatically forbid flipping on fluidboxes it ...

I was going to make my own thread when I searched and found this one, so I'll add some useful information:

Changing the minimap_representation of the car like so causes its icon to be obscured by the logistics system zone:


data.raw.car.car.minimap_representation = data.raw["spider-vehicle ...

For the usecases listed here, it sounds better to me to expose that specific information (add mod thumbnail to SpritePath and so on), since we prefer higher level apis over lower level access.


I did consider making a request just to convert mods["base"] into a table. But this would break any ...

Unfortunately that information simply isn't known and I can't see any viable way to get it with how the logic works now.

Is this still true in Factorio 2.0? I was considering making a suggestion for SelectedSlotData which would accompany SelectedPrototypeData in CustomInput events, to let the ...

I might be making this all up because I can't find the official documentation anywhere, but I remember reading that mods which only contain scenarios or localisation files are not required to be loaded by all players .

If this were true, that would mean it's currently possible to cause a desync ...

This would be a simple new type of trigger: PrerequisiteTechnologyTrigger , which only has type = "prerequisite" in its table.

Technologies with this trigger would automatically be completed for free when the final prerequisite is completed. If it's defined with an empty/nil prerequisites array, or ...

I was about to post this as a bug report when I found that this thread already existed.

What the OP is alluding to is not that you should be able to control the vehicle, but that the wording on the description is incorrect.

It should instead say this when a player is physically inside the vehicle ...

Thinking more about Rseding's question (reading in binary mode vs text mode), these are the main things I'd like to use these functions for:


Parsing JSON data from a file, or parsing other kinds of text file (e.g. locale files)
Checking if a certain asset is present (an image or sound file) and ...

So functionally making “require” for non lua files and having it return them as a binary blob (string).

Yes that sounds correct, but it would work on any file (including LUA files). My reasoning is, if it's safe to run require on these files, why isn't it safe to run read_file ?

I don't know if ...

Crucially, these functions have exactly the same restrictions as require , except it works on all filenames not just LUA files. You can't use them for files in script-output etc. require currently doesn't break determinism, so neither should these functions.


It's only supposed to work on files ...

Sorry if this is an exhausted topic, I did try using search and I couldn't find a thread that was exactly the same.

I'm suggesting two functions for LuaHelpers, and they would probably only work in the Prototype stage:


file_exists : Returns true if the filepath contains a file.
read_file ...