The regenerative braking module seems to produce far more energy than is required to accelerate. After providing some initial energy I can "charge" the regen and transformer modules by spamming W and S while driving the train. All aboard for free energy!
Blame Factorio's weird physics. The brake ...

The errors related to Vehicle Wagons should be fixed in 0.3.5

Besides,
The point i am getting at, is that you shouldn't worry about this,
Have no on_tick,
Don't worry about them being destroyed, because it is highly unlikely

In all my fancy mods with creating and destroying entities, i have never had an on_tick checker,
And i have never had any complaints ...

The events would benefit any mod that uses compound entities (concrete lamppost, torches, ks_power, electric vehicles, etc) or wish to create/destroy entities from external mods (creative mode, vehicle wagon, etc).


You mention those mods,

But in their entire existence i have never seen or ...

Hello, I'm the author of the Vehicle Wagon mod, and I & some users have noticed bugs when using both Electric Vehicles and Vehicle Wagon together.

Since my mod uses the entity.destroy() method for deleting vehicles, I believe it isn't detected by the tests for invalid entities in your Electric ...

"x" after calling destroy on it is simply a nullptr on the C++ side. The equivalent to "nil" in Lua. You can compare it all day long and it will equal other things that are "nil" but you can't tell *what* it was before it was set to "nil".
Which is perfectly fine. Although at that point a.invalid ...

Equality checks don't work once an entity is invalid. It will always compare false with any other valid entity or compare true with any other invalid entity regardless of them actually being equal before they got destroyed.
That just means it clears out all the invalid entities in one go which is ...

Typically you just assume no other mod should be destroying your entities, such that unless you are calling entity.destroy() on it yourself, you won't need to worry

I have a couple mods which use the same thing, spawning entity, listening to on_died/mined etc. for when to destroy its counterpart ...

There can never be an entity destroyed event because once an entity is destroyed it's no longer valid for any mod to hold a reference to it so an event would be invalid to fire at that point.

You just have to check "valid" before you use anything.
There are still two things we can do with an ...

Why is checking .valid so hard? https://www.tt-forums.net/images/smilies/confused.gif

Its not in the slightest... if you are doing anything to an entity... check if it is valid first
If you are doing something to an entity, the game will have to evaluate it anyway, so checking if its valid adds ...

There's entity/item/other removal due to mod migration, game version migration, mod removal.
There are events to handle these.
There's also the core game itself removing entities when things like terrain are built over decoratives (they aren't killed, they're just destroyed) and so on. Eventing ...

Sigh. I wish there were events for when entities get destroyed or created by mods so we don't have to check for validity all the frickin' time. I'll have a look into this. Thanks for letting me know.

I don't implement API changes for lazy mod developers. Checking "valid" IS THE CORRECT WAY TO ...

Is there a reason why blueprints use a different button sprite for renaming than train stations which already have a perfectly good edit button?
I never really understood the point of that arrow thing. Always looked like a "repeat" button to me.

It's no so straight forward because there are assumptions around these events, like the player having a free slot in their inventory after building an entity, so you know you can put the item back and so on. And if a mod tracks killed entities than calling these events can skew with statistics and ...

Sigh. I wish there were events for when entities get destroyed or created by mods so we don't have to check for validity all the frickin' time. I'll have a look into this. Thanks for letting me know.

The sprites of the locomotives are bigger than the area they cover in terms of game mechanics. So yes unfortunately the first locomotive of the train only reliably connects to two stations, the second to three and then it repeats. That's simply because a car is 6 tiles long, but there is a gap ...

So you're saying we should utilize all the power of a modern multi-core machine while also saying it is not a good idea to try to implement multithreading to the game?

The game utilizes as much of the CPU as it can, but the main game update is a single threaded process. Once it is using 100% of a ...

So i just installed the mod
i hit the hotkey and i get the prompt but my personal construction bots still work...
Am i doing something wrong ?
14.12
So just to clarify your bots only disable while your player character is standing inside the bounds of the target network. If you are standing even ...

i have hp coil in armor and hp floor station, when train is charging the out of power icon goes away, and battery's charge,
when i stand on floor coil the out of power icon continues to flash like it doesn't see me at all.
Hm I'm really guessing now because I have no clue what's going on but are ...

It isn't really about the modding interface. Whether that would change after such a refactoring is an entirely different issue since it would likely break every mod in existence.

No I'm wondering about the game itself. I find the notion of dismissing a design that has repeatedly proven itself to be ...