I guess it's not the fact that no one wants to share the awesome solution with me but more the fact that it's not possible right now?

Hey,

I have a entity with a fluidbox and access it with fluidbox[1], but I want to access the fluidbox attached to it, how can I do that?



Thanks in advance

Savi

But all the information which are visible for a generator, like "performance" and "available performance" would not be shown on the storage tank based entity?

//Edit
I looked again into the game and tested it. It seems that it is like I said.. The normal values for a generator are not shown ...

Thanks for the fast reply, I guess I found what you meant:


function check_generators()
if global.petroleum_generator ~= nil then
for k,gen in pairs(global.petroleum_generator) do
--if k % 10 == game.tick % 10 then
if gen.valid then
if gen.fluidbox[1] ~= nil then
local pot = gen.fluidbox[1 ...

Hey,

i'm new to programming with lua, especially combined with factorio, but I have a good knowledge about programming in general. Currently I don't really understand the way of adding custom behaviours to buildings right now.

For example, changing the behaviour of a copy of the Steam Engine to ...