Ahhh no worries, thanks for the help. I have made it an assembly machine and all is well

Just uploaded a mod here - http://www.factoriomods.com/mods/the-running-man

It has a config file which lets you choose between player and armor mode, player having the bugs mentioned above.
I haven't tested it all to much but armor mode (default) works great.

nice to hear you have gotten it all working with some trial and error, good luck with the mod you are creating

You could make copies of the player entity a few times say 5 or 6 change the speed on each of them one faster then the other say named player-default, player-speed1, player-speed2, etc

Then you could write a script to change your player between the entities. (I am not sure how this effects ...

Here is working code to do what you wish to do.

This will raise the custom event when ever an assembly machine is opened


require "defines"
require "util"

events = defines.events
events.machine_opened = script.generate_event_name()

script.on_init(function()
if global.open == nil then ...

you could always write a custom event.

I am new to modding myself but it is possible that you could look for the open inventory in control.lua
I think you would use get_inventory(inventory)
inventory.assembling_machine_input
inventory.assembling_machine_output
inventory.assembling_machine ...

I am trying to make a furnace take two inputs which I would like to be coal and a custom item which name at the moment is new-fuel

I have written it so far like so
{
type = "item",
name = "new-fuel",
icon = "__ModTest__/graphics/icons/new-fuel.png",
flags = {"goes-to-main-inventory ...