+1

Having any way to prevent the vanilla starmap from being opened would be nice.

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The belt is disabled, the circuit configuration is the following :

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But when the belt is cloned, the item on the belt moves.
I would expect the item to NOT move since the belt that is cloned is supposed to be disabled ...

Hello.

I've been playing with fluid temperature recently, more specifically with the boiler prototype.

Where we stand:
- We can use "heat-fluid-inside" in a boiler.
- in this mode, the whole pipeline gradually increases it's temperature

Why this is useful :
- Currently, we can make it so an ...

Thanks Bilka, will try this !

Hello !

Boiler prototype doc :
https://lua-api.factorio.com/2.0.76/prototypes/BoilerPrototype.html

The documentation says :
The output fluid box.

If mode is "output-to-separate-pipe" and this has a filter, the heated input fluid is converted to the output fluid that is set in the filter. The ...

Hello,

This seems related to this : https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?p=684822).

Setting the field "energy_source" of the base game's heat-exchanger entity like this :

{
type = "fluid",
fluid_usage_per_tick = 100,
fluid_box = {
filter = "steam",
volume = 1,
pipe_connections ...

Hello !

I noticed a while ago that the inventory of cargo pods didn't scale with quality.
This is of course ireelevant in a vanilla scenario, but this could be leveraged in modding.
Right now the only way to scale the inventory size is by making multiple versions of the same cargo pod / do "quality ...

I tinkered a bit more with create_entity() and unfortunately, it really doesn't match what create_cargo_pod() does.

Here is the current situation :
- A hatch prototype can only send one type of unit. (This makes sense, I'm not discussing this point).
- A cargo bay can have multiple hatches ...

I tried that, but it doesn't look like the cargo pod created with create_entity() behaves like the one created with create_cargo_pod(),
it doesn't belong to a hatch (therefore, doesn't play its animation nor does it occupy the hatch).
Create_cargo_pod() seems like a helper that does several things ...

Hello !

The method LuaEntity.create_cargo_pod() :
https://lua-api.factorio.com/2.0.73/classes/LuaEntity.html#create_cargo_pod
https://lua-api.factorio.com/2.0.73/classes/LuaCargoHatch.html#create_cargo_pod

Does not allow to specify which pod.
However, we are already capable of making modded cargo ...

Hello there !

The logistics between planets and platforms is nice. It would be great if we had more access to it, be it read, and/or write.

Overall goal :
-- An option to allow a surface to "subscribe" to a logistic network (like when a platform enters an orbit, and it "subscribes" to this ...

Noice ! This is going to make P2P Automation so much easier from now on.

I'm gonna play the devil's advocate here, as someone who also mods guis attached to the right and has the same issue :

You can hide the circuit connection window by clicking its widget.
Sure, when it's opened, it doesn't look great. But you still can, currently, hide this window.
So the question ...

Hello !

I have been tinkering with the SpacePlatformHubPrototype to make custom types of space platforms, and it would be very nice to be able to, notably, disable the logistics part of the hub, while keeping the ability to schedule travel with stations, OR the other way around (disable the ...

Thank you !

Hello !
Currently, SpoilToTriggerResult has a key "items_per_trigger" that allows us to define (if my understanding is correct) to trigger the script only if there is the required amount of items in the stack.

However, if we want to set this value to 1, meaning only one item is needed to trigger ...

Well it's true. "equipment" is an uncountable noun.
I learned something today.

Nice ! Thanks !

By the way, that raises another question : is it normal that the vanilla behavior is that, if you don't set the trash_inventory_size, it won't grow above 1 slot ?

Hello there !
It's me again, your friendly inventories bug finder :D

First, I thank you for fixing the trash inventory size setup for assembling machines : I tested it and it works fine.
However it seems to be broken for labs.

By default, the labs create a trash inventory when an item spoils ...

Hello,
When an item with a spoil to trigger result spoils while being inside a pod (tested with dropping a cargo pod from a platform), it looks like the event isn't fired.

I tested it with a breakpoint.
The event is fired when the item spoils while awaiting to be dropped by the platform (inside the ...