Not going to advocate DX12/Vulkan here but I do wonder how much of the game's CPU budget is eaten up in rendering code? From the start developers told us they wanted DX12 because the driver is too expensive (CPU-wise) because we do too much state tracking. Factorio is uniquely one of those games tha...

For your DirectX-using builds the new version of PIX has all kinds of memory reporting ( https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/pix/gpu-memory-usage/ ). I have not had a chance to check it out yet but it was added for a similar issue DirectX 12 applications are hitting where they thrash GPU memory with pa...

While considering splitter improvements perhaps variable lane-width splitters could become a thing. Though it would probably over-simplify belt-balancer designs.

The topic of bots has been something I've been modding to adjust for a bit, but I think bots are just one facet of the bigger issue of "free/resourceless/infinite" power. The argument goes like this: Bots are too powerful because their cost is negligible. The one-time cost of building any...

The topic of bots has been something I've been modding to adjust for a bit, but I think bots are just one facet of the bigger issue of "free/resourceless/infinite" power. The argument goes like this: Bots are too powerful because their cost is negligible. The one-time cost of building anyt...

I've attached my game save, I also have the zipped mod folder but it was too large for the forums but I could put that on my google drive if you would like it. It is interesting how only the units on the Eastern side are building up while those on the west are not. Do you do anything strange with y...

If you are willing to share your save, I can take a look and see if I can fix your issue. I can't promise results, but I may be able to come up with a stronger cleanup mechanism. I've attached my game save, I also have the zipped mod folder but it was too large for the forums but I could put that o...

I saw in the comments Veden has seen the "crescent" groups of biters and described it as vanilla behavior. My groups are not crescent but there are certainly huge numbers of biters sitting around not attacking me killing my UPS. I've attached some pictures of my radar view at 61 and 63 hou...

The setting name is only an identifier, you need to define an actual name for it in the locale (translation) files, eg, in locale/en/base.cfg : [mod-setting-name] research-causes-evolution-all-techs-equal=Setting name here [mod-setting-description] research-causes-evolution-all-techs-equal=Optional...

I cannot solve why my mod setting is showing up in the UI as an unknown key. I tried to copy the simplest example I could find, Cardinal, but I don't understand what it is doing differently. I added a settings.lua file and in it I placed this code: data:extend({ { type = "bool-setting", na...

Mooncat's solution worked, thank you for the help.

I have a mod which wishes to change the game.map_settings values, so I seemingly need to do this after the simulation has started. I was unable to find an event that description that fit the description of "run once on simulation start". Is there an event I can use for run-once code and av...

In general mod packs suck hard because at the moment they are published they are outdated if one of the included mods are updated. At any point of time the uploader abandone the pack and all users complain of bugs not fixed anymore or complain about bugs in the mod pack for what the uploader is not...

that's definitely easier. Merging mods together (which can actually be a violation of some of the mod licences) is quite the modding job. you need to merge control.lua so all scripts with the same name are one big script... and this is actually the easy part. you'll need to find all references in a...

Perhaps I should just merge all the mods and concatenate all same-named files. You only get one script.on_init() call per mod, after that it overwrites the previous one. Same with all other script.* functions. So you will have to do some merging anyway. Seems I should give up on the cleverness and ...

I'm playing on a multiplayer server with some friends, in order to ease things for everyone I thought to bundle all our mods into a single mod. Once I got started though things just kept spiraling in hackery so I thought to come here and see what lua experts thought on the topic. My first thought wa...

Thank you for the help everyone.

I have lots of programming experience but I am confounded on why I must supply both the type and then name when dereferencing into data.raw. An example from entities.lua: { type = "electric-pole", name = "big-electric-pole", icon = "__base__/graphics/icons/big-electric-pole....

I didn't name one of the settings very well, "make buildings safe from biters" needs to be enabled for any of the make safe toggles. I'm uploading a new version with updated verbiage: "Enable building safety." Works great, I took out my personal roboports to deal with robots get...

The build v0.15.3 has that code integrated and configuration options in the mod menu. Great! I turned it on and things are working great except that if the spitters retreat near some rails they'll destroy them. They do ignore the rails on their way to attack me though. edit: nevermind they just mur...