Sorry for necro...

For pipes without connections, see Flow control mod.

For on-map notifications the approach taken by Colossal Order's "Cities Skylines" game is worth consideration. It limits number of same icons shown within a given area based on map zoom. Zoom all the way out and you might only see one icon for a particular type of notification within a map...

In combination with armour classes (which would limit what sort of equipments could be installed in armour) the equipment types could also be used to add role play elements to the game (related discussion).

How about having those class specific roles built into armours instead of the character itself. Then you can build a fighter armour or a scentist lab coat or something. Upgrades could come from equipment - both for player (in their armour slots) and even vehicles. Which is why I put this request in...

Off-topic: Is your code on github? I'm particularly interested in how you achieved this... "Factories can have names, which appear on both the building and the item when picked up"

In our case it crashes during startup. Is Factorio one of those games? :) Yes, Factorio was borking for me but your team pointed me to a fix within a matter of hours of reporting it; specifically adding `--max-texture-size=4096` (yes, my gfx card is that old) to launch parameters in Steam and I've ...

bobingabout wrote:If there was some sort of list of these changes in a "Changes in 0.15" like there was for 0.13, then, I'd be fine with this.

Current list of modding changes for 0.15 viewtopic.php?f=28&t=39555

Off-topic, but could you also include image thumbnail and git repo URL in that mod details form? (Bonus points for git integration )

If possible, please make it so your editor sets up the common directory structure (based on what's in mod) as that will make it much easier should community need to offer support or provide long-term maintenance of mod at later date.

Rough sketch of code to swap a offshore-pump with some other entity: Note: There's likely errors in this code, I've not tested it -- shortcut to defines.events table local events = defines.events -- event groups -- Note: Some of the event names might change in Factorio 0.15 local built = { events.on...

EDIT: Ignore this entire comment, I read your post above wrong. In answer to your question *will* it take up loads of UPS: No, it won't, because the events used will only be triggered when user tries to build something. If your mod is causing UPS drop, it's most likely to be your on_tick handler. Ea...

EDIT: Actually we have issues with OpenGL occasionally too. On some Mac computers it claims 16k texture is supported, but when the game tries to use it, OpenGL crashes the game. Does that bug crash the game early on or after about an hour? Reason I ask is that I have a few Mac games that seem to cr...

Love this idea - was just thinking the other day while looking at Shenzhen that it would be cool if Factorio had something similar.

Would be great to have a Lua API for playing sounds (ie. without need to add entity to map).

They are just normal sprite buttons - when clicked, they simply put an item stack in to the player's cursor (or take what's in the cursor and put it in the sprite button). http://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/LuaGuiElement.html http://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/events.html http://lua-api.factorio.com...

Sounds like EvoGUI - in it's options screen (cog icon in toolbar) there are additional sensors that can be enabled:

https://mods.factorio.com/mods/Narc/EvoGUI

Or maybe one of these:

https://mods.factorio.com/mods/Squarely ... combinator

https://mods.factorio.com/mods/binbinhfr/TimeTools

Or just edit the existing mod and tweak it to work at lower tech level, that way you can still have biters so battles are needed to expand, but they won't attack the base as much. Another alternative is to use Creative Mode and put biters in to peaceful mode https://mods.factorio.com/mods/Mooncat/cr...

There are already some mods that do this sort of thing, and would be relatively easy to tweak if you wanted to change colors:

https://mods.factorio.com/mods/Taehl/UsefulMapColors

https://mods.factorio.com/mods/osldgoth ... Map_Colors

I think that would be acceptable. It's a trivial fix for modders, and it will make things much more consistent as well as removing ambiguity.

It depends on what you plan to do as to how your mod will be structured. I'd advise looking at existing mods in the mod portal (download some, they are just zip files so you can easily open them to see what's inside). Generally speaking, it's wise to have just a few files in the main folder (the inf...