Would it help if the error said something like "Cannot save Lua functions in 'storage'"?

Chill with the personal attacks. You can suggest other solutions, but there's no need to argue against modding interface requests. In the end it will be us developers making the decision for whether something will be implemented. If that then results in a bug, you can always make a bug report then.

Is https://mods.factorio.com/mod/FreeScience the mod you're trying to port? If yes, I think you don't need to change the code that much. It should be enough to change the "result = science.name" line to be "results = {{type = "item", name = science.name, amount = 1}}".

It's just a copy paste error in the docs.

You need to own the game to download mods.

There will be a breaking change in 2.0.42:

Changed working_visualisations to enforce that the provided array is contiguous.

This will make the game behaviour match the documentation. I recommend to already update your mods to match this. Especially please note that working_visualisations can NOT ...

Factorio needs remarkable little RAM.

My poor PC has only 8 Gigs of RAM and I still have ~1.8GB left over


3345.016 Info AppManager.cpp:303: Saving to _autosave2 (non-blocking).
3345.230 Info AsyncScenarioSaver.cpp:177: Saving process PID: 44684
3359.211 [44684] Received SIGTERM, shutting down ...

Actually, putting this back into unresolved because StatelessVisualisations might allow more than the currently documented format, so that should be investigated.

This is intentional, it reflects how it is loaded internally.

Thanks, for 2.0.42 the docs will say where it is used.

This was fixed at some point.

This was fixed at some point.

Thanks, fixed for 2.0.42, also for LuaSurface::can_fast_replace.

Thank you for fixing this.

Thanks, fixed for 2.0.42.

Thanks, fixed for 2.0.42.

This was fixed at some point.

This was fixed at some point.

This was done with https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/aux ... eight.html.