Shame, but I found a workaround and made my sign a container with an inventory size of one.

Currently working on a mod that should add editable text signs and I am almost done. After a while I realized that the texts were stored on a table that was client side, but I want my mod to work for servers as well and I want to store the sign texts on the server and preferably even in a way the ...

I'm currently working on a mod that should eventually add a sign that can be edited and viewed to "comment" the interesting "solutions" some "engineers" come up in multiplayer. However the thing is this page https://wiki.factorio.com/index.php?title=Prototype_definitions is very stubby. None of the ...

For opening GUI upon entity placement, listen to the on_built_entity event (assuming you only want the gui to open when player places the entity). In the event handler, check the event.created_entity .type and .name to determine if it's your entity that was built.

As for proper way to do entity ...

I've found out about the prototypes and the events, but none of them seem to suit my need. I am currently making my first mod (mod should add a sign with editable text that can be edited by opening the gui and viewed by hovering the sign) I have so far managed to make a gui pop up anytime a player ...