I don't think the development team at Firehose Games have the expertise to reasonably duplicate what Wube has done with Factorio, with the lockstep game sync and highly developed sandboxed LUA API modding platform, allowing for massive multiplayer with opposing teams. Techtonica doesn't have anywher...

Is there some way to parse the complex ore distribution equations buried in game.entity_prototypes into a single digit of randomness from 0 to 1, and which can then be added up across all resource types to equal 1 ? Turn this into a single number ... lol game.entity_prototypes.coal.autoplace_specifi...

Is there a way to determine if an attribute in game.item_prototypes is a pointer rather than a static property? With all Bob's mods loaded, I notice the following endless recursion using the Global Variable Viewer mod: game.item_prototypes.diamond-5 .group.localised_name = "item-group-name.bob-...

Would it be possible for some enterprising developer group to license Wube's synchronized lockstep code simulator, multithreaded belt optimizer, LUA modding engine, etc to build a full-3D OpenGL/Direct3D factory game? It seems the developers of Satisfactory are rather grumpy that people keep asking ...

Is this normal or a bug? Version 1.1.34

Mewmew's Comfy Factorio, vanilla softmod scenario, Fish Defender

I've got about 11,000 game hours in steam and I ain't never seen such a thing before.

In vanilla it is possible to wait for 100 fish to load before launch, via a scenario softmod that periodically checks the inventory of every silo and activates the silo launch command, using control.lua.

I already mentioned it here, lol. Apparently it was overlooked.

This is now all generated via a Windows 10 batch script, no hand-editing of any of it. https://i.imgur.com/FpyWkdr.png https://i.imgur.com/CW8rIaq.png https://i.imgur.com/pQyKFEo.png I'm not sure what happened, but the weird UI icon cropping has stopped appearing in 0.6.4. It is possible the croppin...

Alas I ain't much of a programmer. The fully automagic would be a script to auto-download all the things and do all the magic hands-free, but that requires knowledge I do not have. Hmm. How do I make a Windows powershell script to ask for credentials, login to this here webthingy, and download from ...

When you finish this, will you be making it public? Due to the fact that this is Wube's copyrighted content, I probably can't make it available as a direct download without their permission. However if the image modding actions can all be accomplished via ImageMagick commands, then nothing direct n...

Assembler-1 new into old: Factorio_0.6.4.5945\data\base\graphics\entity\assembling-machine-1\ https://i.imgur.com/lyvU9l6.png 0.6.4 has the same number of animation frames as the current game (32) but uses a 6x6 grid which leaves 4 unused tiles at the end. magick convert assembling-machine-1.png -cr...

Something that has long annoyed me about this game is the forced bitmapped 2.5D perspective... when there isn't really a reason to keep doing that. Powerful 3D cards are now common, and last I recall this is primarily a non-console game, with many people sitting on near volcanoes of 3D rendering. Me...

Lol, I see upgrading the 0.6.4 game object animations is possible, but would be a ridiculous effort done manually via a mouse. Someone would need to write a program to select image tiles out of the current game data, and recomposite / resize to fit the smaller and fewer animation frames of the origi...

You ask why? So you never wanted to take grandpa out of the nursing home for a night of partying, dressed in the finest tuxedo and polished black leather shoes? Well, okay, so maybe gramps will stumble here and there, but he may enjoy the attention. https://i.imgur.com/4CE2E62.png It's sorta fascina...

M3wM3w / Mewmew Comfy Factorio has a way around this. Turn off autolaunch in the game GUI but have a separate scenario/softmod GUI control to trigger launch at 100 fish.

https://github.com/M3wM3w/ComfyFactorio ... to_win.lua

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Balancing to spread evenly across all belts on a bus is bad for machines that are dumping resources onto the belts, because objects on the belt take priority over incoming objects, and it is not possible for an object with space around it to slide forward or back to make room at that exact tick. If ...

Eh, seems like this was Wube taking M3wM3w / Mewmew's incredibly popular Comfy Fish Defense and turning it into an official game scenario.

Have you seen Comfy Minesweeper? Wow, this is an amazing new scenario softmod. I pretty much expect Wube to turn it into another official scenario.

Moving assets from modern game to 0.6.4 data\core\sound axe-meat-1 -> (convert to WAV) axe-meat-2 -> (convert to WAV) axe-meat-3 -> (convert to WAV) axe-mining-ore-1 -> (convert to WAV) axe-mining-ore-2 -> (convert to WAV) axe-mining-ore-3 -> (convert to WAV) axe-mining-ore-4 -> (convert to WAV) axe...

Has anyone else ever tried upgrading the 0.6.4 interface and graphics to be like the modern game, as much as possible? https://factorio.com/download/archive If it's been done before, maybe I can download their project? I'd rather not be reinventing the wheel. https://i.imgur.com/GS90aDu.png I'm no e...

Factorio 1.1.26 /c game.player.print ( serpent.dump ( ( game.player.force.recipes ) ) Cannot execute command: Error: (serpent):85 bad argument #3 of 3 to '_ _index' (string expected, got number) Probably not what I want to do as it will scroll a hundred lines off the screen. I want the output writte...

Since the game developers have removed hidden game objects they don't plan to use for anything in their commercial game, does this mean these objects have become "abandoned intellectual property" / with a similarly "abandoned visual/graphical copyright" ? Apparently they could no...