Hi, If you attempt to give the following command to a LuaEntity or LuaUnitGroup, you get a very misleading error message in return: .set_command({ type = defines.command.attack_area, radius = 40, destination = nil, distraction = defines.distraction.by_anything, }) Note the "destination = nil&qu...

http://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/LuaCircuitNetwork.html#LuaCircuitNetwork.signals Hi, The luadocs for LuaCircuitNetwork.signals does not specify that it can in fact be nil. I would expect this of a function return, but not of a direct property like this, so I think it's worth mentioning. Also, whi...

That's what I assumed :-) Thank you! Oh, I see the thread was moved to "modding help". I opened it as a bug report specifically because I wanted the luadocs clarified in the name of posterity, future reference, and the good of mankind. I already assumed it behaved like you described it, bu...

Hi, So the luadocs for http://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/LuaEntity.html#LuaEntity.unit_number is a bit unclear; Are unit_numbers universally unique for the lifetime of a whole game? That is to say, if one was destroyed, is there ever any chance that another LuaEntity will have the unit_number of th...

I'm guessing I'll have to keep bumping this until some moderator notices the problem in the post title.

Hi, So I'm on my laptop for the time being, and it's old, and running anything on it is painful :-) Which means I try to start up factorio as few times as I can. And to that end, I try to interpret the API docs without testing everything manually. http://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/Concepts.html#Pos...

Is there a blacklist, so that the mode won't work for certain entity s? Yes, you can unzip the mod and edit control.lua in an UTF8-enabled editor. There is a list there, like this: local CONFIG_ENABLE = { -- Categories ["ammo-turret"] = true, car = true, locomotive = true, -- Specific ite...

Alright, so since there has been no response and I'm stuck on my laptop for the immediate future, I'll go ahead and post some of these individually.

Someone has tagged this bug report with [Rseding97], which I presume is going to have little effect on whatever script you're using internally to assign forum bug reports

But I cant change it, it seems. Or my browser is broken - which is entirely possible, since I build it from source.

Tested with LuaUnitGroup.set_command as well, same result.

Still present in 0.15.13

Still present in 0.15.13 58.315 Error CrashHandler.cpp:232: Received SIGSEGV Factorio crashed. Generating symbolized stacktrace, please wait ... #0 0x000000000073fae0 in CrashHandler::writeStackTrace() at /tmp/factorio-ydwwTf/src/Util/CrashHandler.cpp:105 #1 0x000000000073fd64 in CrashHandler::Signa...

This whole time, since settings.lua was introduced, I've (wrongly, I see now) assumed that startup settings applied during game creation were persisted throughout the lifetime of the game - and that if I changed them, the settings as they were during initial game creation would simply be used and my...

Thank you, I'm going to make a reproducable test save as soon as I can. I realise that most of the things I mentioned are modding interface requests. The reason I made one big post is that I wanted a more detailed conversation on the whole topic. And I figured whoever ended up replying might give me...

I presume that the game is vanishing units to prevent infinite loops, that it has a while/for loop with a counter and after X iterations it simply says "we better remove this unit or we will loop forever". If it is so, the first thing I'd try on the engine side (because it would be less wo...

I'm currently rewriting https://mods.factorio.com/mods/kyranzor/robotarmy just for my own benefit, and the whole LuaEntity (unit) and LuaUnitGroup system is shockingly hard to work with. Once I create a group of 20 units with hitboxes no bigger than small biters and send them off to do anything, a w...

The subject line is not long enough for me to clarify, so here it is: [0.15.12] LuaEntity.set_command crashes when passed an invalid defines.command.compound Probably the case with LuaUnitGroup as well, then. I have not tested. Essentially, all you have to do is; LuaEntity.set_command({ type = defin...

3.8 (though how do you move without a keyboard? Haha, thank you, that's an excellent point, I should have listed that among the most obvious things that need to be remedied immediately :-) I'm just going to wait and see if there are any official responses to this post in the first days of the comin...

... by making useful posts with some discussion and ideas added which other can critique and then fleshed out is far more useful to the devs. The reasons why and the discussions about why a change is wanted more than what and how the change you want is implemented, lets the developers get a feel fo...