If all you want to do is make an entity that normally consumes power not require power just set the energy_source{type = "void"} and it won't take power anymore.


Nice to know that too, but it still doesn't answer why enable_gui fixed my issue.

Due to from my expectations a property called ...

https://wiki.factorio.com/Prototype/ElectricEnergyInterface


thanks will check this out later. I let you know if that helped.


EDIT:

i just checked it and to what ever reason that parameter helped that it was proper displayed in the electric network overview - and it worked. So thanks for ...

Try to enable GUI of eei for testing, you can set all parameters correctly without restart of the game.
Note that the power in kW is kJ/s, but in-game power is always J/Tick.


Where can i achieve that ? Never had been aware that there is a GUI for that stuff. In addition how does that reflect ...

Hi there,

i try to make an entity to consume energy from the electric network which by default doesn't. In theory it should be achievable by using a hidden-electric-energy-interface which is spawn in addition to the main object.

And using that snippet of code spawns an the entiy i wish for in ...

@Nexela:

oh seems it was to late yesterday to see that typo - thanks to point that out

Hi all,

i'm new in this community - and board search didn't come up with a result for such a problem - but i got some issue with a mod i try to get up and running - i got some issues placing a modded entity and getting this error:

Error while running event on_built_entity(ID6) __TESTMOD__/control ...