When an ammo turret uses target leading functionality AND its ammo is both non-homing and has a range bonus, projectiles will detonate prematurely when reaching base maximum range of the turret. If I remove "lead_target_for_projectile_speed = 1" from the turret prototype, projectiles correctly reach ...

Turret that has limited firing arc, no turret base direction ( turret_base_has_direction = false ) and matches any of these situations:
turn_range >= 1/4 AND placeable in four directions (N, E, S, W)
turn_range >= 1/8 AND placeable in eight directions (N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW) ( "building ...

Thoughts from someone who enjoys dealing with pressure of biters and engages in combat a fair bit.

* Nest HP scaling - exactly what was needed. Nests were way too squishy past early-mid game. It corrects the mid and mid-late game fragility, while at endgame artillery will automate nest clearing ...

Oh, man. I can already tell vanilla rocket turrets are gonna suck ass...

So, from the footage in the FFF, looks like they have 360 arcs. So, basically there will be NO WAY to avoid blowing up your own defences if you dare to use any ammo with splash damage.
Just look at the clip with the biter ...

Doesn't Space Age have ways to throw away items? Just have a priority splitter and if the belt gets backed up, the items go into the garbage.


Yes, there are. On Vulcanus, lava is a resource dump. Throw undesirable material there, all goes poof.

Everywhere else, you use the Recycler. If you ...

My first reaction was "What the actual fuck is this!?". After reading through it, I'll reserve judgement until we actually get our hands on this and see how it plays. That said, this being a totally optional system (like combinators are in base game) is a great plus - don't touch it if you don't ...

When turret has been set up with following parameters:

turret_base_has_direction = true,
...
attack_parameters = {
...
turn_range = X,
...
},

Any X greater than 0.5 (ie. 180 degree arc) will result in the turret not detecting hostiles outside around 90 degree firing cone, despite visual ...

Understandable. Thanks for the answer Rseding, looking forward to 1.1.

TL;DR
Please add a couple new modifiers to expand modding capabilities.


What ?
I'm asking to implement a couple of new modifiers.

Here's the proposals:
{
type = "entity-health-bonus", --adds a flat amount of max health
entity_id = "small_biter", --entity prototype name, string
modifier ...

Thanks! I've found the mod idea very fun. Do you want me to transfer mod ownership on the mod portal back to you, or are you fine with me maintaining it?

Here's the JD's let's play of Biter Hell if you want to see current version in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4MeRQ-_f8k&list=PLnIE0W ...

Thanks for the clues, I managed to get it working!

Is is possible to detect ghosts getting killed by an entity being placed in competing space?

My use case is, entity of one force gets placed on the spot where ghost of another force is present. This operation will remove the ghost.
Is is possible to detect that removed ghost this with an event?

I ...

This is my take on the whole oil situation: balance the use cases for each oil product. Here's my mockup of the concept:
Screenshot.png

The "Figure why refinery not working" is already dealt with by reading "Status" in the tooltip on the right side. So simple mouseover will deal with diagnosing ...

Glad you figured it out. Yeah, directional turrets can be recognized by the field of fire preview. If its not a full circle, then it needs to be rotated where you want it.

That was quick, thanks! Now to wait for 0.17...

Game quits to main menu when a turret placed diagonally engages enemies.

I've made a custom turret for a mod that has limited firing arc. It has a flag "building-direction-8-way" that allows for 8 angles of rotation when placing it.
When biters come within its prepare range, game throws an ...

Update 3.2.0
- Added Dual Cannon Turrets
- Added Advanced Turret Mount and variants of all modular turrets for it.
- Shortened modular turret components craft time from 30 to 10 seconds.
- Added new radar building.

TL;DR
Make ammo-turret entities use and require electric power grid if LuaEntityPrototype.energy_source is not nil.

What ?
Currently ammo-turret type entities completely ignore electric grid information. I tried to make turrets that take ammo AND require electric energy as well,
but ammo-turret ...

I've noticed several expansion groups that don't build their nests. Don't know if that's because of evolution stage (Peaceful?), or because few spitters are stuck shooting at trees.

Ok, here you go.

Game.zip
mod-settings.zip
random_things_1.0.0.zip

Note, there may be a crash with Nauvis Day, if it does crash, open its zip file and add a nil check where error is (data-updates.lua line 115).


if obj.emissions_per_tick then
obj.emissions_per_tick = obj.emissions_per ...