The last very frequent opinion was, that it would be better use this opportunity to introduce a lot of interesting custom recipes to get all the qualities of different items. But avoiding this was the cornerstone of the design. I prefer quality much more than adding multiple tier recipes. It clutte...

It would be cool to have some toggles like in the map view. The different toggles could be: - Show recipe/item overlay (old alt mode) - Show inserter/miner/etc arrows - Show quality - Show electric network (nice to have)(similar to Pipe Visualizer or Oxygen Not Included) - Show fluid network (nice t...

Overall, I love this! But I also hate the names! I expect you will make them moddable though, right? I'd name them something like Crude/Low (and you only realize the quality wasn't even good before you unlock quality modules and see it), Normal/Nominal, High/Great, Exceptional/Superior and Pristine...

Hello! What One of the annoying caveats of Fluidic Power is that you can only place poles in cardinal directions. This limitation is because the poles need a underground fluid connection to each other, and these connections are only in straight directions. However, in Factorio 2.0 we will have linka...

Epic! It's going to be a long wait, but very excited! Especially now that there will be a weekly FFF!

Kind of expected it to be space related. Curious now how SE will change once the expansion drops when it has new engine mechanics to play with.

Bilka wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 16, 2023 7:42 pm

Thanks for the report, fixed for the next version.

(Checking on the type that you contributed to? )

You got me XD

First! So close...

The third example in https://lua-api.factorio.com/1.1.89/typ ... l#examples should have the heading commented, just like the other examples.

For a simple flying spidertron you can look at Space Spidertron. Doesn't have guns though

I am trying to make a mod and I keep getting this error: Failed to load mods: Error while loading item prototype "Turbine-MK2" (item): Value must be a dictionary in property tree at ROOT.item.Turbine-MK2.icons.icon Modifications: Turbine MK2 here my code: --item.lua local turbin_MK2_item ...

There's no built-in way do get an entity (the chest) from the unit number. What modders usually do is to store a reference to the entity in global. Something like function on_created(entity) global.my_chests[entity.unit_number] = entity end function insert_stuff(unit_number) local entity = global.my...

IMHO the train status should be in the tooltip, just like all the other information in the game. Not a random floating text. Then we wouldn't have this odd issue

A better way might be to instead tell the game to do it automatically, instead of through scripting, if it works for your use case. It would be much more reliable, and waaaay better for UPS. It's the usual way mods do it.

https://wiki.factorio.com/Prototype/Ent ... ealth#loot

DasNasu wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 13, 2023 5:22 am

Sorry for necroposting but either i missunderstand something or the answer is wrong. simple example:

Seems correct to me

(10 + (9-1)) / 9 = 18 / 9 = 2

And if your round 2 down, it's still 2. If it's not working for you in-game then there might be a problem in how you used it.

It's possible to increase the tolerance with a mod. Won't look nice but it should work.

https://wiki.factorio.com/Prototype/Pum ... _tolerance

Hello! Welcome to the modding scene! It can be quite addictive :P Unfortunately it's not possible to add a "result" to science packs. Science packs and labs are very limited in what they can do. But, as most mods have to work with engine limitations, there there are ways to work around it....

Ah great news! Happy to help. And yeah, that does sound like it can be really bad for UPS

So your entitiy update time is really high, which means you just have too much machines built. This is the hardest one to solve. What you could try is show the "show-entity-time-usage" debug information. Then we can see which entities are taking so long to update, and if there is something...

It seems like you're starting to reach the limits of what Factorio is capable of. Basically you're CPU/cache is bottlenecking. What you can do is enable a debug view to show exactly where all the time is spent. Wiki Link . Basically press F4, and then click on show-time-usage. It should show white n...

When you press Q to clear your cursor but instead drop your pickaxe/scream and summon zombies/etc. Surprised no one's said this yet. I'm not the only one, right? Ah, this happened to me so much! The only sollution I could find to this problem was to stop playing Minecraft and switch back to Factorio.

Just a bump for this thread with the reason: The game is focussed on automation, not conflict. why are we shown conflict stats and not automation stats.