Here's the recipe chain in image form: http://i.imgur.com/yXKQ011.png The recipes for processing the ore into liquids and the liquids to other ores are very inefficient, so you'll need a lot of Tiberium ore to make any substantial amount of finished ore. However its really easy to mine; two electric...

Description: Harvest Tiberium and convert it to raw resources for your factory. Details: Factorio Version: 0.15 Released: 7/12017 Dependencies: None Website: https://mods.factorio.com/mods/Zillo7/Tiberium License: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT Download Download Link This mod adds Tiberium, a ...

I tried adding the sprites I showed in the game, but they don't look like they fit in with everything else...

I'm working on a mod that adds Tiberium and some recipes to process it. I also programmed a harvester vehicle to mine Tiberium that it drives over, but it would be nice if it had its own sprite sheet with a simple harvesting animation. I'm also using the sprite sheet for the base game's uranium ore,...

Commands pass a table just like events. The table contains the following parameters: name - the command name player_index - the player doing the command if any parameter - the parameters provided as a string In your case list.parameter would == "50". That worked perfectly, thanks! command...

I'm trying to have my mod accept console commands with arguments. Here's what I'm using: commands.add_command("setTickRate","Sets how often the mod should scan for things. (default: 20)", function(list) global.tickRate = list[1] game.player.print(global.tickRate) end ) The comman...

I've finished this mod but I haven't actually played it to see if it's balanced. Would anyone like to help me play-test it?

I'm using surface.find_entity to check if there's an ore object at a specific point before placing a new ore of my own. However the script I'm using cannot detect multiple ore types, so I end up placing multiple ore objects on the same square. How do I search for and get anything that might be at a ...

I've encountered another problem though; when I'm trying to spread the ore over new squares, I end up creating new ore entities on the same squares as existing ore entities. Here's what I've got: orePositions = {{ ore.position.x + 1, ore.position.y }, { ore.position.x - 1, ore.position.y }, { ore.po...

I've written this simple batch file that packs the mod I'm working on into a .zip file and moves it into the mod directory before launching factorio. This makes testing a lot faster when I'm fixing bugs. (I'm using 7zip to make the .zip file) cd "C:\Program Files\7-Zip" 7z.exe a "C:\U...

It's working now! Here's a webm of uranium spreading.
https://webmshare.com/rN5v4

http://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/LuaSurface.html#LuaSurface.find_entity this is the one I was thinking of. This works when searching for existing uranium ore, but is there a way to return anything that's at that point? The entity string argument is required, so is there a a string that's like 'AN...

I'm reading the position of an existing ore piece and then I get the adjacent positions(the orePositions). It has something to do with find_entities_filtered; How do I check for an ore piece at a specific point?

Try lower-case p instead of upper-case P? "ore.position" That worked; now the ore grows! But it doesn't expand over time. This is the only part left that doesn't work; It fails when trying to find the uranium ore so it never reaches the line where it creates a new ore piece. --add new ore...

you are putting all this in the file control.lua, right? ALL run time scripts need to be in that file. All declared global variables need to be in that file. That worked, thanks! After a little more trial and error, I got most of the script to run. However there's this line: local orePositions = {{...

I'd also be interested to learn what you want the growing ore to be used for! I'm gonna use the growing ore in a new process where the end result is any of the other ores. I'm thinking it'll be something like: Tiberium Ore -> Liquid Tiberium -> [Other ores/coal/stone/crude oil/water] I'm still gett...

Question... do you want it to -grow- or -regrow-? IE do you want fields to expand beyond their initial spawned size, or simply, over time, refresh themselves? Or grow around an object, radiating outward to a max radius - similar to red-alert ore mines or C&C classic tiberium trees? Unbridled gr...

It's fun to build the giant train network, and I turn on peaceful mode to compensate for the lack of resources. Though there's almost always a critical shortage of something, usually stone or coal. It makes one nervous since you don't know if you'll have enough for concrete/plastic to launch the fir...

I think I've got it to place new ore next to the existing ore, is this correct?: --add new ores to empty adjacent squares local orePositions = {{ ore.Position.x + 1, ore.Position.y }, { ore.Position.x - 1, ore.Position.y }, { ore.Position.x, ore.Position.y + 1 }, { ore.Position.x, ore.Position.y - 1...

Changing local variables between ticks will lead to desyncs in MP So the local variables are synchronized over the network? I don't think I would need that; just the server player could run this script and the placed ores would be synchronized instead. How could I set a variable to not be synchroni...