Third, a question to rseding, if you can describe in a nutshell what the difference is between the event-subscriber pattern and the targeter pattern. It sounds like the same, just inverted. Instead of the subscription, the pointer to the target is deleted. Or is this the main difference? I believe ...

badselecthighlight.png Experienced with https://mods.factorio.com/mod/chonky-trains . Above is when the wagon is selected, showing only the center 8 inserters on each side as being able to interact with the wagon. Below is selecting one of the inserters, which shows it is able to insert to the wago...

repofme1, I thought you may find this interesting, a shot of the map view of my 16.51 xander game. I was trying to get everything train supplied and i stopped about the time my brain melted ;) http://prntscr.com/pr8z3h edit: somewhere around 250 hours of gametime I believe (some of that is AFK time...

Seems like having certain prototypes completely unrelated to the inserter (e.g. data.raw.item-entity) with incorrect collision boxes also cause this error. Weird. Not that weird. As discussed: So taking "s" as the size of the "item-on-ground" entity (plus a floating-point rounding-compensation fact...

Suggestion: make Utility Science Pack research depend on Automation 3. This isn't captured by the automatic generation, and I didn't notice that I needed Laser Assemblers for the Optical Controllers. Never mind, I’m actually an idiot. Utility science needs Optical Processors , not Controllers, and ...

Suggestion: make Utility Science Pack research depend on Automation 3. This isn't captured by the automatic generation, and I didn't notice that I needed Laser Assemblers for the Optical Controllers. I would also like to second the idea that Utility Science Pack should consume High Capacity Batterie...

I'm finally back, Glad to see you back! I've been putting a lot of time into educating myself on various industrial processes with the idea of continuing to extend XM2, but the uncertainty of knowing if/when you'd be back and turn the world upside-down again has been a real drain on my motivation. ...

hi! I ran into the uneven loading bug again. This time with a red miniloader that loads a chest from a full blue belt. Rotating the red miniloader twice makes it load at different speeds from the two lanes. This time I checked to have the latest version of miniloader (1.8.3). When trying to trigger...

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Sat Aug 24, 2019 3:22 am

Observed behavior != expected behavior: The items on the lower lane of the belt are backlogging. (Rotate the LEFT miniloader, so that it stops unloading onto the belt, to get a clearer view of this behavior, while the belt empties.)

Are you running the latest version (1.8.3)?

Pipes should work like electricity For those who would like to experiment with instant transport pipe networks, there is https://mods.factorio.com/mod/pipelayer. The main reason we're not doing this is that bot movement logic is currently written such that calculations are needed only when somethin...

As a note, writing nil to a sprite or sprite-button gives an error. Writing empty string to a sprite clears the element, but writing empty string to a sprite-button does nothing.

I see, then turning off inserter lane switching and chasing would really help you both implement these features without resorting to performance killing per line scripting. Yes, precisely! It would be an enormous help. Created a new thread to track this, since it seems separate from whatever Bilka ...

Broken off from https://forums.factorio.com/61354 . Here's a strawman proposal for a "single lane only" inserter, set on a per-prototype basis. 1) Add new optional prototype property to inserters: pickup_position_only. Default value is false, and preserves current inserter behavior. To summarize, th...

This sounds like you should just be creating your own recipe, copied from the base game recipe as appropriate, with the fluidbox index as what you want it to be.

Most people with a problem solving mind, and a mind for how recipes works, as they should have after 10 minutes in the game, will quite easily understand that if the refinery can't push out it's light and heavy oil, it'll stop producing. This should take about 10 seconds of looking at the recipe - ...

PG + Light means the only reason you need AOP is Lubricant - that's a really weak non-high-tech motivator. ... Light only again makes AOP mandatory only because of seemingly low-tech lubricant, and require single-step cracking at the start. I’d like to point out that there’s nothing in game that su...

I am playing with the oilchanges mod and so far there is one big drawback on the new system. I am trying to play like a noob. I research all the stuff from available tier, automate everything and then proceed to next tier. So far the biggest problem is switching to run power and smelting on solid f...

Um, guys, what if I tell you that there could be a solution to achieve all goals (realism, simplicity, game challenge) and satisfy everyone (devs, beginners & advanced players)? I proposed it few pages back already, but the more I think about it and the more I read new ideas here and see how (and i...

I'm jumping on the bandwagon: Here's a mod that implements BOP only producing light oil, with petroleum gas accessible via early cracking.

Light Oil Only

In practice, I find the need for a water input for cracking a non-issue. You need water very soon anyway for sulfuric acid.

Some but not all API calls can raise events, which may invalidate LuaObjects held by mods. It would be good if the documentation for the API calls indicated whether they raise events, so mod authors can know whether it is necessary to re-validate held references.