Unfortunately I don't have time to try this mod but it looks interesting. You're welcome to take any ideas from "The Colony" concept from years ago. https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=39180 Having civilian building spread or pop up randomly could be an interesting buildin...

Space Exploration is not merging into to Nauvis Post Collapse. That's a bit misleading. Space Exploration will continue to be a free and standalone mod. The new project will incorporate and build on Space Exploration, in particular this new project will focus on procedural content generation, lore, ...

That's great, thanks.

Ok thanks. In that case I'm assuming that trying to force an existing item stack into a has_entity_data state would be a problem if the stack has a count over 1. This would make it seem like the best way to make a LuaItemStack with entity data would be by making a new item, and my guess would be tha...

I was originally going to post this as a modding interface request but after more investigation this might actually be a bug. The behaviour is at least inconsistent. If you have an armor item and that item has a grid, then LuaItemStack.grid will return the grid even if it is a brand new item. The ar...

The player hack is a good idea but has some unwanted side-effects and would stop working if nobody was logged onto the server. My use case is rocket-deployed spidertrons for colonising alien planets that are different surfaces.

I would like the ability to build/deploy an entity directly from an item, so that if there is entity data saved in the item it would be carried over to the new entity automatically just as though the entity had been built by a player. Ideally the function would be similar to surface.create_entity ex...

Request for a setting on the rocket silo prototype to change the "check adequate space in inventory" behaviour from no check to a check that can be enabled by the mod. For example: rocket_silo.automatic_launch_requires_space_for_product = true/false (or something like that.) This relates t...

Thanks

data/core/lualib/collision-mask-util.lua Contains the default collision mask: unit = {"doodad-layer", "item-layer", "not-colliding-with-itself", "consider-tile-transitions"}, but should be something like unit = {"player-layer", "train-layer"...

rendering.draw_sprite{ ... render_layer = 70, .. } now gives an error. Previously could assign numbers.

Numbers are more useful because you can use +1 to make something render above another thing.

I'm starting to implement this in some of the stuff I am working on. I'm setting a "flammable" tag on tree most tree entities, but not all tree entities are real trees so the tag can be removed from things that shouldn't catch fire. I will also be using tags for "flying" entities...

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How should that work, if this item can be produced in some entities? For example the three levels of assembly machines.

It could make a blueprint book that lets you cycle through the machine options if there are multiple.

Would it be possible to have a flag on cars so that they can be mined even while there are characters inside?

The use case is that I have dummy characters in vehicles so that the engine sounds and lights work, but it prevents mining.

I have some variants of characters that are flying, for example, the Jetpack mod.

Would it be possible to add has_belt_immunity to the character prototype?

Thanks.

The editor has a smart entity collision mode for tile placement. There does not seem to be any way to do this for items, and no way to prevent entities from being destroyed if the tile is changed. This request is to add a flag to the item's place_as_tile property: https://wiki.factorio.com/Types/Pla...

I'm trying to update Alien Biomes but I get an error when the upload finishes: "Error: Access forbidden. Please refresh the page and try again. (code: 403)" I've tried a few times now, same every time. The mod zip file is negligibly larger than the previous version. The upload took about 2...

If the character's position becomes invalid you could nudge them towards the nearest valid position.

Thanks.

This request is to have of property that can be set on crafting entity prototypes (character, assembling machine, furnace, rocket silo). The property would be would be the entity equivalent of a recipe's "always_show_made_in" property. The default value would be true, but can be set if set...