This is a request to restore the functionality of the bug feature present in 2.0.43 and earlier as described here: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?t=128081

In 2.0.43 and earlier, the "no-automated-item-removal" entity prototype flag prevents inserters from automatically selecting an ...

Haha, that is fair. The documentation of those flags already seemed to suggest as much. Thanks!

Edit, reopened as modding interface request: viewtopic.php?t=128082

1. What did you do?
In 2.0.43 and earlier, the "no-automated-item-removal" entity prototype flag prevents inserters from automatically selecting an entity as a target for pickup, while allowing their manual assignment via the api using pickup_target. This is useful, as it allows a mod to easily ...

I encountered this same issue in 2.0.43 with the Rocket Silo for a few languages. It's definitely localisation-dependent and it's puzzling for sure. I wondered whether it might show up anywhere else and apparently so!
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In English, it only breaks when a single wire (either color) is ...

For some circuit network configurations, the subheader of the Rocket Silo's circuit GUI does not properly expand horizontally to fill the frame. It seems to only appear in very specific (and localisation-dependent) circumstances, for certain ranges of network ids. The issue seems to be purely ...

GUI elements with the "list-box" type always behave as if they are "enabled", regardless of the value of the property. For comparison, a "drop-down" element with the same properties behaves as expected:


game.player.gui.screen.add{name="test", type="frame", caption="list-box test"}
e1 = game ...

Does the inserter find a new target if the proxy is unlinked and relinked in the same tick/event handler?

No, it takes at least a single tick spent on the pickup side in this state. It keeps its target otherwise, which is possible if it's in motion and the link is restored before it reaches the ...

Inserters will always clear a pickup target if it no longer has any valid inventory to extract from.


Thank you, though if not a bug, the chosen behavior is surprising. Blocking on an input machine that temporarily switches to a state of being not ready is an expected pattern. If other ...

Inserters will always clear a pickup target if it no longer has any valid inventory to extract from.


Thank you, though if not a bug, the chosen behavior is surprising. Blocking on an input machine that temporarily switches to a state of being not ready is an expected pattern. If other ...

1. What did you do?
I have inserters picking up and/or dropping items into proxy-containers in a mod I'm making. `pickup_target`s and `drop_target`s refer to proxy containers to implement controlled access to specific inventories and entities based on player configuration or circuit logic at runtime ...

This is working as intended: a value of 0 (the default) means auto-calculate the required max number of slots to harvest any possible trees.

That does sound like a perfectly reasonable default behavior. It just seems surprising to use an explicit zero value to represent that case when a nil ...

1. What did you do?

I'm creating a mod that defines a Cargo Crane entity using the 'agricultural-tower' type. My intention is to prevent the default automatic behavior of harvesting nearby trees and set the crane position via a control script instead, so the crane's prototype sets an 'output ...

Also I do plan to reduce the base Hauler collision damage. Unfortunately in Factorio the collision damage is locked to vehicle weight, there's no way to make it deal less damage without making it lighter.

Collision damage also depends on "energy_per_hit_point" in the vehicle prototype. It seems ...

I've been working on a new BP book for a different rail gauge, and that meant making some new intersections. Then I found your benchmarking map and got lost in that for a while, until I finally decided to post here with my results. :D

Here's a set of "Celtic Knot"-style intersections for 2-, 4 ...