Not sure whether to report this as a bug or under suggestions. Either way, the recycler behavior is currently inconsistent with other machines when it comes to circuitry, it does not allow reading out the contents of the recycler.

I want to confirm that I also do this all the time and consider it a bug.

TL;DR
Guarantee spawning of huge rocks in starting area to balance PVP scenario


What ?
It would be nice if this spawning was controlled to ensure a fixed amount of large and huge rocks in the proximity of the starting area.

Why ?
Across various starting scenarios, factorio already controls ...

With the PVP scenario default parameters, a perimiter wall is generated for you. However the landfill in this wall is one block too small: it spawns walls floating over water blocks. This causes several issues:

1. once picked up, the walls cannot be placed back
2. The walls connect to the adjescent ...

This feature would be very much appreciated, due to changes in the way factorio handles symlinks on linux, they are now completely broken. Factorio on windows is still happy with having the base script-output be a symlink, but linux will not tolerate even that.

This has caused multiple issue ...

The proper location for this is kind of split between modding interface requests and ideas and suggestions, but my specific use case is for a mod so I'll post it here.


It would be nice if it was possible to specify a separate location for script-output. AFAIK, currently this is not possible: while ...

Currently, the only documented way to be able to load games programmatically is by starting factorio.exe with the --load-game parameter. It would be nice if this same functionality would be possible on an already running game by sending it a command trough stdin.

Factoriomaps heavily depends on the ...

pretty self explanatory.

Tested with command: factorio.exe --disable-migration-window --load-game luke.zip

Here is the result:

I've attached the luke.zip savefile in case it is needed.

I (cough) propose to add a daytime parameter to take_screenshot. If not passed, the current daytime of the surface is used.

example:

You can simply run a loop that counts to a billion to distract the CPU until the screenshot finishes. What OP wants, and the devs won't give, is a way to wait for exactly the right amount of time.


No, that wouldnt do anything for me I think, since all the lua stuff is ran synchronously.


Such ...

Thanks for the report however I don't consider this a bug. I don't want scripts writing anything outside of the script output folder even if you symlink it to some other location.


Can I ask why not? In the case that the symlink was created by a user, permission is already explicitely given. In ...

They're being paranoid about where they'll allow file overwrites by arbitrary code their engine loads? ... yup, that's some paranoia-level constraint checking.

Good. These are mod-supplied file overwrites to mod-supplied paths, they _should_ be confined.


The symlink would have to be made ...

When using game.tick_paused, I don't understand how to unpause the game after that.

The only delayed entry points that might work that I can find are GUI or key events. Is this true, or am I missing something important?
If not, I propose to add some kind of on_updated event, which works similar to ...

In past versions of the game, you were always able to create a symlink from script-output to another folder to explicitely allow mods to output to different locations. This is no longer possible, the game now first resolves the symlink and then realises its no longer inside script-output.

This is ...

I think you misread the FFF-259 . They switched to scancodes from keycodes. Using the keys that would be WASD on a QWERTY layout should now be easier on an AZERTY layout. I imagine you had the keymapping changed before so that you were using the WASD equivalent (ZQSD?)? It's plausible the game ...

When you guys wrote a piece over keyboard input changes I feared the worst.. Now my fears have been confirmed, the change from using scancodes like normal programs to using keycodes has fucked over the default keyboard settings for just about everyone that doesn't use qwerty: wasd is now completely ...

The game may run multiple updates without rendering; in single player this happens only when rendering itself takes long time. In multiplayer the game will sacrifice rendering for trying to keep up with the server. It should be safe to assume that rendering will happen within 10 ticks.


Wait ...

The game may run multiple updates without rendering; in single player this happens only when rendering itself takes long time. In multiplayer the game will sacrifice rendering for trying to keep up with the server. It should be safe to assume that rendering will happen within 10 ticks.


Wait, do ...

posila wrote: Mon Feb 25, 2019 3:41 pm What do you mean tick perfect? All screenshots queued in the same tick will be captured at the same tick. But they are not guaranteed to be captured at the same tick you requested them.

I just care if they are consistent with eachother.

The game may run multiple updates without rendering; in single player this happens only when rendering itself takes long time. (...) It should be safe to assume that rendering will happen within 10 ticks.


Edit: The mod stalls the game for a very long time and is only suited for single player ...