Hello,

I try to make a mod that makes trains look different depending on their fuel. My question now is: How do I change the properties of e.g. the front lights of a locomotive in a script in a running game?

Thanks in advance,

Phil

Hello,

A while ago I thought about how cool it would be, if trains using nuclear fuel would glow. Now I try to make a mod for this but I don't know if there is a way to change the sprite of an entity depending on their inventory. Alternativly, is there any way to add the glow via the coloring of ...

Sorry for the late answer, I didn't get a notification for your message... :? You can easily modify my latest version to work for 0.17 by editing the "info.json" file in the mods folder. Just edit the part:

"factorio_version": "0.18",
"dependencies": ["base >= 0.18.0"]

to:

"factorio_version ...

There is one thing with the building statistic that always bothered me: You can see how many e.g. electrical miners you built, and how many you deconstructed, but you can't see of how many miners your current factory is composed. It would be really cool to see the count of all your machines and ...

Thank you! I don't know why I didn't see demo-resources...

Hello,

I made this mod "https://mods.factorio.com/mod/endless_resources" a few months ago and there is one thing that bothers me a little but I don't know how to fix this. The mod basically makes all ore patches have at least a four digit number of ores in it. But this causes them to always show ...

This is just a small change but I think it would be nice if trains using nuclear fuel cells actually look like they are using uranium as propulsion method. I think of something like glowing in green on certain spots and maybe even light up the adjacent space like reactors do. Maybe a few lines on ...

I changed the script to use the "on_nth_tick"-method you mentioned. Please tell me if it works without desyncs now. The new version is for 0.18 at the moment so tell me also if you need a version compatible with older savegames.

Thanks for the notification. I am the author of the mod and first of all, I don't know much about Lua or the specs of Factorio's API. I was using this counter to make the mod UPS friendly but I understand the problem with it. Could you please explain to me how the global tick counter works and how I ...

Few of my ideas are (Title of achievement - condition):

1. Healthy walking - Never craft any car or tank.
2. I like Spaghetti - Finish the game without using trains
3. Lazy soldier - Stop an alien attack using only mines
4. Hello Darkness, my old friend - Finish the game without crafting any lamp ...

I actually think I did it. Now it is done by other means without setting the resources to infinite. Instead, all 5 minutes, the game checks all resouce patches for deposits with under 1000 units and then sets them on a random number between 1000 and 100000. On big maps this causes a small lag but as ...

control.lua with a listener for the chunk generation event. Find all generated resources in the new chunk and set the value to exactly 100%.


So the data-final-fixes.lua isn't a problem but how do I make the control.lua work? I edited the code you sent me for (minimum and normal value = 100 ...

Manipulations on data.raw won't set all your resources to 100% unless you change resource autoplace.
If you want to have 100% on any resource you need a mod that will set each and every ore tile to 100%.

If you don't mind that ore will go over 100% and then slowly drop to 100% as it's mined then ...

10000% = 100 * 100% ?
(Note that the default value for data.raw.resource.normal is 1 !)


As I said, I set minimum and normal to 1 and not to 100 like the mod originally does.


Sounds like one solution could be a mod that, when a new chunk is generated, goes through every non-infinite resource ...

So, the resources amounts are scaled after the mod's data stage ?

Would make sense because the mods and the data is loaded on game start and the amounts are set when generating a map which is obviously later in the process. What I dont understand is, if I set the depletion amount of an infinte ...

Well, that's a short mod !
for k, v in pairs(data.raw.resource) do
data.raw.resource[k].infinite = true
data.raw.resource[k].minimum = 100
data.raw.resource[k].normal = 100
end
Have you tied adding
data.raw.resource[k].maximum = 100
?


As far as I know, there is no field called resource ...

Ok, sounds like that the mod authors just adapted their mod balance to the previous behavior...

Note also that they might still use old balance numbers : oil patches bottom at 20% = 2L/s since 0.15...

Check the code, it should be fairly straightforward to make the mod simpler and just set all ...

Sounds like the mod author was just using the yields improperly ?
What was the point of setting the yields to more than 100% if it had no effect ?

You can have a look at the mod under this link: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/EndlessResources
If you know another mod that makes resources endless ...

"Fixed that infinite item based resources with yield of more then 100% didn't actually mine more. So yield of 260% for example means that it mines 2 resources and 60% probability of 1 extra."

I am not sure if this is such a good fix... I am using a mod that makes all resources infinite using this ...

I like the way the lasers changed, but would it be possible to also let them light up their surroundings e.g. the biters they hit and the ground around it? This would make it look even better.