[...] It would be very useful to be able to tell which GUI elements are actually currently visible in order to avoid having to update large numbers of invisible elements. [...] For a flow or tab, it would be considered visible if any sub-element is visible.

But what about mods that make frames ...

Is there any chance that the logic will be changed at some point in the future? :-)

I don't know how LuaRenderObjects are handled internally and how much work it would be to rework the logic. But from my – definitely biased, and perhaps naive – point of view, if it really was possible to use the ...

Go to line 1457 in the log I uploaded: the tick number on the left (that is what that is, right?) is identical for many lines. I have checked and rechecked and triple checked for any kind of infinite loop or recursion, and cannot find anything, and certainly nothing that can fire more than once ...

TLDR
Please allow mods to add a LuaRenderObject that is visible both in "game" and in "chart" mode! This would reduce overhead in mods that create renderings visible to all players on a force.

Use case
My mod Autodrive allows players to order vehicles to path and move to a selected position ...

Thanks a lot! Yes, makes sense to set this in recipes, not in whatever the recipes produce.

Is there a way to define a prototype that won't have quality (or will just have quality 'normal'). In my mod Autodrive , I have several BatteryEquipmentPrototypes where quality just doesn't make sense. My equipment (so-called 'sensors') doesn't do anything on its own, it just serves as a kind of ...

When reporting bugs, please always include a game version.

Sorry, may mistake. It was late when I sent this, so I forgot to include the version number. But it happened with version 2.0.55.


I see the return value of the transfer_stack has changed between 2.0.47 and 2.0.55: in 2.0.55 it reports ...

TLDR
It seems LuaItemStack::transfer_stack() will always return true if LuaItemStack::can_set_stack() would succeed – even if no items have been transferred.

The problem:
LuaItemStack::can_set_stack() will succeed if the given stack can be used at all in the given inventory. For example, it ...

I have little programming experience and some essential mods have not been updated for 2.0. How difficult would it be for me to update these mods myself for use?
… Modding usually require expert knowledge about game engine, and upgrading someone elses obsolete mods require you to know even more ...

Rseding91 wrote: Mon Jun 09, 2025 9:00 pm Ok. For the next release I added LuaForce::get_logistic_groups(), get_logistic_group(), create_logistic_group(), and delete_logistic_group().

Thank you, this looks very promising!

for example, if the original recipe had the "circuit-network" subgroup, i want the copied recipe to have the subgroup "circuit-network-rcomb". all of the rcomb recipes are going to sit in their own tab.

If you really want to create a new tab (next to the vanilla tabs "Logistics", "Production ...

Maybe set group to an empty string


That wouldn't work. Run the command from my first post, then enter the following:
/c requester.sections[1].group = ""
This will remove the group name from the section, but the group is still available in the "Change logistic group" GUI: vehicle_logistics ...

We can easily define logistic groups:

/c p = game.player
pos = p.position
v = p.surface.create_entity{name = "car", force = p.force, position = {pos.x + 5, pos.y}}
requester = v.get_logistic_point(defines.logistic_member_index.car_requester)
requester.sections[1].set_slot(1, {value = {type ...

… So I want to heavily recommend it but not force players to keep it active. The workaround is to make it optional and check by script if it's installed and display a message if not. That's... ugly.

I'm in the same boat with my mods Autodrive and GCKI (both not yet updated for Factorio 2.0 ...

It seems you need to specify more than just "same-force" (either in flags or in entity_filters/entity_type_filters). I've added "any-entity" to flags:
Screenshot at 2025-05-17 13-06-32.png

I've started the game and built the stone-furnace. Then, I used /c p = game.player; p.force = "neutral" and ...

I really could need this for rendering Shortwave radio channel names on vehicles in Autodrive ! Since the channel names can be comprised of comma-separated signal strings (each as "name.quality.count"), rendering the text directly is impractical (too long, not localized, not human-friendly ...

vinzenz wrote: Fri Apr 11, 2025 1:04 pm Added "Planet" and "Character" tags

Thanks a lot for these additions!

You can define new prototypes in the data stage. They must be based on an existing type/class of things, where each type/class has certain properties that you can use (see here for a list of all prototype types).

There may be different prototypes of each prototype type/class. So the easiest way to ...

Looks like this …

It seems there is no solution. When I wrote the following directly in the game file
__base___/prototypes/entity/resources.lua:

minable =
{
…,
results = {"uranium-ore", "stone"},
…,
},

I got an error:

Failed to load mods: Error while loading entity prototype "uranium-ore" (resource ...