JasonC wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 24, 2020 8:41 pm

Is it possible to place power poles without auto connecting electrical wiring?

No, they will always be connect when you place a power pole. However, after placing the pole, you can use <SHIFT> + left click once to remove electric wires (repeat to also remove green/red circuit network wires).

Genau deshalb spiele ich nur auf englisch. Klingt alles irgendwie nicht dem Original entsprechend. Agree! "Hochleistungsrüstung", "Tempomodul", und "Objekt-Hologramm" sehen so … typisch deutsch … aus (sehr lange Komposita, technisch korrekt, aber ein wenig künstlich, ein wenig steril). Ich habe mei...

I think the title may be a bit misleading, so let me explain in more detail what I want: Ammo inventories of turrets and vehicles are filtered so that you can only place usable ammo there. For example, in your tank, you can place all of normal/piercing/uranium bullets into the SMG's ammo slot, but n...

Version 0.18.1:
- Quick update of info.json so the mod works with Factorio 0.18

Or at LEAST the ability to zoom and scroll on a blueprint! I would immensely appreciate such a feature! Generally my blueprints are small enough not to bother about zooming, then again, if I do blueprint a bigger area (e.g. complete train station, branches off the main bus all the way down to the a...

I was wondering if there was a way to unload multiple types of wares at a single train stop with the following requirements: -The easy one: Different wares would come from different trains. -The tough cookie: The train stop would only call the trains whose wares it needs. Say I want to unload both ...

(IMHO we need a new display mode, where the circuits are displayed and edited as a circuit-plan. But that would be a complete new suggestion.) Nice idea, at first glance. If you're cramming lots of combinators in limited space (and then noticed you forgot something and need to put down some extra c...

Would I really want to know the exact number of free slots -- or would it be enough to know that there is at least one empty slot? The second approach could be more efficient because you'd only have to iterate over the inventory until you find the first empty slot (if you're lucky, it's the first o...

If you are really cheesy sort the inventory first, then all your tricks work flawlessly. ;) There's Inventory.sort_and_merge() which could fix that but is probably too expensive. :roll: How does inventory.sort_and_merge() work? I need such stations everywhere a track branches off the line in order ...

Heh, triggered a very minor "bug": Interesting. I'll play around with that later. :-) To stay on topic, any know of a changelog pretty printer, that works for both website and in-game? They have different widths which makes some things awkward, I usually just shorten my lines a bit and gently casca...

Throwing out an idea: specific entities/items for each rolling stock made available. A simple way to handle the signal would be that when the entity is placed, it searches the surface for the nearest train station within some distance (find all train stations, go over each). These entities/items: w...

Optera wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 16, 2020 8:05 am

Please start a new thread in Modding Discussions for it.

Sorry for capturing your thread! I've just made a new one here.

This has been originally discussed in the thread for Optera's Inventory Sensor mod: Is it possible to get the number of empty slots in an inventory with this mod? Use case: I want to determine whether a cargo train still has some slots that can be filled and route it accordingly. For example, it wou...

Why should it be limited? It makes no sense. :) and only 50 tiles? Two wires with big poles? Come on... :) Frankly, I don't know -- I also prefer it the way Shortwave does it (signals transmittable everywhere). But this limit was explicitly mentioned in the original posting, so perhaps GG Cannon ha...

That would be a pretty large hit to performance. Instead of entity.get_inventory() it'd have to iterate each slot in the inventory. With the way IS has to poll every n-th tick to catch manual trains and wagons without locomotives, the performance hit will be too large for me to consider adding this...

@Pi-C - I love your post and use it every time I make a change to my mods (bc I don't do that often and always have a parsing problem somewhere with a new entry in the change log file... :evil: ) Thanks for the compliment -- and for keeping your changelogs working! :-D @Devs - I think there is a mi...

Would a special combinator that say, read available space in stacks as output signals, and output maybe E as empty spaces make sense? While I don't have Inventory Sensors yet, I have a couple of other mods that add new combinators ( Remote Switch , the wisp detector from Will-o'-the-Wisps , Ghost S...

Is it possible to get the number of empty slots in an inventory with this mod? Use case: I want to determine whether a cargo train still has some slots that can be filled and route it accordingly. For example, it would make sense that a partially filled cargo train goes to a station and picks up mor...

I'd be interested in watching somebody use Cargo Ships together with Bio Industries, preferably with oil patches turned off (CS provides offshore oil) and coal patches turned to minimum richness/frequency/size (you can make coal in BI).

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/shortwave That mod I tested and I like it, even if it has some problems with blueprints ( does not connect wires for bp) As far as I know, it transmits everywhere on the map (haven't tested this with different surfaces yet), not over a limited distance as required in t...