Thank you for the input! I'm still new to modding and still finding my feet. I wasn't aware of the multiplayer issue. Would you mind going over it with a more concrete example/how to? I don't fully understand it. An example from my latest mod : -- Map event names to event handlers local event_handl...

Thanks for the assistance. Both suggestions put me on the right track. I didn't end up needing a global table, but I got it to work: Congrats to your success! However, I think your work isn't finished yet. While it may work in single-player mode, you should expect desyncs in multiplayer games if a ...

Start the game, click on the "Mods" button in the main menu, switch to the "lnstall" tab, and search for Space exploration . This will pull in some other mods that are required by the main mod. As far as I know, the part of going into space is quite late in the game, after you've...

I've finally published the mod. May I present: Leave Corpse On Exit , or simply "LCOE", as I've come to refer to it. Sorry for the long delay, but I had to restructure my data several times, and spent a good amount of time on making things more efficient and on testing. Hope you like it! ...

The game does not wait for the train to reach the station. But you can schedule your action for a later time. I didn't try this, so there is a chance it doesn't work quite as I imagine. But I'd go about it something like this: When the research is finished, locate the train. If you can read LuaTrai...

Hi, I've tried to find existing post with same topic but failed to find that. Currently if players want to stay on/rollback older version of the mod for current playthrough they need manually download files of previous mod version from the Mod Portal and replace files in mod directory, aren't they?...

Both of those are using the same internal function for revive purposes with the only difference being that silent_revive makes no sound and creates no smoke. Oh, thanks! It never occurred to me that "silent" was meant literally, referring to sound -- I thought more along the lines of the ...

What is the difference between LuaEntity::revive() and LuaEntity::silent_revive() ? Their descriptions look very similar, they seem to be almost identical: $ diff /tmp/revive.txt /tmp/silent_revive.txt 2c2 < revive{return_item_request_proxy?=…, raise_revive?=…} → dictionary[string → uint]?, LuaEntit...

Did you already consider script inventories? They can be resized if necessary, and you can loop over the slots just like it was a common inventory, so it is possible to preserve order.

I've just had an idea for a potential mod that would require changing the base_level of a given entity's fluid_box during gameplay. Does anybody know if this is possible to do? The fluid_box is hard-wired into the prototype and can only be changed in the data stage. However, there may be a way to w...

Attempting to create an item-on-ground with LuaSurface.create_entity without providing the stack parameter results in an error. https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/classes/LuaSurface.html#create_entity The stack property works fine, however it is not documented that it is accepted by the function. ...

https://gyazo.com/862f15cbb974bbe2d7592ee6edac5fbe (no idea why the image won't show in the forum, but right-clicking and opening in a new tab does show the image properly.) It looks like this is a private link, I get a 403 error: Error: Forbidden Your client does not have permission to get URL /86...

… there is no indication that the game is paused and it looks like the game is frozen. At least in the video, there is an indicator: the grid is visible. Usually, the grid can only be seen when the game is paused. However, this indicator won't work if the option "show-tile-grid" has been ...

I kept the required format, I did not change anything except version number, which is consistent between info.json and folder name, checked that 10 times by now. I opened Factorio and went to the mods in the main menu - the new mod did not show. Check the log file! If you start up Factorio, the log...

Still looking for assistance with this bug Well, anyone want to take over dangoreus since it's been abandoned? it's been a year, you did anything or nah? If you're not going to maintain your mod, transfer ownership to someone who will. I can't speak for Mylon, but to me, what you've written in this...

From the timing of things, I do get the impression, that the crash happens right around the time a specific background animation is about to start. […] So any of these ran fine, but as soon as "that one" (hopefully) missing background is about to start, the game just faints. Did you alrea...

Update: I've been working on the basics of this mod. When a player logs off or is permanently removed, a corpse for all the player's characters (player.character and associated characters) with items will be created and all items from all inventories will be transferred to it. So far, just a chart t...

i have tried to just compress the mod file and boot up the game but it doesn't recognize the file in the mods folder. I guess you've run into one of these problems: Unexpected mod name: If your mod is in a folder instead of a zip file, make sure that the folder name is correct! Assuming you have a ...

So if I empty the inventories of player.character when defines.events.on_pre_player_left_game and the player rejoins, player.character would still have empty inventories, right? Yes, that should work. Great! The character gets stashed and is no longer present in the world. The entire state of it wi...

To me its not important if a returning player gets back the items automatically, which are still on their corpse. To me its only important that they are preserved for the team, which means, that they are taken from them, when they leave and are put back into the game world and that the team somehow...