Not exactly what you are looking for, but here's a few ideas:

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Companion_Drones
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/sosciencity - no actual things walking around as far as I'm aware
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/warptorio2_expansion - has a robot companion

My Spidertron Enhancements mod has this: press Shift+M while holding a remote and it will open the map on the spidertron, following it as it moves.

In addition to what Koub said, Quality will be its own mod, so you won't even be able to have quality modules if you disable it. Quality is a required dependency for Space Age. But if you never research it, you will never see it in your game. Even if you do research it, you will never see quality i...

I like that the search bar on the recently updated page now finally sorts by recently updated. One of my use cases is to see mods that modify a specific mod and if they recently updated. Now I can just search for the mod name and find that. Interesting. Whilst I like that the home page is "Rec...

I also am unable to find a shortcut in the Settings menu that relates to the Quickbar shortcut deletion. If you know of it please post a screenshot of it circled. It is called "Toggle filter". If you hover over a filled quickbar slot, it will say "Middle-click to clear shortcut"...

Why do your secondary entities have associated items at all? Surely you should just be creating the entity and not the item?

Is Recently Updated supposed to be the default sort order? I found myself having to go through multiple pages to find anything somewhat relevant to my search before I noticed it was sorting by Recently Updated. Agreed. I like the front page default view being “Recently updated” but every single tim...

For the time being, check out Remote Configuration mod

BubstyBoy wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:02 pm

If this event existed, I would use it for a mod I would like to make that gives construction bots personal shields/weapons.

I think you can get basically the same thing using a created_effect script trigger.

I'm getting a little concerned given nothing has even been alluded towards grazing anything content related towards enemy forces, whuch is a core, non-superfluous part of the game. I'm very curious as to what or when there'll at least be even a smidgen or dripdrop of anything related towards effort...

Illiander42 wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 15, 2023 11:40 pm

Then this is a regression.

Because it's not working anymore.

It has only been fixed in 2.0

I spend more time in game waiting for science packs to be done than anything else, especially when waiting for Blue science packs to be done, so having robots do all the work for me would turn Factorio into an idle game. If I wanted that, I could just go to the main menu and watch the simulations a...

Hi, Is there a way for us to request topics that have been moved to 'Not a bug' be reconsidered. I've run into some odd behavior while playing the 'Freight Forwarding' mod and ended up at the https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=101436 post. There has been a lot of additional inform...

Could be that it only works in high res sprites or something

Please tell me, will this all be in version 2.0 or in some kind of extension? And what is the approximate release date? Please read https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-367 and https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-373 Tldr: this will be in the Space Age expansion, releasing in around a year’s time, whi...

2 different recipes, so there’ll be 2 different recipes in manual crafting too. Whichever one you click on will be the one used. No, it's a question about multiple recipes for _intermediate_ ingredients. That is, you will only have one recipe for the final product, and how it selects the intermedia...

- I build a some custom big chest. It can be created from the iron chest or the wood chest (two different recipes). — it's a new modded chest. - So, if I click "create 1 big chest" in manual crafting - which recipe will be selected (if I have both resources: wood and iron plates)? 2 diffe...

surface.map_gen_settings.property_expression_names["fertility"]="fertility" This won’t work. You have to do this instead: local map_gen_settings = surface.map_gen_settings map_gen_settings.property_expression_names["fertility"]="fertility" surface.map_gen_set...

GTexperience wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 09, 2023 11:58 pm

Will u be able to connect the new rail system to the old one? Or should I start replacing the old one with the new one as soon as I update?

I think you can connect on straights, but not curves/diagonals.

In lieu, is there any chance of getting a Lua event to modify train speed when accelerating/decelerating? I think looping over locomotives in an on_tick event handler and assigning LuaTrain.speed might work, but I'd need to reimplement each LuaTrain.state value. This mod already loops over all loco...