Will need to see your save file to say, but there are plenty of reasons that could explain this. Modifying a large, active rail network will generally cause a lot of processing to happen after every individual chance. It's either (a) too many chain signals having to update in recursive loops, (b) to...

with my main GPU being a 1070, having no form of analog output

Does it not have a DVI-I port? If it has a DVI plug, and the wide flat pin has four smaller pins around it, then any $3 DVI to VGA adapter will work (the GPU should have come with one). But I guess it might not have that type of port.

It's definitely odd that shortcuts put the technology reference in the shortcut prototype rather than the technology unlock list. That could be a mod interface request. To get around it, I suppose the answer is to put some code in the on_research_completed and related events, to keep the shortcut un...

[Koub] Merged into older thread with same suggestion. Also won't happen (https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?p=553269#p553269). Ah, that's good to know! I didn't even think of the determinism aspect. The Global Tick Time Scale mod is an attempt to make the game run at e.g. 120 UPS but have ev...

Returning nil for an invalid parameter is bad because of the reasons given by the devs-- type-property errors are invaluable in debugging the vast majority of mods. Besides, nil is a valid return value for some properties, so while returning nil for invalid properties might work for Fury's polymorph...

I interpreted "Needs the least improvement" to mean "please *don't* change this".

I could be wrong, but my interpretation of the OP's post was that they are having this issue in handcrafting. So, it's not so much that their production is all being consumed, but that they're grabbing up a stockpile of pipes and other materials, running out to an area they want to expand, then han...

There are many ways to solve your problem (not having a stockpile of pipes available) that don't require any mod. This is one of the intended puzzles of Factorio. Buffer logistic chests are filled at higher priority than requester chests and can only be emptied for player or construction requests (o...

I totally agree with this for shortcuts. It's so annoying having to constantly disable the ones that show up by default but I never use.

Thank you! This will be a great improvement and more intuitive.

This suggestion would fix this issue, viewtopic.php?f=47&t=101655&p=566072 , which was marked duplicate without explanation.

It wouldn't be arbitrary data, but a new prototype for "custom collision layer" would make a lot of sense. Sort of like how we have to define item groups and subgroups. The collision layer framework has been growing ad-hoc and the next step is a way to tag new layers in a persistent manner.

I don't mind if this is a "won't fix". I realized for my purposes it made more sense to leave the inaccessible stops with train limit 0, so they are never pathed to. My mod detects when certain trains enter "destination full" and changes the schedule for them.

If it helps, find_entities_filtered can search for entities with a specific collision mask layer (at the same time as other conditions). You may not need to do anything special in Lua at all.

Don't know if this was clear from before. But you should only do the search in on_init and on_configuration_changed, and store the list in global. That way it only runs after updates, when you know the prototypes might have changed. It won't have to run every time you load the save file.

It's been a while. I just checked how I do it in Multiple Unit Train Control, and I actually make a dummy recipe for each entry too. So, no easy answer. If the info you want can be extracted from existing prototype data, I agree with Pi-C that searching for it every time is best. We all do it, and i...

However, for the control stage, I have no way of knowing which of all the entities in the game these other modders may have altered without just parsing through every entity in the game. This is commonly done in the control stage with a remote interface that the other mod calls in on_init and on_co...

There may be other reasons, but computation time shouldn't be it. Recipe size doesn't change at runtime, so it can be computed and cached after the data phase. It would simply add some bytes to each recipe prototype, and change where the assembler logic looks for it.

I've never seen someone set item.group to nil. You can set items to hidden with the "flags" property. https://wiki.factorio.com/Prototype/Item#flags