Appreciate the feedback!

Right now I have some custom entities that use filters. The filters don't exist as part of any normal prototype's behavior. They're set by a custom GUI and indicated by manually drawing a sprite. The state of each filter is tracked in storage.my_cool_entity_filters[my_entity.unit_number] . And there ...

I'm trying to make a container that can be locked and unlocked. A locked container would not let inserters interact with it (or anything really).

My 'canister' is copied from the car prototype. This gives it other qualities I need, such as mobility, disabled collision and being drawn under other ...

Can you post the relevant code?

I assume you're looking at these pages:

https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/events.html#CustomInputEvent - particularly "selected_prototype"
https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/prototypes/CustomInputPrototype.html - which mentions "include_selected_prototype" should ...

Or maybe an assembler prototype that uses a custom recipe of 1 steam => nothing. Would need some way to catch when the recipe was done, and then find a random tile in range and spit out the appropriate ore. Or have a recipe for each ore.

I'm not sure but this may be what you're looking for:

https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/cla ... _generator

https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/cla ... rator.html

I am trying to fill my new 'tube' entity with some 'air' in it by default. 50 units of air. Tubes have the Storage Tank prototype.

I have this snippet in control.lua:


script.on_event(defines.events.on_built_entity, function(event)
local entity = event.entity

if entity.name == "tube" or entity ...