I'm re-making my caves mod, and I'm trying to make a proper heat exchanger using the heat pipe system.

Previously, I had a storage tank which just incremented or decremented the heat of whatever fluidbox it was in front of, but that didn't account for heat capacities. Now, I'm trying to add a heat ...

Can a turret (or any entity, really) have a fluidbox? If so, I can just make a dummy ammo that the player can't pick up through a control script.

I want to make a turret that runs on a liquid for ammo, instead of an item, but there isn't anything like that I might have been able to change to Any tips or tricks that I could use to make this work? Thanks

well that sucks, I might make my own api seeing as there isn't any good solutions, and then post it here. Thanks

Anyone know if these are going to be implemented soon, or will I have to make my own API for it?

I've gotten back into modding recently, and I want to know if my entity can have custom animations (kind of like animation states). These animations need to be accessable by code, as in they can be activated/deactivated by calling a function or event. Any help is appreciated, thanks.

Huh, it works with it now. Maybe I miss-typed something before?

First, never use an infinite while loop when modding factorio, it tends to make the game freeze completely. Use the 'on_tick' event instead ( on_tick )

Second, there are a few different ways to do this, the most efficient (I think) is to look for an accumulator around the car using this method ...

It's supposed to be a lava pump, that only works with my tiles. But it pumps lava out of water tiles too, so I wanted to make it explode without harming the player if you put it in water. Same with the normal pumps + lava tiles.


{
type = "offshore-pump",
name = "lava-pump",
icon = "__base ...

.die() doesn't work properly, but I ended up just spawning a medium-explosion entity. It contains the sound and everything.

...

After testing it, it does the same thing as .die(), how can I make it explode?

I'm trying to make one of my entities explode when something happens (currently, placing), but I can't figure out how to make it explode. I tried grenades, but those kill the player as well. entity.die() doesn't work because it doesn't produce the explosion. And entity.damage doesn't work because ...

Thanks, it works now.

I'm trying to make a glow stick for my mod, but I can't make it 'do nothing'. I tried an empty quote mark, but the game just crashes.

{
type = "projectile",
name = "glowstick",
flags = {"not-on-map"},
acceleration = 0.005,
action =
{
{
type = "direct",
action_delivery =
{
type ...

Another, fairly hacky solution is creating a decorative entity with the image, and make the combinator have a clear sprite. Then spawn the decoration and destroy it depending on when your pressure plate is placed/broken (in the control.lua).

I know for decoratives, you can do 'render_layer = "decorative" ', although I'm not sure if it would work with a constant combinator. Here's the link for the different types of render layers, https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... enderLayer

I got it to work, if anyone needs help:

script.on_event(defines.events.on_tick, function(event)

local X = game.player.position.x
local Y = game.player.position.y

local entrance = game.surfaces["nauvis"].find_entities_filtered{area = {{X,Y},{X,Y}}, name= "Cave-Entrance"}

if (global.caves ...

Ok I didn't know there was a different, I thought it was just a convenience variable

I have a temp file for code I might need in the future, but never use. Also you do --[[ and --]] (start/end, respectively) to comment out large sections of code ( here ).

Also, instead of using the destroyed boolean you could use v.valid

script.on_event(defines.events.on_chunk_generated, function ...

@jorgenRe, what I plan to do is check when my entrance is auto-genned, if there's a chasm/lava where the player would spawn and if there is, move the entrance to somewhere that it won't affect the player. This would all happen in on_chunk_generated, so the player would never see it happen. You can ...