eradicator wrote: ↑Thu Jun 06, 2019 4:42 pm Spawning extra lamps is way cheaper than on_tick scanning every roboport all the time just to see if it has power. Because that's the only thing you could do.

Just as i thought... i'll probably go the lamp entity way

Thanks

Hello! In my mod I'm adding a technology that makes roboports emit light during the night. To achieve this, I'm using rendering.draw_light() with minimum_darkness = 0.5 Now I need them to stop emitting light if they get disconnected from power. I'm already tracking the ID of the light associated wit...

Generally speaking events are just beurocratic notifications that something has already been done. None of the events can be canceled. The clean_cursor() is a nice hack to prevent the next event though, nice find! I bet i can use that myself somewhere. As all events happen immediately, the on_build...

Hm..the only problem with that is players trying to "revive" ghosts manually. If you're able to intercept it in time you can retain the circuits but get a "building failed" sound. If interception is too slow the connections are severed. That's actually what i've been working on ...

The info is currently not accessible from Lua. You should be able to work around your problem by making your entities fast-replaceable of each other and then instead of destroying the placeholder, fastreplacing it with your real entity. Thanks for the suggestion. I tried setting all roboport entiti...

Hello! I'm the developer of the BetterBots mod https://mods.factorio.com/mod/BetterBots In my mod, I introduce some new technologies to empower roboports with added charge pads and electric energy flow for robots. All these new versions are actually new prototypes of type="roboport" becaus...