From chatting with some devs, the color of turrets is based on the "first" player of a force. Unfortunately, that's it.

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Description makes it sound like it's for resources that have more than one item in their minable results, and that without enough slots the remaining results are lost. From the quoted version, and other forum posts (some of bob's, google factorio "storage_slots"), that was indeed the case...

https://wiki.factorio.com/Prototype/MiningDrill#storage_slots Does this still do anything? [code]data.raw.resource["iron-ore"].minable.results = { {type = "item", name = "iron-ore", amount = 10}, {type = "item", name = "copper-ore", amount = 10}, } ...

Its the deviation of the angle, in orientation units (0 - 1) so setting it to 1 or above means basically 360 degree random spread (+/- 0.5 orientation aka +/- 180 degrees) For instance the shotgun has a deviation of 0.3, so +-/0.15 orientation either direction from the origin orientation It's +/- r...

What I did: Added a new shortcut with a mod (the shortcut buttons right of the user quick-bar) What I expected: The button and location in visibility/presence menu (tiny thing to click on and expose shortcuts) would be added according to the order field string. What happened: The button and position...

The icons are 16x16 in a 40x40 size pixel box. I want to make an icon take up 32, if not the whole 40. Can't. 256/1600 means only 16% of the available area can be used to show a graphic. That's a *alot* of dead space that could be better used, on an already small graphic. debug info of shortcut butt...

https://wiki.factorio.com/Prototype/Shortcut I don't understand the difference between the 'normal' icons and the small ones: icon small_icon disabled_icon disabled_small_icon [attachment=0]smallbig_reduced.jpg[/attachment] Added this myself :) . Also added the scaled-to icon size (for a shortcut b...

There only seems to be at most one inventory per entity type which can support a bar, and it can only be known via the LuaInventory. I'm manipulating a chests bar, and I know 100% of the time the chests I'm manipulating will have the exact same behavior, but I can't cache them in advance. Containers...

To start off, gathering some information: First: wiki link to Logistic Chests max_logistic_slots Type: uint16 The number of request slots this logistics container has. Requester-type containers must have > 0 slots and can have a maximum of 1000 slots. Storage-type containers must have <= 1 slot. Sec...

https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/LuaControl.html get_personal_logistic_slot(slot_index) → PersonalLogisticParameters Sets the personal request and trash to the given values. get_vehicle_logistic_slot(slot_index) → PersonalLogisticParameters Sets the vehicle logistic request and trash to the given...

Tested a work-around: hand_and_cursor_stuff.lua Even with clearing the cursor and putting the item back, the "hidden state" of "is this underground the other side and should be rotated on build_from_cursor" persists. Rotating doesn't change the "should the build_from_cursor ...

export_stack() → string Export a supported item (blueprint, blueprint-book, deconstruction-planner, upgrade-planner, item-with-tags) to a string Return value The exported string I was wondering if maybe we could get this for other items? Currently if one wants to store an item temporarily, one need...

... I think I realized something stupid that might be worth mentioning in the docs anyway: if you start a request path from an entity position, with the entity's collision mask, it always fails (unless it doesn't collide with itself). That might be why I kept thinking the interpretation of a collis...

Sorry, I don’t understand the core of this problem, perhaps because I nearly always use the rail-planer (dragging the path with shift); I nearly never place single rails. Perhaps you might do that as well, because doing it so this problem doesn’t exist? If one mis-clicks while holding shift/control...

After placing a rail and clicking the green arrow to place more, regardless of how one places more, if they're mined out, there's no going back. If an end-piece were mined, it'd be pretty obvious to go back one connected rail at a time. If a rail were mined in the middle of two sections, the best be...

(Note from Therenas: Split this discussion out to its own thread so the doc improvements one isn't cluttered up with it) LuaSurface.request_path Starts a path find request without actually ordering a unit to move. Result is ultimately returned asynchronously via on_script_path_request_finished. This...

See the mod Spaceblock: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/spaceblock . There is a beacon called "spaceblock-mining-prod-provider". If one tries e.g /c game.print(game.entity_prototypes["spaceblock-mining-prod-provider"].module_inventory_size) the return is nil. The prototype explorer...

There's been a few times I want to call entity.die() in a damaged event, and pass in the right parameters. event.entity.die(event.force) will always work, even if force is nil. force is optional in the event and for entity.die(), though in the damage event I don't think it can ever be nil (e.g. enti...

The collision_mask argument for surface.request_path is a bit confusing, in my opinion: collision_mask :: CollisionMask or array[string] The collision mask is not the collision mask of the prototype for expected results (they are opposite collision masks!), and "array[string]" is an unusu...

Doesn't CraftingMachine already imply that? Ghosts can't craft and machines of them are an entity-ghost, so from a modder perspective, no. How I viewed it, hence the request. Similarly, seemingly far more important attributes, ghost_name, ghost_prototype, ghost_type, e.g. are separate. No ghost_get...