https://lua-api.factorio.com/1.1.76/eve ... ck_changed

I believe there's some minor typo/grammar issues:

Called after a players cursorstack changed in some way.

vs

Called after a player's cursor stack changed in some way.

The documentation is wrong for connect_neighbour -> WireConnectionDefinition wire :: defines.wire_type Wire color, either defines.wire_type.red or defines.wire_type.green. This is incorrect if the source entity is a power switch, and the target is to be connected by copper wire. Run with a switch se...

A file can be required in two different stages, though of course it will not be the same as if the file required twice in the same stage. I use a 'constants' kind of file for that. It won't match if another mod changes that value of yours (in data), but that'd be something to resolve with them (depe...

Goal: Have a persistent LuaInventory held in code that is also compatible with an entity (at least writable to) Two methods, which currently don't work: Method 1) Create linked chest, use link_id as identification, and get_inventory(defines.inventory.chest) as LuaInventory. Destroy chest. Problem: L...

ForceIdentification force_index was recently added to allow a lightweight version of force.index everywhere modders only cared for the index... but without ForceIdentification allowing the index, this results in it not being useful in some cases. create_entity can't use it thing.force_index is a re...

Expectation: Rendering's color to behave like tint, and the default blendmode to be: normal . Here is code used to draw squares (more complicated than it needs to be, I know), and something must be selected: /c local player = game.player local surface = player.surface local selected = player.selecte...

Since it happened again, here's another stacktrace:

Context: Was playing Warptorio2 + Expansion, which includes the Explosive Biters mod. Biters stampede in massive blobs with nothing to attack (an already reported issue with accumulator emissions). 1) big ol' blob of small biters 2) one (or more) dies, explodes 3) explosive biter fission 4) stack ov...

... Good point, they do run in a special context, as is. They have access to game. An exception would have to be made for on_configuration_changed, too, as maybe the mod didn't use global on first release, but a later version they added it. Hence, "should". If they didn't need global unti...

A common mistake I've been seeing for new modders, is that they either use the global table right away (naively assuming it's a constant for the mod) or possibly come from other modding environments, which don't use events and/or don't have the explicit behavior of Factorio's global table. Their use...

For the uranium, there was a simpler option: void-powered lamps. Then at night the invisible lamps could start to emit uranium glows. registering uranium for destruction on chunk gen (LuaBootstrap.register_on_entity_destroyed) and using that to localise the lamp when the uranium is gone, would work....

result:

If an item on the ground is to_be_looted, it loses the status when cloned: /c local player = game.player local surface = player.surface local position = player.position position.x = position.x + 5 local spill_items = surface.spill_item_stack( position, --[[position]] {name = "iron-plate", ...

What are the units of the *_force version? It's likely not to matter: See: https://wiki.factorio.com/Types/Energy Also: core/lualib/util.lua, line 552: function util.parse_energy(energy) If the game sees joules, it uses those, else, divide watts by 60 (a lot of values in the prototype explorer are ...

A boolean to allow/disable picking up from belts would be nice. With an increased character_item_pickup_distance_bonus, it becomes easier to hold f to pick up non-lootable item-on-ground's... except near belts. I hate grabbing stuff on belts when I just want to pick up item-on-ground's, and I would ...

As side information, when discussed on the Discord, it based on PropertyTrees being [compatible with/existing as] json. json has the two types of containers: arrays and objects. Arrays only have numbered indices (from 1-N, a Lua sequence) and objects only have strings keys. Anything not a sequence c...

game.force_crc()
Just the map, or, map and global?

This request can be moved to a graveyard or whatever: After discussing it with rseding at length, it turned out supports bar is only a GUI modification: it shows or doesn't show the [X]. The inventory of the entity doesn't actually change. This behavior was then added to the wiki: https://wiki.facto...

https://lua-api.factorio.com/1.1.74/LuaSurface.html#LuaSurface.request_path path_resolution_modifier :: int? Defines how coarse the pathfinder's grid is. Smaller values mean a coarser grid (negative numbers allowed). Allowed values are from -8 to 8. Defaults to 0. A meaning to apply to this number w...

A small bit with settings (global variable) and writing settings, it upsets github's Lua Lint or something, as it's listed as read only? I don't know how to better describe it: e.g. https://github.com/ILLISIS/Constructron-Continued/actions/runs/3782031980/jobs/6429423111 Related, under the descripti...