Yes. Tried that. I get an error saying "Entity doesn't have an energy_source."

I wanted to create a robot charging pole that charges every robot within a certain radius. In control.lua, I have everything working except the actual charging of robots. How can I get access to and change the robot's energy levels?

This is what I have so far:


local radius = 50
local ...

Hi everyone! I loved this mod, but unfortunately, it doesn't work in 0.12 since there were a lot of name changes to the scripting stuffs. Well, it didn't work, until now!

I went through and updated the mod. Basically, all that changed was some naming conventions, so I added a bunch of under-scores ...

It'd only really take a performance hit at load/compile time if done properly.

And no, I'm trying to access the number of filters, not set them. I'm attempting to loop through all of the filters in the inserter and add them to the inventory it's pointed at (trying to make a creative chest, based ...

Yes, this would be a perfect option. I'd love it if keys didn't have to be added in the C++ code for it to be accessible in lua. Hide only the more important variables that would break the game if changed.

Really? Every new variable added in lua has to be added in C++ as well? Not only that, it has to be allowed to access it? That's kinda lame and doesn't allow for much creativity in the creation of mods if only the very basic properties are allowed to be accessed and changed.
Even for alpha, that ...

I'm trying to obtain access to a variable in an entity prototype.

for i = 1, game.entityprototypes["item-name"].filter_count do

Comes up with an error saying that item prototypes doesn't contain the key "filter_count". However, the item I'm trying to access does have a filter_count, it's a smart ...