I am submitting it as a bug report because I feels like the intension is to be able to set things up to happen automatically a lot of the time, and here it cannot be set to do that.
The suggestion is to allow Cargo bays and space platforms to be received by a space platform even if there is no ...

I used to play regularly on the stand alone version, where achievements are kept per save. After moving to the steam version I found that the achievements are synced between different saves. Is there a way to go back to the old behavior, where achievements are fresh between saves? probably either a ...

I previously posted a bug report on the mod search portal and was directed to repost it here

Bug report:

the search bar on https://mods.factorio.com/ does not always pull up the right mod at the top.

examples:
search "Milestones" and the top result is chinese (the mod "Milestones" is in slot 3 ...

the search bar on https://mods.factorio.com/ does not always pull up the right mod at the top.

examples:
search "Milestones" and the top result is chinese (the mod "Milestones" is in slot 3)
search "Spidertron Enhancements" and the mod "Spidertron Enhancements" is not even on screen

fix?
the ...

I was looking around for info and found
https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&p=573021

In particular there is the useful line of code
/c game.player.selected.destructible = false

I suggest adding this to the list of console commands (https://wiki.factorio.com/Console)
I think this is ...

thank you Hornwitser. it was at ~1kB the 2nd suggestion worked, I got the blueprints back from my planning save.

I use several installs, one of them is for
a) creating /testing mod and
b) a project where a base builds its self (using Recursive Blueprints)

the data for the latter is only in the blueprint library because i have to restart all the time (to test it still works)
after returning to the project I ...

request to add information to https://wiki.factorio.com/Tutorial:Localisation about how to make a multi line description (\n turns into a newline character)
and how to create/change it programmatically (i dont know this but know it is posible)

-> Added the note on \n, programmatic creation (as in ...

This is a request for a way to see when a tree has been damaged by pollution.

currently there is no event at all around the situation, the only way to tell is to check every tick if the tree has been damaged.

what i am looking for is some kind if event to be raised when the damage is taken.

PS I ...

This is a request for a way to see when a cliff is being destroyed.

currently the only events raised are when the cliff exposive is thrown

on_pre_robot_exploded_cliff and
on_player_used_capsule

or after the cliff is dead already

on_robot_exploded_cliff (no way to tell when a player thown ...

+1

new post to keep it active

the page https://wiki.factorio.com/Types/SpawnPoint
lists this
Types/SpawnPoint ... evolution_factor or 1 ... spawn_weight or 2


in testing however i found that it is called weight not spawn_weight

-> It's called spawn_weight in the data stage (which is what the wiki page is about) and ...

+1

TL;DR
change snap to grid default to start with the correct values instead of 0,0

What ?
currently when you open a blueprint and click the snap to grid option, it defaults to an absolute reference and an offset of 0,0 this causes situitions like the following where the blueprint is lined up ...

Rseding91 wrote: Fri Sep 24, 2021 3:05 pm What's the use-case for reading what's in the chest? Since the contents are shared globally across all chests with that ID I don't see much point in reading the contents with wires.

we have given several answers now about why this is useful, can you please either implement it or respond?

+1

Why allow connection to circuit network?

exactly the same reasons as normal chests link to the circuit network
automation

I found this issue when trying to make inserters keep 1 stack of each of a couple different item in the linked chest

another 2nd example would to increase effective ...

TL;DR
allow linked chests to connect to the circuit network like normal chests.


What ?
allow linked chests to connect to the circuit network

be able to read chest contents like with normal chests

would also be nice to be able to set the link string that determines what link network the chest ...

What did you do?
downloaded the standalone factorio
renamed factorio.exe to factorio_1_1_38.exe
used the auto update to update factorio

What happened?
the update failed

What did you expect to happen instead? It might be obvious to you, but do it anyway!
to get 2 exes, factorio_1_1_38.exe and the ...

the command spill_item_stack() causes unnecessarily heavy lag due to needing to find where to drop repeatedly.

this is shown in the following example
on my machine the following code takes 2 seconds.

/c player = game.player
for i=1,1 do
player.surface.spill_item_stack({0, 0}, {name="iron-plate ...