Something I realized after posting this is that while I like the general concept of being able to attach a 'mod owner' to global state objects like luaForce, cleanup does get a bit complicated if you have a structure where one force is defined as collapsing into another when the mod goes away, but ...

Hey,

This is only a half-formed request, but interested in what people might think -

I don't do much modding, but I did publish a mod back in the 1.0/1.1 days, and thinking about resurrecting it for 2.0, now. It was a semi-evil mod that made force changes in order to accomplish prioritization of ...

Hey,

So for years I've wanted this functionality as well (to set up remote outposts that auto-request delivery of missing requests). I've used Ghost Scanner at various times in small networks when the performance impacts were acceptable (many to the original author of Ghost Scanner and all those ...

Got it! Thanks. I think I wasn't properly interpreting the description of the 'type' property which is what confused me initially.

Hi @Xorimuth,

Thank you for your helpful and insightful commentary.




I don't think pairs() will work for what you want either, using pairs() on a LuaObject will not iterate through all valid properties, it will generally do nothing. (I think for some things, it can be used, like for a ...

Update - ahh, yes, now I remember why I started down this path. It's because attempting to access a property that doesn't apply to an entity will trigger an exception rather than returning nil. THAT'S why I was trying to detect the type proactively and only THEN read properties I knew would exist ...

Got it, thanks for the help!

I get the sense that you might be assuming that the Factorio prototype system is a lot more "object oriented" than it really is, which could be why you're struggling. A prototype in Factorio is really more just a clump of data telling the game engine what it is. On the C++ side, there's a whole ...

Gotcha. So in the case where a mod is extending an existing prototype, checking .type (instead of .name) would return the same Lua *Prototype class of the 'base' object despite it potentially having a different prototype name due to deepcopy+extend? Is that it? Or is it possible to modify .type when ...

Sorry. Bit of a concept question here, definitely of the 'noob' variety -

So, despite having written a mod for Factorio I still struggle a lot with the concept of prototypes in the game and what that actually "means" (my mod didn't deal with too much custom prototype stuff, etc. hence why I think ...

"Ghost Scanner"
"Logistics Signals"

were two that I used.

First off, I LOVE what you're doing with the expansion. Secondly, I LOVE your latest series of FFF.

None of the following criticisms are intended to detract from either of these. :lol:

I was super excited to see the wireless signal transmission feature of the Radars until I read this:

So we ...

Hello,

I really found the "Data Lifecycle" documentation page very helpful when I was reading it the other day struggling to remember how the various initialization-related events worked. It's great, but there were a few outstanding questions in my mind after reading it.


#1. I had a question ...

Super helpful, thank you!

@boskid if it's all right with you I might try to distill your detailed answer into a small set of enhancements to be added to the Data Lifecycle documentation page.

The (fantastic and very helpful) "Data lifecycle" documentation page says the following about on_configuration_changed():

[5] on_configuration_changed()

This step runs for all mods if the save's mod configuration has changed. The configuration is considered to be different when the major game ...

Yo!

This feature was added in version 1.1.64. Can a mod move this thread to the 'implemented' folder?

I know this is engaging in massive thread-necromancy here but I too really would be interested in this API.

Thinking some way to:
1. Read current long-term destination entity (robot's target job). Write would be nice too, but admittedly the rules around this could be complex.
2. Read/write the ...

Koub wrote: Sun Jan 17, 2021 9:12 am A viable alternative could be to just go to bed, have a sleep, and let the motivation renew itself overnight.

Nah.

We want to make new things for Factorio because we like playing Factorio


This. I'm sure you already know this, but *this* is why you made such a great game. Certainly, it's not the *only* reason Factorio is so good, but you can tell that Factorio just screams "we have played this to death and ...

Hi Wube,

First off, I want to say that - like everyone here - I really think highly of y'all and what you've accomplished. So if you think an expansion is the right way to go from here, I am absolutely inclined to give you the benefit of the doubt and will be doing so. That being said, I felt I ...