100% in favor. Launch it.

flat_map, huh? The circuit network might be sparse enough that a simple unordered associative array with linear searching might yet be faster.

OK I finally figured it out. Google doesn't know about mods.factorio.com yet so it took me a while to find it. The mod page is here. I don't plan to update this thread again. Please feel free to reach out on github if you have any problems or suggestions! https://mods.factorio.com/mods/jamesaguilar/...

Looks like someone else has posted it already, so I need to get ownership over there transferred. I'll do that asap. In the mean time, I'm updating the description with the 0.13 link.

Hrm. Actually the mod portal is not letting me submit the 0.13 version. I gotta do some research. In the mean time, check out the github releases page for the current release.

The mod has been updated for 0.13 thanks to a kind contributor. I am not changing the download URL because this subforum is "Mods for 0.12." Please check out the mod portal URL (http://www.factoriomods.com/mods/long-reach) for the latest update.

This is an interesting approach. I think I'm good w/ it.

"Thing 1 does X." "Thing 2 truly does X." To most native speakers, the second sentence conveys a view that the first sentence is untrue. It doesn't say it explicitly. But implication is a thing. :) That said, the original was liberally licensed and trivial in any case, as others ...

As the author of the original, I don't really care. :) Although I'd love it if you reworded the description to make it more clear that you've just changed the set of actions. It currently reads as if mine didn't quite make it so you can reach everything you can see, which is not true. :) You've just...

Fascinating. I'm not sure that's a good fit for this mod but it sure is nifty. Thanks for sharing.

You can launch the game from console, so standard print function would send its output there. You can redirect that output to files. There is serpent pretty printer, which can print lua tables ( syntax is print( serpent.block( arg )) ). This is great, thanks. So I can put the game in windowed mode ...

I'm wondering what debugging modules are built into Factorio. I know about game.player.print. Are there any other facilities? For example, there are pretty printers that will print tables to strings. Is such a printer built into Factorio? Also, are there any better alternatives than the game console...

I had an idea for a mod that would track the status of resource fields automatically. I know a mod like this exists that allows manual specification of the field to be monitored. I believe it can be done automatically and would significantly reduce the complexity of using a feature like this. Does a...

I'm glad you like it! I'm playing the game again following the steam release and I personally can't get over how much this little tweak changes things. Glad everyone else is enjoying it too.

Sorry, I had totally forgotten that's how I did it. Since it's so easy to fix, I did so. I tagged release 0.0.2. I've tested it briefly on my own factorio and it seems to work fine. Please check the updated link. (Thanks for the contribution!)

It could definitely be moved . . . but I'm a bit lazy to do it. If you want to take a crack at it, you can see how the lights are made on the factory sprites. Send me updated images and I'll put them in.

Considering how simple this mod is, I'd be surprised if it broke outside a major release. That said, please open a github issue if you have a problem. I get those in my email. Thanks.

Looks like this site's robots.txt is open, and specifies the maximum crawl rates. If there is already a fetcher written for appengine that obeys robots.txt, I'll reuse it. Otherwise I'll write mine carefully and make sure to check robots.txt for disallow.

This board contains links to files that would be downloaded onto the user's machine. Besides the occasional vulns that are discovered in zip files, I wouldn't be surprised if a security researcher could find a way to escape the Lua sandbox. Given that mod binaries are normally hosted on github, and ...

Is it acceptable to scrape this board? I assume that was the point of having machine readable mods, but just want to confirm. (If I were to scrape, I'd probably scrape once per hour. I could limit myself to 1QPS, or whatever seems reasonable. I would not scrape images, only the forum topics themselv...