As far as I know, the built in fluid mixing prevention only reads pipe contents and entity fluid *outputs*, while ignoring inputs. You can't connect both outputs of a refinery or two-output chemical plant, but you can connect both inputs even if they want different fluids.

I want to do something next tick. Currently, as best I can discern through discussing with folks on Discord, the most way to do this without just leaving an on_tick handler always running is to register a handler for on_nth_tick(game.tick+1) and record that in global.something, then in on_load read ...

No. That seemingly has no effect. I'm guessing because .opened only applies at the end of the tick processing. What does "work" is doing .opened=nil then waiting for the next tick (which is far more complicated than it should be, new request incoming) to do .opened=combinator. This achieve...

I am modifying the signals for a constant combinator whose GUI is open and that GUI does not show the changes until it's closed and re-opened. I'd like to be able to tell it to refresh. PS: the alt mode render in the world already refreshes on its own, and so does the mini render in the GUI that sho...

The "length" in question here is the *underground* length, not the total belt length. If you consider that each underground belt entity has half a tile of above-ground belt and half a tile of below-ground belt then the math all works out. One pair of underground entities is 0.5+0.5=1 tiles...

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https://github.com/wube/factorio-data/blob/ea4de4617e6f7c8e5c58f99a777daa5bbd841f48/core/lualib/util.lua#L114-L131 This function only works with positions that look like {5,1}, not the kind that look like {x=5,y=1} which come from the API. I've written a version that honors both types of positions, ...

That ridiculous train ramp mod (Renai Transportation, which also has other novelties like power pole ziplines and throwing inserters) could be re-skinned as potentially the best tunnel or bridge mod so far.

I take it from your question that can_place_entity{..., build_check_type=defines.build_check_type.manual} performs the fluid mixing prevention check? If so then yes, I can use that. TIL, thanks!

I would like to skip a create_entity if the player manually creating the entity would fail due to the built in fluid mixing prevention check. I know that I could reimplement the check in my mod, but that seems wasteful.

Mod settings in a config file make this mostly a nonstarter for multiplayer.

If you'd like some help getting the settings into the in-game interface, come find me on the Factorio Discord and I'd be happy to brainstorm how to make them fit.

The three existing modules are not run by scripts. Their effects are applied by the game engine. For a custom type the basic approach would be to create a new module with none of the standard bonuses, then in your mod you would check for the presence of the module and change the behavior of the enti...

I think the technical explanation is that the distance is center to center?

A belt located at 0.5,0.5 (that is, occupying the tile spanning from 0,0 to 1,1) connects to a belt at 0.5,5.5.

To be fair, my suggestion here should also apply in Select a Signal, but that's only because I intend for it to apply everywhere in the whole game UI. I'm a lot more interested in the settings dialog and custom mod UIs and the half dozen other places. Put another way, if you implemented my idea here...

I don't care how the min-max on personal logistic behaves. My request is specifically about after the user directly and manually focuses a numeric input. After they click or press tab. Basically the opposite of this thread, which is about automatically focusing.

If you make a new graphics mod, it can load after the base mod and simply modify the graphics paths in the data structures added by the base mod. What I don't know is whether the game will ignore/purge assets that are not referenced by any entities. If not then you are probably right, and an altern...

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Sat Sep 05, 2020 9:39 pm

Merged with existing topic -- ssilk

My request above was not related to this thread. I was referring to all numeric inputs, particularly in the settings dialogs, after they are already focused by the user. I was not asking for the focus behavior change discussed in this thread.

When I press tab to move the focus into a numeric textfield containing "50", it is really unlikely that what I want to change it to is "501" or "50999", and very likely that I want to change it to "1" or "999". To that end, the UX would be streamline...

Luckily there is already a similar mode in Factorio (due to the same restriction): https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?t=9300 -> I think "REDUCE SPRITE RESOLUTION" is you thing. :) It just halves the sprite resultion while loading, which reduce the memory size by factor 4. Does it r...

How would you handle clashes, where both the dependency that's specified, and a mod that's fulfilling the requirement be handled? I think "provides" would imply "conflicts". I missed the part where it's someone else's graphics pack you want to replace? That sucks that they lump ...