OK, I love this suggestion. It has the potential to solve some really annoying problems, and doesn't really threaten the use of belts, as it addresses situations faced by bots going super long distances, not those going short intra-factory hops. It fixes a problem I face far more with construction b...

Sorry to be a bit late, and dig up an old topic, and for the self promotion (wow thats a big list). Anyway, I have a mod - https://mods.factorio.com/mod/True-Nukes, built for exactly this purpose.
It makes nukes a LOT more dramatic - particularly the really big ones.

Normally you'd put it in as part of the recipe - what do you plan on it doing?

It gets worse when the libs have incompatibilities - or aren't just libs, and are instead full mods, as then your gameplay is significantly altered by a mod you never enabled or downloaded. You could also add a button on optional dependencies of mods which would enable them as a dependency - so they...

This does sound interesting, but you're going to have a few interesting problems. The limiting factor is performance impact. I would guess the best would be to do what you've been doing so far, and triggering on_pre_player_mined_item (and on_robot_mined_entity), take the entities which are connected...

TL;DR Make it so that the game can tell whether a mod was enabled directly or via dependency, so that disabling a mod can take the dependencies with it. What ? The specific request I have here would be that mod-list.json had more information about why a mod was enabled - perhaps a list of mods it w...

When modding in a new type of ammunition for the machine gun, if the range_modifier is set (e.g. to 2), it normally works fine, but if you set clamp_position = true (with target_type = "position") then the firing range is clamped to the original range, rather than the modified range. I've ...

Ah, that figures. Oh well, at least this forum post documents what failures like this mean a little.

I was just thinking noting it specifically as an internal error might make it more clear - at the minute the most descriptive part is "Invalid argument stack traceback" which kinda sounds like I gave a really bad argument to the api somehow, and that crashed everything. I'm sure it is mean...

OK, to confirm, this was an out of memory - not a bug at all.
I guess a related feature request would be to make this more obvious (i.e. include it in the message given on screen)?

I've received a rather mysterious bug report for True-Nukes, including what looks like an error inside a call to the API: The mod True Nukes (0.2.10) caused a non-recoverable error. Please report this error to the mod author. Error while running event True-Nukes::on_script_trigger_effect (ID 153) Fl...

What is the ideal distance considering using tankwaggons instead of pipelines? There isn't an exact distance at which tankwaggons become better - the correct answer is "it's complicated". It really depends on what stage of the game you are at, what you are transporting, and how much of it...

... I have had those kinds of problems, but I tend to avoid them in a few ways: 1: have a secondary set of power poles on the route out to a remote base, close enough to the first that they interconnect, so that you can lose quite a few before it becomes problematic. 2: use artillery trains, not tu...

Reading this thread has been interesting. One thing I think that has been overlooked with gun turrets vs lasers regarding outposts, is resilience. Laser turrets at an outpost are vulnerable to biters chewing on your poles, Ah, but you see, this problem only weighs in on the equation if you have the...

Found the problem:
The deepwater tiles have so simply appending to that array in my data.lua worked fine

My mod changes the water tiles in a chunk to something else while generating certain chunks, but what it changes the water tiles into varies greatly based on what kind of water was generated there - I'm trying to create a dried out lakebed look by replacing it all with special tiles. The map generat...

No, math.random is safe. However math.randomseed is a no-op, see the doc above. OK, thanks, that clears things up. The thing I was scared of was that the chunk loading could be done 'as and when', rather than in lock-step, meaning that client and server could differ in exact ordering, I kind of fig...

I have a mod which really wants to change things beyond the currently loaded chunks, but instantly loading a huge number of chunks is expensive and unnecessary. What I would really like to do is to do all the changes when each chunk loads, however my mod also uses a lot of rng in the big change-the-...

Sorry to bump this, just wanted to make sure you really aren't going to implement it, in some form or another... I think the way I described it would be doable, but I don't know the internals of the game... (I would love this to be implemented, as I have said, my mod would really benefit from anythi...

My guess would be that in areas without enough bots, there is a backlog of things that need moving (all the buffers are empty), so if you keep adding bots until you have idle bots, you will find that when you do have idle bots, loads of them will suddenly be idle, as previously you were also finishi...