Is there any way of getting information about the total accumulator charge of an electric network?

Suppose you have a Combinator entity that can "receive" or "output" items based on signals. For example, you "insert" an iron plate and it gets stored as a signal in the combinator. You can then "retrieve" the item. I have something vaguely like this and it wo...

Currently we have a boolean value to allow passengers at all. So for a car we can have zero or two occupants. Personally I have a use case where I want a car to only allow one occupant, the driver. I have to implement this via script, by ejecting any passengers who try to enter. It could also be nea...

Or even the words "edit blueprints".

There's predefined functions for spidertrons? Whaaaaaat? Where can I learn more about these?

What is the max speed of a spider-vehicle and how do I change it in data? There appears to be no speed values on the spider-vehicle itself, just a fuel consumption which seems to indicate "if the spider is moving, it consumes this much fuel". The legs have things that seem promising, such ...

Noticed this when using Companion Drones, working on my own mod where this might come up. Companion Drones have "collision_mask = {}" on both the spider-vehicle and its spider-leg. However, if I try to place two of them too close together, it still shows "Companion is in the way"...

Huh. Must've done something wrong when I tried it before, because you're right it works just fine. Oops!

I'm using "fake" cars for a few things. These cars don't move in the conventional way but are teleported every tick for the duration of their effect. I can't seem to rotate them though. Just setting orientation on them doesn't seem to have any effect. Is there a way to do this? If not, I s...

RealOrientation
The smooth orientation. It is a float in the range [0, 1), where a value of 0 indicates "north" and a value of 0.5 indicates "south".

So... is 0.25 East or West?

-> Heh, good point, clarified for the next release.

Ah, thank you for the detailed info! It's good to know that position + radius search is based on actual point position, not collision boxes (which position alone and area searches are). I've gone ahead and implemented my search as a series of searches with increasing radii until enough entities are ...

Given a position, radius and limit, which entities are returned? Does the function scan outward from the position until it finds enough entities, at which point it returns the N closest matching entities? Or does it compute the area to search based on position and radius and return whatever N matchi...

I'd love to know what all the properties of SpiderVehicle and SpiderLeg actually do. Specifically I'd like to be able to properly balance the spidertron's speed and fuel consumption but just in general there's a lot of properties and not much documentation on them.

+1

I would love to attach some gui to the hotbar, such as a custom additional progress bar (alongside health, shield, mining progress...) and other uses.

What is the proper way to respond to a blueprint being placed? I would like to have a table of ghosts to do stuff with. Would this be done as just a large number of entity creation events where the entity is a ghost? If so, how would I tell the difference between an item holding a single entity, or ...

"Signals" also includes virtual signals, though, which may not be wanted.

Do you have any examples of your work to show? I understand you're offering to do this to build a portfolio in the first place, but it may be helpful to show us that you're a capable artist

Oh. Well. That explains that! Thanks for the link.

My mod - among many other things - rescales fluids to closer match the numbers of solid items being used. So instead of a recipe for example taking 1 iron plate, 5 sulfur, 100 water to make 50 sulfuric acid, it would take 1 plate, 5 sulfur, 10 water and produce 5 acid. This is an overhaul mod and I'...

Does "register_on_entity_destroyed" not work for item request proxies? Because that might be a helpful first step. You'd have to determine if it was caused by the requesting entity being destroyed, or the player cancelling the request, or it being fulfilled, but it could be wrangled. Alter...