I wonder if the desired effect could be achieved by searching for a suitable position to build each entity in the blueprint, build the ghost entity there and then immediately teleport it into the desired position on the water. Teleportation doesn't consider collision, it might be slower but it seems...

The "second part of the code" is what is placing the ghosts. None of the code you have posted calls "revive" on the ghosts to make them real.

If inserter manipulation isn't good enough, you could always use power switches to just disconnect power to the machine you want to turn off

I've recreated the issue with only the Spaceblock mod and simplified the test down.

I was playing Spaceblock and I noticed that inserters reported the wrong status in this case: Screenshot 2022-10-13 024306.png Here, the furnace's recipe is "5 iron ore => 6 iron ore" to duplicate the ore. In this example, the machine's input contains 2 ore out of the 5 needed to start a c...

You could even add a remote interface for other modders to provide colours for their custom items! Not only would this allow players to make their own modded colours for vanilla if they really want to, but it would allow other mod authors such as myself to specify how to colour things without needin...

Yes, just change the minable properties of the resource prototype. See https://wiki.factorio.com/Prototype/Entity#minable and https://wiki.factorio.com/Types/MinableProperties

There's an entire extension for VSCode which takes care of everything from autocomplete to changelog syntax checking. If you use EmmyDoc comments (eg ---@type LuaEntity) you can tell it what your variables contain and get even more autocompletion. A little extra setup allows you to launch the game w...

The VSCode extension for Factorio development includes validation of changelog files among many many other useful features. That's what I use!

Just encountered this while trying to make a "cheat tool" to revive ghosts in a selected area. Current workaround is to select anything and then test whether the entity is actually a ghost before reviving, which is obviously suboptimal.

+1

Many positions are in multiples of 1/256, and the closest multiple of that to 0.15 is the number you have found, which is 38/256.

I'm not sure how this will affect diagonal speed, but if it's preserving speed then you would travel 27/256 of a tile in each axis.

There is no combination of GUI elements that allows a sprite with number, and a built-in tooltip.

I requested this feature some time ago but have had no luck yet.

Presumably you have a known entity or tile in your mod that uses the mask layer? Since you know that entity's name, you can look up its collision mask in control and there you go.

Personally I just shove fish onto my hotbar when I'm going into a combat situation - along with grenades. I'm not sure a mod is needed for that...

I'm honestly not sure if this used to be possible and has regressed, or was just never possible in the first place (in which case this should be moved to Modding Interface Requests), but my mod just crashed today and I had to do some debugging! Steps to reproduce: - Build a belt - Place a belt ghost...

That VSCode extension is exactly how I work with this.

- You can just set localised_name=something on the helper entities, setting them all to the same single name for all of them. - I personally wouldn't use objects as table keys like that. Use the unit number instead, yes. - Power area is handled by the collision box, not the selection box. You can ma...

In vanilla Factorio a single 3x3 entity would be enough to cover basically any machine, with only the refinery needing a 5x5 and the silo needing a 9x9. That's three entities for every size building in the game, unless I'm forgetting something. So you won't need too many EEI entities even with modde...

selectable_in_game=false If you want dynamic power management, then you will indeed need to spawn an Electric Energy Interface in addition to your Beacon. I would suggest having the beacon draw some small fixed amount of power so that it is affected by low-power situations, then have the dynamic por...

Energy usage must be strictly positive, but that energy can come from a void energy source.