IMO: Undifferentiated vanilla blueprints should disappear instantly when placed in trash slots. A second undifferentiated vanilla blueprint should never be added to any inventory that aready contains a first undifferentiated vanilla blueprint. It should not be possible to rename an undifferentiated ...

What's the utility of knowing the class type? You can already know what a specific class type is based off what event or method you got it from. Well, pretty printing is a good example isn' t it? Lua is dynamically typed so subproblems of this one come up all the time. Especially in debugging, any ...

basically just /c rcon.print("my beautiful message") OK, yes, I see, but... to whom? I know: some sort of "rcon support" thing exists in the factorio headless server rcon is some kind of simple rpc-ish framework for pushing data back and forth between processes and maybe There u...

posila-bot wrote: Added LuaRCON to allow printing text to a calling RCON instance.

that sounds pretty useful!

Is the RCON surface documented somewhere? Like, for idiots?

When I've tried to look into it, I always find 100 ancient github repos, but nothing super definitive/clear.

Although the new is_player api is a nice start, it would be much appreciated if we could just ask an arbitrary userdata object what its factorio API "class" name is, i.e.,: function pretty(thing) if type(thing) == 'table' and thing.factorio_class then return '[Factorio: ' .. thing.factorio...

Assuming the diagnosis advanced above and elsewhere about lack of splitter-memory, unbalanced belt speeds, items slots, timings and so on is right (and some other things), the undesirable outcomes portrayed in this thread and some others could be made great again as follows (without reverting any of...

ok, but i feel it would be something that would be too easily misused. seeing how far you can bend or break something can be fun. just not when it someone on your server doing it. Never thought of that but now that you mention it, that sounds quite plausible. So, sorry if we just unleashed an army ...

what is its purpose? No purpose, really. Just horsing around. If the factorio UI/console had better isolation from the "entity-update" part of the game-engine it could actually be useful. But in real life, you're waay better off slowing down the game with console commands. The "visio...

Here's a little (7,10) starter kit, as you add signals to the constant combinator it'll kick off the rng cascade for that one. 0eNrlmNuOmzAQht9lLltSxeawCRd9kWqFCEw2lsAgY6JGEe9eGzYJCyGx2VUrlZtIhPHP2N+MPeMz7LIaS8G4hPAMLCl4BeGvM1TsjceZ/k+eSoQQmMQcHOBxrp9iweQhR8mSVVLkO8ZjWQhoHGA8xd8QkubVAeSSSYadYPtwini...

BlakeMW wrote:Hmmmm, I've never tried it, but you could try having batteries of power switches that get flipped on and off so as to continually create/merge and destroy thousands of electrical networks which ought to be somewhat expensive.

Don't know if this will work or not but it's a freaking hilarious idea!

head -c1; base64 -d | zpipe -d | jq Cool, thanks, been trying to figure that out... After scratching my head for a couple of minutes I always end up using some web-form. What's zpipe though? Maybe this thing ? edit: oh, you answered that, and yeah, it is :) edit: Also I assume you meant "head ...

Use the result to turn on a lamp to make sure everything is fully calculated. Even a combinator with nothing hooked up to the outputs at tick t, could always get hooked up to something at tick t+1, so I'd be shocked (but also impressed) if the engine is seeking "no-effect" combinators to ...

Arithmetic combinators performing Each * N on a large set of signals. Increase N each tick to prevent caching. Sounds like a start. I've been trying to think of slow-growing chaotic integer sequences that stay small starting from a wide array of different initial starting values so I could get comb...

I want a machine that will give me the most lag in the least tiles. Something I can turn on and off. Any ideas? I tried building a pump that continuously pushes water through a closed loop of 21,000+ pipes but it was not nearly as computationally expensive as I expected. I am still running at 600UPS...

Adding one of my idea's to this topic: Shift right click empty blueprint to delete would make life so much easier :) I know it's older but I wanted to add my emphatic support to this suggestion. It's crazy to give us an unlimited supply of free blueprints and then treat them like steel plates with ...

FactorioBot wrote:Minor Features

• When the game crashes, the crash log is uploaded to us. You can opt out by disabling it in the options menu.

Meh, whatevs.

FactorioBot wrote: Scripting

• Added script.on_nth_tick(n, function).

Holy freaking crapballs! This changes everything....

Squished that little fucker.

It was, to say the least, not a monster bug with tendrils deep in the bowels of stdlilb

https://github.com/Afforess/Factorio-Stdlib/pull/112

Most data-library branch changes will be backwards compatible with master (except for today where I said screw it and local'ed all the things. So with the exception of Event/Gui local whatever = require("stdlib.modname") is pretty much mandatory). As for console stuff, that should be work...

Data-library is the currently in development branch and is very much wip and data-library-wip is/was the OMG I am breaking things every time I type branch. (Actually I only did this branch because symlinks and I didn't want to update a bunch of mods until I was mostly done with it) ACK, comports wi...

Mhyea. Smelting is one of the few things which I would -not- bot-ify. Reason here should be fairly obvious - the bot stations charging the bots near the source of the ore cause a backlog, eventually grinding the thing to a halt. The bulk-in bulk-out nature of smelters just screams "Belt it&quo...