Maybe dumb question: is the speaker powered in the save in which it doesn't work?

That's... really weird. Can you post your full mod list? I did a quick test on a sandbox map and it worked with Electric Furnaces enabled.

Odd, I could only get it to happen on my save when using circuit conditions. My trains were waiting for the same one station, held back by chain signals.

In Honk , I use the change of state to defines.train_state.arrive_signal to sound the horn for trains coming to a stop at signals.

I've received complaints from users and done some testing, and found that trains waiting at a chain signal for a red normal signal will, every 5 seconds or so, change ...

Thanks, being that it wasn't in the changelog I might never have noticed

So far the best I've been able to think up is finding all approximately nearby players, doing a finer distance calculation on them, and then playing the sound for each of those players at a volume proportionate to the distance.

This strikes me as sub-optimal

I've been rebuilding Honk to use the play_sound function instead of spawning invisible explosions, and I'm not 100% sure but it feels like the volume falloff over distance is more severe than it used to be.

Is there any way to increase the audible range of a sound without simply making it audible ...

Then change this. If even an mod could do it before, why wouild u remove that feature when u add it to the game? ( :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: )

This is not how you win friends and influence people.


@Rseding So, can't we just allow this? Both for fast-replace and upgrade planner, when both ...

orzelek wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2019 5:42 pm Or we should post this as an suggestion?

Posted here

Currently, manually fast-replacing or using the upgrade planner on an inserter results in the upgraded inserter reverting to the prototype's pickup_position and drop_position.

I'd like to suggest that when an inserter is fast-replaced or upgraded, if the prototypes allow custom vectors then the ...

(Also, a quirk, like in 0.16, the default_temperature for water and steam is 15, but for the other fluids 25...)


This is what enables the long-time feature of engines destroying other fluids. Their higher-than-background temperature and minimal heat capacity mean there's a tiny amount of energy ...

I've slightly changed the way incineration recipes are generated, now the burner incinerator can't destroy burner fuel (except for wood), and the electric incinerator can destroy any item at all, including fuels.

Fixed, thanks for pointing that out.

Thanks, and I know what you mean - I made the mod as a joke response to a throwaway line in the Factorio IRC channel, and now I can't play without it.

Railyards feel so empty and lifeless without the gentle honking of migrating trains

Is there anything in the API to let me detect this and handle it programmatically?

Any electric boiler is going to require as much power to run as you get from putting its steam through an engine, unless the designer explicitly gives it more than 100% efficiency.

This mod seems more what you're after, but it hasn't been updated for 0.17 yet:
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/CW ...

It's intended for providing steam for things like coal liquefaction, or advanced oil processing (if using a modified recipe that uses steam instead of water).

While you could use it to make a solar power plant store steam for night-time usage, that's not what it's really meant for.

I just made a quick test setup, and when powered with 900 kW they produce 30 steam per second, or 1800 per minute.

Do note that the coal-fired boiler produces twice as much steam

As per the title, when using the new upgrade planner to replace inserters that have had their pickup_position or drop_position changed by a mod, those changed positions are reset to default on the replacement entity.

Is this intended behaviour?

That's by design. The mod doesn't create incineration recipes for any fuel with an energy value equal to coal (or greater). This is so that a coal-fired burner incinerator doesn't just destroy your entire fuel supply.

Factorio 0.17 is due out soon, when that's released I'll add an options menu ...