I don't like the create_entity, revive_entity, or destroy_entity because these events aren't fired by anything in the base game. The context of these events is nearly identical to on_entity_built and on_entity_died, but the likelihood of mods supporting these events is reduced and thus the chance o...

Makes me wish (again) for full-text search of all mods published on the portal, to find out who's actually doing raise_event and where/why!

eradicator wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 06, 2019 6:53 pm

The main problem here is: If i fail at convincing you that my edge case is worth implementing an extra "raise_x" then my only option would be to not raise anything at all.

No, your option is to raise your own event.

I generally like this change, and would propose one further one: if you're changing how custom events work anyway, it would be nice to register them as names so that you can provide an event without having to provide a remote.call to list your events (especially if you otherwise don't need the remot...

The problem with unit number, is that it only really applies in that 1 save, Once the blueprint is made, it can be used in other saves, exported, imported, moved around, etc. And having it then always with that blueprint, might give people the wrong impresssion I guess i didn't make very clear in m...

Was there a reason for not adding tags to live entities too? That would pretty much remove the correlation problem, as it would have already captured the entity's tags, and then we can adjust that in the blueprint if required. Runtime memory overhead and save file size. Would it really be so much w...

Was there a reason for not adding tags to live entities too? That would pretty much remove the correlation problem, as it would have already captured the entity's tags, and then we can adjust that in the blueprint if required.

Since we can now store entity tags in blueprints, it would be useful to have a direct way to match them up (during on_player_configured_blueprint, for example) to the entities in the real world to copy the relevant config into tags. If the blueprint captured the original unit number, this could be u...

Yea. I saw that. But this is a huge leap in the right direction (Thanks btw to everyone who had a hand at this). And i wouldn't even know *how* to officially support better linking. Some kind of callback-capable on_blueprinted event? Does the engine even support returning values from event handlers...

Scripting Added optional "tags" to entities in blueprints and entity ghosts. Added optional "tags" to script_raised_revive, on_built_entity and on_robot_built_entity events when reviving ghosts. Added LuaEntity::tags read/write for entity ghosts. Added LuaItemStack::get_blueprin...

LuaEntity::request_from_buffer to correspond to the checkbox in the requester's GUI to allow reading/writing this setting

Add 100 (or 10000 or whatever) to the signal so it's longer than the display and it will be truncated leaving the leading zeroes

From a discussion on discord that mentioned "megabots" - i'd like to be able to make a set of giant bots that can only dock at their corresponding humorously large roboports (which may or may not also support normal bots). To facilitate this, i imagine there being a new set of bot-category...

I have ~800 hours in Factorio, more with non-steam versions, and have been playing for about 3.5 years now. First off, to make a major oil change like this so late into 'early access' makes little sense to me. If anything, I think they should have done what mcdjfp is suggesting and put heavy/light ...

Some discussions on the Discord server led to an idea for dealing with the new player issues with oil that I think would work a lot better here. Original credit for the idea goes to Hexicube. The idea is based on the following assumptions: * The fundamental problem is that it is difficult for playe...

Turns out the library isn't involved either - just having the blueprint item in the inventory and saving/loading the bar gets lost from the blueprint. I'm stumped as to how though, everywhere I've looked it seems like it is saving/loading it properly!

After placing a blueprint of rails + train, and then using Ctrl+Z to undo it, the rails get marked for decon but the train does not. Also, ghosts of wagons that had not been built yet do not get cancelled.

Deadlock989 wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 29, 2019 7:01 pm

- I'd prefer it not to also tint to the "on" picture as it currently does with lamps, but others might, so best case would be that this were controllable with a flag/property

That would just be the apply_runtime_tint setting on the sprites anyway - and i want both tinted!

- Is an electricity consumer - Has health, a force, resistances etc. - Has a sprite and light overlay which are only drawn when powered (like a lamp) - Is circuit/logistic network controllable (like a lamp) - Supports a list of variant pictures for its powered state accessible at runtime (like Simp...

Qon wrote: ↑

Fri May 03, 2019 5:25 pm

There are (outdated) mods linked in the thread,

Location Combinator has simply been folded into Utility Combinators, as indicated by the giant link from the page linked in the post immediately before yours. (And the last version of it would also still work on the current version of Factorio.)