Create a new surface on start, with specific MapGenSettings, especially the "seed" is important here. Move all the players to this surface on connect. Then when you are done, create a new surface with these same settings, move all the players to it, and delete the original surface? Same Ma...

That seems to work indeed. For reference: locale.cfg [fm-alien] name=__2__ __1__ (__3__) egg-name=__2__ __1__ egg (__3__) sex_M=Male sex_F=Female data.lua localised_name = {"fm-alien.name", {"entity-name."..name}, {"fm-alien.sex_"..sex}, level}, ... localised_name = {&q...

They dropped 32bit support for a reason, this same reason rules out the ARM version.

Well for what it's worth C++ is a great starter language. In jr high I started learning QBasic and then we moved to C++ in high school. Finally in college I learned Visual Basic. The ideas and principles I learned with QBasic and C++ still worked in VB. Learning programming languages teaches you to...

I did some quick testing from the console window, and I couldn't get the create_decoratives or destroy_decoratives function to work at all. /c game.surfaces[1].create_decoratives{check_collision=false, decoratives={{name="red-asterisk", position=game.player.position, amount=1}}} /c game.su...

That seems to do the trick, thanks

I'm working on an alien breeding mod. So I have many "variations" of the same alien with different "power levels". But let me be more clear on that area then, it doesn't matter if they all have the same name. As I'm planning on having sensors for the power levels and stuff. Would...

I've tried searching for this, but I could not find it. I have a mod that adds a bunch of entities based on already existing entities in the data.raw, to support the behavior I want to provide. Now the items show up as "unknown key [bla]". For the base game items I can provide a locale fil...

I think those stats are actually pretty good! Compare them to these: http://steamcommunity.com/stats/CaveStory/achievements/ CaveStory is a pretty short game. And it has a lot of "progress" achievements. From which you can see quite a bit about how most gamers act on steam. The first achie...

Think the steam requirement is interesting, but the end yield is so low compared to the complexity, that I'm not sure that it's worth it...

Because chemical plants and oil refineries.

I have a plant like this running. But I'm thinking about shutting it down. The coal use is quite high, so the amount of coal you need for the amount of end result is pretty large compared to the normal oil based setup.
Does not help that I'm just using it for petroleum.

Or, you could have a script fire up the headless version, with the save file, and use the RPC mechanism that is in place already to query the game, and then shut down the server again.

Already discussed it in IRC, and the conclusion was that the devs don't want to discuss save file format. As I understood from other topics on this subject, the file format changes with each update. So they don't want people to mess with the saves if they have a perfectly scripting support from wit...

UDP packets CAN be fragmented. And it can easily happen if you got some routers with MTU lower than 1500 on your path. I stand corrected. UDP indeed can be fragmented. However, if it's fragmented, it is also reassembled before it arrives at your application. And thus you will not notice this fragme...

The nuclear explosion is pretty cool (kill behemots and everything in default world options) in a radius of about 36 meters (if 1 tile = 1 meter). But I think this is the kind of feature you test once and enjoy it, but never use it again because it's way too expensive. Actually, now that I'm a bit ...

Thanks for the mods set :D 2 of them are MP unsafe and won't work in 0.15.10 FYI: RSO and Asphalt Roads. They're doing event registration wrong in a way that can easily result in desyncs when you join any MP game. Can you explain a bit more? RSO is quite complex, but Asphalt Roads has a pretty simp...

Factorio uses UDP, and one of the basics of UDP is that packets cannot be fragmented. A whole packet arrives or not. Maximum packet size is set by the lowest MTU of the whole link. But generally is more then 1400 bytes. As for dropped packets, if you are using UDP, it's common knowledge to account f...

Seems like half the reply don't understand the problem, It's not when you want to use light oil/gas that is the problem. It is when you don't want to use them. And I stated earlier that it is unlikely scenario but doesn't mean it is not a problem. The problem is, that you have this hypothetical sce...

Thank you, I am going to begin studing C++ then. I highly recommend against that as a first language. It's one of the best languages to make high performance code. But it's also unforgiving on mistakes. If you are a beginning programmer, start with something like python or C#. If you like games, Un...