Currently, if you try to define a new set of map presets, you will receive the following error:

https://i.imgur.com/qYeMNfq.png

This means the only option left is to overwrite the defaults. While I don't know of anyone else doing mod development that affects map presets, but should someone else ...

I like playing with (sometimes very large amounts of) biters, so I'm guessing this will help performance when under heavy siege, or doing heavy siege-ing, or pretty much time there's a lot of effects going off. Great to hear.

For my $.02, I think the new colors look 'just right' without going overboard.

But I'm also using a professional display that doesn't do weird tricks to boost its contrast rating on a store's specs page, so, IDK.

On creating a modded mining drill, suppose you start with:

{
type = "mining-drill",
name = "portable-mining-drill",

And of course all the other values normally expected here. But then suppose you want to put in:

vector_to_place_result = nil

This results in a startup error, as this is ...

Currently the API supports the following values for entity prototypes of the type resource:

minimum_resource_amount :: uint [Read-only]
Minimum amount of this resource. Will be nil when used on a non-resource.

normal_resource_amount :: uint [Read-only]
The normal amount for this resource. nil ...

V17.1.0
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I have no idea why people find THIS one the most important mod. I personally never use it. I used it for like one game, because oil was scary back then, but once you get used to the mechanics this is entirely unnecessary.


I don't use this mod but I was intrigued ...

So per the discord discussion, I tried modifying the order string - prepending it with "a" and then "z".

This had no effect, ie trees still blocked enemies from spawning during autoplace/chunk generation.

Boodals wrote: Mon Mar 04, 2019 6:56 am I'm pretty sure this already exists: order

The lua API documentation does confirm an "order" field exists of type string, but doesn't explain at all how it works, what input it expects, etc...

Could you elaborate?

Thanks

It would be great if we could adjust autoplace "priority" so crowded placement of one item won't stop others from spawning. For example, if we want biter bases to take priority over other items in chunk generation to ensure biter placement isn't suppressed by other entities.

An alternate way to do ...

Thanks for the report: the preview is not perfect - by design - it's just an approximation of what the game thinks will be generated.


Nonetheless, I don't think most players would expect that high tree coverage settings would suppress biter spawns. Would it be possible to have biter spawns take ...

Although biter bases will appear when previewing a map, dense trees seems to suppress the placement of biter bases when a map is actually started/in play. Screenshots for illustration:

Preview:


Map in play:

Shield charge bar still looks like it's from 1995. Quick, slip in a redesign in .17.1~

Never ceases to amaze me that there's still tons of new features that get me excited to play factorio again and again.

On a sidenote, highres accumulators worry me the most... since their animations are already the most prone to stuttering as base size increases..

edit: Oh, an idea. Since a number ...

I'm very glad to hear about the change to assembly machines. I've always felt like I had to rush blue assemblers - despite their expensive early game cost - because greys just can't make too many basic recipes.

Now I'll be able to delay upgrading to blues a bit and focus more on automating early ...

Good writeup as always, but... that comma style is killing me.

Just wanted to give a big thank you for all the mod portal features. They're nice in general, but notifications in particular make it no longer necessary for me to direct people to contact me elsewhere. (And I see I can get rid of old announcements now too, which is just icing on the cake).

I definitely think a rich soundscape is worthwhile. With a good one, you can close your eyes and still 'see' what is going on.

Can we have a way to delete old announcement topics from our mods' discussion pages?

A lot of mine are now obsolete with the new "Discussion Notice" feature (ie, announcements telling people how to contact me about bugs, etc).

That's already possible by modifying these properties: http://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/LuaSurface.html#LuaSurface.dusk

"darkness" is a calculation of those values and as such isn't something that can be written directly. You adjust it by setting dusk, dawn, and so on.

But you cannot change ...

Since from the sound of this FFF we may be approaching the last chance to get requests like this in....

I would like a way to override LuaSurface.darkness.

Even if the value itself remains read only, I would like to be able to edit the upper and lower bounds of this value.