The factorio solution to everything is: build more of it. How many labs do you have? Try building 10 times that (at least 50 if this is your first factory). Unless you have a really huge factory the labs are unlikely to be the limiting factor.

Not sure if this counts as "performance", but it seems to be the best fit thread on the forum. I've noticed that the mere existance of a lot of prototypes seems to slow down data stage loading of all subsequent mods. I've also noticed that at runtime the name list for Prototype/Entity.addi...

Reproduction This prints "0" to the console 10 times, then crashes. /c local p = game.player global.x = p.surface.create_entity{ name = 'steel-chest', position = p.position, force = p.force, } global.f = global.x.get_inventory(defines.inventory.chest).get_item_count script.on_event(define...

The circuit connector side-panel drag handle can be used to drag the main window, I would like to mimic this for modded side-panels. According to one of the FFFs the gui is being worked on again for "the addon", so maybe this could be shoved in somewhere? I'm not in a hurry.

I can see it in the prototype explorer but can't read it from the API. LuaEntity.filter_slot_count isn't an option because I need to know the maximum number of possible filters (which can be infinite).

Prototype/Entity#additional_pastable_entities does not specify if it takes an array of prototype.name or prototype.type (by trial an error it is - counterintuitively - name).

-> Thanks, fixed and example added.

Thanks for the report. It's now fixed for the next release. Kinda off topic maybe: I noticed that LuaInventory.remove{name =, count = } also ignores the .ammo value (1.5 - 1 = 1), even though LuaInventory.insert works as expected (0.5 + 1 = 1.5). Is that in any way related? Or is that intended beha...

DaddioMark wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 05, 2021 3:35 pm

surely not into research or may i am misssing something.

Yes into research. Watch for the infinite technologies that are marked "1 - ∞" or similar. Things like robot speed, weapon damage, etc.

Had I known that existed I'd have mentioned it. Have a little confidence in the old guys when they tell you you're doing it wrong ;). why? you talk about things you don't understand. That was a little rude... But true enough. Misquoting unrelated parts of a post together isn't "true". It'...

For future readers: You can use the on_entity_settings_pasted event to implement custom behavior. on_entity_settings_pasted is inconsistent, which is why this thread exists. The event does not trigger for an electric-energy-interface with no gui. Apologies. I thought the thread was about the EEI no...

For future readers: You can use the on_entity_settings_pasted event to implement custom behavior.

I wasn't going to butcher it, I was actually going to try my best to modify as few bits of the mod as possible. And as for my choice, I really don't know how to code so I'd need someone who knows the mod to walk me through the process so that I DIDN'T butcher it! And who knows the mod better than t...

I'm asking them to assist me in rewriting whatever they've done so that CMEs are replaced with something that doesn't require absurd amounts of power to defend myself from. Asking the original auhor to help you butcher their mod. Interesting choice. Also Earendel is particular restrictive about bal...

@Raiguard Imho this is getting off topic. TL;DR: I'd very much like to fix the edge case properly so I made a request hoping that it's an easy enhancement. If devs decide it's too edgy/not simple enough then I'll have to start on-tick-polling. I've added a comment to the opening post. which is what ...

After looking into it, it seems both Miniloaders and Editor Extensions use the same offset of +/-0.25 as I am. This isn't an issue for EE because they just load into a deleting infinity chest so never have a lane back up. I imagine with Miniloaders if a machine just needs a few items then it'll pul...

LuaEntityPrototype.logistic_mode would benefit from a list of possible values. I.e. to know if it's "request" or "requester" etc, and especially the "none" value for non-logistic infinity containers.

-> Sure. Added for the next release.

For a native search experience you should be asking for locale to become part of the game state, so it can be read directly. Based on the way that request_translation() was implemented using network packages instead of direct disk reading I'm assuming that anything locale related is a huge mess and...

I dealt with this simply by not dealing with it. People will hardly ever change their locale mid-game unless they're a translator or a mod developer. I'd just provide a command to retranslate and call it a day. I do provide a command already. But I'm not calling it a day. I want Babelfish to delive...

If it's easy I'd like this too. I could use it to hack an on-tick-polling workaround to my other request without causing network traffic.

EntityPrototypeFilter types are largely undescribed. What is the difference between "buildable" and "building" and "blueprintable"? What internal checks do they actually do? -> It seems the technical backend doesn't allow for these to have any descriptions attached to t...