I'd at least expect you to add something like "Those are all interesting ideas and we will add them into consideration when discussing the next iteration of the mod portal" or "we don't plan on making the portal any better then it is now since Steam has the workshop and it's a very g...

Ranakastrasz wrote:

Added LuaGameScript::active_mods - a table of active mod names to mod versions.

Presumably this has something to do with it.

You can't access game during the data loading phase though

Disallowing entity building would just be a matter of checking on built (and robot built) to see if it's within the radius. You could keep track of the area in a table, the main issue would be showing the player where that area is (maybe a tile?)

I don't suppose there is a way to have a character I'm sandbox, is there?

You'll have to check to see if one if its entities exist (make it an optional dependency). That was the old way atleast, IIRC, so I assume it'll still work

Nebbeh wrote:I totally love this mod, but in .13 I encountered this error.

Ya I rushed to get my mods updated and missed something crucial. I forgot to update the thread just now (on my phone in bed), but the mod portal has an update to fix this. Sorry about that

Just because you can doesn't mean you should though Why not? One of those things that you're taught not to do in programming; each line should only do one thing. It just makes the code much easier to understand, if you need to look at it months down the road (or if you stop maintaining it and someo...

Afforess wrote:Not as far as I am aware, but you can cheat and use semicolons:

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local item = data.raw["item"]["construction-robot"]; item.flags = {"goes-to-main-inventory"}; item.stack_size = 100

Just because you can doesn't mean you should though

Want me to try animating it? I was playing around with the icon earlier and i think i can pull off a good animation :P Go for it, I don't plan to, I don't have the patience to try that kind of graphic work. As for the crafting config, I think that is doable, I've written it down to add it when I ha...

For the avatar remote deployment unit, would you say that its a force field or a liquid tank? It's just the alien tech icon with the biter photo-shopped out for an avatar, so I'd say liquid. Also I think the avatar assembler should be the only assembler that is able to correctly program the avatar ...

— **************************** — Note: Graphics are from base mod, but copied — here in case custom graphics are used. — **************************** — **************************** — Smart Basic Inserter — **************************** These lines need to start with "--" instead of "—...

Sure. Don't automatically use your starting area as your main base. It's fine while the early resource patches last, but often it is not the most strategic spot, especially if you have biters enabled. Don't be afraid to relocate. Those damned starting lakes always make me build outside of it ASAP. ...

Do those comments (the "****" bits) have 2 hyphens in front, or just 1? Because they need 2

binbinhfr wrote:It's this damned find_entities. I wonder why there isn't a way to iterate through entities belonging to a force ?... (I mean without getting the whole list)

You mean like find_entities_filtered?

I love how every little QoL thing I can think if is in the game. When you want to craft a complex item, it crafts all the intermediate items; the copying and pasting of recipes, logic conditions, filters, etc; There are so many little hotkeys that I never knew of until I checked out the controls menu

sporefreak wrote:Seems great but you can't hide recipes behind research

You could. If you remove the normal code that unlocks a recipe and just unlock it manually in the researched event, then it wouldn't show. But that would require quite a bit of work

Sprite outside of
"__base__/graphics/technology/advanced-electronics-2.png" (at 7,20, size 118x100 of 64x64)

Your advanced electronics 2 image is 118x100, but the game is looking for a 64x64. You either need to resize it, or change the prototype to accept a bigger image

My bet is it was just a coin flip

Klonan wrote:The current mod forum is a huge mess, our mod portal will be a huge improvement

Also, searching on the forums is crap. I normally just Google "factorio mod_" so that I don't have to deal with the forum search blocking me after 1 search

I know that for lights, when the light is on the game doesn't replace the whole sprite, it only overlays a new bulb on top of the old one. So, assuming accumulators work the same, if you want to change the base sprite you would need something equal size or bigger to cover it up.