There is already an equipment in the game called "belt-immunity-equipment". It's disabled by default but if you put it in your power armour you are immune to belt movement. I guess you could add an 1x1 equipment grid to your entities and insert this equipment into it. From base/prototypes/...

@Nexela I am the author of the Even Distribution mod and I thought about adding some kind of integration with Autofill. If you haven't heard about Even Distribution, it modifies the vanilla behaviour for CTRL + Click Drag to evenly distribute the items over multiple buildings. My idea was that autof...

I think he ment the hotkey itself. And as far as I know there is no convention to hotkeys just pick the one that suits you best. These hotkeys can be changed by the user in the control settings. Upon hotkey press you can choose to add the gui panel either to LuaPlayer.gui.left (as Choumiko said) whi...

No this is not possible. However you can define a custom hotkey which, when pressed while hovering over a train station, opens up your custom gui. The custom gui can contain anything you want. This is probably the easiest solution to this. Another possible workaround for this is detecting if the pla...

Why... Why Steam for the Coal Liquefication... some people are already complaining that it requires Heavy Oil to get the process started... and now it requires you to burn even more coal (or whatever) in boilers or nuclear power to keep the process going? I don't think it's that bad. You need coal ...

Your mod has multiple issues: The icon sizes of limonit.png and siderit.png are too small (They need to be exactly 32x32) Your recipe in ores-recipe.lua is formatted incorrectly Fixed ores-recipe.lua: data:extend({ { type = "recipe", name = "iron-plate", category = "smelting...

http://i.imgur.com/WLvkRzN.png Description: The flamethrower burns any unwanted weeds and tree stumps. Works for the handheld flamethrower and the turret. The radius around a flame at which weed is removed can be configured. http://i.imgur.com/DKbpGvE.png http://i.imgur.com/rtk2xAi.png Mod Portal L...

The events on_player_mined_tile and on_robot_mined_tile are fired AFTER the tile has been mined which is why you only get the name of the tile underneath. Use on_player_mined_item and on_robot_mined instead. Here is an example: script.on_event(defines.events.on_player_mined_item, function(event) loc...

This is because you haven't defined a force for the ghost. The force defaults to enemy and you cannot see ghosts of different forces. If you do this it should work: /c E = game.player.surface.create_entity{name = "entity-ghost", force="player", inner_name = "inserter", ...

I guess you could also use a custom ammo item which you just call "electric charge". Then every few ticks you draw a bit of energy from the players power armor and put a few new "electric charge" items into the ammo slot. You could use the on_player_***_inventory_changed events t...

The info.json looks fine (although "version": "0.15.0" should be your actual mod version not the factorio version) What error message do you get when loading the mod? Make sure the mod folder is named correctly: "MODNAME_MODVERSION" (so if your mod version is correct th...

This totally depends on what you actually want to change with these vehicles. As you said you can change things like speed, rotation speed, guns, health,... inside the data.lua. You can change the train schedule of a train using the API . Other than that you can of course create, destroy, teleport, ...

Laser and gun turrets actually have different entity types: gun-turret is of type "ammo-turret" laser turret is of type "electric-turret" So assuming you want to create a new turret which is powered by electricity you set the type to "electric-turret" and then use the e...

Cannot reproduce: http://i.imgur.com/7PVqkYH.png You must have added something different which caused this error. By the looks of it you have some incomplete prototype definiton without a name somewhere in your modfiles. order = "..." is a string with which the game decides how to order th...

I was not clear. The "Invisible rail poles" do need to connect to each other, but at some point, they are going to have to connect to the power grid via a real power pole. That's where I see the issue. Then as I said, you could remove the copper wire coming in from other poles via script ...

Do you want the invisible poles to connect to other visible poles? If not you could remove the copper wire coming in from other poles via script once they are placed. And then maybe add some kind of special rail entity like a power switch which connects the visible electric network to the rail netwo...

I don't see the crafting_categories property in LuaEntityPrototype either, so you would need a small workaround for accessing it at control.lua stage. Take a look at this . Using this you can read the data.raw table at runtime: data.raw["assembling-machine"]["assembling-machine-2"...

This could be done with a little workaround: All the electric-pole entities have a connection_points definition in which they define where the wires are connected. I guess you could offset the connection points by a huge number so they are all offscreen which means they shouldn't be visible to the p...

65535 instances of this prototype means that you have 65535 buildings of the same type (for example 65535 yellow belts or something like that) which is a lot. I don't think there is an actual limit on how many different types of buildings you can have. 65535 is the maximum number for an unsigned 16-...

It should now be fixed for version 0.1.0 although I was not able to reproduce it so tell me if it still crashes.