You can't do that, sorry. The hardcoded bits of electricity system make many mods look silly,

Nah, I've tested it, the technologies are stored with their effects alright. local t= --insert some altered technology reference here --t.researched=false print(serpent.block(t.effects)) game.forces.player.reset_technologies() --t.researched=true print(serpent.block(t.effects)) The code above doesn'...

When editing the map, the screen movement is blocked by collisions of screen center with black nothingness tiles. That is quite unintuitive and if you wipe terrain under yourself it may seem that movement keys suddenly stop working. This is especially confusing considering that ingame, those tiles d...

However this doesn't retroactively call their effects or anything, this just sets them to their correct values. Is there any reasoning for that? As in original post: It seems highly exotic for the modder to want to keep old technology effects in action in a new version of the mod. Because there's n...

Klonan wrote:However this doesn't retroactively call their effects or anything, this just sets them to their correct values.

Is there any reasoning for that?
As in original post: It seems highly exotic for the modder to want to keep old technology effects in action in a new version of the mod.

Hm, what does `reset_technologies()` actually do? If a new recipe is added that should be unlocked by technology, and the tech is already researched, the recipe does not become enabled. What about other effects? If I modify bullet damage research for example, will the damage modifier of the force be...

Well, you can't just admit you've shoved a piece of shite to customers. You make some evasive unverifiable statement to explain why people don't get what they've expected. Preferably in such statement you don't give any concrete names or direct accusations. That's exactly what you have here. As for ...

You could try adding `dying_sound` field to player prototype, although I don't know whether it will work. Looking at the biter definitions, it should be something like: dying_sound={ { filename = "path_to_first_variant_of_sound", volume = some_number }, { filename = "path_to_another_v...

Could you elaborate please? Id on't quite follow what is happening.

Good find.

Modders have tried it before, and determined that the game's code just plain doesn't allow it. Just plain doesn't allow what? There's more than a few mods that allow you to have wagons shoot at biters. They are not exactly a turret built over wagon, but the difference is negligible. And this is not...

Optera wrote:Great.... that means I I have to use global.log_level or global.log_level[playerName] and also find a way to reset it to log_level from config.lua when loading a save.

Players can't have different config.lua. You will have to wait for 0.15 or to implement ingame means for setting up settings.

Well, you know the truth now, the entity (and pretty much any other object your script receives from the game) is actually a table with a single field: __self. That __self is a pointer to the c++ object, that actually holds all the data. Lua does not know how to operate with c++ objects, so programm...

The code he provided you, is self contained, you indeed can put it in any place of control.lua. The important part is the `script.on_event({defines.events.on_built_entity, defines.events.on_robot_built_entity}, on_built)`, which binds the defined function to relevant ingame events.

Everything that should be retained across tick should be in global.
Make it global.lastMessages[player_index]={}.

You clearly misunderstand how people's mind works.

You can use scripts to
hide a pipe under the lab, remove water from the pipe and set lab's field `active` so it would do its thing. Or add another science pack to the technology in question and insert that one when water is in pipe.

Well, the base class, which I've turned to as a general reference, did not.
Also, LuaCombinatorControlBehavior misses one.

Her you go, it multiplies any cost by five. It's two files 12 lines total, you'll find how to tweak the multiplier.

Well, car turret is defined in /data/items/gun.lua and its definition has field `projectile_creation_distance`. That probably will help with gunshots.