As can be tested by command like this game.player.print(serpent.block(game.getlocalisedentityname("small-biter"))) game.player.print(serpent.block(game.getlocaliseditemname("iron-ore"))) game.player.print(serpent.block(game.getlocalisedtechnologyname("steel-processing")...

Actually, that's numbers of sold copies not the amount of times the game was downloaded. Given that it's not on steam and it's not dirt-cheap it is unlikely that people paid money for the nice looks of icon. And since the game doesn't necessarily connect to server on start up I doubt you can get any...

Lo and behold! Unimaginable foresight of community demands!
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... =14&t=2778

Well, obviously either fishsandwich or xecutor has already made that mod ;) But if rule out fancy bitter spawning all you need for such mod is require "defines" game.onevent(defines.onplayercreated,function(event) if event.playerindex%2==0 then game.players[event.playerindex].character.for...

Hello, Freer! I wonder, would tree_names= {"dark-thin-tree"=true, "green-thin-tree"=true, "dark-green-thin-tree"=true,} game.onevent(defines.events.onchunkgenerated, function(event) local trees = game.findentitiesfiltered{type="tree", area=scan_area} -- remove...

Well, that one was intended to be put in the control.lua of separate mod which you would be using to glue all the contents of your pack together. But if you're changing the others' mods themselves, you can just delete lines 395-505 in harcorio control.lua. Obviously this one won't apply if player up...

Martc wrote:Grenades are very effective against small bitters.

AP bullets, that are unlocked by the same tech are even more effective and work well even if biters attack in steady stream rather than one concentrated group.

Something along these lines would work. game.onevent(defines.events.ontick, function(event) for _,player in pairs(game.players) do if event.tick==60 then local player = game.getplayer(event.playerindex) local technologylist = player.force.technologies technologylist["rocket-defense"].enabl...

Well, there used to be the mod with teleporting conveyor belts, but I couldn't find it right now and don't know whether that one still works. Maybe someone else will have more luck on that quest. As for this one, something inside it's two thousand-lines of control.lua causes segmentation fault when ...

Example from factorio/data/base/scenarios/freeplay/control.lua : game.onevent(defines.events.onplayercreated, function(event) local player = game.getplayer(event.playerindex) player.insert{name="iron-plate", count=8} player.insert{name="pistol", count=1} player.insert{name="...

Combat roboports built by robots are ignored by the game.

Flying robots can be attacked by melee units. But they probably do have the collision mask and fly around because their collision box is zero. See if your flying tank gets attacked at all. edit: oh it will. And zero sized tank still collides with trees which collision box covers the center of tank....

Flying robots can be attacked by melee units.
But they probably do have the collision mask and fly around because their collision box is zero.
See if your flying tank gets attacked at all.
edit: oh it will.

I've done a bit of testing around. What kovarex wrote on the wiki: collision_mask type: Types/CollisionMask Default: Depends on Entity type Two entities can collide only if they share a layer from the collision mask. should be taken literally. The presence of "water-tile" doesn't mean enti...

It'd be fun if they'd use stolen items against you.
Say, using metal items as shields.

I've actually solved the problem while typing this post, but I've thought I'd still post it so you see how smart am I... oh, and so that it might be of some help to people in future. :) So, I've been making tables and assigning a single metatable, which had been defined in the different file, to the...

I don't use robots unless absolutely necessary so the only stuff that gets on the logistic network is the stuff I've deliberately put in logistic chest by inserter. And since I mostly use chest storage limitation rather than wired conditions, those chest only store one type of item. If you go with r...

----Doubts---- I don't think the full fledged biter-players vs colonist-players scenario would fit here. Actually, I don't think pvp in general is the thing for factorio. You see, to me it's a game about the player, complicated systems and various interactions between them. And players trading all ...

I thought creeper was the name for old humanoid enemies exclusively. Also, I'm not so sure about biters being native, their bases look as alien to landscape as player made factory, and right they behave as if their sole purpose of existence is destruction of any animal life around them with the play...

Yup. The freeze occurs when you hover wagon over wagon. Though I've managed to assemble train moving my mouse carefully.