I need a function that allows me to check wether a player could place an entity. The surface.can_place function returns false if a placement location e.g. of an inserter is blocked by items, which is not what I want. My current method to deal with this is removing all items in the target location, c...

Duh. Thank you!

The player.mining_state.position value is currently {0, 0} when I'm mining iron ore with the player. The relevant events also dont return the ore entity or its position. Can you set this to the location of the iron ore patch instead please?

@darkfrei: Thanks for the suggestion. The modding API allows it, but I dont like it from the game designer perspective. Currently it's very obvious to the player what's happening. Just from the graphics of the ore tiles, the player knows which resources he will get from a patch. Since I allow the pl...

Huh, good point. Performance usually doesnt become a concern in my test games so I didnt think of that.

Waiting for new version intensifies.

I think there's a minor bug with matter sources not producing 100% compressed belts. I'm still not completely sure what's happening here, it might also be a bug in the base game or just a bug in my setup. I have a setup that tests how many items an inserter can move in a minute which uses matter sou...

I cant quite reproduce this, because I dont know which mod creates that borehole resource. But I suspect I know what causes this so I hope what I am doing now will fix this.

Do you want to elaborate on the tasks these bots would perform? I like the idea of an automated tree-cleaner and it seems reasonably simple even for new players. I'm working on a mod that makes the early-game more bearable for advanced players. I'm currently just giving access to the usual flying bo...

@Ripshaft A lot of these setups were on the factorio subreddit a while ago. You can get a very compact science setup by combining the traditional parallel approach with series, for example make rows with five labs each and add rows as you need them. You're also indeed missing the point of this. Here...

Allow players to rotate ghosts that are already placed using the R and Shift + R keys. This is probably an easy change to make and it makes it way less spooky to work with ghosts, I find myself in need of this feature often when I'm remotely laying belt for example. As an additional suggestion, allo...

Yes I didnt make myself very clear. My issue is that a lot of the time my inserters are busy transferring science packs that only have 5% left in them or less. My setup converges to a state where the last lab will take a low % science pack from the one before that, use up that one, get another low %...

As the game is in 0.15.27, if you chain labs with inserters and set the stack size to 1, the inserters will transfer the science pack with whatever depletion is left of it. This leads to only the last lab in the chain actually depleting any science packs, the others usually transfer their pack to th...

I ran into a crash. Reproduced on a new save with no other mods active: store a ruleset, store a second ruleset, delete the first, attempt to store a third ruleset. Error while running event upgrade-planner::on_gui_click(ID 1) Gui element with name upgrade-planner-storage-entry-3 already present in ...

I support any idea that enhances map view control. This especially seems to encourage use of combinators while keeping the game balanced, so it's a great idea in my book. On the other hand I'm not sure if this is possible using mods. The interaction between mods and mapview is very limited currently...

Thank you for the report, I hope version 0.3.2 fixes this issue.

Can we please put "Use the global table for stuff that is not local to a single tick, otherwise you get desyncs in multiplayer" somewhere near that page? This page only tells me to use it for data that I need to persist between save/load.

Thank you for the comprehensive answer!

Since my google-fu is evidently lacking, is this documented somewhere? I feel I went through a good bit of the lua-api pages now, which is where I would expect this kind of thing to come up.

This is 0.14 isnt it. Is there a reason you arent using 0.15? I dont know the involved mods well enough to point to a specific mod but updating might fix the issue.

I'm getting reports by multiple users that a mod I created causes desyncs, likely in combination with other mods. Is there anything I should change about my mod or is this something for the devs to fix? I am currently not in a situation where I can attempt to reproduce the desync.