(3) Panel tabs: The regular system of tabs takes quite some extra space, so in order to keep a compact design we decided to use a new system for tabs attached to the panel itself. This is a measure we take due to the importance of this player window compared to some other panels. When a tab is sele...

That seems like a snapping bug. Do you have the snapping setting turned on?

The on_built_entity event has player_index when an entity-ghost is created, so you should be able to instantly charge the cost. However, this is pretty inconsistent with how ghosts normally work, so I'd suggest an alternate approach. I did something like this for an early version of Beltlayer, by us...

Unzipping the mods will likely make game loading significantly slower. Opening hundreds of different files is significantly slower due to operating system overhead than opening a single .zip and reading it from start to finish.

when i enter something like data.localised_name = { "__1__ ["..data.name.."]", {'item-name.' .. data.name}} it results in Unknown key: "Copper plate [copper-plate]" how do i get rid of this unknown key thing? i wanted to make a mod where modders can see the internal na...

I've had the same experience, but I'm on Windows. Windows "symlink" story is so confused that I wouldn't expect filesystem to get it right in all cases. Starting Factorio with a symlink in the mods directory pointing to a git repository, and then updating the mod via the in-game interface ...

It works for replacing simple entities. But miniloaders consist of multiple entities and have an orientation. Any help on getting this to work is appreciated. You probably don't need to walk over the surface chunk by chunk. A single call should suffice: local entities = game.surfaces.nauvis.find_en...

LuaEntity::revive() returns a dictionary of item-name -> count for any item-on-ground entities that overlap the collision box of the newly-revived entity. If some of the item-on-ground entities contain complex stacks (tool, blueprint, armor, item-with-inventory, etc.) then any internal state is lost...

I'm in the process of making some tools that post-process all the resource prototypes, counting them up, determining which ones are starting area resources, and then modifying the noise expressions to set skip_span and skip_offset appropriately. It's quite painful and certainly very fragile if and w...

Can we say at least the fields defined in the API? It may still be useful to raise this event manually with additional context.

Also LuaEntity::revive(), while we're at it.

Fixed that LuaSurface::spill_item_stack would ignore belts by default. (https://forums.factorio.com/68796) Added allow_belt parameter to LuaSurface::spill_item_stack. It seems odd to me that the default from scripting is now not the same as the standard base game functionality. I would have preferr...

0.17.23 changed some requirements on technology naming, and Bob’s had to change his mods to respect that. If you don’t want to wait for the next official release, there is a workaround available:

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/miniloade ... 000b9961f4

This is a fundamental limitation on filter inserters. I advise you to set up stations that handle a maximum of 5 products per cargo wagon. Note you can have more than 5 item types per train, as long as they are segregated to different wagons. Alternatively, change the mod setting to “any,” which use...

I couldn´t reliably reproduce it That has been my experience too, although I’ve seen rare reports of issues I’ve not been able to isolate the cause. Would it be possible to have 2 connection entites, like LTN has in its input (lamp) and output (green constant combinator), to set inserter filters an...

Just to clarify, it’s not so much the chasing. It’s that every inserter picking up from a belt segment selects an item to chase and pick up at the start of each tick. So adding more inserters and increasing inserter speed still hits this fundamental limit of 1 item targeted per tick. I thought the ...

Like Therax said Miniloader use very fast inserters. That means they have to chase items on belts and can't take items from belts as fast as they can put them on. Just to clarify, it’s not so much the chasing. It’s that every inserter picking up from a belt segment selects an item to chase and pick...

Don't nail me down on the 5s. I got rid of a mod adding a super mining tool. Being used to mine everything almost instantly, my perception is a bit skewed. However it doesn't change that miniloaders take 10 times longer to pick up than belts. 1s vs 0.1s. For comparison refineries mine in 0.2 and nu...

Optera wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 16, 2019 6:11 am

Please reduce mining time.
Currently miniloader take 10 times longer to mine than belts.
It's not fun standing there for 5s to pick up one miniloader.

Do you have another mod that might be affecting this? Miniloader mining time is set to 1s.

Miniloaders are based on inserters and inserters are limited to 60 items/s when pulling from belts. Any belts faster than 60 items/s are going to see some strange behavior.