quyxkh wrote:All things can be done with 2 wires, the combinators are Turing complete.

Well, lots of things are Turing complete and also a total pain in the ass to work with, so that's not a very good criterion. Factorio combinators are TC even with only one wire color, for example.

Nice. I added a link to Picker's page.

If anyone wants to take up maintenance for Picker or integrate it into their own mod, I'd be more than happy. I only occasionally have the time to pay attention to it.

It doesn't look like two trains can make opposing left turns simultaneously.

Now that 13.9 fixed the problem with disabled belts not stopping items properly, we can use wired belts to make a very simple, cheap, and reliable hysteresis loop that is compact and requires no power. For those who don't know, a hysteresis loop is used to switch something on and off based on an inp...

I added a method in 0.13.10 that will do the exact actions on a given player from script. LuaPlayer::clean_cursor() - for 0.13.10. Neat! I worked around it for my specific case already, but who knows who else might benefit from it? You know what would be even cooler and more widely applicable? The ...

One of the users of my Picker mod told me that he bound it to Q, together with the usual "clear cursor" control. Now I'm trying to design it to replace that control, because it works even better if it can take it over completely. Unfortunately, this kills the nice new red/green wire behavi...

Rseding91 wrote:You can't. The mouse position is not part of the game state and as such can't be read from mods.

Thanks for the definitive answer.

nonstickfrypan wrote: Could fix again by ignoring leading characters that repeat.

ABABABABABsolutely Awesome Axe Mod

I've made the Picker mod which behaves like the middle mouse button in Minecraft: put your cursor over an entity and activate Picker with a hotkey, and it selects the corresponding item from your inventory. I'd like to extend it to be able to pick stone, concrete, and hazard concrete as well, but I ...

Liquid5n0w knows already, but in case anyone else comes across this, Picker is updated for .13 and and on the portal now.

No problem this is an awesome addition to my game, I changed my keybind to Q it negates the switching back to what was in my hand but I think it is a lot more intuitive. Q to remove item, if hand is empty Q to pick entity Wow, I never thought to do that but it works really well. I'm going to add th...

2 Minor bugs Missing Locale entry for hotkey [controls] picker-select=Item Picker Also no item message outputs entity.name should be changed to output entity.localised_name Thanks for the report! Somehow an old locale.cfg made it into the 1.0.0 release. I made a 1.0.1 version that restores the hotk...

Liquid5n0w wrote:Thank you very much! your work really helps the game be more enjoyable!

Thanks for taking the time to say so, it's great to hear!

I've uploaded a new version 1.0.0 to the mod portal. Details in OP.

Any chance this will get updated to 0.13? Or if I change the files will it work with 0.13 I wonder... It's done and on the mod portal. I've also simplified it to just add a hotkey to the Options->Controls->Mods page called "select entity". No more need to create items that behave weirdly ...

A connected belt with no conditions will allow a single item to enter it (for some reason!) and nothing more. This tricks works whether the stalled belt receives items from a belt or an inserter. I think this behavior (at least for belt-to-belt transfer) is going to change for 13.9 ( see here ). IM...

I've had that kind of roundabout cause deadlocks even with 1-1 trains: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1189614/deadlock2.png It's rare enough that it's hard to troubleshoot, but common enough on my busy network that I'm not going to use these anymore. I think the scenario is: 1. Train wants to m...

Not much more to it than what the title says. Expected behavior is that non-moving belts won't move the player.

It's the same as with a ball-boy, which is not allowed to catch the ball, until it is not rolling into out. He cannot catch the ball in the field, only outside; but then the ball is not longer in the field. (The outside here is the connected belt, the inside is the previous.) There is no doubt that...

Pavgran wrote:But you can make two belts facing each other. That way item transfers almost immediately.

Have you built this? I tried and the item doesn't seem to move regardless of how I activate or deactivate the two opposing belts.