at least group them by type: virtual, fluid, item.
or: they all have an index, why not use that (at least on the combinator itself)

this is a huge deal without any real workarounds.
hotfix pls...

and how long till 0.17? i'm already thrilled for it since you announced the new laser towers, and even more since you announced the new interface..
that was half a year ago^^

is there any way to make a prototype ignored by inserters?
(except making collision size 0x0, because it messes up the heat pipes)

https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=23470 second last post but i dunno why you would use that now that there is a wire hiding property i assume by scripting you mean comparing the player position with all the positions of my tiles? unless i can merge those zones that would be quite ...

okay cool,
about my hidden concrete question:
i found this:
find_tiles_filtered{…, has_hidden_tile=…
what's this hidden tile? would that be the solution to my problem?

btw: if a prototype has some unusual properties, why not put them into the factorio-data-master on github?

eradicator wrote:(As far as i know you can hide power wires per entity in the current version if they look ugly.)

How would you do that? i just found a hack that involves spawning them on another surface

i saw a movement speed modifier on some trivial smoke prototypes, but it probably won't affect vehicles.
does that even work? i tried spawning one of them and either they are invisible or dont work..

oh i really can hide power wires? i thought that was impossible...
thanks, gonna try that out.
the problem with the tiles is that i need some kind of movement speed modifier, but basically you should still be able to see what ever is below it

when i replace all the graphics with invisible ones, something like a black hole is created, it uses whatever has been displayed there before. I even tried it with the vanilla prototype by making all the concrete graphics transparent, but didn't help. background: i'm working on a powered floor mod, ...

+1 from me.. for my current project i already need 5 entities per floor tile (powered floor, size 2x2 with transparent edges): - power pole - turbine - lamp (glow at night) - movement speed modifier (no idea how to do that yet, using invisible tiles causes graphics glitches) - displayed floor (2x2 s...

wow, it really works! (Oo) i thought it was because the energy network wasn't synced and by removing the power pole players would have different states of the internal electric buffer and caused the checksum error due to the entity creation. Thank you very much and sorry for what i said about moddin...

i rather write a 3 line desync mod to demonstrate to the devs how awful their mod support is.
otherwise i dont give a fk, im not playing the game in multiplayer myself anyway.

does any developer read this forum?

i guess my request was a bit vague.
i was hoping you could add a property to sort the signals on combinators and power poles.
this would be very useful if you have signals that get updated very quickly and jump between high and low/zero values.

i really have no idea what causes the desyncs. Now i have another guy telling me his game desyncs when the shields loose power. I tested it and can verify it. it only happens when the shields have been fully charged though. (no shield bar displayed) This is what the mod does at that point: The on_ti...

nope, they are sorted by value

Many modders (including me) are having problems making wires blueprintable due to script-created entities.
It would be nice if it was possible to add the connections to any entity and give it a custom luacontrolbehaviour to control the output signals via script.

it would be nice if somewhere (in the prototype, or in the control) you could set an order string for a signal, if it has such a string, simply put it in the front or at the end, and sort it with other signals that also have an order string.

i discovered that i could manipulate efficiency by constantly updating remaining_burning_fuel, but there is no way to change the consumption

yeah but doesnt work on reactors, at least the displayed temperature on the entity resets to 15, even if you immediately set its "temperature" to the old value after replacing it. it rises again within 1 second to its old value but at the pace we are replacing it the temperature is just ju...