I mostly suggested sonic weaponry, as it's one of the few forms of directed energy weapons that we can actually build right now (perhaps not at the requisite power levels, yet) but isn't represented in the game. I don't think that there's a gap that needs filling, more that there's a variety of fun ...

It might be cool to have sonic weaponry to accompany laser directed energy weapons. A sonic weapon would be, by nature, area of effect, and very short ranged. At lower power levels, it is likely to cause disorientation or cause the enemies to stumble (slow effect). At higher power levels, it would c...

I'm fairly certain that a laser of sufficient power to do comparable damage to a gatling gun will have a visible beam, though not necessarily similar in appearance to the one in-game. The beam will be visible because the beam both needs to deliever non-trivial amounts of power, and to deliver that p...

Edit: nevermind, my post was option 2 from the original post. Would it help to have something like log4j (log4lua?), so log messages have consistent formatting to make search easier. Perhaps stuff things straight into a sqlite db, or perhaps just a csv file? That way you can load it into most modern...

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Mon May 20, 2019 1:39 pm

How do I apply this?

Have a look at Patch and Diff (specifically unified diff, as I generated a unified diff).

Perhaps a sanity check after a mod is run that the expected globals are still there?

I'm fairly certain that there are a timer and a memory cell example on the combinator contraptions examples page on the wiki. A combination of the two should have the desired result. Depending on how long a delay between updates you want, you could use a circuit-connected belt as a timer. Connect a ...

There's a mod that does blueprint alignment in coordinate space, with a per-map global offset, but you have to set it by carefully editing offset numbers. In theory, it should be simple enough to extend it so that if a player builds a pin ghost, it changes a per-player offset for blueprint alignment...

Just to be sure I understand your suggestion correctly, you want to have evolution increase based on the amount of pollution absorbed by spawners, rather than the amount of pollution released by your factory. I don't think that there are any mods that do that right now (it wasn't really feasible in ...

I'm putting together a mod that derives new things from existing things. I started deriving things from new things in data, data-updates and data-final-fixes. On the one hand, I should run my code in data, so that other mods that derive things can see the new things as soon as possible. Unfortunatel...

As far as I know, they're intended for vehicles, but work just fine for the player.

Schall gun pods.

There's a mod where you build your base inside a moving train that sounds like it might be what you're suggesting.

On an on-topic note: It looks like it should be possible to define a new kind of 'cliff' that has the same image in all orientations, and uses something other than cliff explosive to get rid of to implement the maze chasm with. Cliffs can't be damaged with anything other than cliff explosives, thoug...

I was pondering how to achieve a fully 2D infinite maze using the same basic algorithm, and it seems like there's a relatively straight forward (though tricky to implement) way to achieve that. Instead of going row 1, row 2, row 3, the algorithm would be ring 1 (of one tile), ring 2 (of 8 tiles), ri...

How many mods do pretty much this, let me count the ways. Omnicompression is probably the most comprehensive version. Bob's and Angels' both include some much more compact buildings; I suspect that even with the added complexity, the same throughput requires fewer entities. There are three or four m...

Linux on windows works just fine with virtualbox, hyper-v, vmware, qemu, ... and possibly others, but I've used each of those before. No idea if there's any limitations with running factorio that way, but there shouldn't be. Most also support 3D acceleration, but it would probably be better to have ...

Patch to support 0.17.35: diff -urNb ProgressiveRunning_1.0.17/changelog.txt ProgressiveRunning_1.0.18/changelog.txt --- ProgressiveRunning_1.0.17/changelog.txt 2019-03-14 03:04:09.000000000 +1100 +++ ProgressiveRunning_1.0.18/changelog.txt 2019-05-04 11:07:23.691024400 +1000 @@ -1,4 +1,8 @@ ------...

Would it work if the alt background came in a light version in addition to a dark version? That way you wouldn't need to maintain two parallel sets of icons for some items/recipes. Instead, you could have an 'icon_is_dark' flag, perhaps? Alternatively, could a shader be used to add a light highlight...

no, unfortunately. You can approximate it by tracking which entity the player has selected, but that only works when zoomed over an area with lots of entities.