The mod portal has been considerably improved lately, and even some of my pet peeves (e.g. listing the mods I'm collaborating on) have been addressed. Thanks a lot for all the effort! Now, I've noticed something else that would make the mod portal even more useful: the ability to split threads on th...

What about wooden pipes, are there limitations? they're much cheaper Once again, it's all about providing alternatives. Also, I wouldn't say that wooden pipes are much cheaper than the vanilla variety! Iron pipes require just an iron plate, whereas wooden pipes require a copper plate + 8 wood. Tota...

You should make an exemption for migration scripts, though. Migrations run outside of events (after script.on_load, where the global table doesn't exist yet anyways, but before script.on_configuration_changed), and quite often they are used to restructure mod data stored in the global table.

Checking the code: mod-specific scripts are not run at all in tips and tricks scenarios. As far as I can tell the only thing run is the lua defined by the simulation and migration.lua files. Most likely the issue is that second part: mod migration.lua files were never intended to run in simulations...

The changelog format is now documented on the wiki: https://wiki.factorio.com/Tutorial:Mod_changelog_format Thanks, that will be quite useful! A forum post just isn't as good a medium for a tutorial as a wiki page, and with all the additions and changes I've made over the time, my tutorial was, adm...

Here is your magic: local get_localised_item_name = function(entity) return "__ENTITY__" .. entity.name .. "__" end See https://wiki.factorio.com/Tutorial:Localisation#List_of_built-in_parameters - this is what those built-in parameters are for. Perhaps a misunderstanding? I tho...

For modded items however, this method won't work, as some mods have the entity.name variable set to something that isn't the item's name, for example aa-bb-item, so if I was to use the above method, the name of the item would become "Aa bb item", when in reality, it's actually "Big b...

Rseding91 wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 08, 2023 3:54 pm

So my guess is: the technology has different prerequisites or dependencies with the mod and so it gets moved to reduce line crossings.

That would make sense because Nullius has a completely different tech tree. Thanks for the info, I think I can ignore this issue now.

I've some problems regarding order strings for technologies. Everything is in the correct order in vanilla (ammo, fuel, repair): vanilla.png For some reason, the tech for repair sensors is placed between ammo and fuel when Nullius is used: nullius.png The order strings of corresponding techs are the...

What's the point of powered rails? aren't locomotives fuel powered. The powered rails are not meant to provide electricity for locomotives! Instead, they are an alternative way of distributing power: Usually, you'd put up power poles next to your rails. With powered rails, you hook up just one powe...

What's turret creeping? Place down a line of turrets with ammo. Advance, but stay within range of the turrets. Place down another line of turrets. Advance, staying within range of the turrets from the second line. Put down a third line of turrets. Remove the turrets from the first line. Advance, an...

Just to let you know I've encountered a crash when opening an existing save with GCKI 1.1.3 and Nullius 1.5.22, error message given below. Fixed in version 1.1.4. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version: 1.1.4 Date: 2023-01-03T14:3...

Hello, Not sure if this has been established in Factorio on this forum before. Was looking around, and found some things, but it didn't answer my question. I have some local functions in the control.lua file. It takes a while to process when the function runs on large maps. Thinking about how to op...

Seeing how expensive is removed for 1.2, I'd prefer if the rest be normalized as well. Couldn't data.extend be made to normalize all values passed into it? E.g. turn result -> results. Not sure: I've recently received a complaint because one of my mods would normalize all recipes while looking for ...

Would normalizing the short forms into the fully specified forms after the execution of each data*.lua be an option? What exactly do you mean by "after the execution of each data*.lua"? Even if all prototype attributes were normalized at the end of a data stage, you couldn't trust that th...

ludolpif_ wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 29, 2022 3:25 pm

Everything is fine now for me, …

I just received a notification for a new post in this thread. So, yes, it's working again, thanks for fixing it!

Klonan wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 27, 2022 3:18 pm

We're having some Christmas 'fun' with our email provider, fixes are ongoing

Thanks for the info -- and, of course, for the fixes!

I've received the last mail regarding a notification on the forum yesterday at 2:37pm. Meanwhile, I've got several new notifications both on the forums and on the mod portal -- but no mail. I've confirmed that the mail address is correct and that notifications per email are still enabled. Could this...

Removing line 795 fixed it, but after saving and quitting, putting in back in didn't break it. I can't reproduce the bug with the save now, and a new save always worked, so apologies - I should have backed up the broken save. After you've saved the game, the configuration didn't change again, so on...

updating doesn't look as if I was trying to artificially boost the number of downloads. Don't worry, for the last year multiple downloads from the same user (same version and different versions) have been deduplicated Thanks! I knew that multiple downloads by the same user would be counted just onc...