Another confession, I struggle to escape and lure logistics bots away when they try to steal from those extra rows of inventory that magically appear when I get the logistics technology. It's handy having more space to stash stuff, but sadly the log bots become a bunch of stalking little thieves th...

Probably more finesse required (e.g. path gets obstructed by something else that can move) but that's the very basic idea I think. Checking whether a vehicle's path is obstructed is easy -- just listen to on_entity_damaged, filtered by damage type "impact". However, a character bumping in...

Too bad we can't auto-update the display. Closing and reopening the GUI has no effect when it's done on the same tick, and reopening the GUI on the next tick comes with a bit of overhead: store open GUI of player, then check all players in on_tick if they have a GUI to reopen. You can register an e...

Example mods: AAI Programmable Vehicles AAI is nuts. :-) It actually uses biters for navigation, so it takes advantage of the biters' pathing algorithm. But there's a lot more going on there, and I wouldn't say the code is easy to understand. Anyway, I'm just working on Autodrive again, which takes...

Ah, sorry. I was confused because you already had the only other thing related to the logistic requests in the spidertron in the question. No problem! But you might be right that you actually just have to close and reopen the GUI to see any changes made by scripts. That worked! Too bad we can't aut...

From https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/Classes.html: vehicle_logistic_requests_enabled :: boolean [RW] If personal logistic requests are enabled for this vehicle (spidertron). Thanks, I know that, this actually works. I was interested in the other setting (the one marked with red). However, it oc...

Using vehicle.vehicle_logistic_requests_enabled allows me to change the state of a spider-vehicles "Personal logistics and auto-trash" checkbox, but I can't figure out how to modify the "Request from buffer chests" checkbox. Apparently, vehicle.request_from_buffers works for requ...

I read the docs and tried some trigger but nothing happens :) Are you sure that the event handler is really active? Add this to your control.lua: local c_name = "show-active-events" if not commands.commands[c_name] then commands.add_command(c_name, c_name, function(command) local player =...

LuaControl.riding_state currently has this description: [code] riding_state :: RidingState [Read/Write] Current riding state of this car or the vehicle this player is riding in. [/code] According to the Prototype definitions , spider-vehicles are vehicles. However, a function containing the line [c...

Is there a mod that provides lights that don't use power (for more convenient path lighting)? I've made you one. It's really just a quick and dirty hack, merely a modified copy of the vanilla entity/item/recipe that will be unlocked by the same tech as the vanilla lamp. It even has a localised name...

I have been trying to make a mod to either move all effects from the logistic system tech to logistic robotics, or simply remove utility science pack as both a prerequisite and needed pack, and change the count from 500 to 150, with these modes interchangeable via settings. What type of settings ar...

Hello everyone, I'm developing on a mod and I've an issue in my scenario, sometimes in the server I get like 40 players that are playing, the issue is that the GUI is updated frequently which generates a lot of calls because you need to the update of gui to same value 40 times (bad for perf late ga...

LuaEntity.selected_gun_index : selected_gun_index :: uint? [Read/Write] Index of the currently selected weapon slot of this character, car, or spidertron. nil if this entity doesn't have guns. Can only be used if this is Character or Car The last sentence should be changed to Can only be used if th...

I don't know how to see the internal name of an autoplace control short of searching through another mod's code (debug mode doesn't help here). Open the game and press CTRL+SHIFT+E to get at the list of prototypes: autoplace_control.png Also, hovering the cursor over an entity and pressing CTRL+SHI...

Suppose I have a table of functions indexed by name: get_name = function() print("Entered function "..debug.getinfo(2).name) end a = { test_a = function(x) get_name() print(x) end, test_b = function(x) get_name() print(2*x) end, } It seems that debug.getinfo will have different results dep...

I was confused at first because I kinda expected it to print something in the console too You can do that by using game.print() instead of log(). This will print just the mod names and versions, without prepending each line of output with the command. Then again, you can't copy/paste text from the ...

Just need to loop over the mods variable - it is a dictionary with all the loaded mods in it. for name, version in pairs(mods) do log(name .. " version " .. version) end Awesome! Thank you very much for that code snippet! I'd put it to good use, if I can, next time the need arises. I'd as...

Thanks for the report however I don't consider this worth changing. If a mod changes the force of something it can eject the player; or change the players vehicle force as well. Thanks for the reply! Actually, I've already made a map setting for that: When players change forces, they will either be...

Usually, when you click on an entity that belongs to another force that is an enemy of your own force, you'll see a flying text "Cannot open enemy structure". Also, if you try to enter a vehicle belonging to an enemy force, you'll usually get "Cannot enter enemy vehicles". But th...

Am I correct in supposing that no icon is shown for the selection because there is no item that can place the entity? That is indeed exactly what that is checked. (And if there are items to place it, it only takes the first item for the icon.) Thanks for your answer! Currently, I use this workaroun...