Not every surface is meant to be used by players. For example, miniMAXIme has surfaces for storing dummy and preview characters. So statistics should be turned off for surfaces without buildings, or mods should be able to exempt surfaces from the stats view.

A mod to try out! Water tank would be a good addition. https://mods.factorio.com/mod/WaterTurret Thanks for advertising my mod, but I will not add a water tank in the foreseeable future. Letting the water turrets extinguish fire causes problems that I don't know what to do about: Looking for fires ...

Version 1.1.3 has just been released. Summary of the changes since the last post: Fixed several bugs React to events raised when editor mode is toggled, so the GUI is kept in sync with players' controller type. Make sure that the GUI is still in sync with players' controller type when no event was r...

Yes, "Big Artillery" will mess up stuff since "Big Artillery (Balanced)" is a tweaked version of it. That's why I'm attempting to mark it as incompatible. Sorry, misread that! After adding the dependencies to a hacky testing mod, I see what you mean. Anyway, there seems to be an...

"Big Artillery (Balanced)" seems to be messing up the mod loader. Maybe it's the parentheses? Definitely not! This is the culprit: "!Big Artillery", The exclamation mark in front of the mod name marks it as incompatible with your mod. I'm trying to make a modpack with the follow...

- I want to add a new enemy Many mods do that. Just define a new prototype in data.raw.unit. - trigger certain events based on how much health the enemy has To the best of my knowledge, that would work, kind of. You could listen to on_entity_damaged and check event.final_health. That will definitel...

LuaEntity.last_user : last_user :: LuaPlayer [Read/Write] I've accidentally set player.last_user to a Boolean value and got this error: Expected LuaPlayer, index, or name. So the description should actually read last_user :: LuaPlayer or PlayerIdentification [Read/Write] Notes PlayerIdentification ...

You're welcome, glad I could help!

You'll need to check player.controller_type.

Although I don't quite understand it, I know my idea can't be realized I suppose you want to change certain properties of entities in response to some event or player action. While you can't modify prototype definitions in the control stage, you could define different versions of your main prototyp...

Check out game.active_mods and script.active_mods ! Both can be used in control.lua (and, of course, files required there) to get the list of active mods. The difference is that script.active_mods can already be used when script.on_load() is running while the global table 'game' (and with it, game.a...

Yea actually I have had similar problems before, player controllers being changed without any event, I think a catch all event, like 'on_player_controller_changed' would be perfect This coming from you is good news! :-) Actually, I like the way this is currently working for the editor mode. It woul...

Unexpected behavior: Create a custom LuaGuiElement window and display it for the player. Assign the custom LuaGuiElement window to `player.opened`. (This means it will be closed when the player presses "Escape", "E", or opens an entity, just like a vanilla GUI.) Observe that `pl...

Add require("util") and you'll have access to this function: local energy_chars = { k = 10^3, K = 10^3, M = 10^6, G = 10^9, T = 10^12, P = 10^15, E = 10^18, Z = 10^21, Y = 10^24 } function util.parse_energy(energy) local ending = energy:sub(energy:len()) if not (ending == "J" or ...

I believe there is now a new issue with spaces after category fields: For example: … I do not believe this used to be the case. Thanks! Actually, that does seem to be an old issue. In the first post of this thread , section "In short: rules and example of a working changelog file", I've f...

Just sayin', "master/slave" is hella racist nomenclature It only is "racist" in the context of US history: Historically, when people were enslaved, it was often because they were indebted, broke the law, or suffered a military defeat: The duration of their enslavement might be f...

You can have better : https://mods.factorio.com/mod/invisible-robots No visible shadows, not even visible robots. But I think it won't change the performance of your game. Not quite sure about that. The mod removes all animations from the prototypes, so I'd expect that making the bots invisible wou...

Why a new name? About three years ago, DellAquila created "minime - More accurate player size compared to vehicles", a mod to make characters smaller. But for quite some time now, you can also use the mod to make your character much bigger. At some point, DellAquila made me the owner of t...

Description of LuaForce.character_running_speed_modifier : character_running_speed_modifier :: double [Read/Write] Modifies the running speed of all characters in this force by the given value as a percentage. Setting the running modifier to 0.5 makes the character run 50% faster. The minimum value ...

There are mods that hide the minimap when you hover over an entity, e.g. More Minimap Autohide or Expand Tooltip.