Remember that while the vanilla Factorio engine is heavily optimized to minimize cache misses, the Lua interpreter that runs mod code is not. Large, heavily modded maps might not see any improvement from Vcache at all, so physical RAM latency is still important.

I've noticed that a pipe as well as a tank displays only liquid level but not flow speed. If there's no flow speed how can a player know how it's working if the fluid level is irrelevant? The only entities which show flow speed are steam engines/turbines & (offshore) pumps I know of. Perhaps I'...

It's logical that you need an input of 60/s to be able to consume 60/s. We're talking about Steam Level. If that's up to the max, there isn't a problem to provide constant flow needed (or we'll see if it drains that there's something wrong). The fluid level in a flowing pipe is a stable equilibrium...

If I have a stock pile of green circuits, gears, iron plate, copper plate, etc. I can handcraft most products for early game. Belts is something I like to automate, too, because it is used en masse. I agree, even in late game I set my logistics requests to a stack of all the main intermediate produ...

This is a bug in the Global Variable Viewer mod because it naively walks the prototype tree which includes a doubly-linked 2-level tree of LuaGroup objects. The LuaGroup for the subgroup has a reference to the parent group, and the parent has a reference back to the subgroup. This should be handled ...

My first mod copied a few subroutines from another mod. I messaged them, asked for some advice and if they minded me using that code. Most folks are reasonable if you ask politely. You may have already figured it out, but there's lots of "mods of mods" that change the characteristics of an...

I was going to pile on the train of "don't use LTN for that", but then I tried it for myself. The "Merged Delivery" feature does in fact allow multiple items to be loaded into one train, if they are all requested by one station and provided by another. A minimal amount of circuit...

It's not the only way. You could have a second combinator that you turn on to make the price and request thresholds 1 billion each. Or pass the wire to the stop through a logic combinator that acts as a switch, and have another constant combinator that controls whether it passes signals or not. (Ari...

There is no way to assign a global name to a custom event ID. When cross-mod compatibility is needed, you will need to add a remote interface so that mod can ask your mod what event ID to register.

If you have any other signals wired to the LTN stops, like the buffer chests, that is all it takes to turn it into a provider (positive items) or requester (negative items). It uses defaults for everything else.

There is a simple mod that lets you try this idea. https://mods.factorio.com/mod/tank-flamethrower-rework

Upuaut wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 05, 2023 9:59 am

After changing the settings the trains still have the default times in their delivery plan.

Did you wait for each train to return to the Depot and get a new delivery like Optera said? It should have taken effect eventually.

The artillery behavior code is in the base game and cannot be modified to act like a normal turret. The turret wagons mod (https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Armored-train) achieves your goal by teleporting an invisible turret entity along with the train wagon. It's very inefficient right now because it'...

If a train is occupying the short rail at the moment a second train is computing a path through the intersection, it's possible the second train thinks the longer path is a safer option. It won't necessarily check if the shorter path becomes available before it gets to the intersection as long as th...

boskid wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 23, 2023 12:38 pm

Ok. This is now fixed for 1.1.77 and it consists of 2 changes

Thank you for addressing this! Hopefully this will resolve my interface request as well.

Join my thread over in Modding Interface Requests... https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=100681 The thing that makes this a bug, and which Rseding did not address when closing the 2020 bug report, is that `LuaFluidBox::get_prototype(n)` validates the range of `n` based on the number...

I finally found the time to do this as a mod . It works perfectly for on_player_mined_entity and on_robot_mined_entity. However for script_raised_destroy it's not so clear what to do. I have decided to spill the item on the ground. I've added a related modding request at https://forums.factorio.com...

Check your circuits to make sure the inventory signal is not getting inflated somehow. For example, by connecting both red and green wires, which get added together by the receiver. Or by accidentally connecting some other circuit. And then check your provider threshold value.

By default, the train will stay until it is full or some time has passed. LTN can schedule partial loads, but it does not change the schedule condition to leave when that partial loads is loaded. This is so the inserters aren't left hanging with extra material. You need to use signals in order to fo...

"Sync mods with save" is just a convenient way to get the same set of mods again. There are plenty of times you need to load a save with a manually adjusted mod set. When intentionally adding or removing mods from a save, or if mod updates change dependencies, mod sync will complain but yo...