TL;DR Once the assembly machine is set to recipe_lock, the recipe inside should be totally customizable, the ingredients, productions, energy consumption, duration. I mean, everything. What ? Sometimes, we want to provide some automatic item conversion for players. The shop doesn't do the job autom...

A liquid prototype needs only 2 properties. 1 is name the other is flow speed( or any equivalent thing). The sepatation of different liquids is a very great idea. If you really add the flow speed function, my "dynamic water" mod could be totally remake with in game pipes. This new way is d...

I need some more control on the liquid in my new mod.
If there is no way to control the speed of liquid, then I need to make heat pipe( can't remember the name) prototypes and pass different heats, only to make the flowing slow.

And it's somehow way more useful than people could even imagine in China. Most of us don't have any vpn or some other tools to get the internet access around the GFW( Great Fire Wall, with which the Chinese government prevents people from visiting most of the websites outside the physical area of C...

Looks like it already possible to distribute scenario as a mod: https://wiki.factorio.com/Scenario_system#Packaging_a_scenario_as_a_mod . User installs and activates them as a usual mod, no unzipping skills required. Yeah, this definitely works. But you know, when we host public games, we always we...

One sentence to describe your idea with a bit different words than in the subject Allow the unzipped scenario uploaded directly or receive zipped scenario files to be read directly. What ? Or should I publish my scenario somewhere else? Why ? Actually the best place to publish a scenario is the mod...

bormand wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 19, 2021 11:14 am

yagaodirac wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 19, 2021 3:56 am

We care performance more than the appearance of tiles.

Press F4, check show-raw-tile-transitions. Hope it helps.

OK, thanks. I didn't know this.

TL;DR We care performance more than the appearance of tiles. What ? Many tile prototypes contain a set of details which enhance the look when they are adjacent to some specific tile. This hurts the performance while doesn't help very much. I suggest that you could make an option to turn off this de...

TL;DR Game list should show the scenario name. Also the field should be searchable. Why ? If not, we have to write the scenario name in the server name. And no matter what we try, it takes no advantage of localization. No way to show a game to people read English as Mtn Fortress while to people rea...

Chinese people say, man goes to the peak, while water flows to the valley. I talked to my friends about a conception of modding creature like mechanism in Factorio. But when it comes to the blood, the blood goes as the pressure pushes. But I don't know if there is any mechanism that allows any fluid...

Especially the autoplace_settings field. This is probably the only way for non-mod, per surface, non-callback, generating control.

When programming in both mods and scenarios, if anything crashes in control.lua, I have to click at least 4( but normally 5) times to restart the scenario. Why not a one click fast start up? When debug, it saves time.

Parameter list should include force, and a boolean like decoration for it.

PFQNiet wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 12, 2020 12:18 pm

Thanks. I actually guessed this possibility. But I didn't want it to be the answer, since I didn't find any function named find_character.

Klonan wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 12, 2020 9:39 am

What kind of units are you looking for?
Can you provide a screenshot of the test setup?

character. OK, I'll paste as much useful info and code here tomorrow.

self.surface.find_entities{self.pos-{10,10},self.pos+{10,10}} works. self.surface.find_units {area= {self.pos-{10,10},self.pos+{10,10}},force="player",condition="same"} doesn't. And some eneity even return a "userdata" when I look into its .force.name code: local result...

- randomly don’t output an item from smelting process? I'm not familiar with the api enough. Yeah, your idea is better. - reduce the balancing. So, it needs a checkbox. What is the gameplay value? 1, More variety of environment as described. 2, More choices to increase the final production, and upg...

DaveMcW wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 11, 2020 4:08 am

Yeah, thank you. It works.

rendering.draw_sprite{surface = self.surface, sprite = self.sprite, target = self.pos, orientation = ***no matter what number I tried, it doesn't make any difference***, time_to_live = 2, x_scale =0.25, y_scale = 0.25} The sprite does show. But this field doesn't seem to have done anything. What is ...

TL;DR For ore with 100% active ingredient, the production is 1 plate from 1 ore. For 50%, 1 plate from 2 ore items. What ? This needs more field in the prototype(data.lua), and more codes to manage the tooltip for an item. And also, tech to unlock the full display of information. Also, this might s...