@Honktown, thanks for the suggestion, but that workaround is unacceptable. I need the vanilla artillery-turret to be able to accept (load) and fire different ammo categories, because the ammunitions themselves need to differ from the "artillery-shell" category to be able to respond to dif...

A few suggestions in addition to yours: - Spawners hit points and resistances should scale up with the evolution factor. - Rocket launcher feels very overpowered once you give it some shooting speed upgrades. - Personal Laser Defense setups are way too strong for taking out bases in the late game. ...

You could add the energy change in data-final-fixes, at the end of the file. ... data.raw.recipe["SiSi-quartz"].normal.energy_required = .5 Hallelujah, Brothers and Sisters, this circumvents the problem! I added the line at the bottom of recipe.lua (with energy_required=1, not .5, that's ...

I was hoping to find light sources, but when I load my game and call rendering.get_all_ids, I get six back, and all of them are text. I'm doing an "is the character in darkness" test, and since I can't get lamp intensity/size from item_prototypes, I was hoping I could check if a light exis...

Interestingly, ArtilleryRemoteCapsuleAction is not documented in the api, though it has an entry in the wiki. I was going to say register to the event on_player_used_capsule and fire a filtered artillery with the proper ammo and in range, but the last bit is missing: there doesn't seem to be a way t...

Couldn't you get the cursor position, and place a sprite maybe with the brightness multiplied by day brightness at the position? Follow the mouse around every tick if they have the item in their hand. I don't know how to tell if the character puts the item away, but tracking if they had an item in t...

You could add the energy change in data-final-fixes, at the end of the file. It'd be "brittle" in that anything could break it, but as long as no other mods change it, the change would take effect after everything else. editedit: nevermind, you had it right the first time. Seems for recipe...

Sounds like you are setting yourself for using unreliable data which needs lots of hacks to be used instead of simply using the existing api. Aside from that api dev view of it, I as a mod author certainly would rather use the reliable format of the prototype data in control over having to deal wit...

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Sun Dec 08, 2019 9:00 pm

Overall you can operate this design continuesly with only 80 U-235 in the system - up to 40 U-235 circling back while another 40 are in the centrifuge. The rest can be extracted.

Nice. O P T I M I Z E D

Who would think I wouldn't want to know data.raw properties during runtime? Who would think it's a good idea to error out the game? How do I actually access all the entity properties if not even game.item_prototypes has them? If there is a property missing that the data stage item prototypes has, b...

To say it clearly, before Bilka repeats themself for the fifth time: NOT EVERY ITEM HAS ALL VALUES DOCUMENTED IN THE API. Yes they do. I can 100% guarantee you that every LuaItemPrototypes has the properties documented on https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/LuaItemPrototype.html. You see to be assu...

I don't feel like pulling up the whole blueprint ; how does your centrifuge get refilled with u-235? I filter remove u-235 into a plain chest, and then use a plain inserter to move from one plain chest to another, and then re-insert u-235. Only if there's excess does it pull from the second box (usu...

Wow uh. I just use filter inserters, and remove u-235 and u-238 into separate boxes. If there's an excess of u-235 I remove it for use. If you limit the filling inserter conditions you can prevent too much u-238 being converted (either the box of u-235, or some amount somewhere else). Fun fact: filt...

I probably need to re-phrase: next and such are Lua functions, and it is probable that the data required for them to work correctly on certain tables in game don't exist. The function exists, and afaik it's not meta-table-overwritable or whatever, but if I could call game.next() or game.pairs() and ...

Serpent reveals some neat stuff sometimes. I could probably inject code with this right? What kind of problem are you trying to solve? I need stack sizes while the game is running, to limit an increase in rewards that will be affected by during-runtime values. If you're iterating over things in gam...

I had the random thought earlier, when I was researching Logistic Science Pack and didn't have Logistics 1. It only costs 20 Automation packs, so it's not significant, but seemed out of place.

I found a way to do the thing (I won't tell you how because you'll probably fix it) but uh store_info = ((loadstring or load)("\27LuaR\0\1\4\8\4\8\0\25Ԝ13\n\26\n%\0\0\0=\0\0\0\1\0\n3\0\0\0X\0@\0\23\0\1F@@\0\0\0\0]\0\1X@\0\23\0\0\31\0\0C\0\0\0Ĝ0\0\0ǀ@\0\6\1A\0\7AA\2\7\2\7\2ހ\0\1Ɯ0\0\6\1A\0\7AA...

Haha you assholes. Guess I have to find another way to go over the table.

local item_info = item_info or {} function item_info.store_info(attribute) if attribute == nil or type(attribute) ~= "string" then return end local name_exists = false local attribute_exists = false for _, item in pairs(game.item_prototypes) do for key in pairs(item) do if type(key) == &q...

nil is when the property doesn't exist. A nil cannot exist in a table. Basic lua there. Since you're not getting it: really.png if game.item_prototypes["coal"] and game.item_prototypes["coal"].attribute then log("attribute exists in coal") end Edit: log: 33.656 Error Ma...