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i.e. PipePrototype.pictures: https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/prototypes/PipePrototype.html#pictures The uses for most of the sprites are self-explanatory except for these three: low_temperature_flow middle_temperature_flow high_temperature_flow In what situation are they drawn? i.e. what combina...

This appears to have been actioned, either since I posted the above or at some point in the last month, which was the previous time I uploaded a mod. I uploaded a mod yesterday and the mod portal uses the 288x288 thumbnail, and I can see that a couple of others uploaded on the same day also do the s...

Lane balancing isn't even that hard. Which is precisely why it's boring. When 90%+ of the belts in your megabase are carrying the same item in both lanes, it's nothing more than a chore to stamp down balancers everywhere they're needed. It was a relatively interesting puzzle literally one time. It ...

By default, a mod's thumbnail.png is supposed to be 144x144, but it can be any size. If you supply a 288x288 (double resolution) one, it is displayed correctly at full resolution in the game's mod manager GUI if you are running 200% interface size (which is the default scale on the auto setting for ...

Any FluidBox, including the ones in pumps, can be filtered (i.e. "locked") to a specific fluid. But only one fluid, or none. You can't have multiple fluids or a category/set etc. The mod in my signature does this for certain pipes. https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/types/FluidBox.html#fi...

health_penalty and rotate_penalty are properties of BaseAttackParameters that affect the target selection of turrets. Their descriptions are worded similarly - they say that "higher penalties" discourage the turret from selecting higher health targets or making longer turns, and for healt...

Is there any logic approach I can follow to get the sprites programmatically without having to hand-craft all my functions? (I'm trying to create a basic blueprint renderer that gets its data programmatically from the data.raw as a side-project). No. While some entities do have the same specificati...

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Is it somehow possible to create a version of the offshore pump which requires electricity to work? The "OffshorePump" prototype doesn't seem to have attributes like "energy_source" or "energy_usage". No. You could fake it with composite entities and scripting, but tha...

This is a joke, right?

Right?

I've just now run into this issue myself. As others have stated above, when a blueprint has its contents overwritten by using the "Select new contents" button, player.blueprint_to_setup has no contents and returns false for is_blueprint_setup(), and you can't get the blueprint from the pla...

Projectiles have force_condition but streams don't - I'm 97% sure that streams (e.g. spitters, flamethrowers) are always going to damage everything they hit that isn't fully resistant. If that is actually the case, then you could try a scripted trigger effect and compare forces manually, but that wi...

To each their own, but in the time it took you to write these posts, you could have added an order string and called it a day. Or you could have decided not to retroactively shaft every single mod on the portal that didn't specify a completely optional property that had no effect on the game, but h...

I considered doing this, but it is inconsistent with the rest of the game. Prototypes are ordered lexicographically, and making an exception in one very specific place doesn't make sense to me. If you remove all saved shortcut settings, then the keyboard/mouse shortcuts behave the same way, with un...

Quick panel - shortcut bar When using a controller, the standard hotbar and shortcut bar are replaced by the quick panel. The "tools" tab of the quick panel contains the shortcut bar buttons: quick-panel.png The shortcuts in this quick panel are not able to be rearranged by the user. The ...

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Which of the internal game control names is the consume or activate capsule action (left click by default), the one referenced as "__1__" by localised string {"gui.instruction-to-consume"} and the other tooltip instructions shown below?

To reproduce: - Create a capsule-type item that has a "use-on-self" action with the uses_stack property at its default of true - Set the attack parameters of the capsule up to deliver a scripted effect to the target (the user) - In the scripted effect event, clear the player's cursor stack...