Creating a Building That Requires No Power?

[TheLastRonin]

I'm trying to completely remove the power requirements for the lab. If I just comment out the power stuff it seems to throw up errors... If I reduce power to 0watts it still needs 'power' according to the game... Is there any way of having a completely un-powered buildings?

Please take the time to respond. I am trying to do a major overhaul mod and this has been a huge roadblock for me... I'm at a total loss .

[FreeER]

The way Factorio is designed in C++ most entities require power, but if you can make it require 0 power (can't remember off the top of my head if that works) then you could use control.lua to give that building 1 energy when it's created. That would satisfy it's power need (since it doesn't ever use that power). It's a hack sure, but I've used uglier ones

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game.onevent(defines.events.onbuiltentity, function(event)
  event.createdentity.energy = 1
end)
game.onevent(defines.events.onrobotbuiltentity, function(event)
  event.createdentity.energy = 1 -- I'm assuming this is createdentity as well, could test with game.player.print(serpent.block(event))
end)

The alternative, if you can't set it not use energy, would be either filling it's energy constantly or creating an invisible entity that could do so (solar panel + accumulator?) right on top of it (along with a pole with a very small range).

[TheLastRonin]

Would I just paste that code into control? How would I link it up to my entity? Sorry I am a code noob.

The entity is called alchemical-lab

[FreeER]

The previous code would add 1 energy to all created entities, to make it only target your entity you'd add an if statement checking the name like so:
And yes, this would be pasted into the control.lua

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require "defines" -- makes defines table with events available
    game.onevent(defines.events.onbuiltentity, function(event)
      if event.createdentity.name == "alchemical-lab" then
           event.createdentity.energy = 1
      end
    end)
    game.onevent(defines.events.onrobotbuiltentity, function(event)
      -- I'm assuming this is createdentity as well, could test with game.player.print(serpent.block(event))
      if event.createdentity.name == "alchemical-lab" then
           event.createdentity.energy = 1
      end
    end)

Sorry I am a code noob.

Everyone starts that way, including me

[TheLastRonin]

The previous code would add 1 energy to all created entities, to make it only target your entity you'd add an if statement checking the name like so:
And yes, this would be pasted into the control.lua

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require "defines" -- makes defines table with events available
    game.onevent(defines.events.onbuiltentity, function(event)
      if event.createdentity.name == "alchemical-lab" then
           event.createdentity.energy = 1
      end
    end)
    game.onevent(defines.events.onrobotbuiltentity, function(event)
      -- I'm assuming this is createdentity as well, could test with game.player.print(serpent.block(event))
      if event.createdentity.name == "alchemical-lab" then
           event.createdentity.energy = 1
      end
    end)

Sorry I am a code noob.

Everyone starts that way, including me

That didn't work but I had another idea... I can turn the well into a burner and then simply insert a new object that has ridiculous energy output while the well has only '0.1' energy need. So how would I change the code so that instead of giving energy it inserts 1 supercoal when built?

[FreeER]

So how would I change the code so that instead of giving energy it inserts 1 supercoal when built?

instead of "event.createdentity.energy = 1" you'd use "event.createdentity.insert{name='super-coal', count=1}", if that didn't automatically go into the fuel slot (usually does, but thought I'd mention it) you'd use "event.createdentity.getinventory(defines.inventory.fuel).insert{name='super-coal', count=1}"