Prototype/Item/Order

[ssilk]

In the docs it say: https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... Item#order

order Is used to order items in inventory (when sorting is enabled) and to sort recipes in crafting screen.

order = "a-b-c"

But in reality there is

order = "a[items]-b[basic-mining-drill]"

What does that in the square brackets mean? Is it a link to the item-subgroup or how does it work?

[FreeER]

I don't think it's actually changed any from before, though I could be wrong I'll check when I get the chance, it should still just be based on the order of the strings. All characters have a numeric code (since computers only understand 1/0s this is obvious when thought about) and that is what is compared. You can google 'ascii table' if you want to see the actual numbers.

I think the new format is just a 'better' formatting standard, but again I'll check the code when I get the chance to see if it has some special significance in the sorting.

[kovarex]

Yes, it is still same, but these brackets are just new standard.

Consider this list

• a[items]-b[basic-mining-drill]
• a[items]-c[some-other drill]
• b[x-thing]-a[tralala]
• b[x-thing]-b[some other tralala]

it will sort exactly the same as it was

• a-b
• a-c
• b-a
• b-b

But the first one is easier to understand, because you can easily see what is the a used for.

There is also other change, the ordering of items is determined by these priorities

• 1) Item group
• 2) Item subgroup
• 3) Item order string
• 4) Item name

So the order string is used just to order things inside one group, this is useful, because I can reorder whole groups or subgroups while keeping the ordering inside the group intact.

Edit: see https://wiki.factorio.com/Types/Order for a better explanation.

[McGuten]

Hi.
i try to make a mod for factorio but the node order make me crazy.
I do not understand how it works, if someone can explain me... I will be eternally grateful because i can't use it

For example:

I define 4 items and I order just like that:

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order = "a[inserter]-a[item1]",
order = "a[inserter]-b[item2]",
order = "b[fast-inserter]-a[item3]",
order = "b[fast-inserter]-b[item4]",

And when I play, the items are placed just like that:

1. Item 1
2. Item 3
3. Item 4
4. Item 2

[McGuten]

Hi.
i try to make a mod for factorio but the node order make me crazy.
I do not understand how it works, if someone can explain me... I will be eternally grateful because i can't use it

For example:

I define 4 items and I order just like that:

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order = "a[inserter]-a[item1]",
order = "a[inserter]-b[item2]",
order = "b[fast-inserter]-a[item3]",
order = "b[fast-inserter]-b[item4]",

And when I play, the items are placed just like that:

1. Item 1
2. Item 3
3. Item 4
4. Item 2

Please someone can help me? i don't understand how to work "Order"

[YuokiTani]

Sort-Order is random or luck however you want to call it.i had different sortings (recipe-screen) in same mod-version and different savegames. (sortings works surely not how you think to know)
you can use the rules, and hope in future this system works better.

make your item/entity-names in correct order and try this out like
name="inserter-a1"
name="inserter-slow1"
name="inserter-fast1"
name="inserter-fast2"
name="ins-n3"

i assume that -slow pops up at last place and "ins-" at first - against other order-rules ... so better avoid disorder from the nameing itself
it's not really clear if factorio uses the entity, item or recipe-order-rules ...

things in [] are ignored ...