blueprint string in scripts

[mophydeen]

I'd like an easy api way to use blueprint strings in scripts.

eg. add a blueprint book to the "game blueprints"-frame in script.

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game.blueprints.add("somestring")

[Killkrog]

I second that.
Also please give us an option to read from the library.

[mophydeen]

bump

[mophydeen]

bump

[mrvn]

Might be related to this feature request:

In factorissimo it would be great if a factory building included in a blueprint would include a blueprint for everything inside the factory building. On placement it should then also place a blueprint inside the factory building to create the contents.

[Bilka]

What exactly is the request here? Do you want to access the blueprint library, or do you want to convert blueprints from/to strings?

[mrvn]

What exactly is the request here? Do you want to access the blueprint library, or do you want to convert blueprints from/to strings?

Convert from/to strings.

[Bilka]

What exactly is the request here? Do you want to access the blueprint library, or do you want to convert blueprints from/to strings?

Convert from/to strings.

This is already possible through https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/Lua ... port_stack and https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/Lua ... port_stack.

[eradicator]

This is already possible through https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/Lua ... port_stack and https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/Lua ... port_stack.

Regrettably that requires a stack, so it's impractical to use when all you want is the list of entities/settings. I think 0.17 was going to have a decoding operation blueprint_string → blueprint_table?
Along that line it would be kinda neat to have the option to build a blueprint without a stack...or: How realistic would it be to allow lua scripts to create stacks that don't exist in the world, just to be manipulated via script for things like this?

[Killkrog]

What exactly is the request here? Do you want to access the blueprint library, or do you want to convert blueprints from/to strings?

I'd love to be able to access the blueprint library via API, as I already described in detail here. Noone ever bothered to answer though...