Feature-bound properties should say which feature

Place to report issues and suggest improvements to the API documentation.
curiosity
Filter Inserter
Filter Inserter
Posts: 636
Joined: Wed Sep 11, 2019 4:13 pm
Contact:

Feature-bound properties should say which feature

Post by curiosity »

There should be indication which feature adds the property. Right now they all just say "requires Space Age to use".
User avatar
Quezler
Fast Inserter
Fast Inserter
Posts: 185
Joined: Fri Mar 25, 2016 6:37 pm
Contact:

Re: Feature-bound properties should say which feature

Post by Quezler »

+1
User avatar
Therenas
Factorio Staff
Factorio Staff
Posts: 301
Joined: Tue Dec 11, 2018 2:10 pm
Contact:

Re: Feature-bound properties should say which feature

Post by Therenas »

I mean I kind of get it, but that's mostly a problem because the info.json approach is bad. I'm not sure it's worth the complication in the docs to address this.
User avatar
Quezler
Fast Inserter
Fast Inserter
Posts: 185
Joined: Fri Mar 25, 2016 6:37 pm
Contact:

Re: Feature-bound properties should say which feature

Post by Quezler »

it would honestly be really useful to know which feature flag gates a certain expansion feature, segmented units is kinda an obvious one but belt stacks requiring space travel might not be as straightforward, im assuming it becomes more important as mods pop up that don't depend on the space age mod since it might not have all the feature flags triggered then.
curiosity
Filter Inserter
Filter Inserter
Posts: 636
Joined: Wed Sep 11, 2019 4:13 pm
Contact:

Re: Feature-bound properties should say which feature

Post by curiosity »

Therenas wrote: Tue May 06, 2025 7:22 am I mean I kind of get it, but that's mostly a problem because the info.json approach is bad. I'm not sure it's worth the complication in the docs to address this.
How is it bad and what do you think is better?
User avatar
Therenas
Factorio Staff
Factorio Staff
Posts: 301
Joined: Tue Dec 11, 2018 2:10 pm
Contact:

Re: Feature-bound properties should say which feature

Post by Therenas »

I'd rather it be a single flag to require the expansion or not, rather than these separate flags that are all either available or not. Then also allow you to conditionally enable SA features if the user has the expansion, but not prevent them from using the mod if they don't (so we don't need the enable all flags mod). We'll see if we want to change things for 2.1.
curiosity
Filter Inserter
Filter Inserter
Posts: 636
Joined: Wed Sep 11, 2019 4:13 pm
Contact:

Re: Feature-bound properties should say which feature

Post by curiosity »

It seems to me like some kind of weird future-proofing, in case they want to include some of those features into another expansion. Except there are not plans beyond 2.1.
Post Reply

Return to “Documentation Improvement Requests”