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I wasn't entirely sure wether this'd be a feature request or a bug, but I've encountered an issue when a BurnerGenerator is given a buffer_capacity - it does not appear on the tooltip when you hover over the entity (it also doesn't appear in the factoriopedia tooltip either).

This is the building im working with right now and as mentioned, the buffer_capacity is not displayed anywhere that I could find it. It does still work however, as when placing down the entity it gives off 20MJ before anything electric stops working and when it runs out of fuel, the same thing happens - at least when I tested it I included a test mod which uses includes a dummy entity which has almost identical code to the one shown above, for demonstration purposes - i hope it helps :]

Thanks for the report however as far as I know we don't show buffer capacity anywhere in entities tooltips. Buffers exist mostly as an implementation detail and we have gone a long ways to avoid showing them anywhere because it's not something a player has any control of and "is what it is".

sure, but accumulators show their specified buffer_capacity - unless under the hood it is handled differently for them? but that is why i thought it was a bug in the first place, since something else in vanilla *does* show it

thanks for the response though :]

You're correct. However, the entire purpose of accumulators is the fact they store energy in their buffer so it makes sense to show it there.