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Currently, crafting machines have read/write for crafting_progress and bonus_progress. I am requesting similar API functionality to be added to science labs which have the same regular and bonus progress meters.

Why exactly do you want to change those values? They serve no purpose other than just visual inside of LabGui since labs increase research progress in a continuous way as they craft

I'm trying to track down an issue with our modded labs and some rounding issue. I wanted to read the values from the labs to get some insight as to what is going on and was surprised to find the values couldn't be read. I figured a full read/write for the labs would be a simple add that might be wanted by someone.
If it were to be added, I doubt I'd personally still be wanting it by the time it makes a release so not a big deal either way.

What rounding issue with modded labs?

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While doing some quick and dirty tests, I wanted to compare what the lab was showing on the bars with my expected results and was surprised to not find the associated API. But I've now got it narrowed down for the bug report.