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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.

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

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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.

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

Bilka wrote: Sat Sep 29, 2018 7:29 pm 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.

mrvn wrote: Mon Oct 08, 2018 10:40 am

Bilka wrote: Sat Sep 29, 2018 7:29 pm 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.

Bilka wrote: Mon Oct 08, 2018 11:21 am 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?

Bilka wrote: Sat Sep 29, 2018 7:29 pm 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...