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how do you hide recipes from the player/ only let certine types of automatic crafting things access to them

Create a new crafting categorie, add that category to the machines that can craft it, and then, change the crafting category from the recipes to the crafting category you created.

or use:
and disable(), respectively

I don't think that would do what he was asking for. Correct me if i'm wrong but wouldn't .disable() prevent even the assembling machines from using them (since they have the recipe list of their creator)?

15Cyndaquil wrote:only let certine types of automatic crafting things access

FreeER wrote:I don't think that would do what he was asking for. Correct me if i'm wrong but wouldn't .disable() prevent even the assembling machines from using them (since they have the recipe list of their creator)?

Yes yxou are right they disable() do this.

But then I think that I gave him a good explanation, how he can solve that in my treefarm-thread.
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... 2&start=10

If the explanation isnt clear enough. Then maybe someone can explain it again.

EDIT: Ok, just saw that ficolas allready explained how to deal with that situation

yep that's a good explanation, about the only way i can see to make it any better would be to actually specify where the files are like, 'add the new category to the categories.json file within recipe-category and then use "category": "your_new_category" in the recipe json' (i'm also assuming that if you don't specify the category the game defaults to crafting).

Pretty self-explanatory once you get started with modding and see all of the files however.

Ok thanks. Now it should be absolutly clear.

Also I can just advise anyone to read the control.lua files of the missions ( can be found into the data/campaigns/.. folders)
You can find very useful stuff in them that arent explained at the wiki,yet.

drs9999 wrote:You can find very useful stuff in them that arent explained at the wiki,yet.

Quite true And of course to check out all of the mods, even if you don't intend to use them yourself it is useful to see what/how some else managed to do something

Admitedly I still haven't gotten around to really looking at the CC mod yet, I've been intending to and keep getting sidetracked

drs9999 wrote:Ok thanks. Now it should be absolutly clear.

Also I can just advise anyone to read the control.lua files of the missions ( can be found into the data/campaigns/.. folders)
You can find very useful stuff in them that arent explained at the wiki,yet.

Yes, but the story mechanism doesn't work very good as tutorial.
Once the lua/json interface stabilises we will complete the reference on wiki and make some small series of tutorials.

Thank you all and with this information i have made an electronic furnace

Glad to be of service Now you'll have to update (hopefully with 2.11) when the furnace can acutally be electric

Yup but even if they dont add dyamic furnaces my mod will still work