Help me update an old private mod to 1.1

[Peter34]

I made an old mod for my own use, for 0.16 or 0.17, and despite being very simple it worked well.

Now it no longer works, and I'm not sure what to do. I've tried removing the dependencies on other mods (Agent Orange (which I've "hack-updated" to 1.1 for my own use), as well as Klonan's Torches mod), but that didn't make the mod work, so the issue is clearly something else.

This is the entirety of the control.lua file, which did work 2-3 years ago:

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script.on_event(defines.events.on_player_created, function(event)
		local player = game.players[event.player_index]
		player.insert{name="solid-fuel", count=4}
		player.insert{name="cliff-explosives", count=10}
		player.insert{name="wooden-chest", count=2}
		player.insert{name="burner-mining-drill", count=2}
		player.insert{name="stone-furnace", count=2}
end)

What do I update it to, to make it work in 1.1?

[Pi-C]

I think you should also listen to on_cutscene_cancelled. (Since Factorio 1.0, a player will be created without an attached character when a new game is started; the character will be added once the cutscene has been cancelled or finished of its own.)

[darkfrei]

What do I update it to, to make it work in 1.1?

https://wiki.factorio.com/Console#Add_i ... _inventory

[Deadlock989]

OP hasn't given any info about what it is that's not working - an error message would have helped people help you. But Pi-C has probably guessed correctly, that the player is no longer guaranteed to have a character at the start of new games and therefore has no inventory to insert anything into. Assuming you want to play regular "freeplay" scenario Factorio, the default scenario for Factorio games, it has its own remote interface handler for defining starting and respawn inventories for all players. That same scenario also generates the "crash" cutscene and the cancelling of said cutscene so that is all handled for you as well.

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	if remote.interfaces["freeplay"] then
		remote.call("freeplay", "set_skip_intro", true/false)
		remote.call("freeplay", "set_disable_crashsite", true/false)
		remote.call("freeplay", "set_respawn_items", {list_of_items})
		remote.call("freeplay", "set_created_items", {list_of_items})
	end

These should be called from within the on_init() handler. The lists of items are key/value pairs where the key is the item name and the value is the amount. If you want no items, use an empty list {}.

[jamiechi1]

I think you should also listen to on_cutscene_cancelled. (Since Factorio 1.0, a player will be created without an attached character when a new game is started; the character will be added once the cutscene has been cancelled or finished of its own.)

A good example of this is Ingos Advanced Start mod. It uses on_cutscene_cancelled to do this. It works great with version 1.1.

I also like the post by Deadlock989. I always wanted to know how to skip the intro and crash site thing.
Thanks for this.

[Pi-C]

I also like the post by Deadlock989. I always wanted to know how to skip the intro and crash site thing.

Thanks for quoting me! I remembered there was something or other where you could change the startup/respawn items, but "startup items" was too general as a search term. Now I've found the relevant info (remote.call) from Deadlock's post again just when I needed it.

[jamiechi1]

I have been searching for hours and can not find an example of the key/value pairs.
Specifically in this example. Could you show me and example of a couple of items for the {list_of_items} as shown above.
The wiki's tell about the key/value pairs but no examples. Is the key the item name and the value how many?
Like {"offshore-pump",1} ? And is a list of these pairs separated by commas or semicolons?

I have difficulty with Lua. I miss C++.

Edit: I finally figured it out. This works:
remote.call("freeplay", "set_created_items", {["offshore-pump"]=1,["iron-gear-wheel"]=1})

Also found out that the hand-crank-generator mod explains this in more detail. Lots of good comments inside.

[Pi-C]

I have been searching for hours and can not find an example of the key/value pairs.
Specifically in this example. Could you show me and example of a couple of items for the {list_of_items} as shown above.
The wiki's tell about the key/value pairs but no examples. Is the key the item name and the value how many?
Like {"offshore-pump",1} ? And is a list of these pairs separated by commas or semicolons?

I have difficulty with Lua. I miss C++.

This is the vanilla list of items players will get when they are created (from base/scenarios/freeplay/freeplay.lua):

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local created_items = function()
  return
  {
    ["iron-plate"] = 8,
    ["wood"] = 1,
    ["pistol"] = 1,
    ["firearm-magazine"] = 10,
    ["burner-mining-drill"] = 1,
    ["stone-furnace"] = 1
  }
end

Suppose you want to extract a list of all items of which you get more than 1 piece, you could add this to control.lua (to be executed in script.on_init):

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if remote.interfaces["freeplay"] then
  local new_list = {}
  local created = remote.call("freeplay", "get_created_items")
  
  for item, amount in pairs(created) do
    if amount > 1 then
      new_list[item] = amount
    end
  end
  
  -- Overwrite the list of items players get on starting a new game
  remote.call("freeplay", "set_created_items", new_list)
end

[jamiechi1]

Thank you. It is starting to sink in now.