I've been adding some custom tiles and one thing that would be nice is support for the no-holes feature that space platforms have.

In terms of how this would work APi wise, it can probably be supported as a generalisation of the current logic for space platforms. The modder specifies an entity ...

Currently, you can add pollution to a surface, but this doesn't trigger attacks in the normal way. The modder can work around this with manually issuing attack commands, but this has a few drawbacks, like it's almost impossible to know what radius to set or how many biters to select to mirror ...

I've been experimenting with this and it seems like if you spawn a "bait" entity with e.g. 1 pollution/min and script pollution on top, this doesn't trigger attacks, but spawning one which is all the pollution/min triggers them easily, although they sometimes still exhibit weird behaviour like ...

I'm dumb as bricks, the documentation explicitly calls out this case and I just brainfarted reading it. My apologies!

What did you do?
I spawned a ConstantCombinatorPrototype entity with player-creation flag. I subsequently spawned a lot of pollution using surface.pollute.

What happened?
The biters spawn attack groups, but don't attack. The attack groups just keep growing.

What did you expect to happen instead ...

0, which is an infinite search in theory, but in this case, the player is warping into the starting area of a default settings Nauvis, so there should be a ton of empty space immediately available in practice, and after generating the chunk, there is. I'd guess that the search neither generates ...

Seems to occur when the destination surface has no chunks. Generating a chunk ahead of time seems to resolve the issue.

What did you do?
I'm making a Warptorio-style mod where the player can teleport between surfaces. I've used surface.find_non_colliding_position to decide where to place the player and using player.teleport to teleport them there.

What happened?
The game freezes.

What did you expect to happen ...

Thanks very much, it's simple enough to fix them manually when you notice it's broken

What did you do?
I'm using direct insertion for ingredients and a spoilage/nutrients belt around the outside. I've set up a spoilage filtered output inserter to remove spoilage on to this belt.
In case it's relevant, I'm playing Warptorio and I've placed some biochambers on the ground floor. These ...

TL;DR
The mech suit should have a more physical handling with acceleration, rather than flat movement.

What?
The mech suit should start out moving slower, then accelerate quickly over time of use.

Why?
Using the mech suit with an inventory full of legendary legs to move fast is funny, but ...

Tentatively I'm going to say that they are simply not really needed. For quality, use robots; they can handle it far superior to any belt solution. Linked chests are much superior for train balancing. Large containers are, at best, a pretty minor convenience.

Fair enough

Hey guys, currently I'm looking at making a mod where the player spawns with a few tiles, kinda like a Seablock-esque thing. The problem I'm encountering is that there's no way to make the starter tiles minable. This seems to be because the autoplace expression can only autoplace the top tile, not ...

TL;DR
Add some researches with Prometheum science that are fun and motivate players to play longer

What?
Add a "post-game" progression that gives players more of a reward for sticking it out in the endgame. Mechanics, items, or other that are hard to get and make the game a bit different to ...

I'd also like more control of the starmap, particularly it would be nice if it could be modified dynamically. I'm thinking of making a mod where certain events may re-arrange the starmap or block some locations

How would this distinguish from an underground that was placed too wide, or just a solo underground without a partner? Is this specifically only if they are blocked by lava? I feel like the display tips, and inability to create an underground by dragging already do a pretty good job of guarding ...

Perhaps I am naive about something coming up, but what mod is required to complete the game? Historically I don't use any mods until I have finished the vanilla game, and that is the case thus far.


None of them are required, but many of them make the game way more fun. I'm not the only one who ...

TL;DR
When an underground pipe/belt is blocked because of lava/space/etc, display an alert, either locally or globally or both.

Why?
Currently it's easy to accidentally block your undergrounds. This can occur because the blueprint construction is only blocked if the actual tiles are blocked ...

100 solar panels and an eff module chemical plant melting ice you find in the rocks (or send down from orbit). I also used a nuclear reactor for kickstart; you can use a heating tower with pre-positioned fuel but the nuclear reactor seems so much better.