I don't think many people will be doing a lot of category modification, and while it would be nice in that case to have a dictionary, it's really not that bad to do an array. If I were making a bunch of handcrafting recipes, I wouldn't want to have to specify {"crafting"} every single time, and that ...

front wrote: Wed Oct 22, 2025 8:42 pm Also, I think it was planned for 2.1 anyways.

Not necessarily. Only the splitting of the hybrid categories into their respective parts is confirmed, the unification of `categories` is an optional step 2 that I will only say was recently talked about not doing for fear of breaking changes.

With the addition of additional_categories for recipe prototypes in 2.0.49, there are now two places for recipe categories to be defined.
This works well enough, since it didn't break any existing mods using the category field.
For 2.1, boskid has mentioned he will be removing all of the hybrid ...

I'm surprised this isn't a thing already to be honest

Hi, great topic for a seminar! I started writing this before anyone else responded and then went to eat dinner partway through, so I may be repeating a few things from others.

- Most unexpected/surprising mod you’ve seen (or made) and why it stood out.
It's hard to pick a single mod out of the ...

Hi, one of the (unofficial) Factorio Discord server moderators here.
I only feel the need to chime in because anyone who reads this thread will only ever see one side of the story otherwise, which I don't feel is fair.
This will be my only message in this thread, I do not wish to continue this ...

Nice

minimal reproduction, stick this somewhere in the prototype stage:

May end up doing this myself, but figured I'd put it here in case someone else does it before I do.
Currently the only way to do this is with the console command /swap-players which calls Player::swap_players, but it would be neat if mods could do the same as well.

The request in this case is to pretend core has a version number for the purposes of the dependency, that way mods could use the dependency system as it is now to control the allowed engine version, instead of needing a new info.json field along the lines of factorio_version, or changing factorio ...

There have been a few times where I want to depend on a specific Factorio version, whether it's because of an API method that was added or changed, a new prototype type was made, or any other thing that would make backwards compatibility broken.
There have also been a few times where I've made a mod ...

Title says it all pretty much. The field says the dictionary is always present, and it is in fact not always present, specifically when the item prototype has no flags.
Thank you!

+1, not much else for me to add but I agree with both above.

You can do that already with the "-" operator, similar to a google search.
For example, "-earendel" will hide all of earendel's mods.
The mod portal used to not support it because mellisearch, the api it switched to a while go, didn't have it, but it had since been updated to support it.

It's not ...

Sounds good, and yeah I considered poking around myself but decided not to due to the same risk.
Thanks for looking into this!

here's a video for clarification, entering singleplayer and testing the mod works, multiplayer and testing the mod doesn't.
I've made sure the custom input events result in the same outcome.

I made a mod a while ago called Force Inventory Insert that lets the player forcibly insert items into the bar portion of an inventory if it's full, that way players don't have to manually move each stack.
I've had a bug reported recently where the mod doesn't work in multiplayer, and after a ...

There was no bug report about this, no player complaints, and the only place this technique showed up was in my speedruns. So it’s hard not to feel like this was directly targeted. Like some dev saw my run and thought, “we don’t want speedrunners finishing the game this way,” and patched it out ...

I'm reading over this thread, and something I'd like to point out regardless of opinions on whether or not the change should be reverted, is that mods disable steam achievements. So sure, you could technically unlock achievements with mods, but the second you disable mods you lose all of the ...

+1

I get that how it works internally is different from everything else, but everything else in the game revolving around implicit signal combination over/underflows. It doesn't make sense from a player's perspective, even if it makes sense from a developer's perspective.