Change the order property of their subgroup to z.

Hi. I noticed lately that disabling machines via script leads to a terribly unhelpful 'disabled by script' tooltip. Basegame entities have things like 'no power' or 'no ingredients' or the like for these tooltips, which can be really helpful to newer players wanting to troubleshoot their setups. Hen...

curiosity wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 16, 2023 9:46 am

So you advocate for raising the entry level to modding? Not that I'm against, but I get the impression that it's not a popular idea.

I think that allowing modders to make shortcuts that are intuitive for those familiar with the game is good.

curiosity wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 15, 2023 7:51 am

See point one.

I don’t think that defaults need to be entirely localized to the structure. Especially if they’re intuitive for those who have worked with the game for awhile (assemblers defaulting to electric, furnaces defaulting to burner, etc.)

It seems ChatGPT suggests "item-and-fluid" as a solution when you want to select items and fluids, but tough luck, that doesn't work. Error while running event Kux-ProductionRates::on_gui_click (ID 1) Unknown elem_type: item-and-fluid Since I stumble over this for the second time, I thoug...

To elaborate, there are two reasons for this: 1. It disrupts the locality of the definition. You have to look at the outer context to see what the default value is. 2. It makes the codebase harder to extend. Imagine some property supports only one type of energy source and type is optional. Mods om...

I recently encountered a bug where I was passing an empty table ({}) to the name argument of LuaSurface::find_entities_filtered in my mod Drills of Drills . This had some unexpected, but not incomprehensible, undocumented behavior (though it did take me three versions of the mod to pin down what was...

In my mod, ClaustOrephobic, I modify the prototypes of basically every resource so that the whole world is covered in ore that blocks construction of non-drill/pumpjack buildings. Currently I have an issue where cliffs do not function , because cliff generation, like tree generation, will only place...

One issue with this is how to convey to the player what the limits are in a given module. The distinction of what recipes accept what module effects is already confusing. Hovering a machine's module slots gives a tooltip listing the accepted modules, including restrictions from the current recipe, ...

Having the ability to forbid specific modules from being used in certain entities and for specific recipes would be an immensely powerful feature for more intuitively and granularly controlling module use for various use cases, such as progression gating (tier X machine caps out at Y module) or them...

DaveMcW wrote: ↑

Tue May 25, 2021 10:55 am

I would like a read-only boolean property on LuaCircuitNetwork to tell when the contents of a circuit network have changed. I believe this already exists internally, it just needs to be exposed to Lua.

Why not make an event out of it?

I know this post is old, but this can be done in 2 combinators: an arithmetic combinator set to each % N => each feeding back into itself, connected to both the input and the output of a decider combinator set to each < N => 1 each. N of course being the extender length in ticks. Bonus: this extends...