They do at least obey the solar power on the surface you are on. Source: try using construction bots on Fulgora without a portable reactor ...

Hello,

I am making a mod where I have a type of rocket that sends the player directly from a planet to its moon (or vice versa). Despite having hooked up the processions correctly in the moon's prototype, no procession animation plays when I script LuaEntity::launch_rocket({type.defines.cargo ...

Hello. The docs claim that LuaGame::take_technology_screenshot has a selected_technology argument for "The technology to highlight". However, passing this argument doesn't appear to do anything.

Attached are three screenshots. without-selected.png is the result of take_technology_screenshot without ...

Oh, there's also AchievementPrototype and children. I knew I was forgetting something...

I would be totally OK with an approximate guess for the researches because I'm planning for it to be an amount large enough that you'd have to automate. But I do get how it would be annoying if a tech says it ...

This is kind of a stretch, but I would really like it if TechnologyTrigger and TipTrigger were unified. It seems strange to me that there's two redundant and incompatible systems. It would also allow much richer use of tech triggers, like requiring X crafts of a specific recipe instead of just ...

Darn. Okay, thanks.

Hello,

I'd like to implement an earlier-game roboport that has a logistics radius but does not connect to other roboports (so you can have belt malls, but can't replace your whole base with bots). It looks like the cleanest way to do this would be to set the logistics_connection_distance to 0 (or ...

angramania wrote: Mon Apr 14, 2025 8:07 pm Also you may try https://mods.factorio.com/mod/ReloadModsRedux

Oh huh I've never heard of that. How does it work? (It's Unlicense but there's no source code )

Hello,

Right now the only interface modders have to get information about an entity's status is LuaEntity::status, which is just an enum. This means that if you want to render your own diode+label combination, say in a custom GUI for an entity, you have to write a lot of code to figure out the ...

Sure, but not everyone is a developer, and it'd be a lot jankier than official support.

TL;DR
A key combination, unbound by default, that closes and restarts the game, like it does when you change your mod settings.

Either it could be in the super secret settings, or probably just unbound by default in the default controls menu.

Why?
I'm currently developing a mod and I spend an ...

Would you please add it?

I can open a new thread if this thread has diverged too far from the original post topic.

Title says it all really. In the tips&tricks simulations, there is a lot of use of game.surface[1].create_entities_from_blueprint_string("etc"), but it's not documented anywhere as far as I can tell.

Darn. Is there a script API way to hook into the game's cargo pad finding logic at all? (I suppose you could just search the surface for the cargo-landing-pad but this feels unperformant, so you'd have to cache it ... and presumably the Factorio engine already knows where it is.)

Okay. What event handler should I run that in? on_rocket_launched? event.rocket.cargo_pod.foobar() ?

Edit: I can't seem to find the cargo pod anywhere in on_rocket_launched. It does exist in on_rocket_launch_ordered (via event.rocket.attached_cargo_pod). However setting that pod's cargo_pod ...

According to the documentation , setting a cargo-pod's destination to defines.cargo_destination.surface should redirect the pod to a landing pad if available.

Cargo pods will switch destination type from surface to station before starting descent if there is a station available and ...

Hello,
I am working on a mod right now with a lot of worldgen, and I keep getting tripped up trying to figure out what the output of a noise function can be. Maybe I'm just bad at math but it seems like some of them produce in range [0, 1] and some produce in range [-1, 1]. Having the range written ...

A silo with cheaper/quicker to build rockets doesn't accomplish the same purposes as different capacities though.


I agree, but it's the best solution I can think of without the API changing, and it seems the devs are a bit reticent to change it ... it's mathematically equivalent, and when you ...

The way the current thruster mixes fluids would be difficult to express in the current API, but even some kind of modder-only `thruster-interface` prototype, with an EnergySource and an energy/thrust response curve, would be quite invaluable.

You could build more in-depth custom thrusters over that ...

I do at least wish that fusion generators produced heat, not electricity, so there was an additional routing layer at play and so that you could use it as an alternate heat source on Aquilo. (Actually when I first saw the fusion system, I assumed it produced heat; it makes so much sense for the ...