With this tutorial being a bit dated, anyone who is willing to update it to a more current blender version?

At this point, I have a 3D entity in blender but literally no clue on how to create a sprite sheet from it. Most tutorials expect familiarity with blender (I have not).


Didn't read this ...

In the browse/search sections, the mod is displayed like this:
02-04-2026, 10-33-09.png
Notice the ... at the end. However on the mod's page it is clearly visible that the description is short and fits completely:
02-04-2026, 10-33-25.png
This seems to happen for all mods whose description is ...

Meanwhile, you can use this instead https://mods.factorio.com/mod/zzz-nonstandard-beacons

The only thing you can do in a mod is apply tint to the graphic

https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/types/AsteroidSpawnPoint.html#angle_when_stopped
It currently it says:

Default: 1

Facing the north. Must be in [0, 1] range.

What it represents is angle the asteroids will come from, with 0 representing straight from the north and 1 represent them coming from ...

Understandable, thanks for the response

There may or may not be some error in the naming, but that is why the direction in the game is not dependant on the naming of the sprite files or vice versa

i.e, this is not a bug


I don't understand how an error in the naming is not a bug. Its not a typo, the meaning is backwards. I do ...

eugenekay wrote: Mon Jan 19, 2026 5:26 am It appears to be referring to the Direction it is pulling FROM; not the one it is pushing TO.

The direction its pulling from can be changed.
What's the main point is that the graphic definition doesn't match entity direction (as can be seen in the debug tooltip)

Agricultural tower is modified like this:

table.insert(data.raw['agricultural-tower']['agricultural-tower'].crane.parts, {
extendable_length = {0, 10, 10},
static_length = {0, 0, 0},
}
)

Grabbing the tower into cursor crashes the game when previewing placement, so does loading into a save ...

An inserter is modified like this:

local inserter = data.raw.inserter.inserter
inserter.platform_picture = {
north = {
filename = "__core__/graphics/arrows/hint-orange-arrow-up.png",
size = {62,37},
},
east = {
filename = "__core__/graphics/arrows/hint-orange-arrow-right.png",
size = {38,73 ...

If mods write to drop_position on a LuaEntity, reading it will return the overriden value
So if you read from an entity and not the prototype it should be fine
Alternatively, you might want to just check if inserter's status is defines.entity_status.waiting_for_space_in_destination

curiosity wrote: Fri Jan 16, 2026 5:38 am The amount of the resource. Seems obvious, but I guess that's just me.

Yes i figured from using it, just the description is confusing

curiosity wrote: Thu Jan 15, 2026 4:51 pm Missing comma, yeah.

The bigger problen is that its unclear what is lowered

https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/pro ... ion_amount says

Every time an infinite-type resource "ticks" lower it's lowered by that amount.

lower it's lowered

You will get a ghost mined event before entity built event i think. Also, robots and platforms always build because of a ghost.

+1, i have the same usecase of having multiple entities to mine

Localising startup errors has a problem that locales aren't even loaded until the game is after the data stage (anything but core, presuming).


That may be true, but from the point of a mod that doesn't matter, and can be changed as it doesn't have access to what they resolve to anyway. And the ...

It is defined in base/prototypes/entity/entities.lua on line 759. And it uses the fields from character-animations.lua, but the fields are named differently

Similar to how you changed the icon, you can write to character.animations . However according to the docs it takes an array of animations https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/prototypes/CharacterPrototype.html#animations.
So assuming animations is in a valid CharacterArmorAnimation format, you can ...

+1