...I may be stupid.

Productivity would allow the agricultural tower to produce more plants per operation
Speed would allow the agricultural tower to produce plants faster
Quality would make the agricultural tower produce higher quality plants

Why wouldn't any of these work?


Because code-wise, none of those things ...

I see. In that case, please add to the documentation that this field and radar_range have the same effect.

Spider units can optionally have a built-in radar range, but cars and tanks cannot. Please allow non-spider units to have a radar. If possible, allowing this for trains would also be nice.

You made me recheck, and it's not a mistake in QualityPrototype, it's a mistake in LabPrototype. It says beacon_module_slots_bonus when it should say lab_module_slots_bonus.

This is the kind of thing that can only be solved through experimentation. I'm going to test this myself and see what happens.

The docs read as follows: "Only affects beacons with BeaconPrototype::quality_affects_module_slots set." Beacons, crafting machines, labs, and mining drills can all use this setting.

A few recent changes made it so the fuel_value field on fluids is more supported, such as allowing fusion-generator to use it. However, this causes problems with any machine that allows any fluid, such as the K2 gas power generators.

Adding a fuel category to fluids, defaulting to "default" to not ...

Aside from efficiency modules, no module type would have any effect on agricultural towers. They don't actually produce anything, they just automatically harvest plants.

This was requested previously: viewtopic.php?p=675047 [Moderator note: Merged threads]

Currently, the effects of efficiency modules cannot reduce the power usage of a building below 20% of base. I'd like this limit to be adjustable, either globally or per prototype.

An addendum: now that fusiongenerator will implement burns_fluid, please make this change for that too.

Bilka wrote: Wed Sep 10, 2025 11:47 am I've added FusionGeneratorPrototype::effectivity for 2.0.67 just in case it's useful.

I can easily imagine that being useful - allowing multiple tiers of generator the same way there's multiple lightning attractors, or having a more effective generator that outputs an awkward byproduct.

I wanted to see if a negative beacon profile (that is, setting profile = { -1 }) would cause a reduction in effect, misunderstanding how the transmission effectiveness worked. Instead, I get this funny UI error attached, and the beacons applied the reverse of the module effects.

Now, I really like ...

Ah, I thought ElectricEnergySourcePrototype had effectivity (i get the two names mixed up). Apparently it's only a property of burner and fluid energy sources. I believe that lever would allow you to do what you specified above.


It wouldn't, sadly - as far as I know, there's no way for an ...

protocol_1903 wrote: Tue Sep 09, 2025 4:19 pm Does changing the efficiency of the energy source work for that?

Clarify what you mean? ElectricEnergySourcePrototype has no efficiency value.

Throwing my two cents in for a more concrete implementation idea:

If efficiency is negative, strikes will drain from the buffer instead of filling it.

A new field, minimum_buffer_content (value: float), is mandatory if efficiency is < 0. At runtime, if the current buffer energy is below this ...

I'm making a mod for redox flow batteries - where an electrolyte fluid is energized to store power - and I keep running into the issue that heat capacity is the only way to reliably hold the energy content of a fluid.

The only prototype in the game that consumes fluid, generates power, and outputs ...

I isolated the reproduction steps to the bare minimum:

1. Create a new mod, with Quality and Base as the only dependencies.
2. In your data.lua, add the following code:
data.raw.recipe["repair-pack"].ingredients = {
{ type = "fluid", name = "does-not-exist", amount = 1, }
}

This gives the error ...

This happened while playing LAN multiplayer. Steps to reproduce:

1. Remotely open spidertron equipment grid (I was on another planet)
2. Have other player ping a location (also on another planet)
3. With grid still open, click on ping

This seemed to open the remote view menu twice - I was unable ...