+1 Both a minimum and maximum per-machine level for each machine. Something like:

consumption_limits = {min_percent=20, max_percent=nil}
quality_limits = {min_percent=0, max_percent=20}

Where if min_percent / max_percent are nil , they default to w/e the effect's default limits are.
If a limit ...

In other words, the main use for it is as an alternative for researching certain technologies that exactly match it. So it's exactly equivalent to running a lab w/ the exact same science packs, except it can't research techs that take a subset of those packs?

Kind of a pity it's getting removed - I ...

I thought there were some modded planets that had custom multipliers, so I thought I was just missing the way to set it. Ideally, it's something you could set at runtime, so you could have a dynamic energy multiplier for certain planets.

The syntax error is because it's not a valid lua identifier, so it has to be used as a string, like ["robot-energy-multiplier"] = 2.
Doing is the same as doing But the former is only valid if "key" is a valid variable name.

I have looked through the data- and control-stage docs, and I can't find any kind of surface-property or SpaceLocation member that determines the multiplier for robot energy usage. I even looked through the data.raw, and didn't find anything like this in Aquilo's defintion

I searched for things ...

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Communicating this to the player unambiguously might be tricky - if you just say it reduces drain by 10%, they might think 10 levels == 0 drain. You could say it increases lifetime yield by 10%, but that makes it sound just like productivity.

Maybe say it depletes the ore patch 10% slower? So ...

According to some messages on the Discord, it seems that, if the currently researching technology takes the science pack a research progress product references, it will add progress to that technology upon completion.

It isn't clear what happens if a technology takes multiple science packs - can ...

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I'm kind of puzzled by what it does, too. I've been looking into making a "distributed lab system" - a type of lab where no individual lab needs all the required science packs, as long as all the required science packs are available in the lab system. I'd like to know if this might accomplish ...

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They raise some good points - if a mod wants to stop cargo pods from even entering a surface, there isn't much they can do beyond a frequent, non-performant scan of all space platforms stopped at a given planet. And there are reasons beyond destroying cargo pods - maybe a mod wants to track some ...

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It probably would be simplest to add a productivity research for the fruit processing, with no productivity cap on the recipe itself (or an incredibly high limit, like 9001%).

You would end up with even more seeds, but they would always scale with your fruit production. Maybe it would be a bit ...

I am requesting finer-grained/more intuitive control over what structures are built upon expansion, as was recommended in How to control what bases/worms are placed on base expansion? .

Requests:

#1
At minimum, I would like an expansionWeight in EnemySpawnerPrototype and TurretPrototype that ...

Okay, I'll make an interface request.

W/ the collision mask - is it used to cull the list of valid spawners before it even attempts to place one (e.g. filter(spawnerPrototypes, doesntCollide) ), or does it pick one to attempt to place, then check? W/ the second option, I'm wondering if it would ...

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Some kind of contrasting lines around the edges of the range of the turret you're placing would be great.

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Damaging/destroying the collector seems reasonable - if the collector is destroyed, it would then stop protecting the area it's supposed, as a natural consequence. So protecting the area would consume energy, or entity health if there is no energy.

Damage could just be whatever the lightning ...

Is there any way to control/influence exactly what nests or worms are placed when enemies expand, without writing your own placement logic in control.lua? I know you can set the evolution % requirement ( build_base_evolution_requirement ), but can you set specific weights for particular nests, or ...

Huh. I'm so used to the production graphs being in the game, I've never really thought of them as having a significant cost.

Would just keeping the total batches produced (i.e. not keeping the history or anything else) per recipe/force/surface be manageable, or would even that add too much overhead ...

Idea
Per the title, the game would track statistics for each recipe. This could also be displayed in the game, or kept internal. Specifically, this would track n_batches_produced for each recipe, which would be how many output batches have been produced for a given recipe. So it would include ...

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I would also like this. I've been working on a combat-oriented mod that adds a variety of biter types, and I would like to keep them in one mod, with the user enabling/disabling biter types in the settings. But if I also want biter-specific settings (e.g. health, # tiers, special behaviors ...

As the title says - the current documentation for the voronoi_spot_noise noise function just says it returns the distance, which I thought meant tile distance. Rather, it seems to return the distance relative to the cell's max size in that direction (or the grid size) - some kind of normalized ...

I encountered the same bug.
Simple piece of code (data.lua):

data.raw["item"]["gun-turret"].icons = {
{
icon=data.raw["item"]["gun-turret"].icon
},
{
icon=data.raw["item"]["gun-turret"].icon,
scale = 0.5,
shift = {x=-8, y=-8}
}
}
data.raw["item"]["gun-turret"].icon = nil


Yields the ...