There are also multiple render layers that can be used (wiki is a bit out of date but should be enough to get started): https://wiki.factorio.com/index.php?tit ... enderLayer

Also, I believe there are already several aircraft mods in the mod portal so flying is also possible.

Also, this might be of use: memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=25589

If you want to see exactly what events are getting fired, I highly recommend Creative Mode mod which has an event logger. You can select one or more events from its UI, and when they fire they'll get logged to console and/or log file (depends what options you set) so you can see exactly what's happe...

If you build two entities on exact same coordinate, sometimes one will replace the other or not get built (depends on entity type as far as I can tell). When destroying entities, it's better to do an area search than a position search. Also, your code would be a bit cleaner by replacing this: if (ev...

Superb!

I'm slowly working through all components of my mods to add in CM integration. It's such an incredibly useful tool for modding.

+1 for the above. Considering the amount of stuff the game has to process per tick, without cutting corners, if it were done by any other company it would require a top-end overclocked, overspecced gaming machine and still lag like crazy. Yet the game runs super-smooth on my ancient non-gaming deskt...

@Guki - why not create a mod that overrides the default font to add in russian chars? Font name to font file definition is done in the locale (.cfg) files, then just update applicable data.raw entries to reference your new font. You can get rough idea from my glyph font: https://mods.factorio.com/mo...

In late game, why not invert the biters reaction to player - make them run away. This way player has to fight biters for territory in early-mid game, but by late game they'll just get out of the way to avoid being further decimated by player. It's like the evolution factor would be a curve - at from...

blue text on grey background is really, really difficult to read

I must admit, I also had to abandon one of my mods because item-on-ground can't be mined. I thought about having it place as entity, but then it's not possible to pick up with F key. I was hoping to create a situation where picking up would retrieve the existing item, but mining would yield a differ...

You'd have to incrementally update, eg. to 0.11, then 0.12 then 0.13 and finally 0.14, to even have any hope of getting that save working again. As for mods, without a list of what mods you were using it's unlikely anyone can help you. IMO just accept the save is lost and start a new game. There's s...

Go in to game options > Controls > "Mods" tab and you will see the modded shortcuts there and can change them.

Please let us know what the caption of the mod shortcut that uses Space is, as it will help track down which mod it is.

Would it still screech when doing turns on sand tiles? Would screeching be variant on rate of turn?

It means there's now a mandatory categories property in the prototype definition for `grabber-equipment`. So you'll need to add in categpries = { 'something' } to that prototype, where 'something' is a relevant category name (string).

Doing custom GUI for an entity is a PITA. There are two approaches currently available, both of which suck: custom-input This is useful if we need to retain existing gui, but want optional alternative gui. We define custom-input keyboard shortcut, and when its event is triggered, we check game.playe...

Possibly. You could check player .opened to detect when the normal gui of the entity is opened, then open your gui. I'm not sure if the vanilla gui can be programatically closed though. You can prevent the game gui from opening by setting entity .operable = false, but then there probably won't be an...

For opening GUI upon entity placement, listen to the on_built_entity event (assuming you only want the gui to open when player places the entity). In the event handler, check the event.created_entity .type and .name to determine if it's your entity that was built. As for proper way to do entity GUI,...

Not mine, just seen it on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comme ... rought_us/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7ZSGu8m_Og

In relation to consuming stuff for speed boost, lubricant oil would be better suited to that than alien artefacts.

Related discussion: viewtopic.php?f=25&t=35314

As far as I know it's not currently possible, unless this gets implemented: viewtopic.php?f=28&t=35361