Is there a way to get the "Expected resources" of the ore under a mining drill via the Lua API?

When you have too many module slots in a mining drill, you cannot see the progress bar or the productivity bar.

Optera wrote:Using instant research does that without the need of placing an entity.

Yes, but it does not allow you to test research timings compared to lab numbers. This functionality will be useful when infinite science comes out in 0.15.

Would it be possible to add a creative lab, a lab that runs without needing packs?

Thanks.

Unfortunately, I can't think of any solution for this. Custom data about an entity cannot persist in blueprints, and we can't find the source entity when the blueprint is built. Unless entity metadata is supported in the engine, this problem remains unsolvable. That is unfortunate. Perhaps an alter...

Is there a way to blueprint and place creative chests and creative provider chests that have non-standard filters applied to them?
Currently, the filters do not stick to the placed creative chests.

Thanks!

You can try asking Rseding91 nicely. https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=33542 So, the consensus is that such functionality does not yet exist in the modding API. Any known workarounds? Something like, calculate speed and productivity from modules in the entity and somehow calculat...

I want to get the craft speed and productivity of an entity including beacon effects. I can't seem to find a suitable api call to get these values. Do they exist? If not, how would I go about doing this?

Thanks.