Use the LuaTrain object, not the entity. This can be accessed by the train property on any of the entities composing the train (cargo wagons or locomotives).

http://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/LuaE ... tity.train

http://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/LuaTrain.html

Off-topic: Is your code on github? I'm particularly interested in how you achieved this... "Factories can have names, which appear on both the building and the item when picked up" It isn't but it will be. I can run through that part though. I've used a lot of other tricks and mechanical ...

EDIT: Commissioned someone to make a building instead I've created a replacement for Factorissimo with more features and much higher performance. I made this for myself and my friends but, I will, of course release it publicly soon after we've had a chance to test it on a playthrough thoroughly for ...

Yep, unfortunately. You can create your own UI and some way to trigger it, but you can't modify or replace the UI of the base game. it is possible to determine the selected entity (mouse-over), so you could show and hide a UI based on that, but it would have to be in the middle of the screen since a...

There is no way to do that, you'll have to change the time. If you choose to do this I suggest just freezing time (game.surfaces['nauvis'].freeze_daytime(true) http://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/LuaSurface.html#LuaSurface.freeze_daytime) and modifying the surface.daytime value yourself in the tick e...

That is exactly what I did

Thanks anyway <3

The base UI can't be modified at all. This mod might scratch what you're looking for though: https://mods.factorio.com/mods/anoutsid ... ics-system

At least for me personally, my teleportation mod is another higher tier tech to play with in a very large modpack. Like Feed the Beast, it's fun to have higher tiers of things to keep climbing towards rather than the game just being "launch the rocket" or "launch more rockets faster&q...

For anyone's future reference: I believe this happened because I'm spawning the entities in places where the player can't ordinarily place them. create-entity doesn't care, but fast-replace=true does.

They have to collide because they're placed by a script in a location where players shouldn't be able to place buildings.

I have a bit of a plan to do this, but it might be awhile. I'm planning on creating a teleportation pad and a receiver pad which has a cooldown (probably around 2 minutes on activation), and uses something like 2MW * number of items (items, not stacks) with some kind of distance scalar as well. I'm ...

I have several placable-off-grid entities placed by script, and if I set tiles under them they're deleted. Right now I'm going to just move those entities away and put them back after calling set_tiles, but it'd be nice to have a flag to disable this behavior

@Sirenfal see if this code is any help - I was mainly interested in when an item was dropped rather than picked up, but it could be refactored to work the other way, ie. when something is picked up. https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?p=213673#p213673 I've been able to hack around these thing...

Nope. In the meantime I'll just spawn the dual entities, clone the items and delete the old entities. For anyone else trying to do this: self.input, self.output = self.output, self.input for _, key in pairs({'input', 'output'}) do local old = self[key] self[key] = old.surface.create_entity({ name='f...

I think fast_replaceable_group has to be a type "container" I thought so too at first, but I noticed long handed inserters have a non-type fast replacable group. So I tried these two prototypes with items and they can be fast replaced properly by hand with each other, but not with other c...

I have two container types: (https://paste.whitefire.in/view/uPUIWvbpgM) { type = "container", name = "fre_connection-chest_input", icon = "__base__/graphics/icons/steel-chest.png", flags = {"not-blueprintable", "not-deconstructable"}, minable = nil,...

I'd like to be able to clear the chart for a specific surface instead of all surfaces.

Is there a way to specify that I do not want an automatic ghost for a particular entity when it dies? I can do that with a hook like this, but it's not exactly clean- script.on_event(defines.events.on_entity_died, function(event) if(event.entity.name == 'my_entity') then local ent = event.entity loc...

This is the most important AI mod: https://mods.factorio.com/mods/Veden/Rampant If you want more difficulty besides try PredictabowlEnemies with Rampant, as well as Bob's enemies. Anything much better than that is limited by the slow AI in this game, but this is enough to make things feel a lot bett...

Thanks