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by whitecold
Sun Feb 11, 2024 11:30 pm
Forum: Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Stacked Belts should be their own item.
Replies: 15
Views: 1138

Stacked Belts should be their own item.

TL;DR The stacked belts should be their own set of belt, splitters and undergrounds, instead of depending on inserters. What ? The belts shown in FFF 393 should be their own set of items, that are dedicated to the purpose, with all inserters that have a stack capacity greater than one able to place...
by whitecold
Mon Dec 25, 2023 6:20 am
Forum: Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: The Productivity Cap and why the FFF #375 recycler shouldn't be introduced
Replies: 42
Views: 4062

Re: The Productivity Cap and why the FFF #375 recycler shouldn't be introduced

I think a very nice option would be to limit the recycler to final products, which can't take productivity modules. The reason would be much less the productivity cap, but opening up the space for alternate recipes as has been mentioned in a recent friday facts, for which the recycler is an issue as...
by whitecold
Mon Sep 18, 2023 9:25 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Friday Facts #375 - Quality
Replies: 805
Views: 131115

Re: Friday Facts #375 - Quality

I'm trying to still figure out why the quality system is bothering me so much. First off, the names are bad, really bad, and make no sense at all, but that is really a superficial issue. One thing is that the graphics seem to become confusing. Everything can have quality overlays, and that is an iss...
by whitecold
Sat Jul 02, 2022 10:49 pm
Forum: Pending
Topic: [1.1.61] Absolute grid position not updating grid box placement
Replies: 1
Views: 877

[1.1.61] Absolute grid position not updating grid box placement

This is a very small bug, but when changing the offset of the absolute grid position, the corresponding box placement still snaps to the old value if the blueprint contains rails that force the blueprint onto a 2x2 scale. The values can still be manually edited, but any change of the selected compon...
by whitecold
Fri Nov 20, 2020 6:11 pm
Forum: Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Stack Size Virtual Value for Signals
Replies: 8
Views: 1994

Re: Stack Size Virtual Value for Signals

There is at least one mod that includes a stacksize combinator already: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/utility-combinators-plus The mod only provides the stack sizes in a constant combinator. You'll need to extract the right signal, convert it into an appropriate constant and then multiply/divide yo...
by whitecold
Fri Nov 13, 2020 8:07 pm
Forum: Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Allow placement of blueprints in chunks with FOW
Replies: 10
Views: 2983

Allow Blueprints in fog of war

TL;DR Allow blueprints to be placed through Fog of war What ? You should be able to place Blueprints in the map view regardless if an area is currently revealed by radar or not. Why ? It is no fun having to overlap a blueprint with one you previously placed, just because fog of war cut off a small ...
by whitecold
Tue Nov 03, 2020 9:31 pm
Forum: Won't implement
Topic: Make spidertron features available for all vehicles
Replies: 8
Views: 2625

Make spidertron features available for all vehicles

There are several features that currently seem only available for SpiderVehicles, and not for other types of vehicles. The radar capability set by chunk_exploration_radius The autopilot feature set by autopilot_destination The autotargeting settings accessed by vehicle_automatic_targeting_parameters...
by whitecold
Fri Mar 20, 2020 5:32 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Friday Facts #339 - Beacon HR + Redesign process
Replies: 216
Views: 90595

Re: Friday Facts #339 - Beacon HR + Redesign process

I think the fundamental issue is that 'beacon' does not map well to 'long lines' ever. I think the best way to make beacons look better is preventing their effects from infinitely stacking, and ensuring that the beacons are outnumbered by the assemblers/furnaces/refineries. The picture with the furn...
by whitecold
Mon Mar 12, 2018 9:17 am
Forum: Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Include dominant recipe in default blueprint icons
Replies: 4
Views: 1607

Re: Include dominant recipe in default blueprint icons

I would consider prioritizing high level recipes over low level ones. So a 3 cable -> 2 green circuit build should show the green circuits first, even though they are in the minority.
by whitecold
Mon Feb 26, 2018 2:35 pm
Forum: Mods
Topic: [MOD 0.14.x] Macromanaged Turrets v1.1.5
Replies: 40
Views: 22875

Re: [MOD 0.14.x] Macromanaged Turrets v1.1.5

Has anyone gotten this to work with 0.16?
by whitecold
Wed Feb 21, 2018 10:11 pm
Forum: Modding help
Topic: Unkown item name error
Replies: 1
Views: 784

Unkown item name error

I have a mysterious unkown item name error when I try to create a 'item-request-proxy', I assume I got the syntax of modules somehow wrong, but I can't figure out what player.surface.create_entity { name = 'item-request-proxy', position = entity.position, force = entity.force, target = entity, modul...
by whitecold
Wed Feb 21, 2018 6:43 pm
Forum: Mods
Topic: [MOD 0.15] ModuleInserter 2.0.0
Replies: 133
Views: 92428

Re: [MOD 0.15] ModuleInserter 2.0.0

The mod can be fixed adding a few lines in local function on_player_selected_area(event), as limitations are no longer a table, but an array Change the lines testing for appropriate limitations if entity.type == "assembling-machine" and recipe and next(prototype.limitations) and not in_tab...
by whitecold
Tue Feb 20, 2018 7:15 pm
Forum: Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Roboports should output missing materials to circuit network / Roboports emit signals with missing blueprint items
Replies: 135
Views: 41109

Re: Roboports should output missing materials to circuit network

If anyone is interested in this behavior, I made a mod that adds a combinator that performs exactly this. (I am afraid I have no clue how to hack into the roboport)

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/missing-circuit
by whitecold
Sun Feb 18, 2018 8:46 pm
Forum: Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Manually create module requests on existing machines
Replies: 9
Views: 5563

Re: Module Ghosts in Assembling machines.

impetus maximus wrote:read "New toolbar proposal"
I only see talk about ways to place ghosts without actually having the item, but I don't see any mention of ghosting modules to existing assemblers. Searching for module comes up empty for me.
by whitecold
Sun Feb 18, 2018 4:19 pm
Forum: Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Manually create module requests on existing machines
Replies: 9
Views: 5563

Re: Module Ghosts in Assembling machines.

read here https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-191 Can you tell me where in that blog post Twinsen talks about modules? Especially with the radar view, I'd be very much in favor being able to requests modules at the other end of my factory. Also, existing modules should be slated to be removed when y...
by whitecold
Tue Jan 30, 2018 1:19 pm
Forum: Modding help
Topic: Mod is not detected
Replies: 5
Views: 2063

Re: Mod is not detected

Thanks, I fixed it now, it seems to work fine now. It is just very hard to debug something that fails quietly without any error message.
by whitecold
Tue Jan 30, 2018 1:18 pm
Forum: Modding help
Topic: How to test if two logistics networks are the same?
Replies: 0
Views: 611

How to test if two logistics networks are the same?

I am trying to match various entities if they are in the same logistics network I am first saving entities into a table by the logistics network gotten by find_logistic_network_by_position local parent = surface.find_logistic_network_by_position(combinator.position, combinator.force) if parent ~= ni...
by whitecold
Mon Jan 29, 2018 1:02 pm
Forum: Modding help
Topic: Mod is not detected
Replies: 5
Views: 2063

Re: Mod is not detected

Here is the file
by whitecold
Mon Jan 29, 2018 10:13 am
Forum: Modding help
Topic: Mod is not detected
Replies: 5
Views: 2063

Mod is not detected

I am trying to make a simple mod, but I am unable to get it to show up in the game in the mods menu. What am I overlooking? The folder is called: missing-circuit_0.1.0 and contains the data.lua file: --data.lua require("prototypes.items") as well as the json file { "name": โ€œMissi...
by whitecold
Fri Oct 27, 2017 5:22 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Friday Facts #214 - Concrete rendering
Replies: 129
Views: 67033

Re: Friday Facts #214 - Concrete rendering

The tiles look really nice... they just don't have the 'industrial' feel. The main reason I prefer concrete over stone tiles is that the concrete looks much flatter, much more like a factory floor than a hand assembled path. For me I'd much prefer even completely untiled, flat, poured concrete. Both...

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