Already suggested many times and can't be done since things can interact between surfaces - scripts can interact with anything anywhere at any time, and entities can have cross-surface connections.

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Was one of the annoyances you found, “train stop names” in blueprints are not included by default? If you copy a station and turn it into a blueprint, that saves the train stop names but taking a new blueprint doesn’t, this is inconsistent and very annoying It'd be nice if blueprints always saved s...

The final changes to make everything function correctly took about 1 hour to write, and worked correctly the first try. That's not supposed to happen and left me with doubts. There's nothing scarier than code that works the first try, for the simple fact it's much less likely that you wrote it perf...

Equipment placement is based on the categories of the equipment and the grid - if any category is shared between them, it can fit. So basically you'd want to make a new category just for your equipment, then find all the equipment grid prototypes used in people armor and add that category to it. Sin...

I'm surprised that if a mod was loaded for this save that achievements are still working for me. Game only checks if mods are currently loaded when deciding to use the modded list, only console commands check for a flag thats permanently set. It's simpler. I've attached a version of the save that s...

You've got heavy oil pipes from refineries feeding into your crude oil system. Probably from before you switched fluids.

They're off due to no heavy oil for the cracking but their fluid boxes are still connected.

Might be some others but those I found.

Koub wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 14, 2024 2:05 pm

I wonder how 5 filters will be displayed on inserters in alt-mode.

Presumably exactly the same way filter inserters already do it. They have 5.

Already a LOT of threads on this.

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=106742 lists a few of them.

- In FFF #377; there was an announcement between the lines "We have increased the big electric pole range to 32 to go along with this." It would be very convenient to have a roboport supply range of 64x64 instead of 50x50 So each roboport can fully cover 4 chunks. They would also align pe...

Been reported before and is a won't fix due to performance implications: viewtopic.php?f=58&t=69475&p=423264&hil ... ht#p423264

It was moved because it's not a bug. Previous versions can't load files from later versions, and that includes the achievement list. That is intended and that's how it's working.

If you want to run different versions, you can use the stand-alone zip version from the website.

As title describes. When hovering over an entity, the Last User shows my steam username (the unchangeable one) instead of the LAN player name (the one that's synced with the steam account name). I believe the name shown in game is only dependent on your factorio account, NOT your steam name. My in-...

You can't. Every mod has it's own LUA sandbox, and they can't interact with each other that way. Really the only way a mod can interact with another one is by requiring files from a mod to copy some of its stuff, or by using an interface that a mod defined which is then called.

They are floating point values. There is going to be some slight drift because you can't store those exact values in a float, only a very close approximation. Anything that rounds it to a couple of decimal places is going to get the original value back in almost every case.

You could manage it with non-selectable resources that you swap with the normal resource once it's been 'discovered' by whatever method. Just use an empty file for the pictures. IIRC the sector scanning event tells you what radar did the scanning so you could work with that. Not sure what happens if...

Devs said it, so it's almost certainly true. Optimizations in the new engine might change the numbers slightly but it still needs to go through a lot of RAM every tick. Also surfaces are currently in the engine, so that's nothing new. They're not in different threads because things can interact acro...

Definitely works on the same user account in Windows. Not sure why it wouldn't on Linux. Might have had issues if you tried to run the same instance twice. You need to use two different installs, otherwise factorio can't lock the files it needs.

Don't need two accounts - you can just use the standalone version. You'll need to change settings so they use a different username and don't check accounts, but it works fine. Done it before.

Given my existing version is a Steam copy do I just purchase a key from the Factorio Website and download the .exe from Factorio (in order to have a separate copy of the Game) which I can keep to the revision I want (1.187 at the moment in my case) and move my saved games etc to that copy. You don'...

better way would be to assemble that table at startup and only fill it with an item if that prototype exists. Easier to do it once at startup then every time you need to spawn something.