I'm not sure if UberWaffe's idea was well understood, what we do want is a different item for each quality so we can freely specify all of its properties, each item will be able to place its entities, equipment, etc, and everything could be customized at will the main difference from the old system ...

(I suspect the quality approach is too far down the line to change, but here it is anyway.) How I would have liked the quality engine and lua to have worked: TL;DR More like next_upgrade. Separate prototype item / entity / recipe per quality level, instead of linear modifiers scattered all over the...

I was trying to make a furnace that can receive a air filter as optional ingredient to change the recipe into one that don't make pollution (the other ingredient is a fluid) I successfully made 2 recipes with and without the filter but when I try to insert the filter in the furnace I receive a msg s...

thanks, picklock now I can make a code to circumvent this problem, but I still think this kind of unintuitive feature deserves a better explanation

I'm sorry but if you consider this vague sentence an explanation I think there's something wrong with you

in techs with multiple levels, LuaTechnology.level is showing level + 1 except when level = max level
Am I missing something? Is it a bug? If this is the normal behavior I think it should be explained in the documentation since it's unintuitive

I made a 3x2 assembler to make hydrogen from heat, it should be peaceable like a heat exchanger but the game always places it in weird positions I made a hack to avoid this (made it placeable off-grid, made a heat-boiler fake entity and replace the fake for the true one using code) but I'd like to d...

I have the same problem: I made furnaces that use hydrogen bottles as fuel and the inserters just don't take the used bottles from the used fuel inventory I really would like to solve this problem without a runtime script

try

flags = {"player-creation","placeable-neutral", "not-rotatable"}

I made an extremely power hungry assembling machine and set it to tertiary power so it would work using only if the factory has enough energy for other processes It works, it uses only excess energy from the factory, but when paired with accumulators some weird things happen: The accumulators don't ...

Thanks, Klonan
I just can't wait to make heat-factories

The way it is now furnaces and assembling machines can work using heat energy source just like heat exchangers I made a heat-furnace but it starts working as soon as the temperature rises above 15C and this far from realistic With a target temperature in the energy source, we can make realistic proc...

I'd like to see more entities using heat energy source (not only boilers), but most heat processes require a temperature much above 15C to work in real life I'm planning to produce hydrogen via pyrolysis at 800C, and I'm quite sure other modders will think in creative ways to use heat too I'd really...

I don't recommend modify data.raw table, it's better to make your entity apart from vanilla ones, you'll have much more freedom with the definitions Vanilla combinators have too much code written in C for performance reasons, make combinator logic in LUA is not recommended unless it's really critica...

You didn't say anything about outrun enemies, and the Warden was not created to be used alone... You should use AAI Chaingunners or Laser Tanks as an escort, just make them follow you with AAI's remote control (click on yourself) and you can run controlling a single vehicle while the group smashes a...

AAI vehicles warden is a car with a radar and few other support roles, it reveals a bit more than normal radar permanent coverage and has a reasonable speed

I'm trying to make a "salt evaporation pond" powered by my heat solar panels and for this, I used a furnace with heat energy source and it works! As soon as the temperature rises above 15C it starts working. Problem: I wanted it to start working at 40C, does anyone know if heat energy sour...

I stumbled upon the same problem: I made heat accumulators based on heat pipes and wanted to make them keep the same temperature when replaced by an upgrade The problem is: I set the entity's temperature in the on_built_entity event but this event only fires few ticks AFTER the entity is built, time...

you can get the signals the same way you do with a normal combinator:

ghost_control = ghost_entity.get_or_create_control_behavior()
signal = ghost_control.get_signal(number)

eradicator wrote: So how about using on_selected_entity_changed to set it to what you want every time it changes?

It worked! It executes 2-3 times per second but it works

Thanks again eradicator