It seems surface.can_place_entity is also affected by this mechanic.

When you're new to Aquilo this function will return false on ammonia and ice. I guess that makes sense. Hoever, it does mean P.U.M.P. just refuses to work until you put down a couple of tiles. This can be (and has already been) a ...

Hello,

For my mod P.U.M.P. I place pump- and pipe ghosts on liquid resources. I also place landfill, packed ice, or foundation using the default-cover-tile exposed in the API for the tiles that need it.

However, there doesn't appear to be a way find which tile to use to cover meltable tiles. I ...

Addendum: I did not encounter the issue anymore. Ever since I returned to Gleba and cleared out the frozen ones, there have not been any new frozen pentapods in the meantime.

There's more going on though, so I'll list them here, just in case it might be relevant if the bug still gets investigated ...

Addendum: I've landed on Gleba again today; and the moment I did the pentapods closest to the landing site started moving again, .. ie. attacking. The further ones didn't, but after I moved closer to them to investigate, they started moving, too.

Addendum: I remotely added some turrets nearby; they got killed but didnt move at all while being shot.

Oh, I forgot the save. Here it is.

The issue
I have a lot of Pentapods that don't do anything anymore.

They're the red streaks above the base. They seem to be remnants of thwarted attacks. As if they were separated from the group that was destroyed in the meantime?
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They didnm't appear at once. They ...

The undo/redo improvements look awesome. I tend to stay away from undo-ing, as it seems flakey at times. Having insights and better covarage will surely help!

I, too (like the 3rd poster), would like this also exposed in the modding API in one way or another.
As the author of P.U.M.P. I would very ...

This looks really cool with a lot of potential. I can imagine this will be particularly handy for stations. I recognize myself like a 100% in the use-case you sketched.

I will admit I find it a bit fuzzy how those purple parameter values find their way in the blueprint if they're not available ...

Awesome! Thank you for the quick support

Hi!

For some reason, as of today, the link to the latest version (1.3.3) of my mod P.U.M.P. broke:
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/pump/downloads

I get redirected with a message:
403 Forbidden
Code: AccessDenied
BucketName: prod-mod-uploads
RequestId: tx00000f9dfdca0c89ffbfb-006570bcf2-2bc55ff-prg ...

Oooof; another year :o
Well, not what I was hoping for; but I'll be waiting for those future FFF's. Thank you for managing expectations at least.

I totally understand a weekly update is undoable. Though I hope I can tempt you slightly more frequent news compared to last year. Maybe 2-monthly ...

I would like something similar as well.

I'm in the proces of making a mod that places ghosts from a selection-tool (https://github.com/Xcone/factorio_pump see the gif there).
`LuaSurface.create_entity()` does not create those entities in undo-able fashion.
If support for undo is added I would ...

Interesting topics. Opinions incoming:

Inserters should not chase items
I don't mind either way. I'm sure you'll find a way to make it visually pleasing. I've been annoyed by the occasional inefficient pickups, but I've enjoyed fixing the issue in those very same scenario's. I read another reply ...