Sorry for necroposting but either i missunderstand something or the answer is wrong. simple example:

10 / 9 with round up would be 2, because 10/9 = 1.111...... with rounding up it gives 2. putting this in an arithmetic still outputs 1 because is rounds down after calculation

Maybe? We can't see your code.

-- prototypes/item/bundled-wire.lua

data:extend(
{
{
type = "item",
name = "tn-white-bundled-wire",
icon = "__base__/graphics/icons/green-wire.png",
icon_size = 32,
flags = {
"goes-to-quickbar"
},
subgroup = "circuit-network",
stack_size = 200 ...

Thanks for the response, that machinery need connection points makes sense and i stumbled across this on belts and chests but couldn't wrap my head around it for now. But then still my main question stays left open: Why am i not able to connect the wires to the vanilla electric pole and inserters ...

Hi, i'm currently working on a mod for more flexibility with circuit networks, namely more cables, other cables, machines to work with those cables etc. So far so good.

I created the the prototypes files / declarations / definitions (however you would like to call them, my java brain loves ...

So it could be a hickup by factorio? If you say you can't encounter any issues in my code, i presume my code is correct and fine?

Edit: I copied the cargo-wagon entity and just replaced the name of it. the error still persists. so either its a fail by factorio, or somewhere else in my code. but how ...

@bob: What's wrong with github & you? :D (Link to answer is fine :P) It's just... I'd rate it's user friendliness about a 1 out of 10.
The one useful thing it has going for it is that you can look at the code online... and that's about as useful as just opening a specific file and reading through ...