You can do random mine results in data stage only without having to touch control scripting. That way, it will affect player mining and drill mining equally, and not have any script performance overhead. The downside is it isn’t dynamic so you can’t adjust the probabilities based on time, unlocks ...

I'm also running into the same issue after installing the Space Age DLC through Steam. Reinstalling the whole game with Steam also did not work. :(

Is there any solution in the meantime?


If you read the posts above you'll see that installing factorio standalone will probably work.

I wonder if ...

With Metal enabled, I'm getting a black line appearing along the top of each alt-mode icon. If I switch back to OpenGL it no longer appears.

So I've been wondering - does such a parsing tool already exist, in which case I could just integrate it into my project?



Yes. You can run the factorio executable with the `--dump-data` parameter and it will load all the lua data files and export them as a json. (https://wiki.factorio.com ...

Okay. What event handler should I run that in? on_rocket_launched? event.rocket.cargo_pod.foobar() ?

Edit: I can't seem to find the cargo pod anywhere in on_rocket_launched. It does exist in on_rocket_launch_ordered (via event.rocket.attached_cargo_pod). However setting that pod's cargo_pod ...

See attached screenshots, taken in vanilla-base 2.0.42. "Research trigger" entry should not be empty for "Space science pack" technology. Same for biter-capture in SA.

The special-treatment of 'official mods' works well when they are required dependencies [pic1 - Maraxsis ], but not when they are optional or incompatible [pic2 - Lunar Landings ].

The tooltip ("Required dependency", "Optional dependency", "Conflicting dependency") is always overridden to say ...

Kuse6 wrote: Wed Mar 05, 2025 2:21 pm Hello, thanks for your response.
I tried it again and found that it works, but usually on the fifth click. The Spidertron doesn't always open even when the yellow hitbox appears. Maybe it's just a skill issue.

Are you in multiplayer? If so, are you the host, or is there high latency?

https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/defines.html#defines.logistic_member_index is missing some values.

Calling https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/classes/LuaEntity.html#get_logistic_point on a logistic-container is returning a dictionary with 2 logistic points (index 1 and 2) but there's no ...

When activating the quality_affects_inventory_size attribute, the cargo wagon capacity changes with the quality:

Screenshot 2025-02-12 at 14.48.59.png

which is returned in #wagon.get_inventory(defines.inventory.cargo_wagon) but the prototype still reports "40" as inventory size.


You can pass ...

"Added hatch count info to platform hub, landing pad and rocket silo."

What does this mean, hatched eggs just as a fun stat as a reminder of poor egg handling? :)


No, it is referring to cargo hatches, which are the ports that cargo pods go in and out of. It tells you how many hatches each ...

Yes please. This is already possible for dropdowns in mod settings, but would be nice to have it ingame too

Notably prototype.name is NOT the way (IMO) to check this since ideally code could handle any new prototype that was deepcopy()'d + extend()'d into the game's system with an alternate prototype name. Suppose (for example) the built-in prototype is "duck"
You'd need to be more precise. Is it of ...

Have you tried using my Factory Search mod to find legacy rails (using Entity search mode)? I'm not 100% sure it would work as it does try to intelligently link entities that are placed by the same item, so I think search results would include all rails, but I think the results would still be ...

Hello @Devs:
could you share the code which you use to resolve noise expressions? Like that every named noise expression/function and their local expressions and functions are replaced by their actual expression, so that only built-in constants and functions remain.
I need this to replace all ...

2. What happens if another mod deepcopy's an existing prototype (that I care about), adds a custom thing with the same/similar behavior, etc. And maybe I still want my logic to try to handle that "inheriting" prototype? I assume anything that's deepcopy()'d still has a duplicate of the original ...

I have come to a point where continuing the game is only fun if I get this option to work, for various obvious reasons.

What are the obvious reasons? I don't understand what you mean.

QwenLM helped me.
First: not `defines`, just `prototypes`
Second: not icons but sprites

for type, count in pairs(count_selection_entities(entities))
do
local prototype = prototypes['entity'][type]
if prototype ~= nil
then
local sprite = "entity/" .. type
end
end


Looks like you mostly ...

Uncheck this:

EntityTooltips.png


That's a good solution. I have tried several and everything shows up in screen.
Thank you.


Another option is that you can uncheck that and set the "Tooltip delay" (or "Entity tooltip delay", I forget) slider to "Never" (all the way to the right). Then the ...

Hi folks,

I'm trying to make rocket bringing more items to my ISS, so I find a way to increase its lifting weight. I scan through lua-api factorio and found an interesting constant: rocket_lift_weight . It's in core/prototypes/utility-constants.lua , line 507. I change the value by add a 0 at the ...