I am trying to update Multiple Unit Train Control to use the new fallback groups with entity description keys. I created a locale structure in data-updates.lua: loco.localised_description = {"?", {'template.mu-description',{"entity-description."..name}}, {'template.mu-description...

When I was using Automatic Coupling, I always put a "Wait for 0s" condition on stops that were meant to couple or uncouple. That way it's guaranteed to be registered at the stop for one tick. Coupling stops with no condition at all had unpredictable behavior.

Nice description of your system and what is happening. That all sounds like the trains are following the game's rules correctly, so the question is how to use the rules to achieve what you want. My observation is that the following are two different tasks: 1. Queue enough trains nearby each unloader...

Yes, I have tried to use all purple chest[aka Active provider chest] to collect the Copper cables. You cannot store anything in active providers (purple chests). The robots will take anything in any active provider even if there is no requester chest (blue chest) requesting it, and put in an availa...

Your entire question hinges on one idea, that you should automate the production of something simply because you researched it. Once you forget that, and learn to only build things when you need them, everything makes sense. Whether the player learns this by themselves or from a tutorial doesn't see...

There is nothing in the game engine that does anything in three dimensions, so there is nothing to add to the API. It's all designed around 2D coordinates, 2D sprites, and transparency/draw order/collision layers. The sprites are rendered from 3D models before publication, but that's it (and sometim...

Can you post the rest of the prototype? What is your entity bounding box? Do your offsets land at exactly coordinates ending in 0.5?

The pipe connection offset is the X and Y distance from the *center of the entity* to the center of *the tile where a pipe can be placed to connect to it*. So if you have a 2x2 entity, a valid connection offset would be {1.5, 0.5}, placing the pipe on one half of the right side.

a vote seems a bit complex. I'd just include the option (that is already available): "everyone can pause" so if you have this pause-on-join on, the everyone-can-pause option is automatically enabled or required. so if someone doesn't want to wait, they can just unpause. This is the best s...

I don't know for sure. It would be worth trying, the docs don't mention a limit but there might be one anyways.

If you really wanted, you could make invisible companion drills that your mod places next to the center drill automatically. The effective zone would be the sum of the squares then. The side drills could have their result item placement vectors set to output on the center drill's belt, and they all ...

How long have you let it wait? I'm assuming you've tried waiting several minutes. It could just take a really long time to process each individual chunk. Try this on a copy of the save. Can you delete the surface from SE instead of trim (probably not, if it's been built on)? Can you delete chunks or...

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In Multiple Unit Train Control, I copy-and-modify locomotive entities procedurally, but have a hard-coded list of entities that have descriptions. This means information is lost if a mod has a description that I have not manually inspected yet.

The actual scenario where I observed this behavior has stops with a constant limits, but activation changing on available items/fluids. Now and then I saw trains standing around saying that their destination is full instead of going back to the open station. I need to resolve this manually. Trains ...

Following a discussion at the Earendel/SE discord, I briefly looked through the two codebases and it's non-trivial but doesn't feel too difficult either. Harag and I had a longer productive discussion in the SE Discord closed-testing-chat channel that answers some of your questions, and Harag is te...

You want the "encoded position" signals produced by the constant combinator at the LTN stop. For example, the "Locomotive Encoded Position" signal. This is actually even better for your application, because it tells you exactly where in the train every locomotive is (as long as t...

I agreee with Tertius. Mrvn's explanation of how to use Limits and Stop Disable together simply shows that the Disable logic should be moved to the train instead. Disabling stops is now only a hack to enable conditional schedules. There are a thousand ways to imagine vanilla schedule branching worki...

If the question is how do you tell the difference between a single source outputting a constant 1, versus if one source on the same wire switches to 0 at the same tick that another source switches to 1, your original hypothesis is correct, they are completely indistinguishable. If you need more info...

Maybe this is covered by mmmPi's suggestions. When you have three pulse generators outputting to the same wire, you don't actually lose information when pulses coincide: you get a single tick of value 2 or 3 because the pulse add together. If you use more than a simple ">=1" decider to rea...

If you want to know the contents of a specific wagon, and not the whole train (if more than one wagon have the same fluid), you have to use the Inventory Sensor mod. It uses resources checking for something to read all the time but does what it says.