This is exactly what blueprints are for. iirc there are no more click needed than for normal entities

If you dig into the code of resource-autoplace.lua, you find the following documented for resource_autoplace_settings(): -- - patch_set_name - name of the patch set; patches sets of the same name and seed1 will overlap; default: name -- - autoplace_control_name - name of the corresponding autoplace ...

So you just want to add some more resources?

Could you post your code? Just copy-paste the existing resources didn't work?

I have a cliff entity which has it's minable property set but can also be destroyed by explosives.
When marking it for deconstruction, robots deconstruct it the normal way instead of throwing explosives at it. How can I change this behaviour?

Feature suggestion for a flag to be set.

This mod shows what I mean: /test [a, b] [p1, p2, p3] a is calculate_tile_properties once for each position b is calculate_tile_properties with whole position array p1 is a random value noise expression with seed 100 p2 is with map seed variable p3 is with a literal number which represents a map seed

Thanks for the report. How do you get the visualisation and what are X/Y coordinates of the tiles? Ideally I'm looking for something which I can just copy-paste and get the same result. Based on the C++ code, this is very unlikely to happen, so either you hit an edge case or your debug visualisatio...

I implemented this noise expression: { type = "noise-expression", name = "random-value-0-1", expression = noise.to_noise_expression(noise.to_noise_expression{ type = "function-application", function_name = "random-penalty", arguments = { x = noise.var("x&...

FuryoftheStars wrote: ↑Fri May 24, 2024 10:50 pm Try taking a look at this mod and what it does and how:

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/ChangeMapSettings

Thanks! There they are: https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/cla ... p_settings

All presets are available here: https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/classes/LuaGameScript.html#map_gen_presets The preset used for the current map is not saved. But you can get the current map gen settings are from the surface: https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/classes/LuaSurface.html#map_gen_set...

What you could do is to apply your resources's autoplace settings after surface creation: - register on_surface_created - call SE remote function `get_zone_from_surface_index` and to get the zone check if `is_homeworld` is false - then apply map settings on this surface by adding your resource: mapg...

I want to read these properties at runtime: https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/con ... pGenPreset, especially the advanced settings. How's that possible?

No, otherwise the game would complain before starting

You can take a look at how Space Exploration solved this, which, I believe, is done via collisions on ground tiles. Space-only building collide with all natural ground tiles, land-only buildings collide with the space platform tile. Obviously, this wont help you in case some ground tiles are used o...

I need to prevent placement of certain entities in certain surfaces. For now, I have a placement cancelling logic which directly mines the entity if it is prohibited there. But it is still colored green in the cursor. Applying collision masks on these entities and some tiles wouldn't work because wh...

Loewchen wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2024 11:37 am You are 3 updates behind, can you reproduce this in the current version?

Yes, same crash

I created a surface with custom map settings and used frequency 1000 in autoplace_settings.decorative.rock-small Factorio crashed. Generating symbolized stacktrace, please wait ... c:\users\build\appdata\local\temp\factorio-build-iemlsv\src\floatcast.hpp (129): float_cast<unsigned int> c:\users\buil...

When I place a resource entity (map editor or via script) on a position that collides with a cliff, this cliff is destroyed, even if both prototypes have different collision masks. Is this intended? If yes, there should be a prototype property that disables this behaviour.

What is your use case? I want to mirror resources onto another surface. For patches like crude oil, the excat position is not that important but the probability should stay the same. According to prototype stage, crude oil should have a probability of 1/48, which is the blue dots, but after applyin...

Another thing I just found: when moving after executing the command and executing it again, completely new probability values show up! Apparently the random numbers are influenced by the given position array, which changes the result for one specific position. This is indeed true when a noise expre...

I would have tried to look at the map for other spot with positive probabilities, and see if there was always 1 pumpjack attached, are some of them moved away ? or removed ? when colliding. I don't know if there are spots outside of whole oil patches with positive probability, but then richness wou...