I like the other idea of just generate power from nothing for now, and I'll look at doing something like the torches and iron lantern mod once I update to 0.12 and get some better handling on modding.




I've tried this, and it will work in the sense that it will turn on and illuminate an area ...

Hey i did something like this for inserters:

https://forums.factorio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=12732

My trick is to spawn entities around the inserter which will do all the power stuff, the mod it for 0.11, so wont work.

Also i made a mod torches and iron lantern : https://forums.factorio ...

Just have the lamp create light and hope no ones look too closely?

Unless you're looking to do something more interesting with solar lamps.

Hehehe, that's honestly a good step to get around this roadblock I hit. Was thinking about giving it the ability to consume from the power network as well ...

Was working on writing a mod, and one part of it was going to be a solar powered lamp (In case you don't want to run power lines all over the place, you can have a lamp to just plonk down and have it always work).

My roadblock I'm hitting is I don't know what I could use as a type to allow for ...