It's hard to tell from all the screenshots what exactly you're referring to. Can you highlight one of the problematic things?

You would need to register event handlers for when the visible entity gets built, and create the invisible entity. And when the visible entity is destroyed/mined, remove the invisible entity. Configuring the invisible entity could happen when they player opens the GUI for the visible entity, just cr...

I'm not sure about negative effects, but a common way to achieve the other sort of behavior you're describing is to have a visible dummy entity, and then an invisible entity that does the real work, which would be a beacon with a module in it, all handled transparently by the mod so the player only ...

Since ramps are coming this topic is dead. There are no reason to design any intersections again, just these simple ramps and mergers. That's not true at all. Ramps are huge. Just a ramp up, over one rail, and back down is 34 tiles long. The smallest useful intersection you can make with ramps is a...

I was using the modding toolkit debugger with a breakpoint that triggered when I clicked on something in-game. This left my mouse clicks captured by factorio, so I couldn't click on anything anywhere else while other mouse and keyboard functionality worked fine. https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/6225...

Per https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/sdk/ ... amAPI_Init this may be a Steam problem.

I have steam_appid.txt in the same directory as my factorio binary, which is sufficient to get the factorio modding toolkit vscode extension working. However, when I run the binary directly, I still get the behavior where it relaunches the game. If I change my working directory to where the binary i...

I need to know if an entity should be treated like rails for placement purposes due to having a build_grid_size of 2 instead of 1. I found LuaEntityPrototype.building_grid_bit_shift and it sounds and looks like it's the log2 (plus one) of build_grid_size, but the docs aren't quite clear on that, and...

I'm working on this mod again and still hoping for this functionality.

If the 2.0 ramp entity had been 14 or 18 tiles wide instead of 16, I suspect a dev would have encountered this bug.

I'd like to rewrite https://mods.factorio.com/mod/belt-overflow when 2.0 comes out, and lack of this feature is the biggest thing stopping me from tackling that task previously.

With 2.0 introducing new rail functionality, a lot of us intense rail optimizers are going to be taking a fresh crack at a whole new assortment of layouts. Having to manually check whether trains fit in blocks (instead of relying on the visualization) is going to jump back to the top of my tediousne...

What can we do to fix the masking problem?

With FFFs announcing new information coming to the rail block indicators, this feels like a good time to refresh this request. The indicators disappearing under grid lines makes them less useful overall.

Another use case for this request is my new mod https://mods.factorio.com/mod/fake-new-rails. It fakes 8-way rotatable entities with two 4-way rotatable entities, then provides a blueprint book containing 8 blueprints, each with one of the two entities in a different orientation, so that scrolling t...

Entities with a build_grid_size of 2 and a width (based on the collision and selection boxes) of 2, 4, 8, 12, 16, ... follow the normal 2x2 rail grid. Otherwise identical entities with a width of 6, 10, 14, ... are placed on a grid that is offset by one tile if you consider their bounding boxes. If ...

If I do `factorio --load-game foo` to load the save named foo, but a mod fails to load so I'm prompted and I choose to Restart (having disabled or fixed the mod), the game relaunches to the main menu rather than into the save I specified. That option should persist in a restart.

I would like to be able to specify a build_grid_size of 2 with an offset. Valid offsets might be {1,0}, {0,1}, or {1,1}, shifting the grid one tile in the X and/or Y directions.

I know this is shouting into the void, but I'm already subscribed so I'll keep getting the reply notifications either way...

It would be considerate to use new threads in the appropriate subforums to ask general train questions, rather than using this single thread for every train related topic.

TL;DR When adding filters to a combinator, logistics requests, etc, hold CTRL while clicking OK and the dialog will stay open to select another after adding the current selection. What ? Various interfaces allow you to select multiple items or signals, such as the constant combinator, logistics req...