It sounds like it could work. It might be tricky but nothing you've described sounds outside the capabilities of the engine. For detecting the transfer of items into or out of a beacon, you will need the fast-transfer events (if the destination is a beacon) as well as player-inventory-changed and cu...

I'm not sure that's a problem, given that you only spawn these infinite resources when the original resource is depleted. Surely adding that resource to the exclusion list means that deletion is what you want to happen anyway?

I'd like to +1 this request. My use case will be threefold: 1. De-cheese the flow of fluids through underground pipes by linking it to another surface where the appropriate number of normal pipes are lined up for the fluid to flow through. 2. Allow underground pipes of arbitrary length. 3. Allow wea...

This function gives you "local drill = event.entity", which is the mining drill that was depleted. You will have to check here that it's indeed a mining drill though, and not a pumpjack for example. You could do this by simply "if event.entity.type ~= "mining-drill" then re...

You'd need to create a "tile-ghost" entity for each tile.

entity.grid gives you the equipment grid that you can then manipulate.

If all else fails, take the lazy option and give the entity 100% fire resistance

Can you name a time when "hours >= 4 or hours <= 22" won't be true?

Just replace that entire second "if" line with the single word "else".

Can't you use defines.controllers.spectator?

As for "using that name to set the link ID", you could make use of a hashing function. For example, CRC32 would give you a 32-bit number for any given string. The downside is that collisions may occur if two different names happen to yield the same hash.

Having only ever built one-way rail systems, I didn't realise that temporary stops could be two-directional. The fix by boskid does indeed resolve the issues with the solution I put forward.

LTN achieves this by creating a temporary stop in the train schedule, right on top of the desired real train stop. The train paths to the temporary stop, then looks for a station with the given name and finds "oh hey I'm already there, what a coincidence!"

Steps to reproduce:
- Place four wall ghosts in a square
- Move (empty) mouse cursor over the ghost walls

Observed behaviour: three out of the four walls, when hovered, will make the interior "filling" of the wall be drawn solid, not ghosty.

This is very much a "me" problem but I have an issue and this is a solution I have come up with that doesn't involve tons of Lua. My mod includes a "build gun" feature, where instead of crafting buildings you can just place them and the necessary materials are taken directly from...

Potential duplicate: viewtopic.php?f=28&t=99233

A `spill_inventory()` function would be nice. Among other uses, it could take the temporary LuaInventory buffer from a `player_mined_entity` event and spill that.

Set `render_no_power_icon = false` on the vehicle's burner prototype.

While it might feel "dirty", a lot of great mods are entirely made based on this "use prototypes for things they weren't necessarily intended for."

I have to agree, when looking for documentation I want it clear and boring so I can find the information I want and get back to work. Any time lost to things like visual clutter or scrolling performance is time lost in development, and multiply that by every modder's every search through the documen...

I have "fixed" this by just making it a regular `item` and, instead of `mod-openable`, I made a `custom-input` that listens for `open-item` inputs. If the selected prototype is an item, that item is the one I want, and if the player has either no GUI or their own character open, then the i...

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Mon Aug 30, 2021 11:26 am

It says `stack_size = 1`.
Maybe that's the problem?

Concrete has a stack size of 100 but that doesn't stop you shoving 1k of it into an assembling machine to make a silo

Also it worked in 1.1.37. This appears to be a regression.