Any recommendations for writing map generators? The 'blank canvas' style of the base map is such a waste wrt to the core strategy of space management. I've found its possible to greatly increase water cover by adjusting elevation_max_range = 8000, -- 5000 everywhere below elevation 0 and nowhere els...

thanks. thats got me started. would you believe i am so dumb? I was working all last night trying to mod factorio, and the whole time I didn't realise I had 2 versions installed, the demo and the full verion, i was modding the demo, but running the full, and get exasperated that nothing i did had an...

Modding noob here. I've being trying to understand the code but its no good, its too cryptic for me. Will use all the help I can get. I've managed to get a template empty mod working, but that's all. I've been trying to find code for solar and steam power. Where are the file which sets the power out...

thks again, that seemed to fix the prob. Factorio loaded 1 second longer b4 complaining of an error in my technology.lua there could be a lot of work ahead down this path, but I've switched to looking at other working mods. The 'simple Sapling' mod on the mod portal doesn't work. The resource compre...

http://i.imgur.com/tt8viYe.png Tried to run factorio with the guide mod template but got this error. I think this is the wrong way to go about learning to mod. Writing stuff from scratch just gives 100 ways to subtly fail, computers fail with the slightest of errors, and its very hard for a beginne...

thks Daniel, that was useful. I note the guide says Name this folder according to a special format. Let's say you wanted to name your mod foo bar mod and you were making version 1.2.3 (there needs to be 3 numbers). You would name your folder the following foo-bar-mod_1.2.3. The general format is to ...

Anyone know a modding guide that gets at least one step without failing? You're going to need to put a little more effort into it than that. If you can't get past something like a folder not existing you're never going to get anywhere with this... Just make the folder and continue with the guide. I...

What does the conspicuous and unexplained ' ? ' do?

http://i.imgur.com/s1phtBQ.png If your going to sticky the OP post, can you at least update it to keep it accurate? I'm hoping to start modding. With a >3 year old modding community I was hoping there would be a clear path already cut here. But this guide fails on its 1st step into the dark forest ...