Would it be possible to have a flag on cars so that they can be mined even while there are characters inside?

The use case is that I have dummy characters in vehicles so that the engine sounds and lights work, but it prevents mining.

I have some variants of characters that are flying, for example, the Jetpack mod.

Would it be possible to add has_belt_immunity to the character prototype?

Thanks.

The editor has a smart entity collision mode for tile placement. There does not seem to be any way to do this for items, and no way to prevent entities from being destroyed if the tile is changed. This request is to add a flag to the item's place_as_tile property: https://wiki.factorio.com/Types/Pla...

I'm trying to update Alien Biomes but I get an error when the upload finishes: "Error: Access forbidden. Please refresh the page and try again. (code: 403)" I've tried a few times now, same every time. The mod zip file is negligibly larger than the previous version. The upload took about 2...

If the character's position becomes invalid you could nudge them towards the nearest valid position.

Thanks.

This request is to have of property that can be set on crafting entity prototypes (character, assembling machine, furnace, rocket silo). The property would be would be the entity equivalent of a recipe's "always_show_made_in" property. The default value would be true, but can be set if set...

I'll try and report back.

Edit:
Setting turret_base_has_direction solves all of the problems, so that is fantastic.

That means that what I reported earlier is possibly not important, but it does seem internally inconsistent.

Thanks for the response.

I'll try and report back.

These issues relate to turrets with the "building-direction-8-way" flag. What does work: Get the entity from the editor, place 8 entities in a line pressing after each one. The entities will be placed with orientation in 8 increments and the graphics appear to display correctly. Also, if p...

Here you go.

A projectile given a collision mask (such as "layer-13") and a collision box will collide with other entities (such as a "small-spitter") even though the entities don't collide with the projectile's layer. The easiest way to replicate is to use the walls-block-splitters mod: http...

It seems that the change has made it so that you can't link entities in the upgrade planer at all if they have different collision masks. This greatly reduces the usefulness of the upgrade planner. There are situations where both types of entity could be valid on tiles even if their collision masks ...

That's great thanks.

If straight-rail is given a fast_replace_group then if you try to place overlapping rail with different directions the new rail replaces the old rail. For example: You have straight horizontal rail, if you try and place vertical rail that crosses the line it removes a square of horizontal rail and b...

Bots can place an entity in a way that ignores the entity collision settings if it is done as part of an 'upgrade'. Simplified example situation: Floating wooden belt Alternate version of transport belt (floating wooden belt) can be placed on land and water (based on the collision mask). It is part ...

That's amazing, it will make so many new things possible.

Thanks.

a method on LuaSurface that takes a list of property names and X,Y inputs. I'm not sure what exactly the property names would refer to so it is difficult to say, but if it allows reading of elevation, temperature, plus things like autoplace probability_expression, richness_expression for a specific...

Yeah that would work.

I would like a way of assigning a logistic or construction bot to a logistic network. I can't find a way of doing that with the current API. Use case: A vehicle with an equipment grid gets swapped for another variant of the same vehicle but with different collision settings. All of the inventory and...