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I want to use the lab and its function as a user of science packs to generate "research power".
Unfortunately I can't figure out how the "remaining" of the science pack is handled and stored.'

From the API documentation, there is no corresponding value.
I tried:
- health
- durability (since a science pack is a tool)

Has someone more insight about that, and can help me with it?

When you insert a single portion of items in any consumer, those items disappear at the moment the work begins. If you mine the building, you don't get those back, so the remainder is likely to be stored nowhere.
I believe the lab progress bar shows how far in the consumption of currently inserted items it has gone.

Sure that can be the thing.
But the "remaining" value is in the description tool tip that you get, when you hover over one of the science-pack stacks in the inventory of the lab.

I thought it was "durability", measured between 0 and 1, did that really not work?

No, it does not work. Besides, that from the LuaAPI Documentation, "durability" is an unsigned integer, capped at max durability of the prototype (for science packs = 1)

Hold a partially used science pack in the cursor stack and run

prg wrote:Hold a partially used science pack in the cursor stack and run

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/c game.local_player.print(game.local_player.cursor_stack.durability)

What the heck?
The same code i did this morning, now does what i expected it would do.

And especially it does not comply to the API Documentation.

I have to thank you, the first thought was "Ah, man I tried that already", but at least i should give a try if there is a difference between a stack in lab and stack in hand (curosr).

paraqles wrote:

prg wrote:Hold a partially used science pack in the cursor stack and run

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/c game.local_player.print(game.local_player.cursor_stack.durability)

What the heck?
The same code i did this morning, now does what i expected it would do.

And especially it does not comply to the API Documentation.

I have to thank you, the first thought was "Ah, man I tried that already", but at least i should give a try if there is a difference between a stack in lab and stack in hand (curosr).

What? It compiles perfectly with the API documentation and there's no difference between stacks in a lab vs. in the cursor.

Sorry I may be a little unclear:
http://lua-api.factorio.com/0.12.30/Lua ... durability

Says it is "uint" => http://lua-api.factorio.com/0.12.30/Bui ... .html#uint

So it does not behave like the documentation said.
And at my first try to use the durability it just kept the durability at "1".