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I'm new to factorio modding and I would like a link to an api or a guide. I'm not new to modding in general, but I've only modded minecraft before so lua is new to me. I also have coding background but I know barely anything about lua. Any help is appreciated, thanks.

Your best basis is the wiki, in particular from this page:
https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... e=Lua/Game

Other than that, every mods are basicaly text files (because lua is not a compiled language), so you can learn a lot from reading various existing mods.

All in all, lua is pretty strait forward, so if you already have decent basis in coding, it should not be a problem.

By the way, you might want to post your questions in 'modding help' or 'modding discussions', this sub forum here is for asking the devs to implement specific things into the game's api, so you will recieve way less relevant answers here than in the correct place, just because relatively few people visit here.

Ok I was wondering where to post my questions, and this looked like the place. Thanks for the help