Normal value for resources

[orzelek]

Currently LuaEnityPrototype contains fields for checking if resources is infinite and getting it's minimum value.
It would be good to add also normal value there - it would allow runtime calculation of actual resource %-age that resulting resource will have in infinite mode.

[bobingabout]

I think that's what the maximum tag is for. it doesn't actually set a maximum, thats just the upper limit for the calculation. %age = current value/maximum, so if the maximum was 100, but there was 200 left, you'd have 200%.

[orzelek]

I haven't seen any use for maximum tag.
It was set in the endless mod but did not affect anything as far as I can tell.
%-age is based solely on normal and minimum values. And normal one is not accessible from LuaEntityPrototype currently.

Maximum neither but I'm not really sure whats the idea behind it.

[Rseding91]

Resource "normal" is RNG based off the world you created. In other words there is no "normal" for a given resource prototype.

You'd need to store the resource amount on chunk generation and use that to determine the age/mined percent of a resource.

[orzelek]

There is a normal property for infinite resources. Here it is in oil resource:

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    type = "resource",
    name = "crude-oil",
    icon = "__base__/graphics/icons/crude-oil.png",
    flags = {"placeable-neutral"},
    category = "basic-fluid",
    order="a-b-a",
    infinite = true,
    minimum = 750,
    normal = 7500, 

This is the attribute I'm interested in.
In my test it seemed to work as I described and %-age for infinite resource (and %-age of minimum amount) is calculated from it.