Island start start can be awesome, if it's not quite island:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/415 ... .04.53.png

Adding read support takes a lot of time. That is a game design bug. :P Everything takes time. Even now replying to these posts takes time that I could be spending programming :P That's a life design bug. :P You should have automated the posting process long ago. Just takes a whole heap of processor...

I had the inline assembler idea entirely separately, and my implementation is a little on the kludgy side but works well enough. It's also limited (by design moreso than limitation) to one kind of items per input belt, and at most three-ingredient recipes (and only the one-ingredient is currently im...

UPD: At least it can solve the long-term problem of "Pass some info from data.lua to control.lua" :lol: I wasn't aware there was even a need to pass info from data to control. Isn't data just a hub for all the things you've got spread around the mod's folders, with some final fixes thrown...

There's problems, and there's problems. Modders not having quite the same power as they could does not quite measure up to the magnitude of "problem" that a keylogger or trojan hidden in 5000 lines of elaborate filesystem-accessing code can create. Especially if you consider the devs as b...

the devs have also removed the file system included with Lua. i guess it means security, but makes a lot of problems... There's problems, and there's problems. Modders not having quite the same power as they could does not quite measure up to the magnitude of "problem" that a keylogger or...

when you craft a rocket(not vanilla, my modded one) it launches automatically. i.e. there is an assembler for item small-rocket. when it finishes i want it to launch the rocket. i have all the other code sorted, but not the transition from when the assembler finishes crafting There's no event to do...

Nice to hear it! :) Seems like the devs themselves didn't realize a complexity of the mods the community would try to implement :D I'd dare to say that there's quite a lot of complexity the devs did not realize the mod community would want to make. :P You can't have a fuel-fed power generator unles...

Lua is amazing. I'd say "programming is amazing". The same approach is possible for almost all programming languages. ;) That is true. However, Lua being a scripting language (or, the proper term I suppose being, "interpreted language", more specifically a multi-paradigm, dynami...

Apparently transport belts cannot be teleported. Trying to teleport them returns false. Going to root around, see if it's maybe a fixable issue.

DaveMcW wrote:

Sean Mirrsen wrote:to just relocate an entity.

http://lua-api.factorio.com/0.12.33/Lua ... l#teleport

Pft. "Teleport". Why. -_-
(It has not even occurred to me to look for something like that)

Really hate having to have a pipe on the side there, but I guess there's no helping it for now. Remove the pipes_cover_pictures and they wont be there Okay, will do. So, I fixed the visuals matching with the transport belts, by skewing one side of the main body for the side views. Eh. It'll do. Now...

Okay, I guess this works. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4152380/Screenshots/Screenshot%202016-05-07%2012.04.38.png Really hate having to have a pipe on the side there, but I guess there's no helping it for now. Going to have to adjust the side-view sprites to match Factorio's screwy impression...

But I don't want fluidboxes. :/

They don't make sense, here, especially on the basic assembly line that takes just one ingredient. Well, unless you count the possibility of unloading oil barrels.... mmmmeh. Okay, let's see if that will do it...

Greetings, modding people of Factorio. I require your help. I am making some neat machinery here. Unfinished graphics, but that's beside the point. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4152380/Screenshots/Screenshot%202016-05-07%2011.21.34.png They work fairly well as-is, but I would really rather li...

That is actually very helpful!

Thank ye kindly for this bit of wisdom.

After using this mod as a basis for my own burner-generator implementation, I have to wonder - why was the boiler chosen as the main item in the boiler-generator pair? I managed to get an animated sprite working for it by switching it around: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4152380/Screenshots/s...

Huh, that's interesting. I actually have a lot of the same ideas as this mod's creator, for my own "Factorio Gaiden" mod-in-the-works. The burner generator is actually borrowed from KS's power mods. If you want to use that without losing the burner inserter, you can grab KS Power . Commen...

Sorry for butting into such a high-level discussion, I am in no way competent enough in programming to comment on how to optimize the game (aside from commenting on how it manages to juggle tens of thousands of objects with no slowdown on my potato of a tablet PC, which is really impressive! :D). Bu...

Huh, that's interesting. I actually have a lot of the same ideas as this mod's creator, for my own "Factorio Gaiden" mod-in-the-works. Up until the complete removal of the burner-inserter. That is too useful a tool to remove, however I do think that it does not make sense in vanilla, being...