Autowire http://puu.sh/jFwnA.jpg http://puu.sh/jFwrU.jpg Info: Adds a gui that lets you select which wires will be connected automatically when placing any electric power poles. Automatically connecting red/green requires you have the wires in your inventory, while copper are still free, as normall...

I noticed this yesterday with my latest push against the biter bases in my current game; this seems to be new, either in 0.12.3 or 0.12.4, I know it's happening in 4 and wasn't in 2. Didn't think to report it, because reasons. :edit: after reviewing my saves, I'm not so sure about it not having been...

Really nice mod. Found a little issue, you can enter the car. When trying to move it damages the lamp (i guess). Already made a pull request. Seems you changed the name of the car somewhere and forgot to change it in the event. Whoops! pr accepted, nice catch, thanks! :edit: and 0.1.6 pushed out wi...

Not sure why none isn't working, but several settings seem to be outdated on the wiki now for autoplace_controls based on my poking at it. It's a bit brute-force, but you could use this handler for on_chunk_generated to obliterate all entities in the chunk... game.on_event(defines.events.on_chunk_ge...

displaying the items would be ... I dunno. I mean, I could pull the icon, but that would break the immersion in my mind - even though immersion in factorio is more theoretical than actual, at least for me XD I mean, it wouldn't be something you could possibly be displaynig on a nixie tube that way, ...

After spending last week with the modding api, got back into playing this weekend. Progress was made, though going continues to be slow. But everything is back online again, which is a start! http://puu.sh/jEbjB.png Map view of the layout as it is now; the little operation to the right of circuit ci...

funny you mention selective deconstruction, I am thinking of a 4rd blueprint placement mode - normal placement, force-placement, which are like the two player modes; test placement, which I think I mentioned, which just gives you the signals of what would be placed, or possibly what would be blocked...

no reason to deliberately, but if it's just running a tight update-render loop and the update is being skipped because time is frozen, I could see it happening. Same in the menu where there's nothing to update.

You can also add custom guis, which many mods do. Can't actually override the gui that opens when you click a building, but you can create guis that are always visible, or that are created when the player is in proximity to something and removed when they leave.

Miners can only be placed where there's valid ore... First pass blueprint, puts miners on everything. Second pass blueprint, puts turrets / floors / walls / assemblers everywhere else. Logistics bots handle picking up mined output. Self-tiles and repeats until world exploited. May have to try this ...

Currently transport belt entities allow calling get_item_count and has_item_inside, but there's no way to get what types of items these are, short of brute-forcing calls to those functions with different item types. It doesn't seem like a good idea for mod entities to start going around iterating ov...

Nice idea, i will go t back to you You beat me to it. Which is good, my to-do list is getting too long already XD but I peeked into it and it seems like it'll be doable, and fairly easily. :edit: on reflection, realzied I was forgetting something. Still doable, I'm sure, but not quite as easily as ...

hmmm. Belts. More of a problem than I thought. They kindof have an inventory? but not really. Not an inventory you can get and inspect, except through functions like get_item_count, which will return the number of items in total, or how many of a particular type... but as we discussed earlier, build...

add _. in 0.12 the names of things got made more uniform with "_" separating words, so onevent became on_event (not to be confused with one_vent)

was just playing with your bug save, that is indeed very strange. Made a replica, same behavior. Tried just removing the red wire connecting 1 and 5, and just removing the wire seems to cause the same - though not 100% of the time. Then tried replacing combinator 5 with just a power pole and connect...

lua doesn't care about newlines, except that they are whitespace - not sure if you control this behavior or if the operating system is doing it automatically, but if it is factorio stripping the newlines and tabs from pasted text, could we get them replaced with spaces instead of removed entirely? T...

the circuit network access is currently... restricted. You can access it only indirectly through specific interfaces implemented for certain item types. The only way I've found to just output arbitrary signals is to use a constant combinator, where get_circuit_condition returns an array of the 15 sl...

just the events, with a read/write copy of the entities table of the blueprint, so it metadata can be added (in create), or applied to the ghosts (in place). For on_robot_built events, you could add a field to the event containing the ghost, assuming this isn't already the case (don't remember the w...

Adil wrote:Seen the wiki. Wow. Did you learn that by manual testing?

yah, at least half of what I know about the API I've figured out in a the in-game console just poking at things and seeing what works XD

I keep meaning to update the wiki with my discoveries, edited in a few things but not nearly all of it

polling the held slot is a good thought; belts are pretty much the worst-case for this, but I think it'll be manageable. Hopefully by 0.13 we'll have a way to test signals values that isn't slightly evil, though in this case we only have to do the one test per item type, so it's less evil than when ...