oh, no, definitely don't check every item in the game XD That would be... evil. Yeah, like you edited in later, using the source inventory to build the candiate list to test is the way to go. It only needs to update about as fast as the inserter can perform an operation, so I'd try to tune it that w...

this is on my to-do list, will probably have time to put it together in the next week or so. At the moment, after a week of busy moding (2 fniished and 1 wip released this week) I'm taking time today to actually, y'know, play factorio XD but I'll be back to modding soon, and this is one of the first...

It already works that way: entity1.disconnect_neighbour({wire=defines.wire.green, target_entity=entity2}) Optionally you can also define the source and or target circuit IDs to remove (for combinators that have more than one circuit ID) using: source_circuit_id=id, target_circuit_id=id Ok, been pok...

Ever find yourself thinking, "Man, placing blueprints is such a pain. If only there were machines to place blueprints for me?" ... What do you mean, no? Pleb! Watch this video anyway! Anyway, for those who have, well, soon it will be possible. Whipped up this proof-of-concept in a day, and...

anywhere you're doing a data:extend. the groupings in subfiles/folders of prototypes, recipes, technology, etc. are conventions for organization, not rules; your data.lua could just have everything in one massive data:extend if you really wanted. I'd throw them in with the recipes personally.

You could have made it take a blueprint and ingredients for copy. ;) true, but that wouldn't solve the basic problem, which is: player/inserter: "can I insert a 2nd blueprint in that slot?" game: "Sure! You can put up to 3, because recipe takes 1!" p/i: "great, thanks!"...

hidden doesn't seem possible, but their own tab (or tabs) certainly is. Just define an item group prototype - which just has a name, type="item-group," an icon, and an order field that works like other order fields but orders the tab among the other tabs. Then specify that name as the subg...

Oh by the way in answer to your question earlier, shadows are not a separate layer. Not sure how Factorio gets around the shadow overlap problem, except possibly by drawing entities to the right above entities to the left. I asked becasue cars, specifically, seem to have the shadows in a separate s...

Ah, excellent. Yeah, as long as fluids aren't possible signals from logistics, just hiding them from the options, like they already are for requestor chests/persona logistics slots, seems the best solution. They'd have to be added back later, if logistic storage tanks become a thing and fluids do sh...

Good job here, really good. As for design challenges, why did you decide to use assembler instead of simple chest? There's no useful events tied to assemblers and I presume chest wouldn't allow that bug to happen (Has anyone reported it by the way?) while requiring a single additional variable to t...

Made a video, because words really don't do this justice, and pictures wouldn't help much.

Hmm. Can you not embed youtube vids here? Shame, that. Ah well. Linky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUiDvar ... e=youtu.be

I hope to polish this up into something actually usable, as in it's current form it's ... unstable. (spoiler: assembling machines don't like recipes that include blueprints.) But! as long as care is used, I have it basically work. Care, in this case, means don't insert a blueprint while thre is alre...

ah, this is excellent news! I will update the wiki after testing the limits of this for myself.

It would be super-convenient connect_neighbours and disconnect_neighbours methods supported a 2nd argument - wire type - and supported all circuit network-able entities instead of just power poles. Currently disconnect_wire works with red/green cables, but only in a "disconnect from all" w...

This looks like a super nice mod, and I'll definitely be including it in my next MP game, planned to start soon after alpha 13.1 or 13.2 comes out (so, with luck, late August). One bit of information is missing, though: What is the build cost of each Nixie Tube? It's not very important to know in a...

In the new Version you forget to disalbe the "Debug Mode" in config.lua ack. Dammit. Deliberately didn't commit that file to the repo, but neglected to revert it before zipping it up XD will fix in place within one minute of this post, thanks for telling me. That would be annoying XD :edi...

How about this function then? ( https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/index.php?title=Lua/Entity#set_filter ) So unless that function's broken, I don't see why your idea couldn't work. A mod could use that function to do it, absolutely. He seemed to be asking how to do it in vanilla, without a custom ki...

hmm. Probably not; easy enough to just guess with vanilla, though. If you were thinking of making a sensor object placed by the mine, you'd have to support any other mods' mines specifically. I was picturing it being a "smart mining drill" object that was directly circuit-connectable, whic...

I'm hoping there's a simple method to get this information from a mining drill type entity, as I don't feel that a piece of code that keeps track of individual pieces of ore is fun to write. Ooh, I didn't think that far into it, just poked one with a stick and if that info is available, I couldn't ...

sounds like you basically want the functionality of a requester chest, but without the bots? Hmm. No, pretty sure this is not possible directly in vanilla. The filter is what it is, it can't be changed on the fly, and unlike factories, an inserter doesn't care what's in a chest before it inserts, on...