Lua's random is attached to global map seed. If you can guarantee exact order of calls (same random calls on all clients) it will work correctly. Great! I think that only left the player (via GUI events) as the sole source of randomness. Now this deviates from the thread's main point, but is there ...

Cool mod and video! Question, what is the purple thingy that shoot laser beams?

It would be informative to see a side-by-side comparison of the vanilla and modded tracks, especially near the transition from concrete -> dirt floor.

Factorio doesn't sync mod data runtime (it's determistic so they always run the same on every client). However, it could easily be a mod that was coded poorly and is halting the game while it runs the code in the mod. You can press F4 and enable the "update times" option to see which mods...

There's also the resource monitor mod.

So pretty straight forward, I think I just made a mistake then. Thank you. Think of invalid objects as dangling pointer references. There are quite a few way an object can be removed from the game (and not all of it will be under your control, so it might not be your fault*.) so the ".valid&qu...

Would it be possible to make the chest be laid down by construction bots? Currently when creating a blueprint I only get the temporary piece of railroad and not the actual chest itself. Unfortunately no. Because the "chest" is actually a cargo wagon, it requires a piece of rail to sit on....

Did you try different inventory? There is get_inventory(x) and get_output_inventory(x).

I usually surround that with a pcall because I haven't been able to figure when it is appropriate to have x > 1.

Zhab wrote:And yet... according to the dev tapping space bar does nothing... Hmmmm.

Just hold down the spacebar. No reason to tap it.

I've been trying to open the prototype files with Notepad+, but it seems to be set to read-only. The only way to edit the files, I've found, is to open it in Notepad, save as a .TXT, then rename the file extension from TXT to LUA. Once I've done that, I can open it in Notepad++. The reason for that...

For those of us who are a bit more... old school

Lua plugin for Visual Studio 2005:
http://luaforge.net/projects/lualangpack/

I don't think you can do that quite yet. At least not until the sensors stuff can report the number of robots in the network.

Rseding91 wrote:That's expected behavior.
on_load is called right after the game is saved and when the user loads the game.

Except that on_load is currently NOT called when the user first load the game.

kosievdmerwe wrote:I did a forum search and a quick glance didn't show me anything, didn't think this would be in the wiki!

I was referring to this: https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... ve_numbers

Can you create a "network within a network" using the colored wires? As in, force a smart inserter to only focus on the one chest it's linked to? As the posters above already said, you can definitely do that. However, another option is to separate your logistics into smaller, disjointed n...

This has happened since the beginning. It's even on the wiki :) (doesn't make it less of a bug) I'm guessing if you have 2 steel pieces in a chest, and a robot comes for it (carrying size = 5) it might reserve 5 pieces (making -3 in the display). It's kind of annoying to see numbers bouncing up and ...

A fully robot-transported factory. That's pretty cool. I usually have half of my factory running on belts, and the lazy half (for things I only need occasionally) run on robots. But yes, use smart inserters to move products from assemblers into providers. Since everything is already connected as par...

How much Sulfer to Sulfuric acid to Batteries do I need? Please use lowest ratio OR most efficient ratio. Could also use a layout using either sulfuric acid storage or pumping the sulfuric acid into chem plants for batteries. I make sulfuric acid separately, and pipe them to where ever batteries ar...

Looks like there is a bug with on_load(). I reported it here: https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... =7&t=14231

Looks like there is a bug with on_load(). I reported it here: https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... =7&t=14231