Things provides advanced entity management capabilities to other Factorio mods. (This mod makes no gameplay changes. WARNING: disabling Things while other mods are using it may break your save!)
Lua libraries for use by other mods and submods that are parts of a larger mod.
Version: 0.1.0
Date: 2025-10-25
Features:
- Initial release.
- Thing registration and construction interception.
- Lifecycle management and associated APIs and events.
- Automatic parent-child and associated APIs.
- Thing graphs and associated APIs and events.
- See online documentation for full details.
Version: 0.1.1
Date: 2025-10-25
Features:
- Added `things.ThingRegistration.allow_in_cursor`
- Added `things.get_edge` remote interface call.
Bugfixes:
- Automatically-oriented children are now correctly reoriented before the parent reorientation event is broadcast.
Changes:
- Breaking: Orientation class names have changed.
Version: 0.1.2
Date: 2025-10-25
Bugfixes:
- Fixed an issue with rounding that broke blueprint position computations.