Factory Search


Search your factory for items, fluids, entities, signals, tags and more with Shift + F. Displays a list of matching buildings: clicking on a result opens it in the map. Supports Space Exploration (works across all surfaces). Control + Shift + Click on almost anything (e.g. built entity, inventory item, recipe) to open the search with that item selected. Similar to BeastFinder and Where is it Made?

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b [Fixed-1.6.0] Can't find modded entity

2 years ago

I installed the mod 'Offshore P.U.M.P.S.' (https://mods.factorio.com/mod/P-U-M-P-S), and I cannot find the entities I deployed using this search!
I can find it in storage and in production, but the entity search not work.
I just deployed new entities and the mod still don't find!

Thanks.

2 years ago

Yeah the search doesn't work with all modded entities. In this case the pump items are placeholders and are replaced by the mod when you place them. So FS can't find them :( I don't know what can be done about this except manually hardcoding in every modded placeholder -> actual entity relationship, which is impossible.

2 years ago

Thanks for the reply!

2 years ago

I will add a hardcoded list at some point by the way, I need it for the spidertron docks from my mod Spidertron Patrols and I presume that some entities from Space Exploration will need it as well.

2 years ago
(updated 2 years ago)

By the way, if you (or anyone reading this) comes across more entities that it can't find, please list them here! The only other one I can think of is the dock from Spidertron Patrols.

2 years ago

I tested this mod too: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/BurnerOffshorePump and it appears that the same problem occurs!

2 years ago

I tested this mod too: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/BurnerOffshorePump and it appears that the same problem occurs!

Thanks - I assume many offshore pump mods will be similar, so I'll be sure to check a few.

2 years ago

I've implemented this in v1.6.0, let me know how it works and if you find any other entities that need adding to the list. I've currently only added P-U-M-P-S, BurnerOffshorePump, and SpidertronPatrols.

2 years ago

Thanks. I will test it later. Currently, I don't have that mods installed anymore!

  • A new bug appears in this new version:

6483.471 Error MainLoop.cpp:1284: Exception at tick 104949459: The mod Factory Search (1.6.0) caused a non-recoverable error.
Please report this error to the mod author.

Error while running event FactorySearch::on_gui_elem_changed (ID 69)
FactorySearch/scripts/search.lua:258: attempt to index local 'force' (a nil value)
stack traceback:
FactorySearch/scripts/search.lua:258: in function 'find_machines'
FactorySearch/scripts/ui.lua:575: in function 'start_search'
FactorySearch/scripts/ui.lua:602: in function <FactorySearch/scripts/ui.lua:595>


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