Hi Pallet12,

Super cool tool you have made. I am sorry to hear that you have had troubles with my tool (EZRaiderz TAS Helper). I have made some changes which I hope at least solves your first bullet point (Splitter priority/filters and filter inserter filters).

I have not chosen to implement clearing a recipe, given that I never had any use for it in a speed run.

Could you provide a list of tech which is not working and buildings which you cannot take/put entities from/to, then I will try my best to solve it. :)

Hey no worries. I'm honestly just impressed with how much code went into making the tool.

The techs that don't work are the ones that had their names changed in 1.1.0, look for "Renamed technology ..." here https://wiki.factorio.com/Version_history/1.1.0
But like I said they're not really that important for any category except 100%.

The reason putting/taking from buildings was a bit annoying is because the name in the tool ("Input", "Output", "Modules" etc.) isn't actually related to what the defines.inventory number actually is in game (e.g. assembling-machine-modules and lab-modules and beacon-modules might not be the same number). I was able to make it work for beacon-modules by using 'Wreck' instead and I think everything else that is needed for a speedrun works so it should be fine. It's just a bit janky like I said. I didn't bother to test stuff like roboport inventory or car inventory or spidertron inventory or whatever.

I think in most (or all?) cases, putting could just be done by using insert() on the LuaEntity (actually inherited from LuaControl) which automatically inserts into the "best" inventory based on which item and which entity. In that case you wouldn't need to specify the inventory in the tool at all. And taking could also be done in most cases by just taking from LuaEntity's output inventory, which should be the right inventory to take from in most cases (except maybe removing modules from assembling machines or something like that).

But whatever it seems to be working right now.

By the way there has been some discussion about TAS/TAS tools at various points in AntiElitz's speedrunning discord, including a tool that Phoenix27833 is working on that sounds like it could obsolete this mod and other existing/old TAS methods if it works out...

It took a good amount of time to make this is for sure. :)

I see - yeah unless someone has a very specific need for those technologies then I won't spend time updating it.

Ohh damn.. I used a good amount of time trying to align that so the users didn't have to think about what type of module it was, to the player it is just a module, but it does make it more difficult for you. I am glad you got it to work anyway. :)

You might be right. I do remember something about not being able to get put/take to work in a sensible way and I therefore made some kind of hacky way of doing it.

That sounds interesting I will join the discord and have a look.