The Powder Toy

Please someone explain how this code works. It was posted in another thread by Simon in response to me asking about how to make something burn hot but slow. But I'm confused about some of the l...

Or more accurately "can't move powders when the menusection Lua command is called from an autorun lua file or when called from a lua file which is itself called from an autorun lua file&quo...

COOL! Can you explain how this works?      function magn_update(i, x, y, s, n)    like what the i, s, and n mean.    why there is no "register function" s...

Is that your response to everyone's suggestion is to assume that their suggestion is something that would only be of interest to the suggester?    I only gave my intended use of ONE EX...

When setting an element's flammable property, if I set it at a huge number it not only burns hotter, it also burns EXPLOSIVELY FAST without even setting the explosive property. The speed of the ...

jacob1:This does seem usefull. I will try to add it to my mod someday, unless one of the official devs tries to add it.The only problem I could see with this is that you can't change PT_NUM, and...

There is no technical reason why this would not work. I can see that other implementations of it via Lua or other techniques won't work, but I described in great detail here exactly how the feat...

We need to be able to make temporary elements via Lua. It would work by duplicating an existing element to create a new one with the same properties but a different name. Then you'd use use othe...

Currently if you wan to use property tool to adjust "type" variable for a block of material you must specify index number of the desired material type. It will not work if you specify name ...

BIZR can be used as food coloring I think.  Vinegar is ACID  For lightweight dust like flour we have DUST.  We still don't have a base like baking soda to neutralize acid though,...