Graphics

• New chemical plant graphics.
• Heat pipes (also in reactors and heat exchangers) glow with high temperatures.

Changes

• Pressing ESC while catching up to a multiplayer game will disconnect instead of opening the menu. more
• An entity can't be teleported into a position where pipe connections would overlap. more
• The camera will zoom to center instead of zooming to cursor in God controller, Ghost controller and Spectator controller.

Features

• Added an area tool to the map editor tile editor.
• Added highlighting of the source entities when selecting areas to clone in the map editor.
• Added a setting in the map editor to hide entity health bars.
• Added a setting in the map editor surface editor to generate new chunks using lab tiles.
• Added support to manipulate items on the stored character while in the map editor.
• Added infinity settings for automatically controlling items in the map editor.
• Changed the infinity chest so it can also spawn hidden items.

Gui

• Rearranged key-bindings in Control Settings to different categories. Improved and added more descriptions of key-bindings.

Bugfixes

• Fixed cloning ghost entities with rotation didn't work correctly. more
• Fixed that the lab GUI wouldn't update when the technology being researched changed. more
• Fixed loader front patch and back patch were not sorted correctly when drawing. more
• Fixed wire connection distance sometimes being inconsistent. more
• Fixed a rotation of modded pump with regard to blocked pipe connections. more
• Prevented a crash resulting from teleporting a pipe to a fluid system with blocked connection. more
• Fixed that the filter GUI tooltip would flicker when changing tabs. more
• Fixed fluid mixing from creating an underground pipe by script into a blocked fluid system. more
• Fixed fluid mixing from copy/pasting an infinite pipe next to a different fluid. more
• Prevented playing Jesus and changing water into other fluids. more
• Fixed assembler ghost fluid filters disappearing through loading. more
• Cliffs sections which are fully marked as indestructible can't be exploded. more
• Fixed interaction of underground pipes with modded length. more
• Fixed fluid mixing caused by fluid producing furnace. more
• Fixed that opening the technology GUI in the same tick as the entity tooltip being shown didn't work correctly. more
• Prevented rotation of a modded assembler with a blocked pipe connection that results in fluid mixing. more
• Fixed train condition button indentation not being properly updated under special circumstances. more
• Fixed that train schedule waypoint was considered to be passed when train departed the related rail rather when it entered it. more
• Fixed that storage tank entities ignored pipe_picture property in their fluid box definition. more
• Fixed improper action selection for UI actions for key bindings differentiated by modifiers only. more
• Fixed a crash related to a modded assembler and fluid mixing. more
• Applied the cannon shadow to the artillery wagon, fixing some unintended highlights. more
• Fixed crash when removing electric pole. more
• Fixed event handler could try to register events twice in some cases. more
• Fixed blueprinted locomotives would preview as snapped to train stop. more
• Fixed items spilling on the ground when using fast entity transfer while robots are trying to insert into the player. more
• Fixed hand reserving a non-empty slot in some situations when player inventory auto-sorting is disabled.
• Fixed custom lua slider sometimes initializing with the marker in the wrong position. more
• Fixed "list-box" and "drop-down" custom GUI elements would not update selected index when changing its items programmatically. more
• Fixed that the map editor 'instant blueprint building' would fail to place trains correctly.
• Rail signal that is to be reserved by circuit network doesn't allow train to go through even when the block is already occupied by the given train. more
• Rail signal will change from reserved by circuit network state to closed state when train is manually placed into the block it guards. more
• Fixed train stop name in map not being positioned properly. more

Modding

• Changed default value of LoaderPrototype::structure_render_layer from "lower-object" to "transport-belt-circuit-connector", in order to be consistent with other on-belt structure sprites.
• Different wall types will connect visually by default. If this behavior is not desired for a wall prototype, set it unique "visual_merge_group". more
• Added optional random_variation_on_create to all simple entity prototypes.
• Pump was changed to not expand its bounding box when connected to pipe. Collision box for vanilla pump was adjusted to reflect this change.

Scripting

• Added additional filtering to LuaGameScript::get_filtered_..._prototypes() functions.
• Added optional "tags" to entities in blueprints and entity ghosts.
• Added optional "tags" to script_raised_revive, on_built_entity and on_robot_built_entity events when reviving ghosts.
• Added LuaEntity::tags read/write for entity ghosts.
• Added LuaItemStack::get_blueprint_entity_count(), get_blueprint_entity_tags(), set_blueprint_entity_tags(), get_blueprint_entity_tag(), and set_blueprint_entity_tag().
• Added on_force_friends_changed and on_force_cease_fire_changed events.
• Added "area" to on_chunk_charted and on_sector_scanned events.
• Added "position" to on_chunk_generated event.
• Added area to the LuaChunkIterator operator() return value.
• Added LuaPlayer::toggle_map_editor().
• The script_destroyed_entity event is raised for map editor instant deconstruction.
• Added LuaEntity::tick_of_last_attack and LuaEntity::tick_of_last_damage write.

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