Dependencies to automation science pack are overridden by PyPP

[protocol-1903]

Mod source

Factorio Mod Portal

Operating system

=Windows 10

What kind of issue is this?

• Compatibility
• Locale (names, descriptions, unknown keys)
• Graphical
• Crash
• Progression
• Balance
• Pypostprocessing failure
• Other

What is the problem?

In developing PyBlock, I have removed the steam-power technology as it is required to even start the game, and so can't be locked behind a trigger tech. I also added and modified two trigger techs to unlock before automation science, to prevent softlocks of players trying to make science before basic materials. The issue here comes when trying guide from those trigger techs to automation science. I am unable to have automation science have a dependency on the last trigger tech because it is overridden by PyPP.

I would like PyPP to either add steam power to the dependencies instead of overwriting it, or have a cache check for automation science so that other mods can set pre-automation science techs.

Steps to reproduce

No response

Additional context

you can see at the bottom that the prerequisites field is overridden

Log file

No response

[protocol-1903]

I can make a PR if need be, just let me know what solution works best

[oorzkws]

The whole block is a hack until autotech works. The full overwrite is because the other dependencies were causing issues, so... I'm tempted to just

if not mods["PyBlock"] then
data.raw.technology["automation-science-pack"].prerequisites = {"steam-power"}
end

Ideally we won't be spending a lot of time maintaining temporary code. Thoughts @notnotmelon ?

[notnotmelon]

Sounds good to me.

[protocol-1903]

I have a pyblock cache line for automation science, so i think it will override the old prerequesites. I'll see if that works