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== Basic ==
The order property is a '''simple''' [[Types/string|string]]. When the game needs to sort prototypes, it looks at their order properties and sorts those alphabetically. A prototype with an order string of "a" will be listed before other prototypes with order string "b" or "c". The "-" or "[]" structures that can be found in vanilla order strings ''do not'' have any special meaning.
 
== Advanced ==
When the game compares two prototypes (of the same type) if the order strings aren't equal they're [[:Wikipedia:Lexicographical_order|lexicographically compared]] to determine if a given prototype is shown before or after another. If the order strings are equal then the game falls back to comparing the prototype names to determine order.
 
== Examples ==
 
=== Two item prototypes ===
The second item is shown before the first one (in the crafting grid/inventory etc)
 
<syntaxhighlight lang="lua">{
    type = "item",
    name = "item-1",
    order = "ad",
  },
 
  {
    type = "item",
    name = "item-2",
    order = "ab",
  },</syntaxhighlight>
 
=== Some sorted strings ===
Using an UTF-8 character list, the sort order of special characters can be identified. This is the sort order for common characters:
* "-"
* "0"
* "9"
* "A"
* "Z"
* "["
* "]"
* "a"
* "z"
 
Example using the above ordering:
* "a"
* "ab"
* "azaaa" (<code>b</code> is sorted before <code>z</code>, so "ab" comes before "az", regardless of the rest of the letters after "az")
* "b"
* "b-zzzz"
* "b[aaaa]" (<code>[</code> is sorted after <code>-</code> in UTF-8)
* "bb" (<code>b</code> is sorted after <code>[</code> in UTF-8)

Latest revision as of 14:32, 25 October 2024

The prototype docs have moved to a new website with an improved format. This documentation page can now be found here: https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/types/Order.html

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