Types/bool

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A variable type which can have one of two values: true or false. Wikipedia has a comprehensive article on Booleans.

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Booleans used in prototypes can also be be defined by other variable types which are then coerced to boolean values by the game. This type coercion differs from the standard Lua truthy/falsy coercion.

It is recommended to only use true and false, not the options listed below.

Value	Factorio prototype loading type coercion to boolean	Lua type coercion to boolean
""	false	true
"true"	true	true
"false"	false	true
"0"	false	true
"<any number besides 0 (inside a string)>"	true	true
"<some random string>"	not coerced, treated as a string	true
0	false	true
<any number besides 0>	true	true