[MOD 0.15 - 2.0] DayPhaseAdjuster

[AliceTheGorgon]

DayPhaseAdjuster

Description:

• Allows you to adjust how long each phase of the day is (dawn, day, dusk, night).
• Lengths are in seconds.
• Setting any phase to 0 seconds will skip it.
• With the default settings, the only change it makes is to make night as long as day.
• Supports Space Age planets

Details:

• Name: DayPhaseAdjuster
• MOD Version: 2.0
• Factorio Version: 0.15 - 2.0
• Latest Release: October 21st, 2024
• License: GNU GPL v3, or any later version

Quirks:

• Changing the settings while in a running save requires saving and loading the game to make it recognize the new values.
• Setting all phases to 0 length makes it permanently night until you change the settings to something else.
• This will probably freak out any mod that keeps track of the in-game time of day, since altering the time of day is the only way I know of to adjust day phase length.

Known issues:

• v2.0: In games without Space Age, the mod settings page still lists the non-existent planets, without their icon.

Changelog:

• v2.0: Support for Space Age
• v1.0.17+: No changes to code. Just bumping the supported game version so Factorio will actually load the mod.
• v1.0.1: Doesn't freeze time anymore, since it's apparently not needed, and will stay frozen even if the mod is removed.
• v1.0.0: Initial release

Uninstallation:
If you used version 1.0.0 of the mod, you'll either need to run

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/c game.surfaces['nauvis'].freeze_daytime(false)

in the console, or remove the main mod, enable the TimeUnfreezer mod, load the save, save the save, and then remove TimeUnfreezer. (You might need to let the game run for a few moments between loading the effected save, and then saving it again.)
If you've only ever used version 1.0.1, then time won't have been frozen to begin with, and you should be fine.

[DarkSlayerEX]

I just wanted to let you know that I've noticed that sandbox mode is affected by this mod, even though always day is on. You may need to look into that as well and add a condition for that flag.
Please keep in mind I have other mods running when I tested it, but I had not noticed the issue until I included your mod.

[AliceTheGorgon]

Thanks for the info.
I'll leave the mod as-is though, since if a player really wants the mod enabled and also always day for some reason, then it's pretty easy for them to change the map settings to make this mod only use the daytime portion of the day for that save.

[DarkSlayerEX]

Hm.. I suppose that does work. However, I wanted to point out that since your mod freezes the surface's daytime, it may cause people problems if they decide to uninstall the mod. Players may not want to run the command manually as it would disable achievements.

Perhaps you could find a way to unpause the game's time just before a map is saved. This could solve the issue with uninstallation.

[AliceTheGorgon]

Oh my. I didn't realize that time stayed frozen across a save/load. Thank you very much for the info.

I've updated the mod so it doesn't freeze time (since everything seems to work fine even if time isn't frozen), and I've added a time unfreezing mod to the main post to unfreeze the time for anyone who used the old version and wants to remove it but doesn't want to use console commands on the save.
The time unfreezer just needs to be enabled after disabling the old version of the mod, and then the save in question just needs to be loaded and saved again (after letting at least one tick pass, so TimeUnfreezer can do its thing).
After that, it's safe to remove TimeUnfreezer.

Edit:
I would have used the "unfreeze just before saving" idea, but I couldn't find anything in the api docs that would let me run code just before the game saved.

[DarkSlayerEX]

Ah, thanks for the fix. I had already set up a fix on my end too. (It was code I placed in one of my tweak mods, for my modpack)

At least it should help others with the same issue =)

[AliceTheGorgon]

Just a quick note that I've uploaded a version of the mod where the info.json lists compatibility with Factorio 0.16.

No actual code changes were made, as everything seemed to still be working fine in 0.16.

I also uploaded an updated version of the TimeUnfreezer, which fixed a typo where I set a variable to "dalse" instead of "false". Nobody should actually need the TimeUnfreezer at this point, but I figured I'd fix it anyway, just for completeness.

[AliceTheGorgon]

I've updated the mod in the mod portal. As per usual, no code changes were needed, just updating info.json.

Since there appears to still be no way to mark the mod as compatible with multiple Factorio versions, I've taken to making the "patch" part of the version number follow the main Factorio version number. That way I can upload versions for newer releases to the mod portal without having to delete all the old ones first, since it otherwise complains about the version being the same.

[Oktokolo]

I've updated the mod in the mod portal. As per usual, no code changes were needed, just updating info.json.

If it is just about updating the JSON, why not go all the way to 0.18 as you are at it?

[AliceTheGorgon]

Fair point. I generally don't play the experimental versions, but for a simple mod like this it does make some sense to do a quick test and update so it's listed as compatible ahead of time, instead of just waiting 'till it's in stable and forgetting about it instead.

I've added one marked with 0.18 compatibility.

[AliceTheGorgon]

Bumped the mod version number so it gets recognized by 1.1.
Sorry for the delay, everyone. I'd forgotten that 1.1 released, and didn't think to check until just now when I got another hankerin' to play the game again.

[AliceTheGorgon]

Updated to support Space Age.
Everything seems to work fine, but it hasn't been extensively tested. I've just visited each planet in a test game and verified that day lengths were changing correctly.

If anyone runs into any issues, let me know. Preferably with an example save showing the issue.


Edit: Important note for translators: The day lengths have changed slightly from 1.1, so the description strings for Nauvis will need to be updated for any mod that was translating this.