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Hi everyone! I present to you my first mod!

I Hate Pipes - Canister Mod

The mod adds canisters - small liquid containers (1/50 of a barrel) for almost every liquid in the game. The point is I dont like pipes running near my assembly lines, so I decided to do crafting wihout them. Even though you could transport liquids around on belts with firegrenade's Fluid Barrel, the canisters are a bit different. You can craft items directly using canister with liquid inside, instead of emptying the barrel into pipe system and then crafting. Unfortunately the canister - unlike barrel - is lost in the process (but its still cheap).

Let me know if it even works. (also report factorio version you have, mod works on 0.11.11) Like i said, it my first mod ever.

Is there any way to do multiple recipes (with the same result item) without doubling them in the gui?

MOD CONTENT


CRAFTING


Alternative recipes

20.01.15 - v 0.1.1 uploaded
24.01.15 - added screenshots of mod content and recipes

By their nature, there is no way to have two recipies for the same item without having two Recipies displayed. You could make a new "canister" tab however.

Also, I would prefer the canisters, used in recipies, to be recycled, as in, a second output with those canisters. I hate wasting resources like that.

Ranakastrasz wrote:By their nature, there is no way to have two recipies for the same item without having two Recipies displayed. You could make a new "canister" tab however.

Also, I would prefer the canisters, used in recipies, to be recycled, as in, a second output with those canisters. I hate wasting resources like that.

When you add this I would use it as an alternative.

I'm okay the canisters are not reusable. That's the price to pay for easily handleable fluids.
They're cheap anyway (50 for 1 steel) but hold very little (0,5 units) so a barrel (25 units) needs 50 canisters equals 1 steel. So it's the same price for a barrel.
I wouldn't use them in mass productions as their costs get pretty steep then but for hard to reach low-volume productions they're okay as they can transport any fluid and not only oil.

So a battery uses 1 copper plate, 1 iron plate, 4 sulfuric acid canisters. 4 wasted canisters are equal to 4/50*5(iron plates)=0.4 iron plate more, up to 1 copper palte, 2 sulfuric acid units, 1.4 iron plates*. Thats the price for completing your main bus without pipes

*Actually its more like 1.4 iron plate raw without canisters to 1.8 iron plates raw with canisters since sulfuric acid also uses iron.**
**If i did the math good