[0.11.x] Bridge Railway

[MrP123]

Hi guys!
Have you ever thought that placing rails on water would be a handy way to access islands, or would help make your train system less messy?
Well I did think that way and therefore made a mod that adds a new rail version.

Features:
- own technology to be researched (after Automated rail transportation)
- a recipe for straight rails and for curved rails (costing more steel and a bit of wood)
- those rails can be placed on water
- bridge rails are fully compatible with the standard base-game rails (straight & curved)

Things to be aware of:
- you can't walk on those rails if they are placed over water
- you can't exit the train if there is no safe spot (everything besides water) for the player
- I havn't tested the mod on multiplayer, but as it doesn't rely on any form of custom lua scripting it should work fine

Images:
http://imgur.com/a/2KUyU

Locomotive on water

Technology

Bridge Straight Rail recipe

Bridge Curved Rail recipe

Download:
This mod only works for Factorio 0.11.x, if you want the new version go to viewtopic.php?f=92&t=21370
http://www.mediafire.com/download/8llx5 ... _1.0.0.zip

[Mr. Thunder_Tw]

Sounds interesting, is it multiplayer compatible? screenshots?

[MrP123]

Pictures added above

[jockeril]

A very good idea, though I did see the Test mod do the same and I think the rail layer mod does that too...

One question though - I you cant walk on bridge rails - how do you lay them down on water ?

[MrP123]

You lay them down either with construction robots or while sitting in the locomotive, as you can place rails right infront of the locomotive.

[jockeril]

You lay them down either with construction robots or while sitting in the locomotive, as you can place rails right infront of the locomotive.

That second way was my guess... OK that works for me. #devs should think about adding this to the game...

Please rename the mod to the same name as the subject - it's a much better name and it helps if both mod name and forum thread are the same - took me some searching to find it !

Testing if it works on 0.12 - will report

[mcsteady]

I keep getting the error "no loader for rail". you appear not to have a control.lua file. is this significant for the latest version of the game

[MrP123]

I keep getting the error "no loader for rail". you appear not to have a control.lua file. is this significant for the latest version of the game

This mod is quite old (~1 year) and completely out of date.
It only works with Factorio version 0.11.x (as the title states) and I currently don't have any plan on updating the mod.
As an alternative I can suggest using the Landfill mod to simply fill in water and placing the rails on the newly created land.
If I find the time I'll update the mod.

[Factorio2016]

2 edits in file
RailMod_1.0.0\prototypes\entity.lua

7 line - type = "rail",
22 line - type = "rail",
replace
7 line - type = "straight-rail",
22 line - type = "curved-rail",

5dim mod - there are electric rails
ready file

[MrP123]

I posted an updated version of this mod, it now works for Factorio 0.12.11+:
viewtopic.php?f=92&t=21370

[danidavi97]

does not work anymore,i just tested

[MrP123]

does not work anymore,i just tested

This version of the mod only works for Factorio 0.11.x
If you play with a new version of Factorio (like the current version 0.12.35) you have to use this version of my mod.