Thanks for the suggestions!

Hey, that's pretty cool, would you be interested in doing more Factorio Science?
https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comme ... oriobased/

Thanks for the clarification!


ut i'm guessing you have ample programming experience outside of factorio modding?


Unfortunately, I have almost no experience in coding except high school classes.



Yea, as i thought. That is basically the most cpu-expensive category of mod you can make, so ...

I see it this way:

Any machine is composed of given materials and is characterized by a specific level of mechanical stress.
I want to program the durability of materials by a certain Weibull distribution, and then return randomized outcomes for the material every X ticks. If the outcome for the ...

Thanks for the tip! I will check it out.


Be sure to check out this mod:
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/xander-mod

This has more realistic recipes than anything I came across so far.

Regarding wear and corrosion, there are mods, where robots or machines break over time. I didn't ever use them ...

Yes, I can. I think the system for design of materials will complement very vell the system for materials failure, since the latter stimulates the former.

Greetings!
I've recently came across Factorio, and I think we could both strengthen its late game and make it a great learning tool in materials science by introducing material failure mechanics (wear and corrosion) and tech routes for material diagnostics and engineering to tackle the added ...