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So, I've written a small lua program that takes all the recipe files and builds a production tree out of them (and gets item names from the locale files).

I'm still trying to get graphviz to render it nicely, but it's at least readable now.

http://i.imgur.com/1IPqTCl.png

I never realized wood only has 4 uses (plus fuel).

Nice.

You know that: https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... tsheet.jpg ?
Immibis, anything against to put it also into the wiki?

Some suggestions also:
- I think it makes more sense to have it from the other directtion: For every item a small tree, which completely shows, what's needed to create that single item.
- Would you share the sourcecode how you generated it?

I think it's a bit pointless to put it in the wiki if it doesn't explain anything, but there's no reason not to put it there.

ssilk wrote: - I think it makes more sense to have it from the other directtion: For every item a small tree, which completely shows, what's needed to create that single item.

A bit like this? It's something i've been working on.

immibis wrote:I think it's a bit pointless to put it in the wiki if it doesn't explain anything, but there's no reason not to put it there.

I think it is currently better than nothing. Remember, this is alpha. Anything, which helps is ok.

@Rens2Sea: exactly. I think this kind of description is much more useable, because you never look: oh, what can I do with iron, you always look: what do I need (not meet) to make that?

Its something I've been working on.

In the end this must be auto generated in the game or on a website, because it must work for mods, too.

Rens2Sea wrote:It's something i've been working on.

Looks great!

ssilk wrote:In the end this must be auto generated in the game or on a website, because it must work for mods, too.

Yeah, right now they are all made with paint.
Would be nice to make it into a little tool that mod developers can use to create recipe images for their threads.

What I wanted to say: Really very, very nice, but don't push too much effort in that, because the next release will come and then much things changes. I would make just a very provisional version.

immibis wrote:I never realized wood only has 4 uses (plus fuel).

Ditto. Also, I did not expect to need coal in my production lines until I got to the point of making plastic. I'd have loved to have known about that in advance while planning my primary resource conveyor system.

ssilk wrote:You know that: https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... tsheet.jpg ?
- I think it makes more sense to have it from the other directtion: For every item a small tree, which completely shows, what's needed to create that single item.
- Would you share the sourcecode how you generated it?

I did see the cheatsheet in the Friday Facts a while back. I want to make mine more condensed like that.
I will see about generating an all-items recipe-page like you describe. It will be a little more complicated, but not much.
I will share my source code soon!

Rens2Sea wrote:A bit like this?

Screenshot

It's something i've been working on.

This is exactly one of the sorts of views I want to generate automatically!

ssilk wrote:What I wanted to say: Really very, very nice, but don't push too much effort in that, because the next release will come and then much things changes. I would make just a very provisional version.

Changes and mods are why I want to automate this process. I just click a button when 0.9.1 comes out and this whole thing gets re-generated.

Looks like you are making some good progress on the automated system!
Here's my hand drawn one with the dia source if anyone wants to play with it too:
http://i.imgur.com/qrEpXjb.png

Source factorio-chart.zip

Dia http://dia-installer.de

Nemoder wrote:Looks like you are making some good progress on the automated system!
Here's my hand drawn one with the dia source if anyone wants to play with it too:

Your image looks awesome but you should definitely not be distributing the game's assets with your source. Users only need to put factorio.dia in [Installation_Directory]\data\base\graphics and it will load the icons from their installation.

Your image looks awesome but you should definitely not be distributing the game's assets with your source. Users only need to put factorio.dia in [Installation_Directory]\data\base\graphics and it will load the icons from their installation.

I wondered about that but I wasn't sure how well it would work across platforms and I figured it is only the icon files and they are publicly available on the wiki anyway.