Omega Haxors' Usefullness

[omega_haxors]

Just a simple little humble mod which adds all sorts of useful things that I would find useful. Right now it's very limited due to my weak understanding of Factorio scripting, but I have big plans for when I do figure it out. A few of the things in this mod are extremely powerful and a lot of things don't have recipes, so you will need test mode to play with them.

-- FEATURES --

Boolean/Variable:
The boolean is just a simple little card made out of 1 plastic. This is designed to be used in small circuit networks and allows for you (or a machine) to set the logical state of the item to either TRUE, FALSE, or NULL. This allows for simple and clean logic. For larger networks, however, you're going to want the variable. This extremely useful item allows for you to set a variable, such as "PowerState" and functions exactly like the boolean. Due to the name, though, you can have these loosely strewn across your network with no ill effect.

(Because of my inability to wrap my head around scripting, this is currently half-implemented)

Number:
Similar to the boolean and variable, this little card will store a number within it. This is useful if you want to, say, store the amount of power in your network at any given time.

Backup Steam Engine:
This steam engine is more efficient and more powerful than the regular one but it will only go off when the power goes out, similar to an accumulator. Furthermore it cannot charge accumulators.

Mega Steam Engine:
The first of the mega-family. This steam engine is very inefficient but has a massive throughput to make up for it. You are going to have a VERY hard time providing things thing with the steam required to run it, but massive energy outputs reward you if you do. I tested it, it's possible without mods.

Integrated Requester: (no recipe)
A bit of a simple test, really. This is a requester chest you can place either next to, or on top of a machine to allow it to access the logistics network. Items within the chest will be added to the relevant inventory slots. This is currently WIP and is simply a no-collision requester chest in this release.

Mega Storage Tank: (no recipe)
Another super powerful mega-device. This tank is capable of holding 10 thousand units of any fluid, which makes it extremely useful for buffering the intense throughput of the mega steam engine. Currently has no recipe as I am still balancing the fluid storage; more storage space also reduces the throughput in the early stages of filling.

Mega Boiler: (no recipe)
An extremely powerful boiler which burns through fuel faster then most inserters can put it in. Less efficient than a normal boiler, with a large pollution potential if liquid is being heated fast enough.

Wumbo Fuel: (no recipe)
The fruits of Wumbology; this fuel has an extreme amount of fuel value (9001MJ!) which makes it almost essential for the Mega Boiler. Wumbology is not implemented, and as such the fuel has no crafting recipe.


-- PLANNED FEATURES --

Wumbology: The study of wumbo. This opens up the ability to wumbo most items in the game to hilarious extent. Make a wumbo chest with insane storage, or wumbo fuel with a lot of fuel value, wumbo your weapon to deal additional damage, and you can even wumbo a tree to help keep pollution down.

Integrated Logistics Chests: Chests which can be placed next to or on top of a machine to allow it to interface with the logistics network directly. Come in 4 varieties: Storage, Requester, Provider, and Active Provider.

Byte: Eight booleans in a single item. The byte uses hexidecimal as its input.

Turing Machine: Reads and writes logic cards, such as the boolean, and does stuff as a result. Feed it logic cards from one end, and take them out another in order to tell this machine what to do.

Coder: Converts booleans into bytes in a 1:8 ratio and visa versa. Cannot parse NULL booleans, and will simply ignore them. Or I could go the realistic route and make them fail in the presence of a NULL.