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• Name: Subsurface
• Version: 0.0.3
• Factorio-Version: 0.12.22
• Description: build stuff underneath your base
• License: MIT
• Release: 01/23/16
• Download-Url:

  Subsurface_0.0.4.zip

  changelog:
  - added fluid elevator !!
  - added missing locals
  - updated air-vent gfx (thanks to Yuoki !)
  - added independent items elevator
  - changed gfx of ground and walls (thanks to y.petremann)
  - started working on automated diggin, but since it makes the game really laggy, it is disabled by default, can be activated using /c remote.call("subsurface", "activate_automated_boring")
  -fixed several bugs

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• Dependencies: none !
• Github repository : https://github.com/stanfear/FactorioMod-Subsurface.git

• new Fluids elevator : Get your liquids from the top surface to your tunnels !
• new Independant items elevator: Finaly, you can take your items up and down a level without having to build a whole elevator shaft
• create a drill to dig a hole to the subsurface
• replace the drill with an elevator when the hole is done
• move items from one surface to another using a item elevator, aka a fancy belt
• share the same electrical network on the surface and subsurface
• change the surface you're on by simply stepping near the player elevator (that giant pole ...)
• expand the place you have underground by digging the walls
• air vents to move polution up one level (active (which require power) and passive (which bring the two surfaces pollution to the same amount))
• player take damage when there is too much polution in a subsurface
• subsurfaces to all surfaces (including subsurfaces)
• motorised drill to expand the underground "faster"

• new automated drilling ! finally you can already test it by using this command in game :

  Code: Select all

  /c remote.call("subsurface", "activate_automated_boring")

  be aware that it is a HUGE drain on the CPU as it is (to the point that it can be impossible to play), Optimisations are comming !
  if you try this out, Tell me what you think about it !
  
  Future features (planned)
  • textures ! (need help there ! (I now have a thread in texture requests : https://forums.factorio.com/forum/viewtop ... 15&t=19315))
  • technologie requirements
  • correct recipe for drilling machine
  • known bugs fixed
  • improved and optimized code
  • localized names for all entity
  Future features (maybe)
  • supports to consolidate the surface ground and avoid collapsings
  • ability to have collapsings
  • link rails from surface to subsurface (and vice-versa)
  • automated item elevator upgrade when surrounded by higher tier belts
  • any suggestion ?
  Known bugs
  • may not work with a loaded game which already uses the mod
  • tell me !

version 0.0.4: 
  - added fluid elevator !!
  - added missing locals
  - updated air-vent gfx (thanks to Yuoki !)
  - added independent items elevator
  - changed gfx of ground and walls (thanks to y.petremann)
  - started working on automated diggin, but since it makes the game really laggy, it is disabled by default, can be activated using /c remote.call("subsurface", "activate_automated_boring")
  - fixed several bugs
version 0.0.3: 
  - fixed loading bug (game could not load a save with this mod in it already)
  - player now gets hurt if staying too long undeground with a high polution
  - all surfaces can now have subsurfaces ! (even subsurfaces !
  - added mobile-borer to help dig the subsurface
  - some aestetic changes
version 0.0.2:
  - removed possibility to create manually a tunnel entrance
  - fixed deletting the drill would cause an error
  - fixed that surface driller would stay stuck at "stabilizing hole" if build more than 2 chunks away from starting position
  - changed surface driller sprite to have a 5x5 tiles wide sprite (still only a placeholder though)
  - added air-vents (active and passive) which move polution from subsurface to surface (and vice versa for passive)
  - made sure items elevator in tunnel elevator can't be mined or rotated
version 0.0.1:
  - initial WIP release

Rockstar04 wrote: deleting the drill or the elevator throw an error and kick you back to the new map screen.

Rockstar04 wrote:Sorry, Elevator was the wrong term, tunnel entrance is the actual item. I assume this is a entity used by the mod to create the "elevator" and probably should not have a recipe (to remove it from the crafting screen)

Here is an Imgur gallery with the details https://imgur.com/a/AHnm4

Rockstar04 wrote:I see that getting the mod onto GitHub is a todo, I would love to help out with some of the tasks

kiba wrote:No dirt to contend with?

Dr. Walrus wrote:I just tried it out today. I had the same problems as Rockstar04. Gameplay wise my surface drillers never went past displaying "stabilizing hole" and I couldn't get underground. Also I'd recommend using a 5x5 sprite for the drillers if you are going to use a 5x5 collision box, even if you just steal the oil refinery sprites or resize the assembly machine sprites.

Also you are missing this from you locale file

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[entity-name]
surface-driller=Surface driller
[item-name]
surface-driller=Surface driller

Sorry if I'm coming off harsh on you without any actual solutions but from your post this looks like a really neat mod and a good use of surface control. Keep up the good work cause I want to see the finished product!

StanFear wrote:for the same problem as Rockstar04, do you mean when you manually build a tunnel-entrance and then remove it ?
-> it's been fixed in the current build I'm working on

about the stabilizing hole, I ran into this issue myself when testing the air-vents from the next version, it seems to be happenning when the drill is not in an area of 2 chucks around position {0,0}, I might have an idea of why this happens though, and is pretty much the only reason I didn't release a new version yet

also, about useing appropriate sized sprites, you are totaly right, I just don't have anther picture editor software than paint and have an internet connection so bad that I can't afford to download something like gimp or paint.net (I know paint can be powerfull sometimes, but I'm afraid I don't know how to use it !) but ... you are right, I could use other entity's sprite !

as to the missing entries in the local file, I know they should be there, but since I havn't decided on final names for any of the entities, I have decided not to give them a name until final, and since it is not that disturbing to play without, I'd rather not have people expecting to find a name the day I change them.

and to finish, about being harsh, you're not, getting replies like this is the exact reason I put my mod in the WIP subforum !! so I should say thank you !

animation =
    {
      filename = "__Subsurface__/graphics/entities/big-assembly.png",
      priority="high",
      width = 165,
      height = 170,
      frame_count = 32,
      line_length = 8,
      shift = {0.417, -0.167}
    },

Dr. Walrus wrote: I tried it out within 2 chunks of the origin and its working for me now. That's a goofy bug right there, you'd need someone who knows modding better than me to figure that one out. I got another error when i mined a tunnel entrance while underground and i was about to be teleported. I didn't get an error when i mined the thing, but as soon as the the teleporting bar finished I got an error. If the tunnel entrance a separate entity from the one above ground you can just make it not minable, that way people wont get stuck underground either.

Here's the link for a blown up version of the assembly machine so that it now fits in a 5x5 space. its a little fuzzy buts its a good placeholder until YuokiTani finds this thread and makes you a beautiful, watercolor, hand-rendered excavator machine

This is the sprite data for it to animate properly

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animation =
    {
      filename = "__Subsurface__/graphics/entities/big-assembly.png",
      priority="high",
      width = 165,
      height = 170,
      frame_count = 32,
      line_length = 8,
      shift = {0.417, -0.167}
    },

until YuokiTani finds this thread and makes you a beautiful, watercolor, hand-rendered excavator machine

aka13 wrote:The mod does look great, keep up the work!

Airat9000 wrote:good mod!

It would be nice to come up in a dungeon more space and the possibility of expanding ie open cells is damaged as a bomb shelter really?

kiba wrote:You need terrifying underground borers..

kiba wrote:...and GIANT TUNNEL BORING MACHINES!

StanFear wrote:

Airat9000 wrote:good mod!

It would be nice to come up in a dungeon more space and the possibility of expanding ie open cells is damaged as a bomb shelter really?

thank you ! and sorry, I did not see your post ("view first unread post" brought me to the next page ?)
I don't really understand what you mean... you want dungeons underground ? (the rest I have no idea, english is not my native language so maybe I just am not good enough to understand but ... can you be more clear about what you mean ?)