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Alien Goop Cracking

Description

Alien spawner hiding Alien Goop well

Pumpjack setup over Alien Goop well

Please do not stare at this animation for too long; I've lost a literal hour to it while making the mod.

Boosted alien goop well

• - Alien Artifacts: Mix 5ul with 8 Stone on a chemical furnace (30 seconds) or
  - Cotton Candy, a full heal consumable: Craft 20ul with a fish within your most beaconed setup you can muster.

Example crafting setup, with both Alien Artifacts, Cotton Candy and Barreling

• - Colored Alien Artifacts [bobenemies]: Mix 60ul goop, 30ul sulfuric acid, 96 coal (!!!) and 12 alien artifacts on a chemical plant to get, in average, 0.6 of every artifact flavour plus 30ul light oil.
  - Alien Bacteria [angelbioprocessing]: Mix 1ul goop with 2 calcium carbonate on an algae farm to get alien bacteria, the precursor for the mod's artifact crafting chain. 3x more efficient than the base recipe.

Mini-factory with the bob+angel recipes

Colored Alien Artifacts on the bottom center, Alien Bacteria on the middle right.

Philip017 wrote:testing v1.1.0 discovered a bug? possible as it is not a low chance of spawn spout i get a spout on every spawner killed,
this is not intended i believe

EDIT: the default is not 0.05 in the config, it is set to 1 when downloading from the portal thus resulting in the 100% spawn rate for spouts on spawner death

also using rsomod if this helps

Philip017 wrote:having played with it for a while,
i noticed that the red spots on my map look alot like the alien hives i have to destroy (the same color)
might i suggest making available a different color or using a different color.
thus i dont go crazy wondering if a hive has poped up again
thanks again!

EDIT:

i figured out how to change the color,
editing resources.lua in the prototypes/entity folder
map_color = {r=1.0, g=0.0, b=0.0},
the default red to
map_color = {r=0.0, g=1.0, b=0.0},
becomes green
thus helping differentiate between the hives and spouts.

when changing after already having spouts spawned, visit the spout and place a building on it, in my case a miner or a gun turret has worked well.

Philip017 wrote:well with the previous "bug" having one spawn every base,
i ended up with LOTS on my map,
and it was driving me a little bonkers,
hence the change to make them green.
i have not used the angles or bobs mods,

mainly because they are all dependent on each other and getting them all to work together is more hassle than it's worth to me, i tried 3ra's combination of the mods, but it was beyond me on how to get it working as the game went from mildly complicated to over the top complicated. i spent 30 hrs trying to get out of the burner stage (my least favorite stage of the game) and ran into a brick wall trying to make the next generation of electronic circuits to make fast inserters, and ran out of patience with the complications finding that, to me, it was more trouble than fun.

i did however end up with a single "charged" version, while it was still on the 100% chance,
because the biters move in at random locations,
even if you happen to get a spout out of a nest,
getting a charged version is extremely unlikely,
as not only do you have the small chance of getting the first one,
you now also have to get lucky and have them move back in on top of the one already present,
and then another small chance of it becoming charged.
something to think about.

Map preview of the new colours

(Spawned a map with all the biters I could, killed them all with a 100% goop well chance)

Bob+Angels setup showing the two new recipes

The new ones are on the right-most Algae Farm (another way to get bacteria, x3 more artifacts compared to the base recipe, requires Angel's Bioprocessing) and the big Advanced Chemistry Plant on the bottom (very expensive process to obtain the Bob's Enemies artifacts, has a net-gain on oil)

lfdo20 wrote:Hello, i cant put the pumpjack on the well. It apears ok when mouse over it showing the "0.2/s", but the pumpjack keeps red as not existed.
I think its because of the hardcrafting mod, that changes multiple machines in game, so the hardcrafting pumpjack dont see the goop well.
Is there a way to fix it ?
Thank You

FunCarcass wrote:Is there a way to make it so the destroyed spawner disappears after a while?

Philip017 wrote:

FunCarcass wrote:Is there a way to make it so the destroyed spawner disappears after a while?

the spawner does automatically dissapear, just takes a while, it could be possible to make the time to live very short however.

FunCarcass wrote:

Philip017 wrote:

FunCarcass wrote:Is there a way to make it so the destroyed spawner disappears after a while?

the spawner does automatically dissapear, just takes a while, it could be possible to make the time to live very short however.

Do you know where in the code that is specified. I'm not well versed in lua scripting, I don't know enough to understand it all, but I seem to be able to edit it (I have successfully edited a few mods). If you could point me in the right direction I should be able to do it. Do you know what file and line(s) that information might be on? I would greatly appreciate any information.

Thanks

Nexela wrote:

FunCarcass wrote:

Philip017 wrote:

FunCarcass wrote:Is there a way to make it so the destroyed spawner disappears after a while?

the spawner does automatically dissapear, just takes a while, it could be possible to make the time to live very short however.

Do you know where in the code that is specified. I'm not well versed in lua scripting, I don't know enough to understand it all, but I seem to be able to edit it (I have successfully edited a few mods). If you could point me in the right direction I should be able to do it. Do you know what file and line(s) that information might be on? I would greatly appreciate any information.

Thanks

It is part of the base game prototypes

When some things die they leave behind a corpse entity. corpse entities have a time-to-live set on the prototype, I think all factorio corpses are set to 15 mins by default

lfdo20 wrote:Hello, i cant put the pumpjack on the well. It apears ok when mouse over it showing the "0.2/s", but the pumpjack keeps red as not existed.
I think its because of the hardcrafting mod, that changes multiple machines in game, so the hardcrafting pumpjack dont see the goop well.
Is there a way to fix it ?
Thank You

Noricum wrote:I'm not quite sure which mods conflicts with this but i got this (on startup obviously)

Crash image

modlist is quite large right now (bob+angels)

modlist

{
"mods": [
{
"name": "base",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "color-picker",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "what-is-it-used-for",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "10xHarder",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "aai-signals",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "aai-vehicles-chaingunner",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "aai-vehicles-flame-tumbler",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "aai-vehicles-hauler",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "aai-vehicles-laser-tank",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "aai-vehicles-miner",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "aai-zones",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "angelstrigger-infiniteores-disableinfiniteores",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "angelstrigger-refining-enableproductivity",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "AsphaltRoads",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "auto-research",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "autofill",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "BetterIcons",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "Big_Menzs_Research_Pack",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "bobconfig",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "bobinserters",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "boblibrary",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "bobtechsave",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "Bottleneck",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "bullet-trails",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "clock",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "data-raw-prototypes",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "DayNightExtender",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "detached-gun-sounds",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "EvoGUI",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "Factorissimo2",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "Fastforward-Start",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "Flow Control",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "Foreman",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "KS_Power",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "LineSorter",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "Macromanaged_Turrets",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "More_Floors",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "off-grid-effects",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "PavementDriveAssist",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "slowevolution",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "Squeak Through",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "StickyNotes",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "Teleportation",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "textplates",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "Trashcan",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "upgrade-planner",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "UraniumPower",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "Vehicle_Radar",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "VersepellesHardStorage",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "VersepellesOreEnrichment",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "walls-block-spitters",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "water-fix",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "WaterWell",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "YARM",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "alien-biomes",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "bobenemies",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "bobores",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "bobvehicleequipment",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "steinios_logistic_sensor",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "steinios_wind_sensor",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "WearAndTear",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "bobtech",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "rso-mod",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "bobplates",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "angelsrefining",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "bobassembly",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "bobelectronics",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "bobgreenhouse",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "boblogistics",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "bobmining",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "bobpower",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "bobrevamp",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "ResearchRevolution",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "angelsaddons-oresilos",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "angelsaddons-warehouses",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "angelscomponents",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "angelspetrochem",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "Bio_Industries",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "bobmodules",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "bobwarfare",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "flowcontrolbobs",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "longer-belts-redux",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "usefulbyproducts",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "Additional-Turret",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "angelsaddons-pressuretanks",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "angelsbioprocessing",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "angelsinfiniteores",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "angelslogistics",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "angelssmelting",
"enabled": "true"
},
{
"name": "marathomaton",
"enabled": "false"
},
{
"name": "ShinyBob",
"enabled": "true"
}
]
}