[0.15] FactoriMon 0.1.0 - Capture, breed, battle aliens.
Posted: Sun May 28, 2017 2:44 pm
I just pushed FactoriMon 0.1.0 to mods.factorio.com: https://mods.factorio.com/mods/daid/factorimon
This mods adds the ability to capture biters/spitters, as well as breeding them, and even have them fight each other to their death!
Aliens!
Each captured alien under your control has a "sex" and "level". Sex is male or female and important for breeding. "levels" go from A to Z. Where A is the best, and Z is the worst. The higher the alien level, the better it fights, the better stuff you get from harvesting.
Main new items, in a quick overview:
* Stun magazine: You use this to stun small biters/spitters. Then you can pick them up and place them somewhere, and suddenly they are your friend.
Fired from normal weapons.
* Breeder "light": if this is powered, and a male and female alien of the same type are near. Then they breed. Due to how breeding works with aliens, they die as part of the process and produce a number of eggs.
* Hatchery: Eggs are inserted, new aliens come out. Pretty easy.
* Arena "light": if this is powered, aliens nearby will attack each other. Until the last one remains standing.
* Slaughterhouse "harvesting": Aliens enter, alien parts come out. By magic! No aliens are hurt during this process.
Support items:
* Alien sensor: Detects how many and which type of aliens are nearby, and outputs this to the circuit network.
So, the process of working with this mod is:
1) Capture a few aliens with the stun magazines.
2) Breed these aliens into eggs.
3) Use the eggs to create more aliens.
4) Use the arena to improve your aliens.
5) Harvest high quality aliens for many alien parts.
You can fully automate the steps 2 to 5 thanks to the sensor and gates.
More info
Breeding never creates higher level aliens, it creates more aliens of the same or lower levels. Only fighting can upgrade your alien levels.
Development info
Currently the resulting alien parts cannot be used for anything yet. Still working on that part, and pondering what to do exactly with the results.
The plan is to have certain parts only being available from higher level aliens. But first I need to figure out where I'm going to use those parts for.
This mods adds the ability to capture biters/spitters, as well as breeding them, and even have them fight each other to their death!
Aliens!
Each captured alien under your control has a "sex" and "level". Sex is male or female and important for breeding. "levels" go from A to Z. Where A is the best, and Z is the worst. The higher the alien level, the better it fights, the better stuff you get from harvesting.
Main new items, in a quick overview:
* Stun magazine: You use this to stun small biters/spitters. Then you can pick them up and place them somewhere, and suddenly they are your friend.
Fired from normal weapons.* Breeder "light": if this is powered, and a male and female alien of the same type are near. Then they breed. Due to how breeding works with aliens, they die as part of the process and produce a number of eggs.
* Hatchery: Eggs are inserted, new aliens come out. Pretty easy.
* Arena "light": if this is powered, aliens nearby will attack each other. Until the last one remains standing.
* Slaughterhouse "harvesting": Aliens enter, alien parts come out. By magic! No aliens are hurt during this process.
Support items:
* Alien sensor: Detects how many and which type of aliens are nearby, and outputs this to the circuit network.
So, the process of working with this mod is:
1) Capture a few aliens with the stun magazines.
2) Breed these aliens into eggs.
3) Use the eggs to create more aliens.
4) Use the arena to improve your aliens.
5) Harvest high quality aliens for many alien parts.
You can fully automate the steps 2 to 5 thanks to the sensor and gates.
More info
Breeding never creates higher level aliens, it creates more aliens of the same or lower levels. Only fighting can upgrade your alien levels.
Development info
Currently the resulting alien parts cannot be used for anything yet. Still working on that part, and pondering what to do exactly with the results.
The plan is to have certain parts only being available from higher level aliens. But first I need to figure out where I'm going to use those parts for.
