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Hi there. I'd like to have a barebone factorio so i can start to add in my own items, recipes, technologies, vehicles and such from scratch. In essence, i'm looking to create a complete overhaul. I have my own ideas of how i want production chains to go.

Is there any easy way to remove all of these so i can start from scratch with my mod?

rewrite `data/base` in your factorio install, the game's "just" a mod the engine loads.

Set data.raw to an empty table and then add things back as the game complains about them being missing.

darkfrei wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 11, 2018 10:21 am

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for i, prot_type in pairs (data.raw) do
  prot_type = nil
end

Faster to just set data.raw = {}

Rseding91 wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 11, 2018 10:35 am

darkfrei wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 11, 2018 10:21 am

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for i, prot_type in pairs (data.raw) do
  prot_type = nil
end

Faster to just set data.raw = {}

Here must be an exception list for some prototypes.

Rseding91 wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 11, 2018 10:35 am

Faster to just set data.raw = {}

Wouldn't that remove the metatable containing :extend?

I agree with darkfrei that it's useful to delete the table only partially, so you he can keep certain things while developing. I.e the animation-intensive player/train objects. Is data.raw completely in the lua state? If so he could keep a backup references local base = data.raw in case he needs some reference values later.

There is no meta table on data.raw.

There's simply a function called "extend" which is setup such that you can call data:extend and it passes data as the first argument. It's just a fancier version of doing: extend(data, ...).