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Posted: **Fri Nov 20, 2015 12:02 pm**

Hi

The "Letters" mod was really good back in alpha 11, in coop MP games, for labelling various sections of the factory ("What's this 'citadel' thing you keep talking about, Peter?" / "It's the thing that I've labelled 'citadel'!" / "Oh, OK...")
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... 96&t=15314

Sadly, with alpha 12, the sorting of the items of the mod broke, badly, and given that it contains a lot of item, proper sorting - alphabetical sorting, even - is crucial. As it is now, this mod in its broken state is actually useless.

But I'm sure one of you expert modders, who know all about how sorting works in alpha 12, can get it ship-shape with less than 30 minutes of work.

So... Any takers?

Posted: **Fri Nov 20, 2015 12:30 pm**

less than 30 minutes, challenge accepted...

The only thing that needed changing were the order lines in letters-entity.lua and letters-item.lua, example:
from

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order = "b[decorative]-a[Silver]-a[1]"

to

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order = "b[decorative]-a[Silver]-a[01]"

It needed prefixing (01 instead of 1) because it is treated as string and not as number.

Posted: **Fri Nov 20, 2015 12:41 pm**

Damn, daniel34 again...

To add some sanity to the mod, replace all of letters-items.lua with

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for num = 1, 95 do
    data:extend({{
        type = "item",
        name = "letter-"..num,
        icon = "__Letters__/graphics/letter/Letter_"..num..".png",
        flags = {"goes-to-quickbar"},
        subgroup = "Silver",
        order = "a[Silver]-a["..string.format("%.2d", num).."]",
        place_result = "letter-"..num,
        stack_size = 30
    }})
end

and do something similar with the other files.

Posted: **Fri Nov 20, 2015 2:35 pm**

Thanks a lot!

Posted: **Fri Jul 01, 2016 12:51 am**

And once again, can somebody please do what's necessary to update this mod to alpha 0.13, and then upload it to the portal?

I know there are other mods, now, to make letters appear in the game, and while those are more convenient to use (faster to make the text, much faster to change the text after having placed it), they honestly look ugly, whereas this mod's one-letter-per-tile approach has a certain austere beauty to it. It looks in-game rather than kludged-onto-the-game.

Thanks in advance.

Posted: **Mon Jul 04, 2016 9:07 pm**

Peter34 wrote:And once again, can somebody please do what's necessary to update this mod to alpha 0.13, and then upload it to the portal?

I know there are other mods, now, to make letters appear in the game, and while those are more convenient to use (faster to make the text, much faster to change the text after having placed it), they honestly look ugly, whereas this mod's one-letter-per-tile approach has a certain austere beauty to it. It looks in-game rather than kludged-onto-the-game.

Thanks in advance.

Here you go viewtopic.php?f=96&t=15314&p=178765#p178765

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