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So I've written a few small mods and I'm looking for ideas for other's

The previous mods I've written are:

• Compression Chests
• Heavy Chests
• Explosive Termites

And I'm now updating and maintaining the Landfill mod


If possible I'd like original (or at least non-vanilla) mod ideas (not just a "faster miner"/"cheaper furnace"). With that being said, the only three things I can currently think of that might be interesting are:

• An expandable chest - 1 chest which increases in size with more storage crates you attach next to it
• Force fields for walls - already done by two others but I think I could put my own concepts into it to make it interesting
• Underground miners - already done by at least one other but again I think I could put my own concepts into it to make it interesting
• A delete button on your screen that you can click items into to get rid of them instead of having to drop them on the ground/in a chest

I'm not really against any potential interesting idea or even helping someone else with a mod their making (I love optimizing things - check out the Compression Chests mod to see the extent I go ).

Hey. I respect you a lot for doing this!
Here are two topics that might help you!

https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... =33&t=4974
And more importantly:
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... =33&t=4876 *nod nod*

dirty bomb.

Radioactive material refined and mixed with dynamite to create dirty bomb. Everything in radius is radiated and slowly losing health. At the same time, it produce HEAP of localized (how is this concept called? Gosh, I forgot! The dirt in the air..., POLLUTION, gosh...) pollution and bate all nearby biters.

One of the mods I wanted to add but never got around to was artillery. The ability to call down artillery fire onto biter bases would be awesome.

https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... =33&t=5013

i don't imagine this would be that hard, but it would give some real nice information.

My request:

Title?: Bigger spawn map ???

Oh. basically it would be nice to have a larger area around the spawn when you create a new game pre-loaded. I often spend 2 minutes moving around the spawn just to examine the area.

Perhaps a simpler way to create/expand bodies of water than what is in the Landfill mod?
What about a way to break items down, a la salvaging? Get less than what was required to make it, but better than out right destroying the item...
How about a laser rifle of some sort? Oh! And a charging station for power armor and electric weapons! That way, less space would be needed for power generation in power armor

vedrit wrote:Perhaps a simpler way to create/expand bodies of water than what is in the Landfill mod?

What's wrong with the method Landfill uses?

vedrit wrote:What about a way to break items down, a la salvaging? Get less than what was required to make it, but better than out right destroying the item...

The Scrap Mod can do this already - just destroy a building and it drops some of the items it's made of.

vedrit wrote:How about a laser rifle of some sort? Oh! And a charging station for power armor and electric weapons! That way, less space would be needed for power generation in power armor

The point of power armor is the energy tradeoff - you can't just spam it full of shields because they take power and if you fill it with power you're limited on shields/other hardware. It's meant to keep it from being too powerful.

Rseding91 wrote:

vedrit wrote:What about a way to break items down, a la salvaging? Get less than what was required to make it, but better than out right destroying the item...

The Scrap Mod can do this already - just destroy a building and it drops some of the items it's made of.

And I'm working on adding more recycle-type stuff to it soonish.

Just tell Rseding to nag me more about it...

Underground power cable.
3x3 power coverage at ends and 10x1 the cable itself.
Something like 10 plastic and 20 copper cables, and 4 iron plates.

Xecutor wrote:Underground power cable.
3x3 power coverage at ends and 10x1 the cable itself.
Something like 10 plastic and 20 copper cables, and 4 iron plates.

Hmm, that might be possible to do. But what would be the purpose? Wouldn't it be of more benefit to just put down 2 substations and power a much larger area?

Rseding91 wrote:

Xecutor wrote:Underground power cable.
3x3 power coverage at ends and 10x1 the cable itself.
Something like 10 plastic and 20 copper cables, and 4 iron plates.

Hmm, that might be possible to do. But what would be the purpose? Wouldn't it be of more benefit to just put down 2 substations and power a much larger area?

Power line of inserters in a hard to reach normally area

Got a mod idea for you Rseding91.
Inserter Insanity
I'd have done this myself already if I could look at code for more than five seconds without getting a headache.

Modname: Bulletproof

New Bullets / Shells for Endgame Survival

Something like the following was wandering in my Head

- burning bullets (adds burning effect -loosing x health each second for x seconds, may jumps to near structures/creatures, dont use inside your factory!),
- shocking bullets (lightning jumps from x times enemy to enemy dealing x damage),
- freezing bullets (chance to freeze enemy, if they get dmged while freezed, they break),
- explosion bullets (when an enemy dies of it, they explode, dealing x% of their life as splash dmg)
- acid bullets (leaving a trail of poison on the ground for x seconds, dealing low dot dmg, weakens armor by x% per tick, max xy%)
- (new) piecing bullets (pierces to x enemys, ignores x% enemy armor)

just as plain stupid idea, but i love the vision of having a lightning storm over a horde of biters

EDIT: Have to imagine some recipes for it as well

Why don't you team up with me ?
We could work on Industrio
(Read my signature *hint hint*)

Nirahiel wrote:Why don't you team up with me ?
We could work on Industrio
(Read my signature *hint hint*)

What exactly are you looking for help with on your mod?

Rseding91 wrote:

Nirahiel wrote:Why don't you team up with me ?
We could work on Industrio
(Read my signature *hint hint*)

What exactly are you looking for help with on your mod?

Let's talk about this in PM shall we ?

IDEA: On Screen Display (OSD).
1x1 modular armor item that adds certain number on display (like from top left corner and down) in big green/red numbers.
And accompanying items - one that can be hooked to electric network and thus provide/export production/consumption of that network,
and one that can be hooked to logistics network and show number of given items in a network.

As additional feature - for each counter add condition for red/green color.

Rseding91 wrote:

• An expandable chest - 1 chest which increases in size with more storage crates you attach next to it

Have you ever looked into this one a bit more? For my train unloaders, I would love to be able to put down a row of chests that share their contents along the entire row, but from the perspective of the inserters next to them act as individual chests (so the outer inserter's arms won't need to stretch like they do when unloading train wagons)

Here's a limited version of what you're looking for:
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... 810&p=5617
It's quite a few major versions outdated, so it's gonna need an overhaul, but it's a starting point until/unless we find a way to make entities arbitrarily connect on the fly.