Substance* powered generator

[noname1208]

I apologize in advance if this has already been made or suggested, but I couldn't find anything like this.

We have trains and cars that we can run off of coal, so.... My thought was why can't we have a small generator that we can throw a bit of coal into to maybe power a small base somewhere, or maybe to power a couple of lasers on their own grid while you renovate your existing power structure? As I said earlier I'm sorry if something like a portable gas generator has come up before

*Coal, wood, solid fuel, 'n stuff

[ludsoe]

Well its possible for this to be made, I for one have a few ideas on how to do it. Its not as easy as adding some variables to a generator class and it works, as the game doesn't have a built in example we cant easily make it. Ill give it a show, and return to you with the results.

[ludsoe]

Well that was easier done then I thought. Had some problems with the ingame mod support, but I got it to work in the end.
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... =14&t=2778

[noname1208]

Oh nice, thank you for that

My fledgling modding powers could not figure it out