Slow start, manual research

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Slow start, manual research

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Here are lots of suggestions and mods about skipping first ~hour of a game, give more initial resources and techs to go big immediately.
I've just started marathon game and realized that I want an opposite option - slow start. It will extend burning stage and make transition to electricity a significant progress rather then an initial thing.

It could be done by a mod, except one thing : manual research.
It is a handicraft recipe with infinite time, that acts like lab - burns science packs from player's inventory.
I need it to hide electricity, labs and circuits behind researches.

Also it would be nice to have different starting options in vanilla. Like minimum-standard-quick.

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Koub wrote:
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Well, I could redesign technologies myself, but I'm not sure manual research can be implemented by mod. That is what I'm asking for.

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You can fake it I think. Make a special recipe that uses science packs (for such early use, can just be 1xred), then when you see the output in the player inventory, remove that and add the appropriate amount to `LuaForce.research_progress`.

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Yea. A recipe with no output, costs the science packs. Each time recipe finishes, modify corresponding tech.
After its researched, remove the tech.
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Qon wrote:
Wed Apr 10, 2019 11:10 am
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/LaboriousLaboratory

Enjoy!
Please tell me what you think of it :3
Oh-la-la, thanks a lot! I will definitely try it later today.

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I made a thread What settings do you use and how do you play with the mod? on the board for the mod LL. I'm curious to hear from anyone that has tried it or plans to try it, how and why you would use the mod. :)

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