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I don't want to play in creative, and it would be nice to have 1 mod that can make certain recipes free. A config file where you could add or remove items and when the mod loads it makes that recipe free.

My personal preferences would be for Roboports, rails, concrete, landfill, and power poles. I never seem to have enough of any of those things. But I'm sure other people would want a different set of items, so something generic like this would reduce the necessity for many existing mods.

Much easier than config file will be some constant combinator, that have signals with amount of items in your inventory.
The script can read this combinator and insert them to your inventory for free, maybe also to special passive provider chests.
Changing recipes can be done before the game starts only.

darkfrei wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2019 10:30 am Much easier than config file will be some constant combinator, that have signals with amount of items in your inventory.
The script can read this combinator and insert them to your inventory for free, maybe also to special passive provider chests.
Changing recipes can be done before the game starts only.

Only problem with this is I wouldn't have access to those items at the start of the game; I would need to unlock combinatorics. I also don't want to be able to change or modify the set of items once the game has started. Too tempting to just grab a handful of whatever is holding me up, and at that point I might as well be playing in creative. Unless I'm misunderstanding your solution; I don't really use circuit logic that often.

Also, I'm hoping the mod will be a new-ish user-friendly solution, not just a solution for me and my specific problems. Editing a txt file with items names is likely something most people will feel comfortable doing (speaking from experience with modded minecraft userbase).

krlsmnk wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2019 4:10 pm Only problem with this is I wouldn't have access to those items at the start of the game; I would need to unlock combinatorics. I also don't want to be able to change or modify the set of items once the game has started. Too tempting to just grab a handful of whatever is holding me up, and at that point I might as well be playing in creative. Unless I'm misunderstanding your solution; I don't really use circuit logic that often.

On the game start you get two entities: logistic container (it works as just chest without special technology) and constant combinator. If you has mined the combinator then you cannot set another items; if you has mined the container then you haven't free items anymore.

krlsmnk wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2019 4:10 pm Editing a txt file with items names is likely something most people will feel comfortable doing (speaking from experience with modded minecraft userbase).

Can you say internal name of red or blue chips? What about mods?

darkfrei wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2019 4:51 pm Can you say internal name of red or blue chips?

[item=processing-unit][item=advanced-circuit]
Will you give me a gold star? or maybe a [item=satellite]?

darkfrei wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2019 4:51 pm What about mods?

The debug option "show-debug-info-in-tooltips" and then just grab the item-name or recipe-name from the tooltip, ezpz.

I'm working on a mod that could solve OP's problem. But I don't want to release it until it is perfect so it might take a while before it is released even if I have a working version atm.

Qon wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2019 5:06 pm I'm working on a mod that could solve OP's problem. But I don't want to release it until it is perfect so it might take a while before it is released even if I have a working version atm. :?

Gold star if you make a GUI where you just select the items in a menu and get a textbox with code ready to be copy/pasted into config.lua.

krlsmnk wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2019 4:10 pm Can you say internal name of red or blue chips? What about mods?

So what if you don't know them off the top of your head, or how to look them up from within the game? The .txt config file could/should contain the names for all the base game's items, and have them turned off by default. Comments in that txt file can help new people locate an item by its in-game name, even if the internal name is different. Then all they have to do is change a "FALSE" to a "TRUE", save the txt, and reload their game. That really is the level of difficulty you should be shooting for here.

As for other mods, a "How to" comment section at the top of the txt should be sufficient to instruct users how to find internal names of modded items, and add them to the config.