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Heya,

i only found factorio a few weeks ago and enjoy it a lot. However i hate to destroy my mining outposts all the time because they ran dry.

My suggestion is to have a new mechanic where as when an ressource patch is very low (i.e. <10 ressources left), the ressource tile is replaced by an alternative ressource such as iron_con which produces a small but steady output. This way expansion is still required but outposts dont become useless.

I know of the endless ressource mod on the forum, but from what i understand it makes all ressources behave like oil, resulting in extractors producing way faster than they should at the start of a field, whereas my (more complicated) suggestion keeps them functioning normally until the ressources are actually depleted.

Im not sure if this is possible since i havent got much experience in LUA and Factorios mod structure.

As an further modding feature the new iron_con ressource patches could require a different type of extractor to produce the continuous output.


Anyone wants to try to build this mod? Or has anyone some tips on where to start if i want to build this mod myself (i have decent programming experience, just not in LUA or factorio)? Or any suggestions?

Ok,

this thread can be deleted....

Just tested a bit with the endless resource mod and it actually behaves exactly like my mod idea.....

It is possible to do this (well, actually idk about replacing it with less efficient ores as I just started modding) in 0.11.18 (since they implemented the onresourcedepleted event), in fact, I did it because I didn't like the old infinite ressources mod either.

If you want it it's attached.

As I said, this is my first mod and I'm still learning so it may well be there are some bugs I didn't find (it's really simple though so there shouldn't), report them to me if you do.
Also please don't get angry if your save breaks or so, I tested it on oil, which is the only thing I can think of that could break it, and nothing happened but you never know and I didn't build this mod to publish it.
Consider yourself warned.

I don't recommend you to delve into programming in lua because you know other programming languages, I did it myself and I had EXTREME difficulties due to the very profound structural differences between lua and other programming languages.