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• Automated placement
  • Rails, signals, electric poles, lamps
  • Connect poles with red/green wires

• Customizable placement
  • Customize positioning of electric poles, lamps and other entities with blueprints

• Obstacle removal
  • Removes trees and stone rocks that are in the way
  • adds 1 raw wood per tree to cargo

• Cruise control
  • keeps the speed at ~87km/h (full speed when not placing rails) without pressing W, deactivate by pressing S

• Mod support
  • Support for powered rails (5dim's mod), look here how to enable it
  • Support for Landfill mod

• 0.2.93
• -root mode now requires a FARL at both ends of the train
• gui works when loading a game where player is driving FARL
• a debug button can be enabled in control.lua
• minor fixes/rewrite

• 0.2.92
• reenabled minimal pole placement
• look for nearest signal when activated
• "-root" mode added, see release notes for details
• german translation

• 0.2.91
• fixed crash with invalid pole position

• 0.2.9
• improved placement of poles (proper rotating/mirroring, less disconnected poles)
• small fixes

• 0.2.8
• settings/blueprints are now saved per player
• cleanup work, minor fixes

• Improved placement of poles and other entities defined in the blueprints. It shouldn't place disconnected poles anymore (was mostly when using medium poles). When selecting "flip poles" in the settings it will now correctly mirror along the rail instead of only rotating by 180°
  While it was possible in earlier versions, you can now use anything in blueprints (modded entities). Turrets, walls, etc. should all work now. Not sure how splitters/gun turrets will behave, but square entities should always work.

• Fixed crash/error when a pole was placed and no valid position for the next one was found

• reenabled minimal pole placement
• look for nearest signal when activated
• "-root" mode added, see release notes for details
• german translation, thanks to bulldog98

• Train can be any length (tested with up to 15 wagons)
• You can put a FARL at the end, though you don't need to (make sure they face the same direction, don't know what happens otherwise)
• Signal placement is off while "-root mode" is on (couldn't think of a name )
• Pole placement depends on your setting, they don't get removed

To start it: get in FARL, activate the mode and then click Start. You'll see the usuall Last floating text, and on the other side you should see "Behind" floating up. You're good to go.
When starting make sure the whole train is on straight tracks (horizontal/vertical/diagonal). When starting, FARL goes from Last backwards until it finds no straight track or has found (# of wagons * 7) tracks. If you initially have a curved track at the end it won't get removed, newly placed ones will though.
Toggling the mode while FARL is active may have unexpected results, better deactivate FARL first.

• -root mode now requires a FARL at both ends of the train
• gui works when loading a game where player is driving FARL
• a debug button can be enabled in control.lua
• minor fixes/rewrite

Choumiko wrote:Snake mode would have the trail of rails it leaves behind increase whenever it "eats" something. Shouldn't be too hard to implement now.
Exploration++ is more like it. Basically it behaves like a car, without the hitting trees stuff. How does Car+ mode sound?

jockeril wrote:Why don't you just call it "wood collector" no, Exploration++ sounds like the best description for it. I just need to think how I would translate it in hebrew...

p.s. why is the 0.12 f.a.r.l version thread locked and this is the one we post in ? shouldn't it be the other way around ?