[MOD 0.17.x] AyrAs BasicKit

[AyrA]

Type: Mod
Name: AyrAs BasicKit
Description: No-Crafting challenge as simple as possible
License: WTFPL
Version: 2.1.1
Release: 2019-05-26
Tested-With-Factorio-Version: 0.17.43
Category: Gameplay
Tags: Free, No crafting, no additional items
Download-Url: GitHub Release 2.1.1
Website: GitHub project

This is my first mod. It's simple and small. And it does exactly that I needed from it.
I have not looked into many other 'no crafting' Mods. But most of them seem to create their own items, which I thought was not needed.

License

License

The text is taken as-is from The creator of this magnificent document

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            DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
                    Version 2, December 2004

 Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar <sam@hocevar.net>

 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
 copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
 as the name is changed.

            DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
   TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION

  0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.

The reason I have chosen this license is because I don't think this thing deserves any copyright. It is just too simple.

Liability

Liability

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This program is free software. It comes without any warranty, to
the extent permitted by applicable law. You can redistribute it
and/or modify it under the terms of the Do What The Fuck You Want
To Public License, Version 2, as published by Sam Hocevar. See
http://www.wtfpl.net/ for more details.

Long description

Long description

What it does

This mod enforces the no-crafting challenge by disabling all hand crafting.

To give the player the ability to play the game at all, the inventory is cleared completely and replaced with 3 other items:
A Power pole, a solar panel and an assembly machine type 3.

With this minimum set of items, it should be possible to complete the game (e.g. launch rocket).

The mod contains additional configuration settings, that can be tweaked by the user.
To do so, check out the "Mod Settings" when starting a new map.

The mod is fully documented with a Readme file and comments in the code file itself.

As of now, the settings allow you to do this:

1. Instead of a solar panel, give a steam engine, boiler and offshore pump.
2. Don't clear the inventory of the default items
3. Give the player an accumulator to bridge the night (barely).

All settings are off by default

Rewrite or integrate it
You can use this mod directly, but the purpose of it is to tweak it as needed or to integrate it into other modpacks.
The code is fully documented and should be easy to understand, even for first time modders.

Compatibility
Since we remove categories the player can craft, it should not cause trouble with other mods. If other mods add categories after this one removes them, you can craft those items. In that case drop a message and I will add a dependency link.
If you turn this mod off, your game should be back to normal, including existing saves.

Pictures

Pictures
This mod does not changes any visuals, yet you might notice a quite drastic change in your inventory.

Direct: http://i.imgur.com/VSG0ewm.png

Version history

Version history
Detailed release description can be found on the GitHub page.

Version 0.0.1 (02.11.2015): Initial release of mod.
Version 0.0.2 (08.12.2015): Some compatibility fixes.
Version 0.0.3 (28.06.2016): Update for Factorio 0.13.
Version 0.0.4 (29.06.2016): Compatibility bugfix.
Version 0.0.5 (09.07.2016): Multiplayer bugfix.
Version 0.0.6 (11.09.2016): Update for Factorio 0.14.
Version 0.0.7 (01.05.2016): Update for Factorio 0.15.
Version 1.0.0 (29.12.2017): Update for Factorio 0.16.
Version 1.0.1 (29.12.2017): Remove unnecessary BIG_POLE option.
Version 1.1.0 (21.01.2017): All options off by default, add "no inventory clearing" option.
Version 2.0.0 (01.03.2019): Update for Factorio 0.17. "Keep Inventory" is on by default now.
Version 2.1.1 (26.05.2019): Fixes "Player is now Character" change in game

Type 3 assembler

Why a type 3 assembler?
First of all, I do not want to add my own item, as vanilla has already anything we need.
The reason for a Type 3 assembler is this:

1. For a type 3 assembler (and thus for anything only it can craft) you need speed modules
2. Speed modules require advanced circuits.
3. Advanced circuits require plastic
4. Plastic requires oil
5. Oil requires a refinery
6. Refineries can only be made in type 3 assemblers or by hand, which is disabled.

As you see, you cannot progress to anything that requires oil. In fact, you also cannot create blue science packs, as they require plastics as well.

Development

Development of this mod
This mod can be expanded if you want to.

If you can program in LUA and have spare time, great! Fork the repository on GitHub, implement your changes and make a pull request.
If this is not an option for you, feel free to make requests here or open an Issue on GitHub.

[Dark-Water]

Hello,

I think i have found a bug in your

Wenn i use this mod in combination with the actual version of bob's mods

1. I can craft bobs mods only items in my hands (changed vanilla items are still not cratfable)

2. In the (changed) assembly machine 1 , i can choose only bob mods items, no vanilla items.

Actual i must deactivate your mod to play with bobs mods, the it is impossible to get a assembly machine 2 or higher

I hope you can found the bug

[AyrA]

1. I can craft bobs mods only items in my hands (changed vanilla items are still not cratfable)

2. In the (changed) assembly machine 1 , i can choose only bob mods items, no vanilla items.

Thanks for your report. My mod changes the items to "machine craftable only" when the mod is initialized by factorio. If a mod is loaded after mine, I have no control over its items.

Since "Bob" comes after "Basic" in the alphabet, it is likely, that my mod is loaded before bob's mods. I do the item changes in the last possible moment, but if bob's mods does that as well, I can't do anything against that.

I don't know if it works, but you can try to move around my mod entry in the "mod-list.json" file in your mods directory. Also you can try to do this:

1. Extract my mod into the mods directory. Rename "BasicKit_0.0.1" to "ZZZBasicKit_0.0.1"
2. Inside the ZZZBasicKit_0.0.1 folder, there is a info.jsom. Open it and change the name entry to "ZZZBasicKit"

[hoho]

You can also use the data-final-fixes.lua/data-updates.lua files. I think at least one of those is ran after all mods have added all their items to the game.

[AyrA]

You can also use the data-final-fixes.lua/data-updates.lua files

I am already doing that. I have not decompiled bobs mods, but I assume, that his mods use that file as well. Factorio just needs "up" and "down" arrows in the mod manager, so we can define an order, or an event, that is triggered when an item is added. This way I could dynamically change items as needed, if they are added after my mod has loaded. After all, this game is still in alpha. Plans for 0.13 seem to include a basic mod managing and downloading system. This is probably fixed then.

[hoho]

You can also use the data-final-fixes.lua/data-updates.lua files

I am already doing that.

And it still doesn't work? Weird, I would have expected that change to be enough.

Well, if everything else fails you can just add soft dependencies to info.json for the often used mods in style "? bobplates >= 0.12" or something. Sort of ugly but should make it work at least.

[AyrA]

And it still doesn't work? Weird, I would have expected that change to be enough.

If two mods use the data-final-fixes.lua, one is going to go first and the other second. I assume my mod goes first, probably because of alphabet, as "AyrA" and "BasicKit" come before "Bob's".

Well, if everything else fails you can just add soft dependencies to info.json for the often used mods in style "? bobplates >= 0.12" or something. Sort of ugly but should make it work at least.

I give that a go. I probably also rename the mod to something that is most likely always coming last in the list.

[GrimerX]

I had a similar problem with bob's mods. Few things I noticed:

1) Renaming to zzz is not sufficient - you need to add a dependency in info.json to ensure processing order.

2) Most items couldn't be crafted in a Type 1 assembly machine. Changing the category to 'crafting-machine' fixed that.\

3) Bob's mods has his own categories. This is why electronics boards still show up as hand-craftable. To work around this I just added v.category=="electronics" to the list. This is a bit hacky for a real solution but is quick. I'll fix up others as I go.

Cheers,

Ian

[AyrA]

1) Renaming to zzz is not sufficient - you need to add a dependency in info.json to ensure processing order.

I figured that out as well. It seems the code is loaded in the order it is specified in your mod-list.json file.
Until we can easily define, where to insert a mod, users have to manually move it to the end. I have added bobs mods as optional dependencies in the hope it will resolve some issues.

2) Most items couldn't be crafted in a Type 1 assembly machine. Changing the category to 'crafting-machine' fixed that.\

This type is not available in the main game. In an unmodded game, the type 1 assembly machine is technically not different from hand crafting.

Bob's mods has his own categories. This is why electronics boards still show up as hand-craftable. To work around this I just added v.category=="electronics" to the list. This is a bit hacky for a real solution but is quick. I'll fix up others as I go.

I just published a new release, that should address some issues:

1. I added soft dependencies for Bob's mods. This should ensure, that our mod runs last.
2. I added a category filter in data-final-fixes.lua. This causes the mod to also scan custom categories.
3. I added an exclusion filter for categories, so certain groups (for example oil-processing) can be excluded.

[AyrA]

The mod has been updated for Factorio 0.13: https://github.com/AyrA/BasicKit/releases

[DarkSlayerEX]

I'd been running into issues with this mod deleting recipes from modded assemblers (bob's greenhouse, chemical furnace) and even the Tier 1 Assembling machine.

I found that commenting out:

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for i,v in pairs(data.raw["recipe-category"]) do
	local add=true
	for j,w in pairs(exceptions) do
		if string.find(i,w) then add=false end
	end
	categories[i]=add
end

for i,v in pairs(data.raw.recipe) do
	-- Enable all items for debugging purposes
	if DEBUG then
		v.enabled=true
	end
	-- check if hand-craftable, and if so, make it machine only
	if v.category==nil or categories[v.category] then
	--if v.category=="crafting" or v.category==nil then
		v.category="advanced-crafting"
	end
end

and simply using:

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data.raw.player.player.crafting_categories = {nil}

or if they only want certain categories enabled: (Example)

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data.raw.player.player.crafting_categories = {"side-inserters"}

does the same thing, while only affecting the player's crafting capabilities, and leaving everything else unaffected. It works for me just fine this way. However, I haven't confirmed if this method works for multiplayer.

[AyrA]

I have updated the mod and will publish the changes to the repository ASAP. Until then, you can get it here: https://github.com/AyrA/BasicKit/releases/tag/v0.0.4

As an additional change you now get a pickaxe when starting a new game.

Since the mod does not causes any changes that would be reflected in the world file, you can just update it and it should work as intended.

[DarkSlayerEX]

Thanks for the update. Hopefully my fix won't cause any unforseen issues.

[AyrA]

Thanks for the update. Hopefully my fix won't cause any unforseen issues.

It shouldn't. What can happen is that a mod, which is loaded after mine adds a recipe to the player crafting list again.

[DarkSlayerEX]

I just noticed that this mod only gives items to the host player. Any joining players seem to spawn with nothing. Is this intended?

[AyrA]

I use a factorio event to assign the inventory: https://github.com/AyrA/BasicKit/blob/m ... ol.lua#L78

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script.on_event(defines.events.on_player_created,function(param)

This event is fired only once per player. If a player joins a map of yours, where he was once he will not get the item again, even if you update the server or copy the map onto another installation. If you want to get the item each time, change the event on Line 78 in control.lua from on_player_created to on_player_joined_game. But then he will get it each time he joins and this would allow him to "stack up" the items with repeated joins.

The on_player_created event is supposed to fire for each player if he has never joined that map before. At least that is what it did for factorio 0.12.0. Please test this on a new map. If the event is not called for each new player once, then I assume this is a 0.13 bug and we should report it.

[DarkSlayerEX]

Yes that is the issue. Even after starting a completely new world, and then having others join, half of the players do not get the items. Something definately seems wrong.

[AyrA]

...half of the players do not get the items

So some players are getting the items?

[DarkSlayerEX]

It's odd really...

Pretty much almost every time, no one gets any items aside from the host after starting a new world.
Extremely rarely for us(Discovered after lots of testing, and after having initially posted about this issue), 1 other person gets the items alongside the host, but no one else gets anything.

The issue happens regardless of who hosts as well..

I'm wondering if this issue could also be more prevalent when a world is generated in SP first, and then loaded through MP afterwards...

[AyrA]

I have opened a bug report (viewtopic.php?f=7&t=28540&p=180884#p180884). Let's see how it turns out, because in 0.12 it was working fine and I have not changed the event handler since the update.