Enable enemies after map creation

[DutChen18]

So, When is started a game i turned off enemy bases because i didn't want to worry about enemies attacking me when i was building the most amazing factory of all factories, not knowing that you would need aliën artifacts to create purple science packs. But i still want to complete the game (create rocket silo) but i can't because i'm unable to create purple science packs. I don't want to create a new map in order to get aliën artifacts, i have put too much time into this map for me to even think about doing such a thing.

I wasn't sure if this should be in 'Technical Help' or 'Gameplay Help' but after thinking about it for at least 30 seconds, i decided this was the best place.

Apologies for my (possibly) bad english.

[oLaudix]

You could try using Peace Mod - https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... =40#p92300. It creates patches of ore that can be mined and turned into artifacts. You would ave to create patch of it with console command though so I'm not sure if you wont consider this cheating.

[prg]

Or you can just do

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/c game.player.insert{name="alien-artifact", count=500}

without the need for any mods.

[daniel34]

How did you disable the enemy bases? If you just activated the peaceful mode, there should still be biter nests on the map that you can kill and get alien artefacts from.

Or you can disable peaceful mode altogether by entering the following two commands in the console. You open the console by default with the key '/' or '~'.

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/c game.peaceful_mode = false
/c game.forces['enemy'].kill_all_units()

[DutChen18]

You could try using Peace Mod - https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... =40#p92300. It creates patches of ore that can be mined and turned into artifacts. You would ave to create patch of it with console command though so I'm not sure if you wont consider this cheating.

I prefer not using any mods, but if there's no other option i may try this.

Or you can just do

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/c game.player.insert{name="alien-artifact", count=500}

without the need for any mods.

I don't like cheating, it makes me feel bad...

How did you disable the enemy bases? If you just activated the peaceful mode, there should still be biter nests on the map that you can kill and get alien artefacts from.

Or you can disable peaceful mode altogether by entering the following two commands in the console. You open the console by default with the key '/' or '~'.

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/c game.peaceful_mode = false
/c game.forces['enemy'].kill_all_units()

I disabled enemy bases like this:

and yes, i did also turn on peaceful mode, and i still want that to be on if i do manage to enable enemies...

[prg]

Don't think it's possible to change map generator settings for a running game. If it feels less cheaty to you, maybe create some enemy spawners with something like

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for x = 1, 4 do
    for y = 1, 4 do
        game.player.surface.create_entity{name="biter-spawner", position={game.player.position.x-50+x*6, game.player.position.y-15+y*6}}
    end
end

That will place a couple of biter spawners to the left of your character.

[DutChen18]

Don't think it's possible to change map generator settings for a running game. If it feels less cheaty to you, maybe create some enemy spawners with something like

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for x = 1, 4 do
    for y = 1, 4 do
        game.player.surface.create_entity{name="biter-spawner", position={game.player.position.x-50+x*6, game.player.position.y-15+y*6}}
    end
end

That will place a couple of biter spawners to the left of your character.

I didn't even think about creating the enemies myself, but is there a way to create enemies all over the map in a way that the factorio map generator would do it? because if i just go around creating my own bases that kinda defeats the purpose of exploring the map for said enemy bases and because they are always the same it will get repetitive and boring to have to kill the same base over, and over, and over...

Another option i thought of was creating a new map that did have enemies and then killing them, but this would require a terraria-like character system wich factorio sadly does not have.
ANOTHER option i thought of was creating a new map with the same seed but with enemies enabled, and then copy and pasting my current factory and everything i've researched into that map, but sadly i do not know how to do this, or if it's even possible

[prg]

I didn't even think about creating the enemies myself, but is there a way to create enemies all over the map in a way that the factorio map generator would do it? because if i just go around creating my own bases that kinda defeats the purpose of exploring the map for said enemy bases and because they are always the same it will get repetitive and boring to have to kill the same base over, and over, and over...

Maybe if you create a couple of spawners manually and wait a bit, the resulting biters might decide to go found new bases in empty areas themselves. At least this is how it would work in a normal game, not sure if enemy base size set to none affects this.

Another option i thought of was creating a new map that did have enemies and then killing them, but this would require a terraria-like character system wich factorio sadly does not have.

Create new map, kill enemies and collect artifacts, remember number of collected artifacts, resume old game and do the game.player.insert thing...

ANOTHER option i thought of was creating a new map with the same seed but with enemies enabled, and then copy and pasting my current factory and everything i've researched into that map, but sadly i do not know how to do this, or if it's even possible

Wouldn't know a feasible way of doing this, either.

[DutChen18]

I didn't even think about creating the enemies myself, but is there a way to create enemies all over the map in a way that the factorio map generator would do it? because if i just go around creating my own bases that kinda defeats the purpose of exploring the map for said enemy bases and because they are always the same it will get repetitive and boring to have to kill the same base over, and over, and over...

Maybe if you create a couple of spawners manually and wait a bit, the resulting biters might decide to go found new bases in empty areas themselves. At least this is how it would work in a normal game, not sure if enemy base size set to none affects this.

May try this, because of private reasons i cannot try doing this untill next wednesday tho, so it'll have to wait.

Another option i thought of was creating a new map that did have enemies and then killing them, but this would require a terraria-like character system wich factorio sadly does not have.

Create new map, kill enemies and collect artifacts, remember number of collected artifacts, resume old game and do the game.player.insert thing...

it will be very annoying to have to do this, because if i need ammo or new fuel for my tank or whatever, i will need to go back to old world, somehow delete ammo, go to new world, and then cheat in ammo. And even worse: Using turrets (i heard it was a very good strategy to place alot of turrets, anger the monsters, and then lure them to the turrets), Getting new ammo for them every time will be an absolute pain in the ass.
But oh well, if the first option doesn't work, i'll just have to live with this.

[prg]

it will be very annoying to have to do this, because if i need ammo or new fuel for my tank or whatever, i will need to go back to old world, somehow delete ammo, go to new world, and then cheat in ammo. And even worse: Using turrets (i heard it was a very good strategy to place alot of turrets, anger the monsters, and then lure them to the turrets), Getting new ammo for them every time will be an absolute pain in the ass.
But oh well, if the first option doesn't work, i'll just have to live with this.

If it should come to this, to make things maybe a bit less annoying you could dump your current character's main inventory to a file with something like

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/c local i = game.player.get_inventory(1) game.makefile("inv.dump", "/c local i = game.player.get_inventory(1) i.clear() for name, count in pairs("..serpent.block(i.get_contents())..") do i.insert{name=name, count=count} end") i.clear()

then use the content of that file (inv.dump in the script-output directory) to recreate the inventory for a different character. The file will already contain the commands required for that, just paste it into the console. If you also want to take the quickbar contents and equipped weapons with you, you'd need to do the same thing with higher inventory numbers, but i guess the easiest thing would be to just put everything into the main inventory.

[DutChen18]

it will be very annoying to have to do this, because if i need ammo or new fuel for my tank or whatever, i will need to go back to old world, somehow delete ammo, go to new world, and then cheat in ammo. And even worse: Using turrets (i heard it was a very good strategy to place alot of turrets, anger the monsters, and then lure them to the turrets), Getting new ammo for them every time will be an absolute pain in the ass.
But oh well, if the first option doesn't work, i'll just have to live with this.

If it should come to this, to make things maybe a bit less annoying you could dump your current character's main inventory to a file with something like

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/c local i = game.player.get_inventory(1) game.makefile("inv.dump", "/c local i = game.player.get_inventory(1) i.clear() for name, count in pairs("..serpent.block(i.get_contents())..") do i.insert{name=name, count=count} end") i.clear()

then use the content of that file (inv.dump in the script-output directory) to recreate the inventory for a different character. The file will already contain the commands required for that, just paste it into the console. If you also want to take the quickbar contents and equipped weapons with you, you'd need to do the same thing with higher inventory numbers, but i guess the easiest thing would be to just put everything into the main inventory.

Thanks for the help, not sure what else i can say but my message feels really empty so i've written this to fill it up...