[MOD 0.13] Alien Eggs - grow your own zoo

binbinhfr · Post by **binbinhfr** » Wed Apr 20, 2016 2:31 pm

Infos

Type: Mod
Name: AlienEggs
Description: A new technology to incubate and hatch alien eggs for your own experiments or vicious pleasure... or both !
Tested-With-Factorio-Version: 0.13.0
Multiplayer compatible: tested on a headless server...
Locale: english, french
Tags: Enemy, biters, spitters, worms, spawner, aliens.
License: You are free to use and distribute this mod and also to modify it for personal use, but not to release a modified version without permission (unless visibly not maintained anymore).
Portal download : https://mods.factorio.com/mods/binbinhfr/AlienEggs

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Description

Description
Let's see...
What do you really miss on this horrible planet ?
A good juicy steak ? No.
French fries ? No.
A fresh beer ? No.
What you really miss is ... a good omelette !!!
Thanks to this new Alien Eggs technology, you will be able to incubate alien eggs of various types, and then to cook them into an omelette, OR to hatch them wherever you want, using the Alien Egg Heater.

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You wonder why you need steel to incubate an egg ? Well, if the egg hatches to soon, you'll be happy to know that the incubator is acid-proof...
Anyway, position the eggs on the ground, close to an egg heater, charge the heater (wait 10 seconds) and... this will provides nice guinea pigs to use for your experiments.
Very useful to test your defences, to set up your own private zoo or to provide an infinite source of alien burgers.

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And if things go wrong, you can still push the Red Button (just hold the Alien Inhibitor in your hand) and within one second, a little self-destruction device will be activated in their brains, to definitely calm their enthusiasm, assuming that they are not too far from you...
Note that if you have problem to differentiate egg types, look closely : they have a little code on them, with the simplified form of the alien on the left and 1 to 4 dots giving the alien size on the right (small, medium, big, behemoth).
Note also that once the heater is charged, to reset it, you have to pick it up and put it down on the ground again.
And by the way, be careful if you create a spawner (alien nest) : aliens born from a spawner do not have any self destruction device in their brains... So be ready to fight or run !

And now, let's play Jurrasic Park !!!

Dr. Ian Malcolm: "God creates dinosaur. God destroys dinosaur. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaur."
Dr. Ellie Sattler: "Dinosaur eats man. Woman inherits the earth."
It seems obvious that they forgot Behemoth Biters...

Download
For Factorio 0.13.X :
Please now use the portal for downloads (see link above or use ingame mod install/update), as I won't update both downloads links here anymore.

binbinhfr · Post by **binbinhfr** » Fri Apr 22, 2016 7:47 pm

226 downloads but no remark ? Does it mean that you like my eggs ?

seronis · Post by **seronis** » Fri Apr 22, 2016 7:59 pm

binbinhfr wrote:226 downloads but no remark ? Does it mean that you like my eggs ?

"No news is good news"

Considering people tend to complain more readily than compliment (myself especially), no feedback with more than a handful of downloads means the people are too busy enjoying the mod to come back and type. Good work btw =-)

binbinhfr · Post by **binbinhfr** » Fri Apr 22, 2016 8:14 pm

seronis wrote:Considering people tend to complain more readily than compliment (myself especially), no feedback with more than a handful of downloads means the people are too busy enjoying the mod to come back and type.

Yes you're totally right of course, but... it remains that one encouragement from time to time is always good to hear. So thank you very much for your words !

seronis · Post by **seronis** » Fri Apr 22, 2016 8:21 pm

Considering im using at least 3 of your mods Id prefer you not lose motivation. Compliments were purely for selfish reasons and just happen to also be deserved

binbinhfr · Post by **binbinhfr** » Fri Apr 22, 2016 9:53 pm

seronis wrote:Considering im using at least 3 of your mods Id prefer you not lose motivation. Compliments were purely for selfish reasons and just happen to also be deserved

Very strategic !

binbinhfr · Post by **binbinhfr** » Fri Apr 22, 2016 9:57 pm

So, for you, my only supporter, a new version :
v1.0.1
hatch several aliens per egg, depending on the alien size.
More realistic when you want to test your defences.
1 small egg contains 8 aliens
1 medium egg 4 aliens
1 big egg 2 aliens
1 behemoth egg 1 alien

seronis · Post by **seronis** » Sat Apr 23, 2016 2:11 am

Went ahead and downloaded update version but it'll be a day or two before I can actually test it specifically. Cleared out my mods folder right now cause I decided I should go ahead and work on my own version of a teraforming mod and a market/trading/homeworld type mod. I currently use Landfill and GalacticTrade+Homeworld for those needs but they dont fit what I want perfectly and I do have some LUA experience modding dont starve so might as well be unlazy and make what I want. =-) keep up your work too

apcnc · Post by **apcnc** » Sat Apr 23, 2016 7:26 am

german locale

binbinhfr · Post by **binbinhfr** » Wed Apr 27, 2016 10:58 pm

here is v1.0.2
Improves multiplayer compatibility. Adds german locale (thanks to apcnc)

binbinhfr · Post by **binbinhfr** » Tue Jun 28, 2016 7:00 am

working on update to 0.13 , should be ok wednesday evening.

binbinhfr · Post by **binbinhfr** » Tue Jun 28, 2016 4:48 pm

0.13 update !

Lejving · Post by **Lejving** » Mon Aug 08, 2016 1:48 pm

How come there's only spitters nest and no biters nest?

binbinhfr · Post by **binbinhfr** » Mon Aug 08, 2016 5:05 pm

Lejving wrote:How come there's only spitters nest and no biters nest?

Good question... Eitehr I missed it, either this type of spawner did not exist when I first wrote the mod.

Lejving · Post by **Lejving** » Mon Aug 08, 2016 11:38 pm

Then I request an update!

binbinhfr · Post by **binbinhfr** » Tue Aug 09, 2016 9:00 am

Lejving wrote:Then I request an update!

Of course, I'll do it as soon as I find an hour left.

binbinhfr · Post by **binbinhfr** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 2:46 pm

Lejving wrote:Then I request an update!

As I promised, here it is.

Biter spawner eggs !
Please update on the portal.

PurpleYouko · Post by **PurpleYouko** » Thu Sep 08, 2016 4:53 pm

This might seem like a silly question but how do you reset the egg heater?
The only way I can hatch anything is to remove it and then replace it. then it stays on for 10 seconds before turning off again.

binbinhfr · Post by **binbinhfr** » Thu Sep 08, 2016 5:13 pm

PurpleYouko wrote:This might seem like a silly question but how do you reset the egg heater?
The only way I can hatch anything is to remove it and then replace it. then it stays on for 10 seconds before turning off again.

Well yes, that's the way I made it...
I wanted a way to have a delay (charge), giving the time to take distance before hatching. And it also simulate the time to heat and hatch the eggs.
As I mostly use this mod for testings defenses, I thought it was ok. Do you have suggestions ?

PurpleYouko · Post by **PurpleYouko** » Thu Sep 08, 2016 6:49 pm

I think it would be nice to be able to automate it for the purpose of farming.

Possibly have it reset the charging cycle if the power is interrupted by means of a power switch in a logic circuit.
Even better allow us to connect wires to it and have it output/input true or false so that we can read it's state and reset it using a combinator. By all means build in a 10 second cooldown before it returns false. That also gives us time to load up a couple of eggs ready for the next cycle.

I messed about with control.lua a little and added an else statement to the

Code: Select all

if ent.energy >= alien_heater_capacity * 990 then

conditional.

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-- PY added to reset heaters.... hopefully
				else
					heater.charging = true
					ent.energy = 0
				end

It does reset the timer quite nicely but it doesn't have much of a cool down delay. Also not controllable by logistics

I'm not very familiar with modding factorio as yet but I'm a pretty decent coder in C++ so the logic is somewhat familiar

[ABE] OK so the heater cycles nicely and hatches deployed eggs at the end of each cycle.
However there is no way to automatically deploy the eggs.
Maybe what we actually need is an incubator that takes the eggs and produces aliens.

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