[MOD 0.15.12+] Long Reach Research 0.4.1 - initial bonuses

[Mooncat]

Type: Mod
Name: Long Reach Research
Description: Adds technologies for increasing operation, build, item drop, item pickup, loot pickup, and mine distances.
License: GNU LGPLv3
Version: Long Reach Research 0.4.1
Release: 2017-07-19
Tested-With-Factorio-Version: 0.15.30
Category: (Manufacture, Utility)
Tags: long reach, technology, character, mining, pickup, loot
Download-Url:https://mods.factorio.com/mods/Mooncat/ ... h-research
Website: viewtopic.php?f=97&t=34909

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Long description

[quote]Long Reach, Long Build
The long reach technology can increase your operation distance and item drop distance.



The resulting distances: (same as Long Build)


Once you have researched it, you can then research the Long Build technology to increase your build distance.


[/quote]

[quote]Long Mine
This technology can increase your mine distance. You can research it after Long Reach.


[/quote]

[quote]Long Pickup
This technology can increase your item pickup distance. You can research it after Long Reach + Stack Inserter.


[/quote]

[quote]Long Loot
This technology can increase your automatic loot pickup distance. You can research it after Long Reach + Alien Technology.
If you have enabled Long Pickup technology, you will need to also research it first.


[/quote]

[quote]Available settings
Startup:


Runtime (global):
[/quote]

How to uninstall

If you have researched any of the long reach technologies and you want to uninstall any long reach research mod, please follow the steps below:

1. Do NOT remove the mod first. Please update to the latest version so you can use the command provided by the mod.
2. In the game, type /long-reach-research-reset <technology>, available technologies are:
   • mine - it will reset the long mine technology and distance
   • pickup - it will reset the long pickup technology and distance
   • loot - it will reset the long loot technology and distance
   • all - it will reset all of the long reach technologies and distances
3. Once it is executed, a message will be shown. You can then remove the mod(s) safely.

Version history

Long Reach Research 0.4.1 (Jul 19, 2017)
- New:

• Added Chinese mod name and description.
• Added runtime mod settings for changing the initial reach, build, mine, pickup and loot distance bonuses. They are all 0 by default.

Long Reach Research 0.4.0 (May 20, 2017)
- New:

• Grouped the Long Mine Research, Long Pickup Research and Long Loot Research mods into this one.
  • Please uninstall the above mods if you have installed them. Progress and settings will be preserved.
  • An error will be shown if you start the game with them.
• Added mod settings for disabling the long mine, long pickup and long loot technologies. They are disabled by default.
  • If you were using Long Pickup Research and/or Long Loot Research before, please go to mod settings and enable the long pickup technology and/or the long loot technology.

- Changes:

• Changed the mod license from CC BY-NC 4.0 to GNU LGPLv3.
• Factorio version is now required to be equal or higher than 0.15.12 (from 0.15).
• Reduced research time as follow:
  • T3 long reach, long build and long mine: reduced from 60s to 30s
  • T4 long reach, long build and long mine: reduced from 120s to 45s
  • T5 long reach, long build and long mine: reduced from 180s to 45s
  • T6 long reach and long build: reduced from 240s to 60s
  • T3 long pickup and long loot (non-expensive): reduced from 120s to 60s
  • T4 long pickup and long loot (non-expensive): reduced from 240s to 60s
  • T5 long pickup and long loot (non-expensive): reduced from 360s to 60s
  • T3 long loot (expensive): reduced from 180s to 90s
  • T4 long loot (expensive): reduced from 360s to 90s
  • T5 long loot (expensive): reduced from 540s to 90s

- Fixes:

• Fixed loading error if long pickup and T5 long loot are enabled but not T5 long pickup.

Long Reach Research Version 0.3.1, Long Mine/Pickup/Loot Research Version 0.2.1 (May 13, 2017)
- New:

• Added command /long-reach-research-reset to reset the technologies and also the reach distance in all forces. Useful before uninstalling the mods.
  • Type /help long-reach-research-reset for further details.
  • Can only be used by admin.
  • In order to reset long mine, long pickup or long loot, their mod version should be 0.2.1+.

- Change:

• Long loot research: decreased the amount of required science packs and research time for non-expensive technologies.

Long Reach Research Version 0.3.0, Long Mine/Pickup/Loot Research Version 0.2.0 (May 3, 2017)

• Updated for Factorio 0.15.
• Changed the mod names of long mine/pickup/loot research mods for better mod grouping.
• Reworked on the technologies levels to divide the Tier 3 and Tier 4 technologies into multiple levels.
  • You can get back the original 4-level system by turning off Options > Mods > Startup > long-reach-research > Use 4-level technologies (Legacy)
• If the new levels are enabled, it is also possible to get the new Tier 5 and Tier 6 (Infinite) technologies.
  • Both T5 and T6 are enabled for long reach by default, but only T5 is enabled for long build.
  • Long mine, long pickup and long loot don't have T6 because that doesn't make sense.
• Added information about the bonuses of the technologies.
• Long loot research: due to the absence of the alien artifact, this technology is not so important now, so it is made cheaper.
  • But you can still get back the expensive long loot technology by turning on Options > Mods > Startup > long-loot-research > Expensive technology.
  • Expensive technology mainly adds the requirement of military science packs.

Long Reach Research Version 0.2.1, Long Mine/Pickup/Loot Research Version 0.1.1 (Jan 15, 2017)
- Fixes:

• Technologies of the same category are now grouped properly such that only one level will be shown at a time.

Long Reach Research Version 0.2.0 (Dec 20):
- Changes:

• Separated the mod into different ones according to the different functionalities:
  • Long reach research (this mod): operation distance, item drop distance and build distance.
  • Long mine research (new): mine distance.
  • Long item pickup research (new): item pickup distance.
  • Long loot pickup research (new): automatic loot pickup distance. Optionally depends on Long item pickup research.
• Removed the config.lua due to the change above.
• Long reach 3 now requires Automation as a prerequisite.
• Upgrading this mod from pre-v0.2 to v0.2+ will reset the build distance, but update the item drop distance according to the researched level of the long reach technology.

- Minor Changes:

• Added the base mod as a depended mod.

Version 0.1.2 (Dec 7):
- New:

• Added config.lua for optionally disabling the effect of long reach research to the character mining distance.
• Also added options for applying the effect to item drop distance (on by default), item pickup distance (new, off by default) and loot pikcup distance (new, off by default).

- Improvements:

• Compressed the images to reduce the overall file size.

- Fixes:

• Fixed the bonus distances for mining. They are now based on the default mining distance (3, instead of 6, i.e. the bonuses are now half of the original ones).

Version 0.1.1 (Oct 21): Fixed duplicated keys in Chinese locale.

Version 0.1.0 (Oct 21): The first version.

Known issues

Feel free to report any issue you have encountered.

[Tyrindor]

When using a mod like DoubleReach or LongReach, you can set different distances for placing a building/belt versus mining and cutting down trees. Mining and cutting down trees from 400% away seems out of place. An option to keep those default would be nice. In the mean time, I just deleted the mining distance bonus line in control.lua and that seemed to do it.

[Mooncat]

When using a mod like DoubleReach or LongReach, you can set different distances for placing a building/belt versus mining and cutting down trees. Mining and cutting down trees from 400% away seems out of place. An option to keep those default would be nice. In the mean time, I just deleted the mining distance bonus line in control.lua and that seemed to do it.

The inserter on your back can take your drill and mine ore for you.
I will add an option for this anyway. Thanks for the suggestion.

[Mooncat]

Released v0.1.2. Added config.lua with the following options:
apply_to_mining_distance (default = true)
apply_to_item_drop_distance (default = true)
apply_to_item_pickup_distance (default = false)
apply_to_loot_pickup_distance (default = false)

Also, it turns out I was using the wrong base value for mining distance. It has been fixed.

And reduced the overall file size (from 76KB to 28KB) by compressing the images.

[Tyrindor]

Released v0.1.2. Added config.lua with the following options:
apply_to_mining_distance (default = true)
apply_to_item_drop_distance (default = true)
apply_to_item_pickup_distance (default = false)
apply_to_loot_pickup_distance (default = false)

Also, it turns out I was using the wrong base value for mining distance. It has been fixed.

And reduced the overall file size (from 76KB to 28KB) by compressing the images.

Thanks.

[Mooncat]

Just released v0.2.0 of Long Reach Research.

A big overhaul on the mod. Its functionalities are separated into different follow-up mods. No more config.lua is needed. Just choose the mods according to what you want.
See the updated OP for details.

[Mooncat]

Just knew there is the "upgrade" attribute for technologies that can group the technologies into categories, such that only one level is shown at a time.
Therefore, released a small patch for this.

Result

Before:

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After:

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[Chibi_Senpai]

One prob I got was when I uninstalled, when I push Z to pickup items, the range is still really big and its pretty annoying, help!

[Mooncat]

One prob I got was when I uninstalled, when I push Z to pickup items, the range is still really big and its pretty annoying, help!

If using command is an option, please type these:

Code: Select all

/c game.player.force.character_build_distance_bonus = 0
/c game.player.force.character_item_drop_distance_bonus = 0
/c game.player.force.character_reach_distance_bonus = 0
/c game.player.force.character_resource_reach_distance_bonus = 0
/c game.player.force.character_item_pickup_distance_bonus = 0
/c game.player.force.character_loot_pickup_distance_bonus = 0

All distance bonuses will be reset.

I will also make a mod to reset them without command.

[Miravlix]

I can kinda train myself to a certain reach distance, but variable distance...

Doesn't the game has support for showing a range circle? (turrets?)

For loot/pickup holding shift+f could draw circles for those two (hopefully when both is active, it would resulted in the overlap blending the two circle.

I think Long Build/Mine would work best with a on/off button for showing reach, like alt changes certain things.

[Xeanoa]

Range circles would be really neat

[Mooncat]

I can kinda train myself to a certain reach distance, but variable distance...

Doesn't the game has support for showing a range circle? (turrets?)

For loot/pickup holding shift+f could draw circles for those two (hopefully when both is active, it would resulted in the overlap blending the two circle.

I think Long Build/Mine would work best with a on/off button for showing reach, like alt changes certain things.

It is a good idea! Unfortunately, I don't think it is possible with the current API. The circular range indicator is only supported on turrets, and it is done internally. There is simply no API for us to show turret range without having the actual turret item or entity. I will investigate on the possibility, but it won't be in 0.14.

Edit: I forgot the capsules. They also have circular range indicator. But it still requires you to have the item on your cursor. So it is not feasible.

[Alxandr]

Will you update these mods for 0.15?

[Mooncat]

Will you update these mods for 0.15?

Yes. But I need some more time.
I'm planning to add infinite levels on long-reach, long-build and long-mine.

[Alxandr]

Would that make sense though? I mean, you can only zoom out so far, reaching longer than the camera will show you yield no benefit, no?

[Nexela]

Would that make sense though? I mean, you can only zoom out so far, reaching longer than the camera will show you yield no benefit, no?

Well in .15 you can open your map and zoom in anywhere. If you have the reach for it you can build etc

[Mooncat]

Now I think it is too OP. lol

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[Alxandr]

Lol, you would never have to move . That should be a custom achievement of some kind. Launch a rocket without moving

[Mooncat]

Updated the mods. Feel like a smart ass now because I refactored the code so well that all 5 technologies are monitored by just one main function now, with some remote interfaces.

Anyway, I will update the post and images some hours later.

Edit: done.

[BlackHat]

What is the difference between Pickup and Loot?

Is Pickup used when you press "F" to get items on the ground?

IS Loot the Automatic picking up of Alien Artifacts as you run around?
If so, since Alien Artifacts have been removed from the game, what does loot do now?