[MOD_0.14.x] Compressed Materials

[Nexela]

Compressed Materials
Authors: Theradman221, Nexela
Description:
This mod is for anyone who loves to store large amounts of ore/items. Every item in the game with a stack size greater than 1 can be compressed.
one stack of items = one compressed item, does dynamically change recipes based on item's stack size.
Dynamic recipes so many if not all other mods are supported.
if you love filling thousands of chests with ore why not fill thousands with compressed ore?
default stack size of all compressed items is 50 though that can be changed.

Details:
Factorio Version: 0.14
Released: 2/3/2017 (in WIP mods since around 5/16)
Dependencies: None
License: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

Current version
https://mods.factorio.com/mods/Nexela/compressor

long description

Compressed materials is a mod all about how you interact with materials
you say "I can mine 1000 ore a minute!" well compressor can make that into mining 20 compressed ore a minute.
Do you have chests full of belts? Someday you might use those or you could just carry 50 compressed belts and have 50 stacks of belts on you at all times!
Since compressed materials is dynamic you can load many other mods and if they have items the mod can find and add them to it's list of compressed items.
Also any assembling machine can craft compression recipes, but there is a special machine that will auto select recipes and can go twice as fast as a tier 3 assembling machine!
also crafting time is based on how many items you are compressing.
I would like to thank Nexela for helping me with the mod since it never would have been finished without him.
Auto compressor graphics were made by Arch666Angel

change log

0.2.00.2.0 Nexela remade almost the entire mod from the ground up, now is dynamic in finding and adding recipes.
Only static thing is the auto-compressor which is a dynamic machine with graphics by Arch666Angel and actual animations.
All mods should have recipes dynamically generated for compression/decompression.
Now any assembling machine can make a compressed/decompressed recipe.
auto-compressor is a lower level item that only uses compressor recipes can both compress and decompress.
auto-compressor auto selects recipes and is about twice as fast as an assembling machine lvl.3 at compression recipes
recipe cost in assembler based on how big original stack size is.
New tech tree with 7 tech.
totally new icons and research icons.
GFX by Arch666Angel
stack size is now 50 instead of 100.
older change logs are available in the old thread in the WIP mods
viewtopic.php?f=97&t=20891

known issues

please try to have all the mods you want Compressed Material to load installed before installing.
Sometimes mods installed after Compressed Materials won't get added.

[orzelek]

Any idea how this mod will interact with big bags and changes to stack sizes?
If it would compress 600 plates into one item with stack of 150... that could get interesting and might actually get hard to use.

I've been looking at something like this to reduce amount of belts needed to carry materials by boxing or compressing them

[Nexela]

Should work no problem.

1 full stack of items will compress to 1 compressed item.

Just remember the bigger the stack, the longer it takes to compress.

[orzelek]

Main thing for me would be ability to specify compression of less then full stack. I see that currently I'd need to compress 600 ore to one item

Another thing - is it by design that all compressed ores are white or it's a bug somewhere?

I'm using AnonyMods and lots of small utility mods. Ore pictures match the original on compressed items but they are all white. It's for AnonyMods ores only. Uranium from Nucular has proper color on compressed ore icon. One hint might be the fact that AnonyMods uses tinting on it's icons to add color and base icons are white.

This seems to fix it:
Add this before uncompress recipe:

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			local iconTint = nil
			if item.icons and item.icons[1] then
				iconTint = item.icons[1].tint
			end

Then change two icon definition lines to this:

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                    {icon = item.icon or item.icons[1].icon,tint = iconTint}

This doesn't fix the barelling/unbarelling icons - it seems they have multiple icon layers from start so new icon would need to copy also further layers.

[Nexela]

This seems to fix it:

I'll push that fix in tonight, also possibly a fix for items with multiple icons (angels barrels etc)

Can't wait for .15 scale/shift on icons, Will make building these icons to look a lot better!

[orzelek]

I made small config option locally to allow for reduction of compression stack for items with big stack (like if stack is more then 200 divide by 3 - thats set up to match my bigbags config).
I tried to drop my big bags stack size increase but it's an interesting endeavor when in middle of game.. very interesting item explosion from inventory. And I like to hand craft buildings and stuff so lower stacks mean carrying much less in inventory.

[Lord_Soddy]

Nice mod indeed, but it appears that I fail to find the option for compressing unrefined ore and iron/ copper plates. Might you be so kind as to help me out with that on?

[Nexela]

Nice mod indeed, but it appears that I fail to find the option for compressing unrefined ore and iron/ copper plates. Might you be so kind as to help me out with that on?

Have you researched the appropriate technologies? Off the top of my head I think ore compression is the first technology and items like plates are the second or third tier.

[Lord_Soddy]

Hi Nexela, yeah, I have researched down the whole tech line. In the first tech step, only automatic compressors and uranium compression are enabled, and in the second tech, plenty of items such as wheel gears, engines and fluid barrels are enabled, but still no additional ores or plates. Also the later tech steps do not enable this option. Do I make something wrong?

[Nexela]

Probably a migration problem, I will try and have a new version out later tonight.

[Lord_Soddy]

Great, thank you very much. Coal and solid fuel compressing seems to be missing as well. If time allows, could you please check the whole tier 0 and tier 1 lines?

[Nexela]

Updated 0.2.1 to the mod portal. Fixes any potential migration issues.

[Lord_Soddy]

Great, thank you. But now I get the following error message when trying to start the game:

Error while applying migration: Compressed Materials: migration_2.0.1.lua

Cannot execute command. Error: [string "for _, force in pairs(game.forces) do..."]:6: attempt to index field 'recipe' (a string value)


Any idea?

[Nexela]

Yes, I hate migrations

Uploaded new version which should fix the migration issue.

[Lord_Soddy]

Well, sorry to be a party pooper, but the basic raw materials still cant be compressed. The first level of research enables the compression of Fluorite and Uraninite, but that's it. ..

[Arch666Angel]

#blameNexela

[Lord_Soddy]

I rather appreciate all the work and effort invested by him/her into this great mod

[Nexela]

Would it be possible for you to upload your map/mods To help me narrow this down.

[Lord_Soddy]

Sure, what exactly do you need?

[Nexela]

Zip up the save and mods to dropbox/google drive and post a link here (or in PM if you prefer).