GreyGoo Mk I: A self-expanding factory

[krazygamer154]

How long till this works with 0.15?

[Tunix Gut]

wow thats awesome

[JohnyDL]

Oh 0.15 has Blueprint books that are infinite and deconstruction planners that can target specific entities that's going to make this a whole lot easier XD

[Tunix Gut]

But what happens if this Thing runs into water?

[JohnyDL]

it breaks because so far there's no way to landfill with bots but on the test map it's a "water only in starting area map" so it doesn't have that issue

[NiftyManiac]

Finally for now my thoughts on making it so it's more and more grey goo than wall-e working alone to build an empire. The pic assumes you keep starting with a 3x3 grid of cells for your start and head to that same first cell moving counter-clockwise around the formatted area, but instead every cell your main agent conquers is turned into a controller for a new scout agent (and only that unit makes extra units while ignoring ore and other resources) the way it would end up spreading would look like pic 4 (this is approx 128 iterations over 8,000 cells in size) I think it looks pretty cool.

I like that idea! I've thought of various ways to make it accelerate, but your pattern is nice and clean.

How long till this works with 0.15?

I'm almost certainly not going to bother porting this to 0.15. At some point, though, I hope to actually finish up Mk II, which should run on whatever version is the latest when it's released.

[JohnyDL]

You're very welcome wish I had the logic and patience to design the processing cores myself but I'm glad to help any way I can.

[kpu3uc]

Any progress?
p.s. i make adaptation for 15.18

[Rawrkanos]

I took the GreyGoo to the end, finally. It finally broke after 80+ hours of game-time(running at 64x speed).

[Clan_Wolf1]

i let this run until it ran into alerts, many. wouldnt build any more. due to not enough logisitcal robots and required materials not available.
it got to near full completion of 26x26 cells which is nothing, ended on the right bottom side. it was likely 30 hours or less at 5x speed.

[veger]

This is awesome! In fact it is so neat that really wanted to see it in action! Since I do not have 0.14 anymore, I decided to give it a try on 0.15, and it worked fine with some modifications:

• NiftyLogisticTrainNetwork was a bit of work:
  • merged the original (v1.3.3) back into NiftyManiacs fork (to make it 0.15 compatible) and fixed the merge conflicts
  • fixed/patched an issue in the CompareStations() function, as it produced an error about comparing tables when no ore trains were available (later in the game)
• StickyNotes: I grabbed StickyNotes branch of Nexela (to have it compatible with 0.15), as I really wanted to see the notes to see what is what
• Rest of mods I updated using the build in mod manager

I took me about 1 or 2 hours to get running, mostly because I never fiddled with mod development of LUA scripts

With these changes it all seems to work nicely (using the greygoo1_publish_starter_v3.zip of the OP), although I once or twice needed to give the supply train a nudge: It was still filling up while being needed in the field (or maybe it has some incompatibility issues due to the upgrade of the NiftyLogisticTrainNetwork mod to version 1.3.3?? )
I ran it up to about 15 new cells until I had to stop. But I am definitely have it run a bit longer soon to figure out some additional things

As said: This is very, very awesome and inspired me greatly!
Thanks for sharing with us NiftyManiac

[EmptyRov]

Very nice way of automating automation in the true Factorio spirit. Looking forward to seeing the next idea you come up with to break the game.

[olafthecat]

I cannot remember the name, but I believe that there is a book like this.
So, humans create a self replicating Nano-machine that uses matter around it to both fuel itself and produce copies of itself.
Long story short, the robot obviously escapes and eventually turns plant earth into an enormous wasteland entirely made of the Nano-bots.
See the similarities?

[acidfire52]

Hey Nifty, have a question about resource detection. How were you detecting if mine able resources were there to place the blueprints?

Thanks

[Jap2.0]

I believe it was something along the lines of placing blueprints of miners (since miners will only be placed, even ghosts, if there is ore), then detecting if the amount of miners went down or something.

[olafthecat]

Do you plan on making a Mk II?

[Jap2.0]

It's not the same thing, but you could look at TAFK mk. 2, which is somewhat similar.

[olafthecat]

Yes...
how many rockets a minute on that one?

[Jap2.0]

Theoretically it could be infinite, but he said before he stopped that base he was up to 700/minute science, which would be a rocket about every minute and a half.

[olafthecat]

That is both fast, powerful and amazing!
Thanks for telling me!