Change rocket_lift_weight

[takisama]

Hi folks,

I'm trying to make rocket bringing more items to my ISS, so I find a way to increase its lifting weight. I scan through lua-api factorio and found an interesting constant: rocket_lift_weight. It's in

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core/prototypes/utility-constants.lua

, line 507. I change the value by add a 0 at the end and start the game. UI displays 10 tons, but it doesn't help much. Normally I can add 50 belts to rocket inventory, but after changing I can only add 100 belts, but it should be 500 belts because the rocket_lift_weight is now 10 times than normal.
Anyone knows how to make the job done? Please help!

Thank you so much!

[Xorimuth]

Hi folks,

I'm trying to make rocket bringing more items to my ISS, so I find a way to increase its lifting weight. I scan through lua-api factorio and found an interesting constant: rocket_lift_weight. It's in

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core/prototypes/utility-constants.lua

, line 507. I change the value by add a 0 at the end and start the game. UI displays 10 tons, but it doesn't help much. Normally I can add 50 belts to rocket inventory, but after changing I can only add 100 belts, but it should be 500 belts because the rocket_lift_weight is now 10 times than normal.
Anyone knows how to make the job done? Please help!

Thank you so much!

Many items don't have a specific weight set, and instead it is automatically generated by the engine based on a variety of factors (mostly undocumented...). On of these factors is the utility constant `rocket_lift_weight` itself, so just multiplying that by X doesn't necessarily increase the rocket capacity of all items by X. For many items, the automatically generated `weight` is proportional to `rocket_lift_weight`, so increasing the latter probably won't increase the rocket capacity of items like you'd expect. If you want to allow more items per rocket, then you'll need to set `weight` yourself on items that don't already have it set.