how to reduce the count of Alien artifacts

[Kathmai]

Hi,

also... how can i reduce the count of alien artifacts of a spawner after destruction in freeplay mode?

When i kill a alien base... sometimes a spawner drops up to 5 or 10 items. realy too much.

Can i change that for a current game or take effect only for a new game?

Thx

[ficolas]

Yea you can.
You need to go to data/base/prototypes/entity/demo-entities, and in demo entities search for spawner, somewhere it should say loot={max=10, min=3, item="Alien-artifact"}
Or something like that, there you can adjust the values.

[cube]

Yea you can.
You need to go to data/base/prototypes/entity/demo-entities, and in demo entities search for spawner, somewhere it should say loot={max=10, min=3, item="Alien-artifact"}
Or something like that, there you can adjust the values.

This will work, but it might not be such a great idea.The problem will happen when the auto updater tries to overwrite the file, it assumes that the file unchanged from the original distribution and the update will fail with more or less cryptic message.

It will not be a problem if you remember to change the file back before update, but the cleanest solution IMHO is to make a mod which changes the variables you don't like.
I made an example here: https://github.com/bluecube/factorio-example-mod . From that you need just the files info.json and data.lua and place them in <Factorio_directory>/mods/example_mod/

[Kathmai]

@all: Thanks for your posts..

@cube: i think this is the best way... i have many things replaced in lua files (over 15 in different files) but only in base "mod". And on every update.... arghhh. Yes, i think i made a own mod

thx guys