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jpas wrote:It has been updated!

Is it on the mod portal?

Peter34 wrote:Is it on the mod portal?

jpas wrote:

• Factorio-Mods: https://mods.factorio.com/mods/octordia/expanded_tools

Yep! My factorio username is different than my forums username, I should probably fix that in some way.

A problem with your page on the Factorio Mods portal is that it does nothing to explain what your mod does, which tools it is that it offers, or whether it's made with balance in mind (I know it is - I used the alpha 0.12 version quite a bit - but many mods aren't and you don't say it out loud one way or another about your mod).

There's no information about the mod in the Mod Portal page. To get information, the user has to click on a link that takes him away from the Portal and to a completely different place called Github. That's a very bad thing. It's intimidating. The core information about mods should be on the Portal page, not somewhere else, at least unless the external link links to a completely straightforward kind of page such as a blog post or a forum thread, which is super-easy to navigate.

So in short: As things are now, if I didn't already know your mod, I would avoid it, simply because the mod's page isn't informative at all.

Thanks for the feedback Peter32. I have updated the description on the Factorio Mods portal and have improved the README.md on github (they should have the same content)!

Been using custom icons for a while. Not sure how you might handle permissions, but this, or something similar might work nicer.

https://www.iconexperience.com/g_collec ... er_pointer
I unfortunately can't find the source I was using for the jackhammer. Jackhammer Icon laser Drill Icon Atomic Disassembler Icon

Will this mod be updated to 0.14?

Peter34 wrote:Will this mod be updated to 0.14?

It should be updated now.

jpas wrote:

Peter34 wrote:Will this mod be updated to 0.14?

It should be updated now.

Thanks!