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FallenPaladin wrote:Update: Figured it out.

When I downloaded the file from the site, I also erased the mod_settings.json. Upon doing so it went back to default settings on the "Linux" headless server, which the clients were not matched up with on the settings. So every time, no matter how many times, I download the file the settings for the mods "contents" would not match up. If your are going to run a "Linux" headless server, go into the mod_settings.json file with a simple txt editor and change the values to either (true) or (false) so you can match your client settings.

Under: Options---> Mods---> Startup Tab {For those who don't know}


SO, a reminder to anyone and everyone make sure that your settings in the mod, match up with your servers and clients or you will get the same error.

Veni wrote:I started by calculating out the costs to run through recipes and process the fuel. I didn't finish because I hit problems
Fuel Net Energy (boilers operate at 50% efficiency)
40x Raw Wood ~50 MJ up to 75 MJ if converted to coke
75x Raw Wood -Net loss relative to 40x raw wood. It takes 5 wood and over 35 MJ of fuel to make the fertilizer. It does make energy faster but the extra land for the infrastructure makes it less efficient.
150x Raw Wood -The addition of sulfuric acid and wood pulp almost doubles the cost of the fertilizer, but this is probably worth it. its 11x faster than the 40x level. Probably ~ 2-3x after costs.
-You are using stone, iron, and oil at this point in a non-renewable manner.

At this point I had a set of recommendations:

I would drop the following resources. They add complexity without rational benefit.
Wood pulp. (Ends up being an exploit. You can turn wood into wood pulp to double the energy value)
Nitrogen, CO, (Just use air)
Cokecoal, Charcoal. (just use coal for the other two. You could add a coke research to give trains a flat acceleration bonus.)
Cellulose ( I would swap to an algae & Syngas based biofuel approach).



Make saplings a 0-2 reward for cutting down trees. Also a by product of the tree farming. Maybe remove turning dry wood into living trees.

Add a High Efficiency Boiler that heats water to 250*C. Just recolor a normal boiler. It should have 80% efficiency and produce 66% of the pollution of a normal boiler. The tech should be after concrete and advanced material processing and should also unlock steam turbines.
Ingredients = Boiler + 5 concrete + 5 steel

Large numbers are difficult in recipes. I would move some aspects around.
For example with the greenhouses. Use saplings to build them and change the production. So tier one production would make 4 wood and 2 saplings every 30 seconds from 1 sapling and 100 water. Tier two would be 1 fertilizer, 500 water, and 1 sapling to make 20 wood and 2 saplings in 30 seconds. Tier three would be 1 advanced fertilizer 500 water and 1 sapling to make 60 wood in 60 seconds. Doesn't have to be this; but a little fertilizer goes a huge distance in hydroponics. IRL most solutions are 1 drop fertilizer in 1 bottle of water or so.

I will discuss the biomass/algae/syngas stuff in another post. The lower tech end is beginning to wear me out. (I have some health issues)

Zarnoo wrote:OK, may be dumb here, but how do I make the Bio cannon bio ammo ? It doesn't appear in the receipe lists of assmblers, chemical plants or anything else, and I can't see anything in the code which gives ma a clue.
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TheSAguy wrote:

Zarnoo wrote:OK, may be dumb here, but how do I make the Bio cannon bio ammo ? It doesn't appear in the receipe lists of assmblers, chemical plants or anything else, and I can't see anything in the code which gives ma a clue.
Z

You need to also play with Natural Enemies -Buildings. Do you have it? See my signature.

Zarnoo wrote:

TheSAguy wrote:

Zarnoo wrote:OK, may be dumb here, but how do I make the Bio cannon bio ammo ? It doesn't appear in the receipe lists of assmblers, chemical plants or anything else, and I can't see anything in the code which gives ma a clue.
Z

You need to also play with Natural Enemies -Buildings. Do you have it? See my signature.

yeah, I use natural evolution enemies, building & expansion, as well as bobs & angels. It tells me I can't hand-craft it, but I can't see what I machine craft it in
Z

Zarnoo wrote:

Zarnoo wrote:

TheSAguy wrote:

Zarnoo wrote:OK, may be dumb here, but how do I make the Bio cannon bio ammo ? It doesn't appear in the receipe lists of assmblers, chemical plants or anything else, and I can't see anything in the code which gives ma a clue.
Z

You need to also play with Natural Enemies -Buildings. Do you have it? See my signature.

yeah, I use natural evolution enemies, building & expansion, as well as bobs & angels. It tells me I can't hand-craft it, but I can't see what I machine craft it in
Z

I stripped down my install to 4 mods, the 3 natural evolution ones and bio industries, and I still can't see a way to make the bio ammo
Z

d3x0r wrote:Hi; love the additional train tracks... now if only there was some actual effect to them

Could use some feedback on this forum topic...
viewtopic.php?f=28&t=50916 ( Add Speed modifier and limit to rails )
So like wood rails could be slower than cement rails. (wood rails slower than normal rails and cement rails faster than normal rails)
But probably not as slow as junk rails ( https://mods.factorio.com/mods/goldsword44/JunkTrain )

d3x0r wrote:Hmm just realzied you overwrote standard rails with concrete instead of adding a new type...
Wonder if it would be hard to add a configuration option to add a separate type instead of overwriting the existing...

TheSAguy wrote: Did I not just update the graphics?
and maybe the name of the rail. It's been so long I don't remember anymore.

Do you know how I can just change the tint of both the Wood and Concrete rails?
Currently I use tinted graphics and they make the mod very large. Since it's not new graphics, I should just be able to add a tint to the vanilla graphics and make the mod much smaller. I think I could just add the tint in files: "demo-railpictures-concrete.lua" and "demo-railpictures-wood.lua", but not sure what tint value to use.

apply_runtime_tint = true,   and images with  flags = { "mask" }, 

d3x0r wrote:So I implemented a speed limiting(enhancing) mod..

viewtopic.php?f=91&t=51104

Readme: https://github.com/d3x0r/train-speed-li ... /README.md