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Type: Item
Name: Big Wooden Power Pole
Description: Adds a powerpole to the early game, no research nescessary.
License: Ask me
Version: 0.0.3
Release: 2015-07-17
Tested-With-Factorio-Version: 0.12.0
Category: Item
Tags: Electricity pole, Item, pole, wood, copper cable
Download-Url: BigWoodenPowerPoles_0.0.3 - Fixed icon name
Website: Factorio.com!




Hello everyone I've been working away on a tiny little mod called BigWoodenPowerPoles... and it does what it says on the tin...

Each Big Wooden Power Pole costs 10 wood (1 tree worth) and 8 copper cable, it has no power grid, but has a wire reach of 24. --Updated in 0.0.2 to wood and copper cable

It should help a lot with throwing power far off places in the early game, and also trying to hookup power through a forest. As always, if you have any suggestions, bug reports or feedback please let me know by commenting or messaging my somewhere.

I love the graphic. Beautiful.

Well if i've to research those things i have layed the initial poles from my Steampower halve across the starting area to the rest. Research won't work with turning a crank.
Means i'd have to rewire the whole thing anyways, would be nicer to have them from the start but thats only my opinion.

Takezu wrote:Well if i've to research those things i have layed the initial poles from my Steampower halve across the starting area to the rest. Research won't work with turning a crank.
Means i'd have to rewire the whole thing anyways, would be nicer to have them from the start but thats only my opinion.

Hey, i think you're right,

I have made some changes to the mod, research is no longer required, its available when the game starts. I have also adjusted the recipe slightly. I will update the first post with an updated link.

Klonan wrote:I will update the first post with an updated link.

Can't find file "...graphics/icons/big-wooden-pole.png"

big-wooden-pole.PNG - file extension in uppercase.
After renaming extension to lowercase - all OK.

Blob wrote:

Klonan wrote:I will update the first post with an updated link.

Can't find file "...graphics/icons/big-wooden-pole.png"

big-wooden-pole.PNG - file extension in uppercase.
After renaming extension to lowercase - all OK.

Hi did you download 0.0.1 or 0.0.2, this should be fixed in 0.0.2

0.0.2

Blob wrote:0.0.2

Okay I've fixed it, thanks for pointing it out to me

Those things are awesome.
No more small powerpoles all over the place and even now where
i get my trains going, they've made it so easy to hook up the Big Poles for the
Railnetwork.

Nice work.

Great mod! Thank you!

You should put little clumps of dirt at the bottom of the pole graphics just to break up the sharp line going into the dirt

EDIT: please ignore this post, I must be blind or something. Nice idea / mod, none the less!

Would it be possible to have a version that does not have the tech research requirement(right from the start) ?

When I saw the name of this mod I thought 'how dumb, why would you want a BIG version of those monstrosities?' and then I realised that it isn't big supply radius but big wire reach and now I think it is amazing Less wooden poles used early game for long distance power supply = less wooden poles to eventually have to destroy utterly.

Posting here to confirm 0.12 compatability

[Moved to Mods for 0.12 ‹ New Items, Entities, Extensions (0.12) by Koub]
Klonan, would you please apply the template you can find here in your first post ?

Nice mod!

love this mod and it works on 12.20

probably my second favorite mod next to moweather

I really like this mod! It's up there with my "should be added to Vanilla" list. To that end, I would like to suggest reducing the wire length to 20. At 24, it's not much shorter than the 30 you get from big electric poles. The only real drawback to using the wood poles over steel is that you can't put a light at each pole.

My brother was saying that the steel poles are too expensive, and that he prefers to use the little wood poles most of the time. I disagree, I think they are cheap enough that convenience is more than enough reason to use them. But I realize he has a bit of a point. The small electric pole is really cheap. Even the big wooden pole is very cheap compared to its steel counterparts. Maybe the wood cost of these could be increased, along with adding some iron to their cost.

Is there an update to 0.14 planned please?