How about a little Dyson in your Factorio?
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/dysontorio_charging
This mod adds a new armor equipment which allows you to wirelessly charge your equipped power suit just by standing near a power pole in your base, similar to how Icarus charges in Dyson Sphere Program. You don't charge faster with more poles like Icarus, however you do charge faster (and drain more power) with more equipment!
Intended to be a mid-game feature to go right along with your mid-game power armor, it unlocks with purple science and costs red circuits to make. This may change in the future for balance reasons.
There are two modes, toggleable in startup settings: Drain mode, and Cheat mode.
When the setting is enabled, you're in drain mode: you'll suck power from your base and slowly charge your equipment over time.
When this setting is disabled, you're cheat mode: if you're standing near a powered pole and have a charger equipped, your batteries are always fully charged.
Cheat mode is recommended for servers with many players as it is more UPS friendly, but test and see first; I'm not sure it would even matter unless you have hundreds of players.
Known Issues
- Rarely, the mod can get "stuck" thinking that there is an extra power-drawing entity where there isn't one, so you'll wind up with one extra 50kw draw that won't go away unless you uninstall and reinstall the mod (I think). I have no clue what's causing this and even less of an idea how to fix it.
- The distance from the pole that you start charging is the same no matter what kind of pole it is. I can probably fix this so I'll take a stab at it sometime soon.
This mod is brand spanking new and the most complicated mod I've made from scratch to date, so although It Works On My Machine,™ I would honestly be surprised if there aren't any bugs in there.
So, please be thorough with your bug reports, include the exact wording of the error, exactly what you were doing, what you expected to happen, what happened instead, how many chargers were equipped, etc.
[MOD 2.0] Dysontorio Charging
[MOD 2.0] Dysontorio Charging
Last edited by Maoman on Fri Aug 01, 2025 2:26 pm, edited 6 times in total.
Re: [MOD 2.0] Dysontorio Charging
A friend has made me aware that others have done this before me... I did search before I started, but couldn't find anything. Sigh.