Small Tram or monorail for inner-factory transport

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Small Tram or monorail for inner-factory transport

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Greetings,

I apologize if this has already been requested or is in development but I don't recall seeing anything about it so far.

I think it would be cool to have a mod that adds the ability to build a small tram/monorail system within your factory for quick movement around. Until you get power armor and exos it is pretty slow getting from one side of your base to another on foot, especially if your base is really spread out. Obviously you could use the car but it is pretty difficult trying to drive it through your base at a decent speed without crashing and burning. :D Normal trains could be an option but they are pretty big and can't turn very sharply or anything in order to go actually go through your base.

So what I'm requesting is a mod lets you build a little monorail that could be either electric or powered by fuel. But the key is for it to be small so you can actually build it throughout your base for fast travel. Having the tracks be about the size of a transport belt I think would be a good size maybe. I'm not sure how possible this is or not but I think it would help a lot for moving around within your factory before you get exoskeletons and such.

I look forward to any feedback and such. :)
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Yeah! Pretty much exactly like that but allow it for your character to actually travel in. Maybe resources too?

I read through the thread, and it seems like there isn't a mod for that though. :(
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I disagree.

That thread is about an overhead wire system mainly intended for moving stuff, whereas the OP's idea is similar to one I've had myself, quite some time ago, for a very rapid short-range personal transport system, based on tiny capsles on narrow high-speed rails to move you from node to node in your factory, meant for typical distances of between 2.5 and 6 chunks (80 to 200 tiles), where you go to a node, enter the capsule there by pressing the Enter/Return key, then press one of the four movement keys based on which direction you want to travel in. The capsule then automatically takes you along the rail in that direction, to the next node, and within a very few seconds the capsule reaches its destination and discharges you. If you want to ride further, for instance further north to the next node again, you must press Enter/Return and then W again.

Because that's really the annoying part, for a builder-type player: Getting around inside your own factory. Moving back and forth between different "islands", for instance moving from the Iron/Steel smelting island to the Copper/Green Circuits island. It takes a long time. As a player I'd be very willing to invest resources (and electrical power) into building a fine-grained grid of personel-transport rail inside my factory, with perhaps 9 or 12 or 20 nodes connected by rails in a more-or-less grid-based pattern.
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Peter34 wrote: I disagree.
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... e+teleport
This is just you want, exept they don't require rails. But basically this is a system that moves your charachter between defined "stations". Of course it is not exactly the same, but it acts exactly as you want.
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hitzu wrote:
Peter34 wrote: I disagree.
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... e+teleport
This is just you want, exept they don't require rails. But basically this is a system that moves your charachter between defined "stations". Of course it is not exactly the same, but it acts exactly as you want.
I actually have the Teleporter mod installed, but I've yet to use it. It's my understanding that it's for longer distances than the one I and the OP are interested in, and also that it's a late game thing in that it's very expensive to build and set up (and doesn't require any kind of rail setup, merely sttaions that you teleport between).

What I'd be interested in, and what I assume the OP is interested in, is a Monorail system for transport of personel (not items) that can be used early game, and which is fast (not instantaneously, but at least almost as quick as a Car moving at full speed) and simple to use, which is fairly cheap to set up, requiring perhaps just a bit of Steel for the rails, and some green circuits and iron for the capsule to ride ron the rails, and which is useful for short distances.
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I don't want to argue more but I'm intrested why a monorail specifically?
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hitzu wrote:I don't want to argue more but I'm intrested why a monorail specifically?
I guess to differentiate from the train
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hitzu wrote:I don't want to argue more but I'm intrested why a monorail specifically?
No reason, really. I'm just opposed to the proposed teleporter mod as a solution, since teleportation is (or ought to be) a late-game tech whereas I want a solution for the early phase of the game. A tiny but fast pod zipping about on a single rail made of Steel feels to me like the kind of thing that would be suitable for the early game phase.
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Some sort of miniature rail system comes to mind for this since one of the few other transport options would be a chairlift system, and that would be much harder to implement than a simple modification to existing rails.

Early on fuel could be used for this, but if it's simply an intra-factory transport system then having it be upgraded to work on electricity would make it great for inside the factory but not very feasible outside it.
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