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Long description
This mod is based around the ability to melt raw materials into liquids. Currently copper, iron, stone, steel, and plastic can be melted. The liquid material can then be crafted into plates or cast as a variety of other items.

Although it takes more time and electricity to liquefy an ore than it would to simply smelt it, there are advantages to doing so. Firstly, you get a bit more liquid per ore than you would if you smelted the ore directly into plates. The other main advantage of liquefying materials is that they can then be directly cast to a variety of things, which takes almost no time at all. For example: instead of smelting iron ore, than turning some of the plates into gears, then using that to make a transporter belt, you can simply melt the iron and make the transport belt directly from that.

Melting ores also gives you a bit of lava, which is just melted stone. This can be helpful, because it’s a free resource, but it also means you have to design your pipes cleverly so that the system doesn’t get clogged up.

This mod adds three machines: a liquefier, which is used to melt stuff, and two tiers of casting machines, which can take multiple liquid inputs to cast items that need several different kinds of material. All the fluids added by this mod can be put into empty barrels, like crude oil can normally. Six technologies are added by this mod, but most of them can be researched fairly quickly.

This is a work in progress! Let me know if you find any issues I’ve overlooked, or if you have any inputs about balancing or features.

Version history
0.0.4 (6/15/16): First public WIP build

Edited - Liquify_0.0.4/info.json

Inserted @ line 4:

"factorio_version": "0.14",


Liquify_0.0.4/info.json - now reads starting @ line 1:

{
"name": "Liquify",
"version": "0.0.4",
"factorio_version": "0.14",
"title": "Liquify",
"author": "The_Evil_Pickle",
"homepage": "www.example.com",
"dependencies": ["base >= 0.12.15"],
"description": "Liquify stuff"
}

Error Util.cpp:57: Error in assignID, item with name 'basic-bullet-magazine' does not exist.
Error Util.cpp:57: Error in assignID, item with name 'piercing-bullet-magazine' does not exist.
Error Util.cpp:57: Error in assignID, item with name 'straight-rail' does not exist.
Error Util.cpp:57: Error in assignID, item with name 'curved-rail' does not exist.
Error Util.cpp:57: Error in assignID, item with name 'basic-transport-belt' does not exist.
Error Util.cpp:57: Error in assignID, item with name 'basic-inserter' does not exist.

Edited mod "ID name calls" to match Factorio game "base mod" ID names

@ line 347: From "basic-bullet-magazine" to "firearm-magazine"
@ line 351: From "__base__/graphics/icons/basic-bullet-magazine.png" to
"__base__/graphics/icons/firearm-magazine.png"

@ line 642: From "piercing-bullet-magazine" to "piercing-round-magazine"
@ line 646: From "__base__/graphics/icons/piercing-bullet-magazine.png" to
"__base__/graphics/icons/piercing-rounds-magazine.png"

@ line 784: From "straight-rail" to "rail"
@ line 788: From "__base__/graphics/icons/straight-rail.png" to
"__base__/graphics/icons/rail.png"

@ line 864: From "basic-transport-belt" to "transport-belt"
@ line 868: From "__base__/graphics/icons/basic-transport-belt.png" to
"__base__/graphics/icons/transport-belt.png"

@ line 886: From "basic-inserter" to "inserter"
@ line 890: From "__base__/graphics/icons/basic-inserter.png" to
"__base__/graphics/icons/inserter.png"

Commented out line(s) 792-813

--[[ COMMENTED OUT FOR VERSION 14 OF FACTORIO BECAUSE "CURVED RAILS" WERE REMOVED FROM "BASE MOD"
{
type = "recipe",
name = "c-rail-casting",
category = "advanced-casting",
enabled = false,
energy_required = 0.35,
ingredients =
{
{type="fluid", name="molten-iron", amount=1},
{type="fluid", name="molten-steel", amount=2},
{type="fluid", name="lava", amount=2}
},
results=
{
{type="item", name="curved-rail", amount=1}
},
icon = "__base__/graphics/icons/curved-rail.png",
subgroup = "cast-misc",
--order = "a[oil-processing]-a[basic-oil-processing]"
},
--]]

Commented out line(s) 241-246

--[[ COMMENTED OUT FOR VERSION 14 OF FACTORIO BECAUSE "CURVED RAILS" WERE REMOVED
{
type = "unlock-recipe",
recipe = "c-rail-casting"
},
--]]