Electric furnace factorio mods#

Like many modding features, the implementation of this rendering system was prompted by a modding interface request.

Electric furnace factorio mods#

In the last few weeks I have been working on a system that allows mods to easily render geometric shapes, text and sprites in the game world. A next step we are considering is tweaking the furnace recipes to match the belt speed, but that is a consideration for another day. The change overall gives a 12.5% buff to belts, provides nice round integers for calculating factory requirements, and removes a few oddities. With a spacing of 8 pixels, belts now always fit exactly 8 items (4 on each side), so for instance, reading a fully compressed belt gives a reliable result: This spacing also leads to some undesirable behavior, such as when using the circuit network to read the belt contents sometimes the belt can fit 8 items, sometimes it can only fit 6, and the count will fluctuate between the two:Īt this point it is quite obvious to reduce the spacing to 8 pixels, which is a factor of 32, and gives a nice even 15.00 items/second, which is what we have done for 0.17: The fact that each tile is 32 pixels, and that 9 is not a factor of 32, explains the odd throughput number. The spacing currently is 9 pixels between items. This means the only 'allowed' way to change transport belt throughput is by changing the spacing between the items. There is a visual requirement that belts only move integer number of pixels every tick, so that is 1/2/3 pixels for transport belt, fast belt, express belt respectively. One suggestion that came up was to adjust the belt throughput from its unfriendly 13.33 items/s.īelt throughput is determined by 2 variables, how far the belt moves items each tick, and how much space there is between each item. Many will remember FFF-266 where we talked about some of these upcoming changes and simplifications.

Part of the final polishing and cleanup work of preparation for 1.0 is cleaning up and smoothing out some of the hiccups in the game. Hello, the office is slowly ramping back up after the Christmas and New year festivities.