Colloquial Names

by derpumu

Replaces item and entity names with the ones we actually use when talking about the game.

Utilities
a month ago
1.1 - 2.0
96

i Lots of ideas

1 year, 1 month ago

Definitely omit or change anything you disagree with, but these are the names I call everything I can think of. I call iron gear wheels Iron Gears and anything "mk2" just 2, for example "personal battery 2". I call the Assembling machine mk1 Gray Assembler or Basic assembler. I call the mk2 and mk3 blue and green respectively. I call electric poles "power poles" or just "poles", like "small poles" or "medium power poles". I call all of the science packs just their color and then "science" , like "blue science" or "red science" except for military and space science. Stone bricks are "bricks". Raw fish is definitely just fish. Atomic bombs are nukes. Burner mining drills are "burner drills" while electric mining drills are "miners" or "mining drills". Personal laser defense is just "personal lasers". Uranium fuel cells are "fuel cells" and empty ones are "empty fuel cells". Tank cannon is just cannon, portable fusion reactor is personal reactor. Rail signals and rail chain signals are signals and chain signals, train stations are stations. Shotgun shells are fine, but piercing shotgun shells are piercing shells. I call steam turbines turbines. WHY are underground pipes called "pipe to ground"????? Would anybody say "i need some more pipe to ground"? No. They would say "i need some more underground pipe" lol. The pistol and submachine gun(i call it an SMG) ammo is "magazines", "piercing mags" and "uranium mags". Like I said, omit/modify anything you disagree with. Hope this helps with this fun mod!

1 year, 1 month ago

Thanks a lot! The idea came from the factorio discord, where many of these names have also been suggested, but your list is the longest so far. The current state is the result of a short fun afternoon session, but I absolutely plan to add some more :)

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