ThunderStorm: Lightning energy

by AivanF

Thunderstorm is coming! Build lightning rods to protect yourself or to tame this mighty element of nature by capturing divine amount of electricity or attacking biter beasts. Supports SE planets. WIP, even more fun will be added!

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1 year, 1 month ago
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g Add other weather?

1 year, 3 months ago
(updated 1 year, 3 months ago)

Are you interested in adding different weathers? Such as rain, rainstorm, thunderstorm and so on. Make lightning appear only during thunderstorms, which can effectively prevent the forest from being burned by lightning, because the flames will be extinguished by rain shortly after appearing.

I'd love to have different weathers in the game, maybe make another weather themed mod if you don't feel like it fits the theme.

But the above are just my personal thoughts, of course it is based on your wishes.

1 year, 3 months ago

Hello again!
Yeah, I thought about it:
1. It should be a separate but probably integrated mod, as this one focuses a lot on making use lightnings, and can be used without natural lightnings, any sort of weather.
2. I considered developing a weather, but this requires too much time on planning, designing and developing it, especially drawing... And planning: it's hard to make a good, interesting, beautiful, yet performant mod of so new, unusual mechanics for Factorio. I like this idea, but not enough to spend this much efforts, at least working alone. And I already made API (remote interfaces) so that other mods can easily integrate and control my Lightnings.
3. Also, there is at least 1 weather mod already, and Space Exploration also has some plans for making weather. Speaking of SE, Earendel said that will consider integrating my mod into it.

1 year, 3 months ago
(updated 1 year, 3 months ago)

Thank you for your reply, I think it is good news.

Regarding the existing weather mod, the reason why I didn't use it but sent you a request is that I personally prefer to use the lightning weather in the mod for your mod.

1 year, 3 months ago

Maybe I can help with some graphics work. Some of the mods made by MFerrari have graphics I made if you want to take a look.

Not necessarily this mod, if your other mods are needed, I am willing to help. It’s just that I don’t know how to use 3D software. You can refer to the types of graphics I’m good at, the spawner and various infected forts in the Toxic Biters mod, and I’m willing to try other types of machines.

If you think I can help, you can send me your request list via discord, and I will make what I can.

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