Hey,

I really don't like that drops are infinite and free. Dumb. Since you cracked the nut of messing with drop pods. How hard would it be create a "DropPod" item that can be built. 10 = 1ton, and its required that you have pods in your spaceship in order to drop down the the planet?

That's a good idea, or rather cargo pod items specific to each planet so the resources can vary.

If an artist wants to take a crack, please reach out (if you're new to modding you can check /data/space-age/graphics/icons to see how icons work.)

@thesixthroc, I ended up taking this on. It seemed fun. Here's a link if you want to check it out.

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/recycled-rockets-cargo-pods

Nice to see this quick turnaround! Looks like a fun mod. I need to make some tweaks to this mod in order to smooth out orbital logistics, which is logistically awkward because the players don't have fine enough control over their launches, which your mod will also find I believe.

You may also wish to check out version 10.12 of this mod as there is a significant refactor which avoids the need to call find_entities_filtered on planet surfaces that in Space Age slightly stutters the game. I didn't detect this on singleplayer, but it became apparent on our multiplayer server. Plus some polish you could adapt too. Please callout this mod in your mod description if you borrow code.

Right on, I will!