UPS Friendly Asteroid Collectors


UPS friendly custom collector with no arm animation. Useful for megabasing.

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15 days ago
2.0
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Owner:
RockPaperKatana
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License:
MIT
Created:
17 days ago
Latest Version:
0.1.2 (15 days ago)
Factorio version:
2.0
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113 users

As of version 2.0.26, this mod is no longer needed as asteroid collectors are now roughly as fast as this mod.

Add pulse asteroid collector, a custom made asteroid chunk collector with no visual effects using Lua scripting, making them much faster than vanilla.

Recommendations:
1. Using UPS Friendly Asteroids mod is recommended as reducing chunk amount has a greater effect on pulse collectors than vanilla ones.
2. Using circuits to disable the collectors while not collecting promethium is recommended, as they consume no processing power whatsoever when disabled. They also have no UPS impact when full.
3. It is also recommended to replace all vanilla asteroid collectors on a ship with pulse collectors, as asteroid collectors' UPS impact is non-linear, at low amount each of them has much greater UPS impact.

Known limitations compared to vanilla collectors:
1. Can't grab chunks if low on electricity.
2. Can only grab one type of asteroids at one time.
3. Can't undo the construction of non-normal quality collector.
4. Collection range doesn't grow with quality tiers.

Todo:
Add custom visuals and sound effects to the collectors to make them less boring.