Baron Factions is intended to be played by multiple players cooperatively. When a player joins, they must choose which faction they will join. Each faction has specialized buildings that produce and consume only one kind of energy: Electric, Steam, Burner, or Heat.

Each faction is given its own starting area so that they may build independently from other factions. The following unique technologies are available, per faction:

Electric

Electric plate - short-ranged electric pole
Micro generator - inexpensive, inefficient electric generator
Electric generator - creates electricity without water

Burner

Clean fuels - all "generators" can produce fuel that is cleaner and more efficient than their typical counter-parts
Roller belt recipes - allows certain belts to be made cheaply
Longer inserters - VLH and ELH inserters for more flexibility
Fuel leaching - inserters can refuel from any burner building pickup

Steam

Stone well - cheap source of water
Micro boiler - cheap converter from water to steam
Thin pipe - low-capacity pipes that can be stepped over
Steel, stone, and plastic pipes - more pipe varieties for various applications

Heat

Fire pit - cheap source of heat
Heat burner reactor - generates heat from fuel
Heat wire - inexpensive heat transmitter
Steel heat wire - effective heat transmitter
Heat tower - transmits heat over distances

Known issues

Some buildings do not display power levels: electric-turret (burner and heat only), roboport, and beacon
fast-transfer (ctrl-click, shift-click) of burner fuel into the above types does not work as expected
Some heat faction's logistics controllers do not require power: lamp, decider-combinator, arithmetic-combinator, and programmable-speaker
Thin pipe is not upgradable because of the different collision mask
Changing factions while crafting causes the crafting to be restarted

Modding

This mod works reasonably well with other mods. By default, all prototypes added by mods in the data and data-updates cycle will automatically be processed by each faction. Recipes, items, and entities for all energy-consuming or energy-producing buildings will be duplicated, altered, and marked for each faction.

Making Faction-unique recipes, items, or entities

Baron Factions identifies recipe -> item -> entity prototype trees, and validates that the tree's factions are set correctly. Generally, it is enough to mark either the recipe or the entity as faction-unique.

To specify a prototype as faction-unique, add the key "factions" with an array of one or more of burner, electric, heat, steam.

For example:

  {
    type = "recipe",
    name = "power-plate",
    factions = {"electric"},
    ...
  }

Advanced modding options

Prototypes may additionally be marked with a special "baron-flags" table to further adjust behavior. See baron-library for more details.

Attributions

heat icon png 2
Electric-generator from bobpower.