An attempt at improving Factorio's built in chat.

Recommended to be combined with Twemoji or Fluent Emoji (or both)

Emojipack

The main reason I made this mod, is to add support for discord style emotes. eg: :purple_heart: -> 💜

This functions by other mods calling remote.call("emojipack registration", "add") with the mod name and a dictionary of shortcodes and their tags. I recommend using [img=<type>.<item>] rather than [<type>=<item>] as it looks significantly nicer in chat.

Scripting

To print a permanent message instead of letting Better Chat clear it away, use remote.call("better-chat", "send", {})
The arguments are:

• message - LocalisedString : The contents of the message.
• level - historyLevel : Whether the message is intended for "global" broadcast, a "force" level message, or a "player" specific message.
• recipient - uint : The id of the recipient force or player (ignored for "global" broadcast).
• color - Color? : The base color of the message.
• process_color - boolean? : Whether or not the color of the message should be faded out based on user setting.
• clear - boolean? : Whether or not the chat is cleared before printing the new message. true by default.

Todo List:

• [x] Use Proper migrations
• [x] Add toggleable chat timestamps?
• They will be in hh:mm:ss format
• Start using game.ticks_played instead of game.tick?
• [ ] Add moderation filters
• [ ] Add nicknames