Better Chatting

An attempt at improving Factorio's built in chat.

Recommended to be combined with Twemoji

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:
1. The LocalizedString that is the message
2. The Color of the message
3. Whether the message is intended for "global" broadcast, a "force" level message, or a "player" specific message.
4. The id of the recipient force or player. (ignored for global broadcast)

Todo List:

• <input disabled type="checkbox"> Add toggleable chat timestamps?
• <input disabled type="checkbox"> Add moderation filters
• <input disabled type="checkbox"> Add nicknames