(Beta) Fulgorite Harvesting

by Morlot

An alternative holmium source on Fulgora. Plant seed crystals, ground lightning into the soil to grow them, and recycle the harvested fulgorite into holmium ore and stone.

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a month ago
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Factorio: Space Age Icon Space Age Mod
Mining

g If you upgrade the tower's quality, it won't attract lightning.

5 hours ago

Unfortunately, if you upgrade the tower's quality, it will no longer prioritize attracting lightning...

2 hours ago

Thanks for the report — i tested this extensively, in the editor and in a normal game, and the tower works as intended.

In the natural storm: bolts are spread over a wide area, so many of them strike outside the tower's range and are caught by other lightning rods nearby. The tower's priority only decides who gets a bolt among the attractors that cover the strike point — it cannot pull in a bolt that falls beyond its reach, no matter how high the priority is.

The test also showed the opposite case: a legendary tower, with its much larger range, catches nearly every natural bolt around it. That confirms the tower's higher priority still applies at quality — the range is what changes, not the priority.

If you give me a screenshot or a description of your setup, I can try to reproduce the problem.
Until then, I can't identify any errors.

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