Changelog

Version: 20.2.18
Date: 2023-12-23
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    - Christmas 2023 - Replace the non winter ground tiles in Big Winter. So no more green grass.
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Version: 20.2.17
Date: 2023-12-03
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    - Added Christmas 2023 - Change regular locomotive techs to unlock mini locomotives.
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Version: 20.2.16
Date: 2023-11-11
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    - Halloween 2023 - Biter spit in mid air no longer glows in the dark when in the air.
    - Halloween 2023 - Biter spit sticker no longer glows in the dark. Wo when a player/vehicle has the slow effect from biter spit.
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Version: 20.2.15
Date: 2023-11-01
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    - Halloween 2023 - Updated to latest Zombie mod gravestone graphics structure.
    - Halloween 2023 - Rename the biter eggs to pumpkin patch.
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Version: 20.2.14
Date: 2023-10-29
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    - Halloween 2023 - Landfill is returned back to vanilla Factorio's requirements and recipe. Made available for save games created on an older mod version.
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Version: 20.2.13
Date: 2023-10-28
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    - Halloween 2023 - Add combat lighting from Battlefluffy scenario.
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Version: 20.2.12
Date: 2023-10-25
  Features:
    - Halloween 2023 - Added new mod for a Halloween play through.
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Version: 20.2.11
Date: 2022-09-27
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    - JD Split Factory - repurposing of old `JD P0ober Split Factory` feature to make it more generic. So that JD is on one side and anyone else is on the other. Also updated to work in Factorio 1.1.69. This new mode is not backwards compatible with a save made using the `JD P0ober Split Factory` feature.
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Version: 20.2.10
Date: 2022-09-19
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    - Battlefluffy - made the artillery wagon unable to fire to balance out scenario limitations. It can still be used to carry a lot of shells.
    - Battlefluffy - reduced fire color saturation for both oil and forest fires.
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Version: 20.2.9
Date: 2022-09-03
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    - Battlefluffy - made fire and explosion lights be present in all brightness conditions. So they don't just vanish/appear when its almost fully bright.
    - Battlefluffy - reduce the red levels in fire lighting. Man made fire light is a yellow color due to the high heat. This makes them closer color wise to the larger shooting and explosion lights. Forest fires are still an orange colored light, but a bit less red than before.
    - Battlefluffy - reduce fires central lighting a bit, so they don't stack as easily in to fully bright areas.
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Version: 20.2.8
Date: 2022-08-27
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    - Battlefluffy - lamps turn on at lower light levels, so they are on over dusk rather than sometimes being post dusk.
    - Battlefluffy - all light effects start when the map is only a little bit dark, so while still slightly brightened than vanilla Factorio.
    - Battlefluffy - larger explosions and fires moved to having a bright inner light and a larger weaker lighting effect to highlight the shadows.
    - Battlefluffy - flamethrower turrets have a proper idle flame glow.
    - Battlefluffy - most light effects slightly lengthened for better visibility or aligned to explosion length better.
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    - Version numbers back on track. Last 2 versions were released under an old minor version number. This did mess up Factorio's feature to update to the latest version for them.

Version: 20.2.7
Date: 2022-08-20
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    - Fire Place mod is optional as intended (no errors on startup if missing).
    - Camp Fire can't be opened by players.
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Version: 20.2.6
Date: 2022-08-20
  Features:
    - Added mode: Battlefluffy Scenario
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Version: 20.2.5
Date: 2022-06-24
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    - JD Spider Race - Has been modified for play testing with a reduced spider. See readme/mod description for details. These changes will be reverted/balanced in future main releases.
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Version: 20.2.4
Date: 2022-06-16
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    - JD Spider Race - Player Manager shows how many total players are online for each team. Doesn't update on players joining/leaving server as this would interfere with admins trying to assign players to teams as large parts of the GUI reload at once.
    - JD Spider Race - Player Manager, when selecting a player's name button it now highlights the button in bold as well as the name appearing at the bottom middle of the GUI. So its more obvious who has been selected.
  Bugfixes:
    - JD Spider Race - Handle offline players being assigned to an initial team and moved between teams. Errored and crashed before.
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    - JD Spider Race - Renamed the enemy boss spider to "Huntsman spider" so its a little more generic.

Version: 20.2.3
Date: 2022-04-30
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    - Added mode: JD Spider Race
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Version: 20.2.2
Date: 2022-04-15
  Features:
    - Added mode: Easter Egg Surprise (2022)
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Version: 20.2.1
Date: 2021-02-13
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    - Added mode: JD P00ber Split Factory
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    - JD Plays logo is only seen when menu simulations are disabled since upgrade to Factorio.

Version: 20.2.0
Date: 2020-12-01
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    - Mod updated to Factorio 1.1 - all old modes removed as they are left in 0.18
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Version: 18.1.2
Date: 2020-07-13
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    - Added mode: JD P00ber - August 2020
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Version: 18.1.1
Date: 2020-04-01
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    - March 2020 - add dummy steel axe to excluded items as it crashes the game
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Version: 18.1.0
Date: 2020-03-30
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    - Mod updated to Factorio 0.18 - all old modes removed as they are left in 0.17
    - Added mode March 2020 - Egg surprise
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Version: 17.0.20
Date: 2020-01-03
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    - January 2020: tweak tree list obtaining code to be more efficient and clearer to read

Version: 17.0.19
Date: 2020-01-03
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    - Add mode "January 2020"
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Version: 17.0.18
Date: 2019-12-13
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  Bugfixes:
    - Make mod safe to be removed from save and then re-added later, or at least not error on load...
    - Shared Damage - Tweak player kills other player shared damage message so it reads properly
    - Biter Hunt Group - fixed logic path where biter target entity could be kept after becoming invalid if player driving state changed after death event received.
    - Added protection to try and catch invalid biter target entity command scenarios. Will try to fix state so mod doesn't crash, but it 'may' lead to a messed up mod state that can be cleared later.
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Version: 17.0.17
Date: 2019-12-10
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    - Biter Hunt Groups will no longer be treated like vanilla biters. So not de-spawned or told to join a biter base.
  Bugfixes:
    - Once biters are targeting spawn they will stop being re-directed in all cases. Should stop some back and forth behavior.
    - Shared Damage map distance populated for existing saves
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Version: 17.0.16
Date: 2019-12-08
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  Bugfixes:
    - Fix the biters targeting message to handle spawn as target
    - Fix the december_2019_fix_scheduled_events command and event scheduling library in MP with 2+ players
    - Biter hunt groups will chase players in vehicles and handle them getting in/out
    - When a biter hunt group kills the targeted player it will attack towards spawn.
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Version: 17.0.15
Date: 2019-12-08
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    - Shared damage is proportional to the distance between the injured player and the other player vs the generated map size. So on big maps you need to be further away from them to receive half damage than a small map.
    - Biter hunting group message includes clickable GPS location of targeted player's position.
    - Biter Hunt Groups has command to write out results as JSON: biters_write_out_hunt_group_results
    - Shared damage has command to write out results as JSON: shared_damage_write_out_kills_deaths
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    - Shared damage kill alerts include how many kills and deaths the 2 participants have had
    - Includes command to do a one off fix on bad old repeating scheduled events: december_2019_fix_scheduled_events
  Bugfixes:
    - fixed typo in snowball mod compatibility added in 17.0.13
    - Shared damage - damage <= 0 is ignored
    - Biter hunt groups will be given new attack orders should they lose them.
    - Biter hunt group will not declare player victory before they are all dead now.
    - Correct further intermittent startup crash for some players with scheduled event functions shown in logs.
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Version: 17.0.14
Date: 2019-12-05
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    - Shared damage - When a player dies to shared damage the "killer" player is named and shamed. Also logged to stats table (no viewer yet)
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Version: 17.0.13
Date: 2019-12-03
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    - Players are safe from suffering shared damage for 60 seconds after respawn.
    - Biter Hunting Packs, if the target player disconnects it is a loss. Biters will be re-targeted at spawn after the target dies or disconnects.
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    - Added shared damage exclusion for "snowball" type damage to avoid conflicting with that mod.
    - Shared damage reduced to 75%
  Bugfixes:
    - Correct intermittent crash for some players with scheduled event functions shown in logs.
    - Fix crash when a vehicle died by non mod means.
    - Don't generate water barrier tiles past edge of map tile width
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Version: 17.0.12
Date: 2019-11-23
  Features:
    - Added mode "December 2019"
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Version: 17.0.11
Date: 2019-05-31
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    - Added mode "June 2019"
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Version: 17.0.10
Date: 2019-05-19
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    - Made mod selection mode names descriptive.
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Version: 17.0.9
Date: 2019-05-17
  Features:
    - Added mode for JD & P0obers May 2019 multiplayer series.
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Version: 17.0.8
Date: 2019-05-08
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    - May 2019 mode - add "biters_attack_now" command for admins only
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    - May 2019 mode - Fixed crash loading previous version save.
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    - Made all localisation texts truly uniquely named to avoid future conflicts.

Version: 17.0.7
Date: 2019-05-07
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    - May 2019 mode - GUI texts made bold so more prominent on stream.

Version: 17.0.6
Date: 2019-05-05
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    - May 2019 mode - Remove GUI countdown to next biter wave. Now a soft light red 10 second warning before they arrive is shown.
    - May 2019 mode - ground effect space reserving entities have rock pictures under the smoke so its more apparent they are solid.
  Bugfixes:
    - May 2019 mode - Fix possible infinite loop when trying to find places for missing biters when most have a spot.
    - May 2019 mode - Avoid nil LuaEntity references if a ground movement effect is removed by something else.
    - May 2019 mode - Make ground effect space reserving entities indestructible to avoid issues. Does mean vehicles bounce off them. Need to reserve the space so that biters can safe to spawn there.
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    - May 2019 mode - Tweak GUI wording.
    - May 2019 mode - Clarify biter/player chat messages

Version: 17.0.5
Date: 2019-05-05
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    - May 2019 mode - resolved issue with taking a Single Player game in to a Multi Player around GUI creation and destroying.
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Version: 17.0.4
Date: 2019-05-03
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    - May 2019 mode - made compatible and requires 0.17.35 and above.
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    - May 2019 mode - changed mod to store targeted PlayerID rather than LuaPlayer object.

Version: 17.0.3
Date: 2019-05-03
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    - May 2019 mode - doesn't spawn biter hunt groups after a player if they are on a surface with "spaceship" or "Orbit" in the name. This is for Space Exploration mod compatibility.
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    - Added factorio versions each mode has been tested with.

Version: 17.0.2
Date: 2019-04-26
  Features:
    - Added May 2019 mode
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Version: 17.0.1
Date: 2019-04-17
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    - Fixed possible mod mismatch errors in code structure by replacing conditional requires around game modes.
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Version: 17.0.0
Date: 2019-04-04
  Features:
    - Initial Release with April 2019 mode
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