Lignumis


Dive into the world of Lignumis, a moon of Nauvis offering only the most basic technologies.

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5 days ago
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Factorio: Space Age Icon Space Age Mod
Planets Logistics Environment Mining Fluids Manufacturing

i Default space platform repair pack

2 months ago

Hello again, it's me again.

When a space platform is damaged it will request repair packs if "Auto Request Missing Construction Materials" is enabled in order to repair itself. After some testing this appears to be based on the order of repair-tools, with the first repair-tool being requested by default.

This means the default repair pack with Lignumis installed is the basic repair pack (b[repair]-1[basic-repair-pack]) instead of the vanilla repair pack (b[repair]-a[repair-pack]) which can cause problems for space platforms. Most planets don't have access to gold and aren't able to provide these repair packs,
A) potentially leaving a platform unable to repair itself without manual intervention
B) interfering with the "All Requests Satisfied" or "Any Request Not Satisfied" conditions, as it can generate potentially impossible to fulfill logistic requests mid-flight.

While it's possible to work around this by setting every platform to have a repair pack request by default, needing to do that is inconvenient and opportune for human error when making new platforms and also only allows the platform to restock at a single planet set to import repair packs from instead of from any planet as usual for "Request Missing Materials".

I did some testing and changing the order value for the basic-repair-pack from 1->g (for gold) fixed the issue, though I recognize this isn't ideal as it causes the vanilla pack to be sorted first.

Thank you again for your time.

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