Church and Prayers

A strange sanctuary that turns offerings into war.

Church and Prayers adds a special church building that consumes raw fish and valuable items to generate Prayer Fog.
The fog empowers the church's ritual, spreading influence over nearby alien life and turning enemy creatures against their own kind.

What It Does

Adds a new placeable Church building
The Church accepts raw fish and offerings
It burns fish over time to build up Prayer Fog
The fog is handled as a hidden gameplay system and is not visible in the world view
Its activity is reflected through the map/minimap pollution layer
Nearby enemies can be converted to your side and ordered to attack other enemy colonies

Enemy Conversion

Prayer Fog can affect:

Biters
Spitters
Worms
Spawners
Other hostile enemy structures

The stronger the fog becomes:

The more enemies the Church can try to convert
The longer converted enemies remain under your control
The greater the pressure placed on nearby enemy colonies

Prayer Technologies

The mod includes dedicated technologies that improve the speed of Prayer Fog generation:

Prayer Discipline
Prayer Chorus
Prayer Ascension

Researching them increases how quickly the Church builds up its fog and reaches full strength.

Environmental Interaction

Prayer Fog is not static.

Trees absorb part of the fog
Water weakens the spread
Fog grows and decays over time instead of appearing instantly

This makes placement matter and gives the system a more natural rhythm.

Runtime Settings

Per-map settings let you tune the behavior:

Church pulse interval
Fog radius
Offering threshold
Max conversions per pulse
Prayer Fog spread speed
Absorption by trees
Absorption by water
Conversion speed
Conversion success chance

Notes

Designed for Factorio 2.0
Prayer Fog is intentionally map-only in presentation
There is no visible fog effect in normal world view
The minimap uses native pollution-style map visibility

Basic Use

Place a Church
Insert raw fish and optional valuables
Let the Church begin its ritual
Watch nearby enemy colonies fall under pressure as the Prayer Fog spreads