Description

The Rail Layer locomotive is a slow-moving, automated rail construction vehicle that lay down ghost rail and signals using materials from its cargo wagons.

Perfect for building large-scale railways without construction robots.

Features

• Ghost Blueprint Integration: Reads placed ghost rail and signal entities
• Automated Rail Construction: Places rails and signals automatically as the locomotive moves
• Resource Consumption: Uses materials from train cargo wagons
• Backward Laying: when the Rail Layer goes backward, rails are laid from the back of the train.
• Obstacle Clearing: Cleanning Trees and Rocks marked for deconstruction and put items in Cargo Wagon
• Tile placement: If a rail or a signal can't be placed because it need some tiles, the rail layer will place them.

Experimental support (enable in settings)

• Power poles: building power poles near rails

How To Use

1. Blueprint Planning: Plan your desired route with blueprints or ghost rails.
2. Deploy Rail Layer: Place the Rail Layer and a cargo wagons filled with rails and signals.
3. Drive Forward: Either by jumping in or driving remotely, simply drive like toward thoses ghost.
4. Automatic Construction: The locomotive will handle the work of automatically building rails and signals.

Technical Details

• Technology just after railway transportation, 200x (1 red science pack, 1 green science pack)
• Recipe same as a locomotive
• Maximum Speed it goes at 1/4 speed of a locomotive, as it need to precisely build your rails
• Script Efficient script are used only when moving

Compatibility

• ✔️ Modded rails that are either simple rails or correctly listen to script_raised_revive are compatible.
• ✔️ Quality is compatible.
• ‼️ Elevated Rails is compatble, but rail layer can't lay down elevated rails.

Things To Do

• Alerts: proper alerts when something cannot be built.
• Stations: building stations
• Elevated Rails: building rail support and supporting rails
• Automatic mode: the train go to his supply station and wander alone on the rails to build the railway network (this is really a big feature)

License

MIT NON-AI License