Rail Layer

by Thaui

Add a locomotive that place ghost rails and signals.

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Owner:
Thaui
Source:
https://github.com/YPetremann/rail-layer
Homepage:
https://github.com/YPetremann/rail-layer
License:
MIT
Created:
14 hours ago
Latest Version:
0.0.3 (an hour ago)
Factorio version:
2.0
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0 users

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.

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

  • Obstacle Clearing: Cleanning Trees and Rocks marked for deconstruction and put items in Cargo Wagon
  • Elevated Rails: building rail support and supporting rails
  • Power poles: building power poles near rails

License

MIT NON-AI License