Space Age x Bob's Compatibility

by Phalke

Compatibility tweaks for Space Age + Bob's Mods.

Tweaks
3 days ago
2.0
41
Transportation
Owner:
Phalke
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N/A
Homepage:
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License:
MIT
Created:
3 days ago
Latest Version:
0.2.9 (3 days ago)
Factorio version:
2.0
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This mod is still a work in progress. I made it to play Space Age together with bob's mods. There are several problems why playing Space Age with bob's mods is quite inconvenient in the moment and I tried to fix some of them:
1) You cannot build ammo in space (not fixed in this mod, but in my other mod "Space Ammo"
2) You cannot build rockets on the other planets because you cannot get bob's ores there. I did not fix this problem entirely but made it more playable by different changes:
- bob's tungsten can be changed 1:1 into tungsten that was added by Space Age
- same with tungsten carbide
- you can get quartz from lava on Vulcanus
- you can get alumina from lava on Vulcanus
- there is a new Advanced Recycler on Fulgora that gives you a heap of bob's items to deconstruct. It's quite fun to find out what you can build out of that "crap" (Hint: You can build all rocket-parts on Fulgora that way)
- I added a new research: Reuseable Rockets. It unlocks a quite pricy new rocket silo with the benefit, that it can reuse the carrier-stage of the rocket (like SpaceX does), so you only need to build a single rocket part (the payload-stage), that needs significantly less items to build. That way shipping the required ressources to the other planets is a bit less of a hassle and some can even be made on site.

I'm still experimenting with some concepts and the balancing but it is already fun as is (at least for me ;-)