Spidertron Leg Count

by jeff.s

Why should Spidertron have 8 legs? You can customize the number with this mod (affects ALL spidertrons). IMPORTANT: Due to a base game bug, Factorio will crash if you change this and then load a save that already has a spidertron on the ground. To work around it for now: Pick up your spidertron(s), save, change this value in mod settings and restart game, and put them back down.

Tweaks
3 years ago
1.0 - 1.1
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Owner:
jeff.s
Source:
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Homepage:
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License:
MIT
Created:
3 years ago
Latest Version:
1.1.0 (3 years ago)
Factorio version:
1.0 - 1.1
Downloaded by:
619 users

Why should Spidertron have 8 legs? You can customize the number with this mod!

  • This mod adds a startup setting that changes the number of legs on the vanilla spidertron
  • Spidertrons with a lot of legs can sometimes have trouble walking or walk in a very silly manner

Video demonstrating Spidertrons walking with different leg counts: https://streamable.com/v0z7l0

Known Bugs

IMPORTANT: Due to a base game bug, Factorio will crash if you change this and then
load a save that already has a spidertron deployed. For more information see
these two bugs (which should be fixed in the next release):

WORKAROUND:

  • Pick up all of the spidertrons
  • Save your game
  • Change the number of legs in mod settings (game will restart)
  • Put your spidertrons back on the ground

I know this is inconvenient. Sorry.

Limitations

  • This mod changes all Spidertrons. There isn't a way to customize how many legs each individual spidertron has.
  • This mod might or might not interact well with other Spidertron mods, depending on what they do.