Zentrales Management-Dashboard für Train Construction Site. Ermöglicht die Steuerung und Übersicht aller Depots, Bau-Züge und Werkstätten via Shortcut Bar.
Providing the player with new tools or adjusting the game interface, without fundamentally changing gameplay.
Version: 0.1.0
Date: 28. 06. 2026
Major Features:
- Initial alpha release of Train Construction Site Manager for Factorio 2.1 / Space Age.
- Central management dashboard for trainConstructionSiteFork.
Features:
- Full overview of all TCS entities across all forces and surfaces.
- Depots tab with Name, Location, Status, Trains built/requested.
- Builders tab with active build status.
- Assemblers tab with train assembly plants overview.
- Shortcut bar integration with TCS Manager shortcut icon.
- Custom hotkey ALT + T to toggle manager.
- Draggable main window built with FactoryLib GUI layout engine >= 0.2.2.
- Interactive table action buttons: Show on map.
- Interactive table action buttons: Ping / highlight entity on surface.
- Optional coordinate columns X / Y toggleable via header button.
- Mod setting: tcsManager-show-coordinates to show coordinates by default.
- Multi-surface support: Nauvis, Space Age planets, space platforms.
- Multi-force and multiplayer compatible.
Minor Features:
- Tab-based UI: Depots / Builders / Assemblers.
- Status display: Bereit / Aktiv / Wartend / Leerlauf.
- Status display EN: Ready / Active / Waiting / Idle.
- Empty-state message: Keine Depots gefunden. Baue zuerst ein Zug-Depot!
- Player-specific GUI state handling.
- Safe open/close/toggle handling prevents duplicate windows.
Changes:
- Initial public repository structure.
- Added src/gui/manager-controller.lua.
- Added src/gui/manager-layout.lua.
- Added locale/de and locale/en complete.
- Added graphics/icons folder.
Translation:
- Full German localization.
- Full English localization.
Compatibility:
- Requires base >= 2.1.
- Requires trainConstructionSiteFork >= 0.5.6.
- Requires FactoryLib >= 0.2.2.
- Multiplayer compatible.
- Existing saves: can be added and removed at any time.
- Space Age multi-surface support.
Gui:
- FactoryLib based draggable main window.
- Header controls: Coordinates toggle, Refresh, Close.
- Compact right-aligned header buttons (WIP layout).
- Table columns: Name, Location, Status, Trains, Actions.
Info:
- ALPHA BUILD – Work in Progress – NOT FINISHED.
- Suggestions, ideas and bug reports very welcome.
- GitHub: https://github.com/Marcel1853/trainConstructionSiteManager
- Author: Marcel171297
- Known issue: Train status / time display is not always correct yet.
- Known issue: UI button layout Coords / Refresh / Close is being reworked.
- Known issue: No sorting / filtering / search in tables yet.
- Known issue: Performance drops with more than 50 depots listed.
- Known issue: Tooltips partially missing.
- Known issue: Space Age surface icons not final.
Bugfixes:
- N/A - initial release.