I love to see people working on new randomizers, what inspired you to make this one? What sort of new directions are you looking at?

Awesome mod!

I made one of the first Factorio randomizers 5 years ago ( https://mods.factorio.com/mod/zAlsScienceShuffle ) , but it doesn't work anymore, so I tried someone else's and it didn't go great, so I figured it was time for an upgrade.

It would be nice to get the algorithm working on liquids and modded raw ingredients, and get it to handle probabilistic recipes, but it would be a ton of work and have very little impact on the base experience.

Yeah, I saw that randomizer actually. Chembot forked it and started maintaining it so it's still around in some form. Who else's did you try? I think vill's did a pretty good job and there's an alt-f4 post on that if you want inspiration. I also have worked on recipe randomization if you want any help. I think every little bit goes a long ways, but of course it depends on your goals.

Good luck with the project!

I don't want to say anything bad about any other mods. It only took one, probably misconfigured run to get me thinking about making this, and once I had the algorithm idea I couldn't let it go. I don't have any concrete future plans with this, except to play it. I'm in 2 games right now. They're slow going, but so far it seems to be working as intended. I might make some tweaks if something goes wrong or someone reports a bug, but otherwise this is probably it.

Ah, okay, well thanks for the mod! I always love to see different randomizers.