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• Will only harvest wood from trees. If other mods add additional resources to trees, those resources will be lost.
  [*] Will probably get stuck if a tree doesn't provide wood. Shouldn't happen in vanilla, but a possible conflict with other mods. Fixed
• Won't show the affected area during placement. This is a limitation in Factorio as the AssemblingMachine prototype doesn't support overlays, only mining drills and roboports do.
• Model is simply a recolored Assembling Machine 1 because I can't 3d model to save my life.

• Possibly increased harvesting area/speed through research.
• Play better with other mods.
• More visible harvesting rather than trees just disappearing (if possible).

• 0.17.1
  - Harvesters no longer silently disable themselves when running out of trees to harvest, but mark themselves for deconstruction once all materials have been removed. (Can be changed in mod settings)
  - Harvester recipe changed due to removal of iron axes, now only requires 5 gears and 10 plates.
  
  Bugfixes:
  - Harvesters now actually stop harvesting when marked for deconstruction, and won't refill the input slot while inactive.
  
  Cosmetic:
  - Major/minor mod version follows Factorio, so mod version 0.17.x is compatible with Factorio 0.17
• 0.0.10: Fixed a small bug in the recipes which would cause errors when used alongside Bob's mods.
• 0.0.9: Fixed bugs in checkForUpdate. Shouldn't throw errors when added to an existing game now.
• 0.0.8: Fixed the recipe sorting, now sorts after Pumpjacks in the extraction machine subcategory.
• 0.0.8: Harvester now starts cutting trees closest to itself and works its way out, another idea (re)implemented (and improved ) from eradicator's proof of concept.

Repofme1 wrote:A quick look at the code shows a much better knowledge of I the Factorio API than I have - a good change for a learning experience :)

kaszak696 wrote:It seems to have a weird interaction with Bob's mods, specifically Bob's Library and Bob's Electronics. When they are both installed alongside Wood Harvester, Factorio throws this error:inadequate.

mg79 wrote:Fixed it. It was a simple mistake on my behalf. In the recipes I had put quotes around the item amounts, which makes them strings. Factorio itself doesn't seem to care and makes an implicit cast to number, but it caused bob's to throw an error.

eradicator wrote:

mg79 wrote:Fixed it. It was a simple mistake on my behalf. In the recipes I had put quotes around the item amounts, which makes them strings. Factorio itself doesn't seem to care and makes an implicit cast to number, but it caused bob's to throw an error.

Implicit cast to number sounds like a worthy bug report. Though...wouldn't be suprised it it ended in "we do it on purpose". Bleh. I don't want to call tonumber() on everything that should already be a number. (Not blaming you, just saying that if it's generally possible i don't want my scripts to run into that bug.)

mg79 wrote:It's also possible it doesn't implicitly cast, but just interprets anything that isn't a number as 1.

jamiechi1 wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 02, 2022 3:58 pm

This mod can be easily updated for Factorio 1.1. I added an issue at Github with the changes I made.

fctrusr wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 15, 2022 6:13 am

jamiechi1 wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 02, 2022 3:58 pm

This mod can be easily updated for Factorio 1.1. I added an issue at Github with the changes I made.

I totally agree that this mod should be kept alive. I use it at least since version 0.0.11 and just tweaked the info.json file to keep it alive, at least in my local copy.

i am currently in the making and testing of an updated version which helps a lot to get rid of the massive ups/fps drop when used in larger amounts in huge factories.
This week i figured the root cause of the problem and implemented some new configuration parameters to be able to tweak them without restarting the game.

To fix the ups/fps problem i now added a random idle skip counter. If the harvester runs out of trees and gets not marked to be destroyed it now waits a random amount of harvest loops until it tries again to find some trees, which don't grow that fast that checking every second makes sense.

I usually use the Natural Tree Expansion Reloaded mod to grow trees and ensure my factory stays clear of trees and to have a constant source of wood without manual interaction.

fctrusr wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 15, 2022 6:13 am

To fix the ups/fps problem i now added a random idle skip counter. If the harvester runs out of trees and gets not marked to be destroyed it now waits a random amount of harvest loops until it tries again to find some trees, which don't grow that fast that checking every second makes sense.

I usually use the Natural Tree Expansion Reloaded mod to grow trees and ensure my factory stays clear of trees and to have a constant source of wood without manual interaction.