Making a no impact damage mod for vanilla vehicles

[Sarxis]

Greetings modders!

I know how to add and change resistance types for existing mods, and I also know how to change the game's entities.lua to alter impact damage resistance. But would making a small mod to do give the vanilla vehicles 100% impact resistance be very involved? I'd rather use a mod than altering the base game files, but I don't know how to make a mod from scratch and might be too involved for my amateur skills.

Any advice is appreciated!

[darkfrei]

Reference mod: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/HeavyWagon
Just add resistance:

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resistances = {
      {  type = "fire",  decrease = 15,  percent = 50}, 
      {  type = "physical",  decrease = 15,  percent = 30}, 
      {  type = "impact",  decrease = 1,  percent = 1}, 
      {  type = "explosion",  decrease = 15,  percent = 30}, 
      {  type = "acid",  decrease = 10,  percent = 20}
    },

[Sarxis]

Like I said, I know how to implement the resistance changes directly to existing mods and to the base game entities.lua file, I just don't know how to make a mod or script that I could insert into an existing mod to do the same thing. I hate having to tinker with the base game files if I can avoid it.

I just don't know how to avoid it!

[DaveMcW]

Making a mod requires 3 things:

1. A new folder in your factorio mods directory named: my-mod_0.0.1
2. An info.json file. Copy it from any mod and make sure the name is my-mod and the version is 0.0.1
3. A data.lua file containing your changes. In this case you would want:

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data.raw["car"]["car"].resistances = {}

Bonus 4th thing: you can zip the mod folder to distribute it, but this makes it harder to edit and is not required.

[darkfrei]

Like I said, I know how to implement the resistance changes directly to existing mods and to the base game entities.lua file, I just don't know how to make a mod or script that I could insert into an existing mod to do the same thing. I hate having to tinker with the base game files if I can avoid it.

I just don't know how to avoid it!

Just open current log file with Notepad++ and this mod:
viewtopic.php?f=135&t=45107
You can find whole data.raw here.

[Sarxis]

Thanks for the help you guys!