[MOD 0.14.x] Terraforming - Bridges, Moats & Drawbridges

[MudRaker]

Type: Mod
Name: Terraforming
Description: Adds terraforming equipment - bridge builders, moat diggers and drawbridges
Graphics by: No-one yet ... I need help if anyone is interested
Version: 0.12.x
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Release: 19-08-2015
Tested With Version: 0.13.20
Website: This page.
Tags: defence, bridge, moat, logistics, robots

Recent changes - Oct 2016

• Fix localised technology names
• Upgrade to support 0.13 & 0.14 and add to factorio mod site - future updates posted at mods.factorio.com

[/color]Machines that terraform the planet: building fords and bridges, digging moats and drawbridges for safe passage across the moat.
Deliberately slow and ponderous machines. Low technology machines need constant attention and feeding of materials, but at higher levels can sustain long distances without intervention.

Bridges

Three different technology levels - fords, stone bridges and concrete bridges - for any span of water

Moats

Three different technology levels - dirt moats, stone paved moats and concrete moats

DrawBridges

Cross water easily and safely with draw bridges that drop as you approach - on foot, or in a vehicle

But lets not forget the trains - a bridge that only trains can cross

Prefabrication

Prefabricate terraforming packages in your main factory where the materials are:

Then use them in the terraformers for unattended operation over long runs & precise control over the number of squares terraformed

Logistics

Attack of the killer robots ... delivering materials as long as the machine stays in logistics range of a roboport.
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Sadly, the personal roboport doesn't support logistics robots

Description

A new technology discovery has allowed the development of heavy terrraforming machines. Place them down, load them with the ingredients and watch them slowly inch their way across the landscape ... until they run out of materials or fill up with empty barrels. Keep those speed modules handy if you're in a hurry. These machines are talkative - complaining if not placed right, whinging if they collide with something important and gloating when the job is done - sorry about that, it's a fault in the programming.

Turn on detailed info with ALT or select the machine, and it shows an arrow (stolen from the liquid connection graphics) at the centre of the face it works on -the squares affected are the ones immediately in front of that. When working with water, remember that the last grass square is the "half grass, half water" graphic. The bridge builder moves forward over the bridge it is building, and the moat digger moves backwards away from the moat it is digging. You can stop the machines at any time, rotate them, reposition them etc to get any shape you want.

The moat digger works in any terrain but won't damage your placed entities, resources, players, enemies or enemy bases
To mine through unimportant resources, just place the moat digger directly facing a resource (or rotated to face it) - perfect for cutting through stone or superfluous coal. Just mine it & repeat or rotate it again to cut through multiple types of resources[/color]

Oh, and when your factory needs to expand, just fill in the moat with the bridge builder ford recipe and make a new one. Or perhaps in the other order if you don't want unfriendly visitors.

Fully multi-player compatible and tested and supports robot construction / deconstruction

The machines currently use and abuse the chemical factory graphics - updated graphics are a work in progress.
(Anyone willing to assist, please contact me ... graphics is *not* my strong suit)

Built to minimise performance overheads - tick handlers are only registered when machines are actually in use.
Railway bridges are even free, using only vanilla Factorio code once they are placed.
The mod can be removed from a world with no issues leaving the terraforming behind ... except that the drawbridges will no longer cover the moat

Protect Your Factory

Who says the natives are a problem?

Change List

Version 0.13.1

• Upgrade to support version 0.13 syntax and add to mod repository
• Avoid halting the game when multiple terraformers are running
  (Only use the message dialog to "talk" when there is only one player and only 1 active terraformer)

Version 0.12.4

• Fix bug where the non-logistic moat digger and bridge builder machines with multiple fuel slots don't work properly when using a recipe that includes a burnable ingredient
• Logistics terraformers now run on coal or solid fuel. They request coal by default - simply open the machine and load in the desired fuel to change what it requests. Note that every operation takes at least one fuel though, so solid fuel does not last any longer than coal!

Version 0.12.3

• Added prefabrication plant and recipes to allow ingredients to be combined into a single package that stacks to 100
• Added new logistics-enabled versions of the bridge builder and moat digger to allow robots to bring supplies & take away byproducts
• Added new prefabrication and logistic technology levels as separate branches beyond terraforming-3
• Changed concrete moat recipe to return the empty barrel (now that the range on one fill has been improved)
• Increased basic bridge-builder and moat-digger to two fuel slots to improve range
• Fixed bug where mining a terraformer fails when your inventory is full caused a registry problem
• Fixed bug where placing a bridge builder 2 to spaces from water caused it to start & immediately stop
• Fixed bug where a unnoticed syntax change caused a syntax error when a moat digger placed directly on a resource
• Improved handling of rotation of bridge builder to correctly start/stop based on facing to water
• Increased technolgy image resolution to 128 x 128
• Add new item subgroups for logistic machines & prefabricated packages
• Modified machine images to have transparent backgrounds to fit better with the improved base graphics
• Added config.lua file to allow some difficulty settings to be easily changed
• Added remote interface to allow presence & version to be detected

Older versions available viewtopic.php?f=93&t=15038&p=101939#p101939

[system]

Moat digger always stops after making 1 patch of water (report about obstacle, even there is nothing in 100 range). Any ideas what i'm doing wrong? I tried prefabricated and raw materials.

Edit: Moat Digger don't move at all in my game.

[Lanka]

Everytime moat digger moves, it consumes everything in the "wood" slot. Everything else seems to work as expected.

I understand this thing needs to be slow&boring to use, but having to babysit it digging every hole and adding 1 wood - rinse and repeat infinity - is just little bit silly..

[athanassios]

love the mod idea, but i am having the same issue with the moat digger eating all the wood after a single run!

[BlooSkies]

The bridge builder does the same, but only with the "natural" option.
Concrete bridges work fine. I'd suspect the paved moats to work the same?

[spanky1044sback]

I'm using an older version of the mod because I prefer v0.12 of Factorio. Thus, I'm using v12.5 of the mod. However, i keep getting an "attempt to compare number with nil" error on line 854 or 862 of the control.lua. Any recommendations? Thanks in advance.

[acidcrash]

Has this mod been abandoned? I'm getting the same issue with the moat digger both stopping claiming a non-existant obstacle and using all the wood in one go

[Spuds]

Factorio version

0.14.23
Moat digger digs one square when going south, then complains of hitting something (must pick upup before can access menu). refuses to go north at all 'obstruction detected'. works eastbound and westbound.

bridge builder untested

[sumdawgy]

Has this mod been abandoned? I'm getting the same issue with the moat digger both stopping claiming a non-existant obstacle and using all the wood in one go

RIP terraformer,,,,you are missed.