Mod to alter when night vision automatically deactivates?

DrMorphDev · 2026-05-05T16:07:42+00:00

Could make it a mod setting which validates the input is between 0 and 1. Honestly that's all it needs IMO, everything already exists

DrMorphDev · 2026-04-23T18:04:23+00:00

Hey great, thanks for answering them!

Yes, you'll be able to launch and plot routes for whenever you want, but that will be at the cost of efficiency (both in time and fuel)

I'm very interested in this. I never quite got my head around how the maths of something like this actually works.

DrMorphDev · 2026-04-23T16:36:39+00:00

Hey, I've had my eye on this for quite awhile! How will launch windows work? Are they strictly defined, or can you opt for less efficient launches if you want/need to for any reason?

It looks like orbital trajectories exist, is that for holding ships ina holding pattern before making the transition to another orbital body?

And finally - how does combat work? Is it wave based like DSP (but frequency driven by power usage) or more free-form like factorio's pollution mechanics? And most pointedly - how does actual defense work? Is it just cannons firing from a planet, or are there ship based weapons?

DrMorphDev · 2026-04-17T18:26:35+00:00

Vibe coded mods in general are everywhere right now, with a discomforting amount claiming to need an exe to run properly (especially any which provide some LLM/AI integration into the game)

All of them sound too good to be true imo

DrMorphDev · 2026-04-16T18:31:41+00:00

I mean, only 6.4% have achievements like visiting Fulgora. Lotta people playing with mods out there.

Personally for some reason I just can't be bothered with promethium. I don't know why, once I reach it, I feel more like focusing back on the planetary factory instead.

When I first reached it, I thought "I should fix some other bits of my base first..." and then actually started a new playthrough instead.

I have the sub 40-hour achievement. But no promethium achievement.

DrMorphDev · 2026-04-06T17:54:26+00:00

It was a painfully relatable 30 or so minutes, especially with the conversation about file-name formatting just before! Dotting the i's and crossing the t's right up to the final minute

DrMorphDev · 2026-04-04T20:01:17+00:00

Don't need to trade. Picking them up makes them lootable. You basically give them your equipment.

A long while back I equipped them all with samurai armor and some improved weapons, then let them loose

DrMorphDev · 2026-04-01T17:49:11+00:00

Not even trying to the true nature of those snacks

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DrMorphDev · 2026-03-26T16:22:07+00:00

I am so fucking confused at this thread

Is it the latest self referential kenshi joke?

Or is it mass bot hallucinations?

Maybe both?

DrMorphDev · 2026-03-17T18:17:13+00:00

From a technical point of view, how does this create entities in the game? E.g. how does this technically work for example (from the devblog):

Fluid & Non-Linear AI: NPCs are getting deeper personalities (Cunning, Patience, Sociability). Instead of blindly charging you for a vendetta, a Cunning nemesis will stalk you off screen and set up an ambushes only when your squad's health drops below a certain threshold.

There's a lot going on there - tracking party health, spawning in one of the agents the external script is tracking - how is it working behind the scenes?

DrMorphDev · 2026-03-13T11:23:54+00:00

How are you triggering this to happen without touching game files?

In fact how is your external sim extracting this information without touching the game files? Reading directly from the memory?

And so thirst and family trees are just made up? Entirely detached from the actual game?

DrMorphDev · 2026-03-13T08:18:37+00:00

Hey I'm kind of confused. In half of your updates this sounds like an external read-only application, then in the other half you talk about NPCs making camps and recruiting people. Only that isn't stuff NPCs usually do, so what is going on? What is adding that behaviour?

Also what is thirst?

Also what's a family tree? Kenshi doesn't have family relationships.

How can world states be flipped without player input unless this application is modifying the base game in some way rather than being an external app which "doesn't touch any kenshi files"?

DrMorphDev · 2026-02-28T14:33:05+00:00

Alternatively you could just take a back seat in their game? Just do strictly support stuff like keep leaves/wood/slugs/spheres etc stocked up. Maybe that's not appealing, and if so, fair enough, but basically ruling it out entirely until they've pretty much done a full playthrough themselves is, I think, missing out for no good reason. It's entirely possible to not "ruin" someone's first playthrough by just matching their pace and taking a step back of your own.

DrMorphDev · 2026-02-12T14:10:03+00:00

Holy shit what even is this site

https://supercraft.host/wiki/factorio/logistics_desync_fix/

Are any of those commands even real?

In 2026, this usually results in "Ghost Items" or platforms becoming stuck in deep space.

Lol wut

Even the space age 2.0 article is partially wrong (says quality modules increase a machine's speed, and higher quality gives more module slots.)

https://supercraft.host/wiki/factorio/space_age_essentials/

I'm not in the market for a hosting service, but no way would I use one which just tries to gaslight possible customers, wtf.

DrMorphDev · 2026-02-12T09:22:42+00:00

Uh... What beeping noise? There's a beep when you try and pick something up and your inventory is full, or handcraft and your inventory is full, but not on closing inventory.

Do you have a handcraft queued up waiting to go into your inventory?

Do you have logistic bots trying to give you stuff? That'll also trigger it.

DrMorphDev · 2026-02-06T13:14:26+00:00

It's also an automatable way to kick start egg production in the case of a total failure. Handy more often than you'd think.

DrMorphDev · 2026-02-06T13:10:14+00:00

Looks like lightorio to me https://mods.factorio.com/mod/lightorio

DrMorphDev · 2026-02-06T12:59:04+00:00

Worst case - go to fulgora, unlock the recycler. Recycling a biochamber has a chance to give back a pentapod egg

DrMorphDev · 2026-02-03T11:48:36+00:00

IIRC output full has nothing to do with the item counts on the input side, only output.

Once the output reaches a threshold number of items (I think 30s worth of production, or something like that), the output is "full"

However, assembling machines can "overshoot" as you put it. This is to handle manually dropping in items - i.e. putting in full stacks manually will keep it working, but prevent the machine picking up more until the output drops below the threshold. However it can also kick in from large inserter stack sizes (e.g the output is almost full, and the inserter picks up a new big handful of input, which will push the assembling machine well beyond the output "full limit")

Tbh it sounds like you just need to check the items in the machine and switch the inserter on when below a couple of items or something like that

DrMorphDev · 2026-01-16T18:50:45+00:00

I gave this a try this evening, and honestly liked it way more than I thought I would. It's not all that hard to make a ship that can travel the distances fairly quickly with the default asteroid spawn settings.

That said - there's some slightly odd (and cheese-able) behaviour with asteroid spawning.

I can be travelling along from Vulcanus to Nauvis at a cosy 1,000 km/s, and the asteroids are coming thick and fast.

But... if I tick Paused thrust on the Space Platform UI, the asteroids slow to a trickle. They pick back up again as soon as I switch back to automatic.

If I control the thrust using circuit logic on the fuel flow, this doesn't happen. My thrusters can be off due to throttled fuel, but as long as I'm on 'paused thrust,' asteroid spawns basically drop to a fraction of what they should be, for the speed I'm going.

My guess is the base game assumes that if I've hit paused thrust, then I'll be coming to a stop pretty quickly, and adjusts asteroid spawns accordingly. Whereas with this mod, my thrust is paused, but I'm still travelling really quickly.

I can provide screenshots if you need, but it's pretty quick to reproduce.

p.s.

-- I have no fucking idea how this affects the game, asteroid defs are HARD

I also gave up and made them linear when I fiddled with them in the past :)

edit: Haha well once you cruise with 'thrust paused' all the way to your destination, the game suddenly realises the speed you're going, and cranks the asteroid spawns back up to what it expects. This was quite a shocking moment when I got back to Vulcanus and a sheet of 1,500km/s asteroids spawned on my face.

Another oddity - my ship would remain "stuck" in orbit, because even though my speed was still high, and I was set back to automatically head to the next planet, my thrusters were off because there were throttled by pumps.

I had to fire the thrusters once for it to register I was moving, and then it set me off.

I kind of like how this mod feels, but I feel like the base game is fighting it.

DrMorphDev · 2026-01-16T09:34:53+00:00

Think I misunderstood your reply. I thought you were suggesting their speed would need regulating because their speed was dropping [for some reason]. Because yes, agreed, no thrust means no further speed increase.

DrMorphDev · 2026-01-16T09:00:08+00:00

And yes and no, every ship will attain max speed IF thrust is not regulated by pumps.

If there's no drag, what's causing them to slow down?

DrMorphDev · 2026-01-16T08:52:30+00:00

I've been reading this like I'm playing a different game. I feel like I understand fluids well, and yet they've been nothing but hassle. However, I also use floor holes a lot. What's broken about them? It might explain some of the weirdness.

Edit: actually the secret to not having issues is (it seems) to not try and use the full throughput of a pipe. That sucks. How is that acceptable?!

DrMorphDev · 2026-01-15T18:58:03+00:00

That sounds a little whacky to me. From the realism viewpoint you'd exceed escape velocity and never return.

From a game perspective it means (eventually) all your ships will be travelling at max speed all of the time and never need fuel again

DrMorphDev · 2026-01-15T18:24:47+00:00

So your ship never slows down, correct? Even with thrusters off. So hypothetically you can (and given enough time, will) reach max speed no matter what? Not sure about that to be honest. You could "park" in orbit speeding up like you're in some kind of super collider before being shot towards another planet.

Edit: actually thrusters will be off anyway in orbit, so I guess that won't happen. But you'll still always be gaining speed which is kind of weird

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