Factropy

Devlog

• 0.2.9
  August 31, 2022 by dorfl

  Change log: Ignore GLEW_ERROR_NO_GLX_DISPLAY on Wayland Changes to autoscaling the UI to support Wayland Graphics tab option to toggle particle emitters Bugfix: potential thread pool deadlock on 4 cor... Continue reading
• 0.2.8
  August 28, 2022 by dorfl

  Change log: Crash: https://github.com/factropy/factropy/issues/13 Slow drone capacity bump to 3 Speed up world reloading Add blueprints button to main menu Start on Vehicles popup window, Cart overvie... Continue reading
• Blueprints
  August 26, 2022 by dorfl

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  One of the original aims of the game was: Only copy/paste blueprints exist and they do not persist longer than a single game. Fosters replayabilty and creativity . A lot of different opinions on this... Continue reading

  
• 0.2.6
  August 22, 2022 by dorfl

  Change log: Crash fix: pasting a single-entity blueprint of a non-configurable entity caused a segfault: https://github.com/factropy/factropy/issues/9 Display belt energy usage for underground-belt an... Continue reading
• Drone Port tiers
  August 15, 2022 by dorfl

  Change log: Bugfix: reinstate the Save [F5] button to the in-game menu Feature: support renaming of saved games via the start screen Balancing: split Drone Ports into two tiers Bugfix: silicon ingot d... Continue reading

  
• The SMR
  August 03, 2022 by dorfl#electricity, #smr

  In v0.1 the Zeppelin provided a 3MW electricity supply. This acted as a bootstrap in the early game and was also meant to be a fallback to jump start stuff in the later game during an outage. However... Continue reading

  
• Electricity grid
  July 23, 2022 by dorfl#electricity

  In 0.2.x the game will require an electricity grid: Power poles have a square coverage area Power poles have a circular maximum wire connection radius Wire connection loom is automatic based on pole p... Continue reading

  
• Open source
  July 14, 2022 by dorfl

  Switching to an open source model for 0.2: https://github.com/factropy/factropy The number of interested contributors I know of from Discord can be counted on one hand :-) ... but have to start somewh... Continue reading
• Ship yards 2
  May 10, 2022 by dorfl

  Found some more time to work on the shipyards branch: Ship yards are crafters/assemblers that produce other entities rather than items. A mechanism that isn't visible in the slightly-hacked-up clip ab... Continue reading
• Ship yards
  April 22, 2022 by dorfl

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  One of the concepts for v0.2 is shipyards . Early concept of the smallest one for fighters: Fighter, Corvette, Frigate, Destroyer, Dreadnought to support the war effort. Or take a non-military path: S... Continue reading
• Support Zeppelins
  April 10, 2022 by dorfl

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  #zeppelin

  Support Zeppelins for the Expansion goal: Current concept: 100 drones, same as main Zeppelin more cargo space require chemical fuel no internal electricity generation no logistic drone assist mode des... Continue reading

  
• Monorail stations
  April 06, 2022 by dorfl

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  A concept for monorail stations: Each station can unload, empty, refill, and load up to four dedicated shipping containers simultaneously, shunting them around in a short queue. Emptying and filling c... Continue reading
• Monorail Lives!
  April 01, 2022 by dorfl

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  Still having fun with the monorail branch :) Now to make them link up... Making the cars track the rails smoothly was tricky. Each car has two invisible rail bogies , one fore, one aft. The bogies fol... Continue reading
• Monorail Curves
  March 28, 2022 by dorfl

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  #monorail

  This isn't ready for release, but wanted to show some of the fun from my monorail branch: Slowly getting monorail bezier curves right :-) The city subway map of the skies. The towers/stations are fixe... Continue reading

  
• Carts and Trucks
  March 19, 2022 by dorfl

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  #cart, #route

  Back in the day I made a Factorio mod: Logistic Carts https://mods.factorio.com/mod/logicarts The plan was to come up with a short-range logistics option somewhere between belts and robots -- small au... Continue reading

  
• Belts and Tubes
  March 17, 2022 by dorfl

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  #belt, #tube

  An aim of Factropy is to only use 3D features that enhance the experience of building of a mostly 2D factory over flat terrain . Belts are one area where Factropy follows the elegant Factorio approach... Continue reading

  
• Wifi and Drone Networks
  March 16, 2022 by dorfl

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  #wifi, #drone, #packet

  In Factropy various types of entity can connect to Wifi -- wifi towers, arms, loaders, containers, drone ports, vehicle stops, fluid tanks, computers etc. This is similar to connecting stuff by circui... Continue reading

  
• Tutorial
  February 15, 2022 by dorfl

  Attempt #1 at putting together a video tutorial: Actually more like attempt #3 since a couple audio failures scuppered the first two takes. I have a newfound respect for the quality clips streamers ca... Continue reading