Can I ask, why use a spiral search pattern? I would think a flood-fill would be a bit better. Suppose that there is a search at 0,0 chunk, spiral starts on left and searches clockwise. With this pattern, if the destination is at -10,-10 then the search is much longer than had you used a flood fill s...

Okay, awesome, that's not too hard. Now for the sake of "Immersion" how should the "Supplies" be delivered to said overlords? Should penalty for not paying on time just be a biter attack or should it be something more akin to biter attack + reduced time on next shipment, scaling ...

Guys, I'm trying to get started working with mods for this game, however I keep running into problem, after problem, after problem trying to just setup a dev environment. I have successfully setup the following dev environments "TypeScriptToLua" using "Typed-Factorio" npm package...

Oooh, this sounds like a cool idea. Kinda, an "Indentured Servitude", then the whole time you're trying to escape the planet on a rocket. Let's get some basic information together, this seems like a mod that I could throw together fairly quickly, at least at a super basic level, but in the...