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Any ideas to why the mod wont get added to my factorio after ive thrown it into the mods folder? every other mod has worked for me so far?

If you threw it in .rar format, that's normal : You should either uncompress it and add the mod folder, or unrar, zip, and add the zip.
Factorio doesn't read rar format.

Koub wrote:If you threw it in .rar format, that's normal : You should either uncompress it and add the mod folder, or unrar, zip, and add the zip.
Factorio doesn't read rar format.

wow, as if i didnt see that lmao

thanks!

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In other news, after looking for a mod like this for a while I finally ended up here and didnt quite like the result so i made some changes,
I "borrowed" the "+30" and "+50" from 5dim's mod and made 30 and 50 long versions of the standart belts, and added longer versions for all of dytechs belts
I messed with the sort order to make it look a little more neat aaaand tried my hand at a new model for the pole but failed at that miserably xD

in the end, in case someone cares for it, here it is. I added a small config file to enable dytech support

Updated Version 0.0.5 from the first post.
the mod is now 0.12.0 compatible

how do I remove this mod from a save file?

iame6162013 wrote:how do I remove this mod from a save file?

deactivate the mod in the game menu (it doesn't work with factorio 0.12.1 because of a bug). it is fixed in the next version

Tardan wrote:

iame6162013 wrote:how do I remove this mod from a save file?

deactivate the mod in the game menu (it doesn't work with factorio 0.12.1 because of a bug). it is fixed in the next version

AH ok, I was quite worried since it had quite a few hours in it and I couldn't lose it.

Hey i would like to make a mod the ads simalar thinks to that mod (upgrade versions of vanilla stuff) with mod support(bob, dytech) for 0.12.20+.
My question ist if i could use this name since the mod has not been ported to 12.x

Any chnace someone does an 0.13 update?

Codex wrote:Any chnace someone does an 0.13 update?

I had a quick look at it. There is a few things to change mainly due to name changes between versions. If i get some time I will dive a little deeper. I just wanted to let you know it is not a simple fix.

This was updated by phalke and uploaded to https://mods.factorio.com/mods/Phalke/DistancePlus

Thanks, saved me working on it. I was about to start and then i check to see if it was already done!

Yes I did an update (Codex=Phalke), however there are two bugs I couln't find yet (nothing game breaking though). I could need some help with it...
- The first is only cosmetic: When placing some of the underground belts only a single dotted line is shown instead of the double line of the vanilla underground belts, it worked as intended in the original mod and I dont see why updating it broke it.

- The second has to do with the research. Although the new belts are correctly shown in the tech view to research them, there are available right from the start (you dont have to research them).

Any ideas? I'm a quite experienced programmer but just started with factorio modding, so I dont see all the interconnections yet...

Cheers,
Codex (aka Phalke)

So i generated a few new games and they needed to be researched from the start.. So not sure on that bug. Even loaded my current game and needed to research..

As for the lines
in DistancePlus_0.0.7\prototypes\base-mod\entity\tansport-belt.lua etc needs to be like this.
not sure if it was changed between 0.12 and 0.13 but that works for basic belts from what i can see. Hope that helps!

Edit: added the file I needed to change,
Edit again: Is there a reason the license is GPL? If the original was GPL that is fine but if you are changing another persons code to GPL I can see issues.

Thank you cullyn for finding the graphics bug, I updated the mod and reuploaded it. Version number is now 0.13.1, following the system that most mods used recently.

Regarding the license: The original mod was posted with the GNU / GPL license so I just followed that track.

Phalke

new version for v0.13.1 will be attach on this page ?

new version can be found here https://mods.factorio.com/mods/Phalke/DistancePlus

cullyn wrote:new version can be found here https://mods.factorio.com/mods/Phalke/DistancePlus

what about people who cant login in there or maybe looking for mods on this site ? and what for in https://mods.factorio.com/mods/Phalke/DistancePlus i find like to this topic and cant see new things in here

You don't need to login to download over there. Also your forum account can be used to login over there as well. from what I have seen mods.factorio.com is really well thought out and implemented.

Stop resisting change. I am hanging around the old mods to help people get them updated to 0.13 and preferably posted over there once they are fixed.

cullyn wrote:You don't need to login to download over there. Also your forum account can be used to login over there as well. from what I have seen mods.factorio.com is really well thought out and implemented.

Stop resisting change. I am hanging around the old mods to help people get them updated to 0.13 and preferably posted over there once they are fixed.

Small note - forum account won't work on mod portal. It works on your factorio account.

You should also be able to download and update the mod via the ingame mod browser.

- Phalke