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This mod adds buildable and drivable tanks to the game

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Avaible tanks
Flamethrower Tank


Machinegun Tank


How to use
Tanks act like movable turrets, automatically attacking any near enemy.
To resupply ammo of tank, add required ammo to tank inventory and it will be automatically fetched to the gun.

Machinegun Tank requires Piercing Rounds (better bullet ammo) and Flamethrower Tank requires Flamethrower Ammo

How to produce tank Download
Mod version: 0.1.1
File size: 1.3 MiB
MD5 Checksum: 7ab361a31ad04096c968720ffadbc9eb
My host
Dropbox
Warning
Creating bigger number of tanks may be very CPU intensive.

Notes
I used Blender and Gimp to create all sprites.

You just couldn't wait for 0.11.x, couldn't you?

This is amazing! I'm going to try it! Thanks!

good!
who is cpu inrensive?

there is a desire
make ammunition from precious metals (f modes)

Wow this looks great! Can't wait to try it out

Airat9000 wrote:good!
who is cpu inrensive?

there is a desire
make ammunition from precious metals (f modes)

Placing lots of tanks would cause game to incerase its CPU load, eventually lowering FPS, since I have to teleport turret to the tank position every tick. I don't really understand second part of your post. Do you mean compatibility with other mods?

Zequez wrote:You just couldn't wait for 0.11.x, couldn't you?

This is amazing! I'm going to try it! Thanks!

No I couldn't, I really wanted some tanks

SkaceKachna wrote:

Airat9000 wrote:good!
who is cpu inrensive?

there is a desire
make ammunition from precious metals (f modes)

Placing lots of tanks would cause game to incerase its CPU load, eventually lowering FPS, since I have to teleport turret to the tank position every tick. I don't really understand second part of your post. Do you mean compatibility with other mods?

Zequez wrote:You just couldn't wait for 0.11.x, couldn't you?

This is amazing! I'm going to try it! Thanks!

No I couldn't, I really wanted some tanks

as an option to use the modes or let bob f modes, for example metallic plates for steel production, or production of weapons for the tank.

SkaceKachna wrote:Placing lots of tanks would cause game to incerase its CPU load, eventually lowering FPS, since I have to teleport turret to the tank position every tick.

Just a thought, but would it be possible to limit this to only when the tank is moving? I have little to no idea how code works, but it was a thought.

Help! I'm being a noob!

I copied the mod into the mod folder and get this error
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Error
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Filename of mod C:/Users\Paul\AppData\Roaming\Factorio\mods\tanks doesn't match the expected Tanks_0.1.0 (case sensitive!)
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OK
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Kenshaiso wrote:Help! I'm being a noob!

I copied the mod into the mod folder and get this error
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Error
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Filename of mod C:/Users\Paul\AppData\Roaming\Factorio\mods\tanks doesn't match the expected Tanks_0.1.0 (case sensitive!)
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OK
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From 0.10.7 changelog:

https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... =14&t=5364

Mod filename must match the name from info.json. This check is case sensitive We silently supposed that this would happen for all mods, it should have been made more clear ... now you will get a very uncompromising error message ..

tl;dr solution from safan:

to solve this, don't change the name of the directory, but open the json file and change the name of the mod to what the directory is named

Love this, only thing better would be a rocket tank.

aliastral wrote:

Kenshaiso wrote:Help! I'm being a noob!

I copied the mod into the mod folder and get this error
---------------------------
Error
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Filename of mod C:/Users\Paul\AppData\Roaming\Factorio\mods\tanks doesn't match the expected Tanks_0.1.0 (case sensitive!)
---------------------------
OK
---------------------------

From 0.10.7 changelog:

https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... =14&t=5364

Mod filename must match the name from info.json. This check is case sensitive We silently supposed that this would happen for all mods, it should have been made more clear ... now you will get a very uncompromising error message ..

tl;dr solution from safan:

to solve this, don't change the name of the directory, but open the json file and change the name of the mod to what the directory is named

Hmmm. I m clueless with this kind of stuff... I renamed the file to Tanks_0.1.0 (was that right?) now i get this message: ---------------------------
Error
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Path __tanks__/graphics/entity/tank-flamethrower-turret/tank-turret-flamethrower-0.png does not match any mod.
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OK
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Undo what you did and rename the mod folder to 'tanks', go into this folder, double-click on the file 'info.json', look for the option to open it with another program, open it with notepad or wordpad (or any word processor), change the first line to "name": "tanks",

Should look like this:
info.json

Issues with wrong mod name fixed in current release, note that this is only change. Sorry for the delay, but I was on vacation.

Download 0.1.1
My host (1.3 MiB)

CreeperDaReeper wrote:Just a thought, but would it be possible to limit this to only when the tank is moving? I have little to no idea how code works, but it was a thought.

It is possible, but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't affect the performance that much.

Airat9000 wrote:as an option to use the modes or let bob f modes, for example metallic plates for steel production, or production of weapons for the tank.

I will try to integrate f mod

UpGoing Kerbal wrote:Love this, only thing better would be a rocket tank.

Thanks, I'm currently working on tank with cannon, but rocket tank would be possible as well.

Not sure how much armor this has vs Dytech armored car but I decided why not have both for fun So installed.

mod crash
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cool tank!
cant wait for cannon version!

the mod has already a cannon tank.

Hey! First of all, AMAZING work. I was hoping to get into modding Factorio myself but am terrible at art work. Did you do you're own art or is there simple tools out there for it?

I'm sorry, but I was at vacation, but I'll try to complete the shell and rocket tank before official tanks are out

Airat9000 wrote: mod crash
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could you provide more detailed info about crash?

CNDAsniper wrote:Hey! First of all, AMAZING work. I was hoping to get into modding Factorio myself but am terrible at art work. Did you do you're own art or is there simple tools out there for it?

I used blender and gimp. I also made guide about it: [Guide] Making spritesheets with Blender

SkaceKachna wrote:I'm sorry, but I was at vacation, but I'll try to complete the shell and rocket tank before official tanks are out

Airat9000 wrote: mod crash
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Users/

could you provide more detailed info about crash?

CNDAsniper wrote:Hey! First of all, AMAZING work. I was hoping to get into modding Factorio myself but am terrible at art work. Did you do you're own art or is there simple tools out there for it?

I used blender and gimp. I also made guide about it: [Guide] Making spritesheets with Blender

Oh cool. Thanks for the link! I actually needed that and have animation background so it shouldn't be too hard to get into some sprite stuff.