What are you trying to change?

I want the Concrete Plant to accept Concrete and output Rare Metal. I want the ratio to be roughly 5:1. No waste rock should be produced. Might be nice but not needed to change the building to not require the Russian sponsor.

With existing mods and normal in-game buildings Concrete is the biggest resource I end up with having way to much of at end game and I want something to do with it besides your bottomless supply depot. Advanced resources have a similar problem but their production is sufficiently slower that I can usually manage with just adding storage. Concrete on the other hand is needed to be produced because I usually want the waste rock from the Excavator for other mods which use waste rock for things but that means I need a place for all the Concrete.

5:1 might be way too much actually. Perhaps 5:1 to make 1 normal metal and then I can use your Golden Storage to convert that to Rare Metal later. I'm not really wanting the income, I just hate destroying the resource.

Not tested, but it'll probably work (you can figure out the ratios yourself), just paste it into a code section (in mod editor go to new mod>code).
https://pastebin.com/2v7M6ry5

Edit: This'll only apply to newly placed buildings, let me know if you want to update existing ones.

ChoGGi, that works great. Is there anyway to suppress the warning about the building not working when there is insufficient concrete? This is intended as a way to handle excess supply so it's a bit annoying to have that message all the time. Your Golden Storage avoids this as the building isn't a producer, it's just a depot, but I like that this thing takes some input (maintenance/energy) to operate.

Man you know this stuff without needing to look.

Ok, one more question. Well, maybe two.

So looking at your Golden Storage code I see where you add the options to the game:

-- max 40 chars
DefineClass("ModOptions_ChoGGi_GoldenStorage", {
__parents = {
"ModOptionsObject",
},
properties = {
{
default = false,
editor = "bool",
id = "Default10",
name = T(302535920011353, "Default to 10 items"),
},
},
})


If I wanted to let the user specify a number instead of a true/false, how would I do that? I assume 'editor' would need to be set to some other value than bool and 'default' would need to be a number rather than false. Is this possible?

Also, if I wanted this building to shut itself on and off when the player has more or less than a certain amount of a resource how can I do that? I would need to define a function that the game would call once in a while so I could check the resource, I would need to know how to access the value for that resource and then compare it to the setting from above. Obviously the name of the class above would be different and I would also not use the id "Default10".

just take a look at some of my other modsneg numbers don't work btw, and no step sizes (hopefully next update).


If you add stuff manually without adding the corresponding entries in items.lua; saving in the mod editor will remove anything not added. I don't use the mod editor, so it doesn't matter to me (if you're wondering about the blank items.lua).

function YourBuilding:BuildingUpdate(dt, day, hour)
YourBuilding.building_update_time = const.HourDuration (default for the Building class obj).

Check out Lua\ResourceOverview.lua / ResourceOverviewObj if you need the count.


btw fresh blood is always welcome on the modders discord: https://discord.gg/FeWVN3t