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Lamp The Darkness

After getting deep into strange places I don't belong, such as Visual Studio 2022, I've managed to create a mod that does the following:

- ceiling lights now use 1 watt of power and produce 100 DTU/s
- lamps now use 1 watt of power and produce 100 DTU/s

This mod was inspired by the mod Darkness Not Included, if you can't tell by the title plate, but is in no way affliated with that mod.

Its purpose is to ease the passage of duplicants from beyond the wall of night, and to what terrible dawn none can say, while not costing hundreds of billions of watts in the process. It is also extremely simple. It uses the postfix method to make the above changes to these items. I sound like I may know what I'm talking about, but I don't.

Commiserate with that revelation; should you encounter bugs, irregularities, astounding or abnormal acts, distemper, vitriol, ham on ham combat, insane declarations or general catastrophe due to usage of this mod, you should unsubscribe. I will not be debugging anything. It is amazing that I decided to make this a few hours ago, knowing nothing of such things as code or syntax or frameworks, and then watched it magically compile just as I had abandoned hope. Hi five, enjoy.

Oh, I should add it has been tested by putting Nails to work above. Keep peddling Nails! Your dog is out there somewhere! It works fine, and has zero chance of ruining anything except some other mod that tries to do its same job.

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I've been advised that it's wise to post my source stuff. Since I don't yet have any understanding of GitHub or its ways, here it is just cut and pasted in. This is what is compiled into the .dll in this mod. Using Visual Studio (and C#) (ty TC-1000 for correcting this from "Visual Basic 2022") is not actually very difficult - if you decide that 1 watt is too good for the average starving dupe. At some point there will hopefully be a normal repository link for anyone to check out - ty Sgt_Imalas for clarifiying for me.


using HarmonyLib;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace LightAndLamp
{
public class Class1
{
[HarmonyPatch(typeof(CeilingLightConfig), "CreateBuildingDef")]
public static class CeilingLightConfig_CreateBuildingDef_Patch
{
public static void Postfix(BuildingDef __result)
{
__result.EnergyConsumptionWhenActive = 1f;
__result.SelfHeatKilowattsWhenActive = 0.1f;
}
}
[HarmonyPatch(typeof(FloorLampConfig), "CreateBuildingDef")]
public static class FloorLampConfig_CreateBuildingDef_Patch
{
public static void Postfix(BuildingDef __result)
{
__result.EnergyConsumptionWhenActive = 1f;
__result.SelfHeatKilowattsWhenActive = 0.1f;
}
}
}
}