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Factory Research Pack

NOTE: This mod is still being balanced. If you have any suggestions for the mod, leave them in the comments!


This mod flips research on it's head, requiring research bottles to unlock new researches!

This mod is basically like if you took the tech progression from Factorio and put it into Voxel Tycoon!

Each research now uses research bottles instead of items and money to unlock. Each tier of research adds a new bottle tier requirement, requiring players to always progress their manufacturing capabilities. Researches also will use lower tier bottles with the higher tier ones, so you never stop making the older bottles.

Research bottles are made at 2 tiers of factories (basic and advanced). The first 3 bottle tiers are made at the first tier of factory, and the latter 3 are made at the advanced factory. The basic factory is unlocked by default, and so too are conveyors.

Research has been restructured a little to better optimize it into 2 categories: Logistics and Operations
everything about producing items is in the Operations research tree branch, and everything about moving items is in the Logistics branch.

Because of this, any other mods that adds their own researches will still require whatever that resource was (and money). It also means that any research that attaches to the old "manufacturing" research will not be immediately seen in the tree.

RESEARCH BOTTLE RECIPES AND FILE NAMES:
these are the tiers of bottles, their recipes, and their item file names:

-Basic Research Bottle: ------------- Iron Ore, Coal, Wood Log: ------------------- c1.item
-Supplemental Research Bottle: -- Iron Bar, Wood Plank, Wood Beam: ------- c2.item
-Established Research Bottle: ----- Iron Plate, Copper Bar, Stone Brick: ------ c3.item
-Enhanced Research Bottle: ------- Steel Bar, Concrete Beam, Glass Tube: - c4.item
-Advanced Research Bottle: ------- Steel Beam, Copper Wire (x2): ------------- p2.item
-Exotic Research Bottle: ------------ Reinforced Concrete Beam, Circuit (x2): - t3.item

If you want to make your own mods for this mod, go right ahead!

KNOWN PROBLEMS:
-Possible balance issues
-"Manufacturing" research is not "hidden", it is separated from the tree. this is because the game would not unlock conveyors with it hidden, even if they where moved to another research (which they are).

POSSIBLE FUTURE UPDATES:
-Make research bottle sell-able, though this is not a priority, as they bottles are supposed to be special. you make what you need.
-Compatibility with other mods (like my locomotion mod and my oil industries mod)

IMMEDIATE REQUIREMENTS:
-Need resource balance feedback


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Update 1:
-Compatibility with Voxel Tycoon Locomotion Pack