FactoryLocator

Factory Locator

The Factory Locator mod enhances your gameplay by helping you efficiently locate and manage buildings in the game. With this mod, you can quickly find the positions of specified buildings and highlight them with warning icons.

Features

Hotkeys and Controls

Open Mod Window: Press Ctrl + F to open the mod window (default hotkey, configurable in game keybinds settings).

Mouse Over Filter: If an item/recipe is found under your mouse pointer when opening the window, it will be used as a filter (e.g. Inventory, Storage, Replicator, Statistics Panel and more places where item icon is displayed).

Main Window

Power Status: Hover over planet name to show power status of all networks.

Signal Icon: Click on the icon to set the icon for search results. (signal-518 is not available)

Display All Warning: Toggle to show or hide all warnings.

Auto Clear Query: When disabled, the created signals will remain until Clear button is clicked.

Picker Window

Draggable Window: The item/recipe picker window can be moved around by dragging the window background.

Subcategory: The dropdown can select the subcategory for extra search criteria:

• Building: Power network groups
• Vein: Collection Planned, Not Yet Planned
• Recipe: Extra products, Production speedup, Lack of material, Product overflow
• Warning: All, Recording Mode
• Stroage: Distributor Demand, Distributor Supply
• Station: Local station, Interstellar station, Local demand, Local supply, Remote demand, Remote supply

Icon and Entity Count: Icons show all available options, with numbers indicating the count of buildings or items.

Proliferator Mode Indicators: The color of the numbers in the recipe selection window represents the proliferator mode for assemblers:

• Light Blue: Extra output
• Light Yellow: Production speedup
• Light Red: Mixed

Extra signal in Warning picker

• 404: Blueprint error
• 600: Spray coaster has no spray
• 601: Spray coaster has no input belt (spray)
• 602: Spray coaster has no output belt (cargo)

Search Planets

Local Planet Search: By default, the mod searches for buildings on your current planet.

Remote Planet Search: When in starmap view, the mod adapts the search based on your selection:

• Selecting a planet will search for factories on that planet.
• Selecting a star will search all planets within that star system.

Warning Icons Extention

• Left Click: Displays the planet locations of the warnings. Click elsewhere to close the details.
• Ctrl + Left Click: In planet view, loops the camera through all relevant entities on the local planet.
• Right Click: Removes the selected query group from the list.

Installation

Via r2modman, or manual download the file and put FactoryLocator.dll in BepInEx/plugins folder.

Requrie CommonAPI as dependency.

Mod compatibility

This mod is compat with the following mods:

• GenesisBook v3.1.0

Nebula multiplayer mod compat

The mod don't have to install on both host and client. Some behaviors will be different though.

• Host: The temporary guiding warning will sync with clients.
• Client: Only loaded planets are searchable. When the mod window is opened, the warning icon will stop syncing with host temporarily.

Install NebulaCompatibilityAssist to get full functionality for clients.

Acknowledgements

All trademarks, copyright, and resources related to Dyson Sphere Project itself, remain the property of Gamera Game and Youthcat Studio as applicable according to the license agreement distributed with Dyson Sphere Program.

Special thanks for Semar's LongArm mod for inspiration, hetima's mods for UI design and Raptor for mod idea.

Factory positioning

Find the location of specific buildings and indicate them with alert icons.

Hovering the mouse over the planet name displays the power supply status of all grids.

Show all alert alerts: Hides all alerts when turned off.

Automatically clear search results: Searched beacons will remain when closing the window until the clear button is pressed.

The default hotkey for openin …