You need to generate power with manual crank, stirling engine or nuclear reactor. When you placing generators there is a highlighted zone in which electricity goes into machines. Generated electricity can be received everywhere, but you need a transmitter pylon to receive it and send to machines. To make it simple: you need to generate power in generators, receive and send it to machines with pylons.
You can edit the nutrition goal of the goddess in the savefile located inside "%localappdata%/gain_factory". You can find the variable called "goddess_nutrition_goal" under the save that you're playing on and set it lower.
The nutrition goal of the player and the cowgirls are a little more complicated than the goddess. They are coded into the objects and aren't variables they carry, so the goals can't be changed.
For the player, you can give yourself upgrade points by changing the variables called "upgrade_points" and "upgrade_points_total" (edit both to avoid weird stuff happening).
Game's pretty good, figuring out how everything works is pretty fun even if i'm really not used to this kind of game. Automating stuff isn't as bad as i see some people say in my opinion, it just take a lot of time. I don't think i have any real problems with the game, only thing i noticed is that cow girls get very often stuck in object like funnel and logic gate when riding a conveyor belt. I put a pic with SIX cow girls stuck in funnels, this happened in only 5 minute, it's a bit annoying to unstuck them on automated stuff, they don't follow you either when you ask them to in this state. If you want my opinion i think conveyor belt shouldn't affect cow girl at all, it would make moving them around easier too.
Thank you, I'm happy you're enjoying the game. For the cowgirls, I have been wondering if I should remove that feature. It's fine for the player as a form of faster travel, and I thought it made sense for cowgirls but I am reconsidering it now.
You can change the length of conveyors by control left/right clicking, and you can hold space over a conveyor belt to get the next lined up exactly.
Hey,
You can decrease/increase the length of a conveyor by using ctr+leftclick or ctr+rightclick respectively
to connect them the belts themselves must touch not only their outline. the outline only indicates the speed at which the belt transports items (which can be set by ctrl+left/right clicking after they’ve been placed on the ground) and are not actually part of the belt so to speak
after a lot of searching i did figure it out, thank you very much for helping tho!
it wouldve been handy if things like the funnels at least told you what theyre for before you have to make them. then youd at least know what you want to make. but thats me personally
Thank you. The issue with the bra for me appears in the upgrade menu in game, but not for the actual player character, does it appear on the player character for you? Regardless I'll have it fixed for the next update.
I do have a discord, it is in the description of the game, but I can put it in my profile too. For monetary support, I set up a paypal, a few days ago but I didn't end up announcing it (I wasn't sure if itch allowed links to other donation places, given that it has its own system). I have now set up a patreon, but it is under review, so I'll link to it when it is public.
Edit: I have thought about making a discord server or a subreddit, but I don't know if I'll be able to moderate it.
Thank you, it is very encouraging that people actually want to support this thing!
Update, the patreon is now up. There are no rewards for donating (but it is appreciated)
https://www.patreon.com/deadkatdonationbox
Edit: for some reason the link linked to pixiv, it now should work.
Thank you, it makes me happy that you liked the challenge!
If you want to, you can post the texture edit, in case people want to use it. I don't have a problem with people posting the texture pages, even if it's only small edits.
When it comes to item shadows, that is a great idea, and I will add it in the next update. Also, in the next update, the cowgirls will no longer be moved by belts, because several people have had issues with it.
Thank you! For now I'll only be doing small updates fixing different issues people are having, as I won't have time for anything too big. I do have some ideas for new content that I can add at some point in the future, tho
You can use this setup. Furnace has 2 wrenches inside of it. Bread conveyor is at speed 2. All logic gates are connected to one spot. And the logic gate at butter is reversed.
Basically what it does is putting butter until its full and when recipe is done it stops butter from going for a brief second so that other materails can go to their spot. Same can be done with fossils fuel. Just make sure to put gates very close to funnels. Other than that it is kinda simple. (in my first playthrough i also thought about automating it and spent like 2 hours experimenting)
Thank you!
It wouldn't take much to make larger breast sizes for the player, but if I want to keep old saves and texture pages compatible with newer versions, I can't do that. If I release a really big update with a lot of new content, then larger sizes of body parts will definitely be a thing I will add.
I thought of putting grass and small plants around the map, but I couldn't figure out a way to do it that wouldn't be too heavy to run. I could maybe give it another look at some point in the future, because I did want to have it in the game, but I don't know yet.
Thank you very much for your nice answer and again, great game so far, we may or may not see some big updates yet but let it go with the flow and have a good moment !
The reverse gates work like normal gates, but they have the opposite state in relation to the input, so if a gate is closed and would open when it detects an item, the not gate will be open and close when it detects an item. You can change the mode of a gate by control right clicking it after it is placed.
Hey, really been enjoying your game so far and learning how to make everything automated, this is my first time playing a factory-builder so it has been a big Hurdle to get over but with enough time, dedication, and scrolling through the comments to find people having the same problems i was having, i was finally able to learn and even put my own ideas into effect.
But I keep running into the same problem whenever i go to make an item through a automated furnace, and that is it keeps overflowing with fossil chocolate
I made another furnace that had the same issue but i was able to fix the by having the furnace and chest as close as they can be but have enough room to have the item come out and get immediately sucked into the furnace
I feel as though I over complicated it the first time and want to know if there's a better way at solving this and future furnace machines that would require multiple different items
Thank you!
You can check out this tutorial by Kormorn, it shows a pretty good setup for oven automation:
https://forum.weightgaming.com/t/gain-factory-weight-gain-factory-builder/34726/...
I do agree that it takes a lot of clicking to clean up an area, and it would be good to have a way to move items directly into the inventory from a structure. In that case, I would add a way to move items from the ground to the inventory as well. For conveyors, I could change it so that the conveyor belt starts at the largest size , because I think most people use the largest size most often.
I'll see when I have time to make these changes. I do think that it would be better.
Edit: I ended up adding the stuff right away. V9.5 is out now.
You can farm the beans in pots and harvest using care robots in harvester mode, then you just cram the beans directly into the press to make bean meat, then you cook the meat in the oven to make steaks. The oven setup can be made using an inspector panel to track the fuel level and an inverted logic gate to let fuel in when the fuel level is 0. Control right click a logic gate to invert.
Cowgirls have to be without bras. You need friendship lvl 6. Then just go to undress and take off bra
Control left click is for target position. Some structures have a target in addition to a source. Control right click before placing is for setting a source, which is where the gate will look for input. The gates can't take input from structures, so to take input from structures you need to use the inspector panel, and then set the panel as the source for the gate.
thank you very much! sometimes it was a little far even with conveyer belts, that's why i asked
You can see if this tutorial helps:
https://forum.weightgaming.com/t/gain-factory-weight-gain-factory-builder/34726/...
here is a screenshot and the last thing I did that could have possibly affected this is that I fed my character some fries I think it was ether 1 or 2 nothing more though and after i noticed i fed her some more to try to get in the positives. it could also be that i messed with the "+" and "-" things for the chest a bit but that's it honestly. Sorry if that doesn't help.
Edit: also where would i go to edit character data spesificly cuz I'm on windows and I don't have the "%localappdata%/gain_factory" file i just have data.win and I've opended it up in the notepad and is a lot of unknown cybols and I'm a tad out of my coding element. Again sorry.
I still wasn't able to replicate it. I'll leave the case open for now.
The %localappdata% is on windows, it is a shortcut to a folder. If you paste "%localappdata%/gain_factory/game_data_.ini" in the address bar in file explorer it should open the savefile (which is human readable). The easiest thing is to do a reset for your player nutrition. Before editing the savefile, you can put all the body parts back to 1, and in the savefile, you can set "upgrade_points_", "upgrade_points_total_", and "nutrition_points_current_" to 0.0.
If you could reply with what values these three variables have before you edit them, that would maybe give me a hint to what the issue is.
ok so this is what i found at the bottom of the file for the upgrade points, upgrade points total and nutrition points current:<upgrade_points_total_<:-2.0(followed by fat level and other stuff including nutrition points top witch is at @@nan$$) <:4.0,<nutrition_points_current_<:382.0,<upgrade_points_<:-3.0, (followed by creative enabled witch is at 0.0)
The numbers on the generators are how much power is globally in the system. The generators can't generate power if the global capacity is full. Each generator increases the global capacity. The substation provides a large amount of capacity, and also a larger display, so it can display the power quantity even when it's a very large number. All substations and stirling engines display the same global power quantity.
The generators generate an amount of power every time the orange fuel bar ticks down (the panel displays the fuel level in the generator as a number). The amount of power generated depends on what is being consumed as fuel.
Power is consumed by structures when a recipe is finished, and the amount of power consumed depends on the recipe.
Some bugs.
Bug 1. Sometimes the electricity power circle displays in wrong way. In the following case, the circle is behind the texture of the ground (holding Q doesn't change this behavior).
In some cases, the power circle just don't display.
Bug 2. Sometimes the logic gate cannot be placed even when there is nothing blocking it. This is very often when I'm facing down.
For intersections, I have usually used the hovering hand, but I get that it's not ideal always.
The splitter funnel has a soft split mode, so it sends items to whichever output has space. You can make a splitter with 2 filters by using 2 filter funnels funneling from the same location.
I don't think conveyors need curves, as you can just have one belt face into the next.
You can see source and target coordinates for structures by shift hovering over them.
The oases give a random crop each time, so in the worst case, you can farm the same oasis until you get all the crops
Yes, it's supposed to take from the miner and put it back into the miner with the chest as a buffer. You need to make sure that the funnels are right next to the miner and the chest. If there is space between the funnel and the miner/chest, the funnels won't funnel. You can hold space to align buildings to each other and to center miners on veins.
Yeah I think I noticed this during development once, but I forgot about it. The item checks if there is collision with an item when moving straight on the belt and doesn't move if there is an item in front of it, but doesn't check for collision when moving sideways. I'll make sure to fix this in the next update.
I have not experienced the bug with not being able to talk to the goddess, does it still happen if you make a new world?
The UI scaling I'm not happy with either, but I haven't figured out a good way to fix that.
The down arrow doesn't skip to the bottom, so you can use that one if you want to read through. I included a button that skips to the bottom so that people can skip through dialogue easier.
I think the engine doesn't draw stuff if it is offscreen. I think the reason why there isn't much difference between the zoom levels could be that after v9.8, the game no longer swaps textures a couple times for every structure, so drawing more of them isn't much heavier than drawing a few, but I'm not exactly sure.
Old worlds should be compatible with newer versions, so you should be able to just load it and it should be fine. Some issues could still arise, some recipes have been changed in newer versions, so if you have a world with a crafter you placed in the first version, when loading it into a newer version, the recipes stay the same until it is destroyed and placed again. There could be other problems that come from loading old worlds into new versions, but I have tried my best to preserve compatibility.
About the rendering, as far as I've tested, it does only 4 texture swaps every frame (6 if goddess is on screen), where before it did between 2 and 4 for every structure (depending on the structure). Texture swaps are slow, and the performance impact of 40 texture swaps every frame is a lot more than drawing 40 sprites. The engine only renders stuff on screen, so it doesn't swap textures for off screen stuff. So in old versions it performs worse when zoomed out because it needs to swap a lot more, not only because it needs to draw more sprites.
You are right that when zooming out, it should be slower, and in old versions it is a lot slower because of texture swaps, but after v9.8 it performs about the same on all zoom levels, because the main difference in performance between zooms is no longer there. Drawing more sprites itself has almost no impact on performance in comparison to other things the game does, so you won't notice it between zoom levels.
It doesn't really need to swap the whole texture page, it does get all the sprites from the same page. It only swaps for the goddesses which I put on a separate page because the sprites are very large and they wouldn't fit on the main page.
The reason it was doing a lot of swaps before v9.8 was because I was using the built in draw_rectangle function which swaps textures to a built in page that contains only a white pixel which it uses to draw the rectangles (I wasn't aware of this). Rectangles were used for progress bars on structures, so it had to swap a few times for every structure that had a progress bar. The way I fixed it was using a white pixel I had on the main page, and just making my own rectangle function.
The progress bar is already not a part of the structure sprite, and the game does draw the rectangle above the structure. I don't know if calculating and rendering vertices is faster in this engine, maybe it is, but it's fine now. The rectangle function that I made uses a white pixel on the texture page that is already loaded, and stretches and recolours it to make a rectangle for things like the progress bar, so there are no swaps (basically works the same as the built in rectangle function, but without swapping pages). Drawing more sprites doesn't impact performance that much, so it's fine.
If I should optimize, it would be other parts of the code at this point. The crafters for instance start at the top of an array containing the recipes in the form of arrays of items, and check every one of those arrays against their inventory until they find an array whose items the inventory contains (and then they start the crafting countdown). This is really inefficient, and is probably having a much larger performance impact than the same structure drawing an additional sprite as a progress bar.
Conveyors do already use a shader to swap colours.
I hope I'm understanding your points properly, and not speaking past you. If you want you can add me on discord, it could be easier to talk there.
I would love to add more customization options. At the moment I have become very busy, but I do want to continue development as soon as I have enough time.
In the meantime, you can try editing the texture page to change how the character looks, though it could be a little difficult to deal with.
NVM
I scrolled like a month of comments back and found a same confused person as me its not 12 items i need ist six items i need for that recipe
The funnels will always pull items out of machines as long as the funnel is placed right next to the machine and there is space on the ground or in the structure the funnel is pointing at. To funnel into a structure, the funnel needs to be right next to that structure so that there isn't a gap between them. (If you are dealing with miners, they need to be placed on top of the vein in such a way that they are sticking out over the vein on the side where you place the funnel, otherwise there will be a gap between the funnel and the miner).
You can hold space while placing to center the miner on the vein (this will ensure that the miner is accessible from all sides), and to automatically place funnels right next to structures.
I hope this helps!
You could start climbing the "tech tree" by crafting the different structures manually. I would recommend crafting every item at least once, that way you can become familiar with what they do and what they are used for. Once you have crafted the structures needed for automation, you can start automating things like treated wood and industrial bricks, as those will be used a lot for structures. Once you have automated enough things to the point where expanding the factory isn't too much of a struggle, you can start automating the food.
The max friendship level of cowgirls is 9, and you get it by asking all 4 questions, feeding the favourite food, and getting each body part to the max level (which is 7 for all parts except for boobs, which is 9). There is a system to when body parts increase in size, but if you just feed the cowgirl until you can't anymore, that should do it. A heart will appear above the cowgirl when the friendship level is about to increase, and if you talk to her, it will increase the friendship level.
It would be good to have a system ensuring that the player finds all the crops (maybe the crop system itself needs a rework).
I do plan on increasing the maximum sizes for all body parts, but for now, only to 9. 15 would be a lot of work, and I have other things I also want to add. I don't think I'll have the hitbox increase as size increases, because it would make the factory harder to navigate, and it could cause issues with the player or cowgirls getting stuck.
Milking yourself is not completely off the table, but I'll have to see if it works with the rest of the game.
Maybe something like a crop rotation rng system. Basically the crops grow random items but it removes the item from the list until it's empty the refills the list. (Make it global so each plant island does not need each own list.) The idea is you can get one of each crop if you harvest it enough times but the order will not be consistent.
You can filter what goes in using the filter funnels and you can decide when an item goes in using the logic gates. You can for instance stop items from going into the structure by blocking their path with logic gates, and then you can have something activate the gates letting one or more of each item in. Logic gates are important for most of the automation mid to late game.
Understood. Not as direct an approach as I'd hoped, but that'll definitely help out, thanks!
So I admit I created an itch.io account just because I wanted to leave a comment about this game. I got some ideas that should be very simple to implement add challenge and greatly extends the life of the game.
I would like a merge funnel.
4 more goddesses. First could be an easy mode that has the what someone suggested an electric oven along with other beginner structures to make things simple. maybe a timer gate rather then a logic gate. I would save this only for the easy level as half the fun of your game is getting the charcoal oven to work the way you want and learning to use the tools you provided already.
Second goddess lactose intolerant or a requires everything to be cooked. enough said.
Third goddess like any normal one but there are some preset conveyors and feeders every now and then some unknown entity (cave, mob, or tunnel) drops some trash on the conveyor belt. Unfortunately for this it might be really gimmicky to stop this or be way to involved to implement.
Fouth idea animals (or maybe even the cowgirls) randomly eats stuff on conveyor belts. Its not supposed to be easy on the player. better get used to using logic gates :)
Last I wish it was not a fetish game so I wouldn't have to hide around the edge of the map to avoid embarrassing situations. Other then that great game it was fun learning how to use logic gates and creating timers.
Thank you, I am happy you enjoy the game! 4 more goddesses would be a lot to add, and I also wouldn't want the mechanics of machines and the world to change too much between goddesses, but I am planning on adding at least a few new things (nothing is set just yet, so suggestions are always interesting to read).
For the fetish elements, you can edit the goddess texture page to censor it if you feel like it (you could probably just fill it in with a solid colour or something, same for the cowgirls).
You can mine it from scrap metal veins by holding right click or with a mining rig (you can look at the fifth picture in the description of the game to see what they look like).
I'm still working on it, studies are getting in the way, but progress is still being made
There is a small guide at the bottom of the game description here on itch for the cheat stuff. I also put out a small guide on some setups for automation on weightgaming.
1) You need to use logic gates. The way I used it is as follows:
It's slightly complicated, but if we for example take the fuel, I place the first gate, and make it read the fuel amount on the panel. The second gate is really close to only let one fuel at a time, and is reading the state of the first gate with the other panel, so that when the first one is closed, the second one is open and vise versa. For the ingredients it's basically the same, but instead of fuel level, you make it check if there's output. For something simpler you can actually check example images above, as provided by the creator of the game.
2) I've never had any problems with energy because I have this setup that always keeps my energies levels at an all high:
and if you need energy anywhere, just put a pylon or a substation there, and it should be good.
Hopefully this helps!
There are setups that help with these problems. I made a post on weightgaming that compiles a few of the most useful setups. It includes a setup for getting an exact amount of ingredients into a crafter, and 2 setups for keeping ovens fueled. Here is a link: https://forum.weightgaming.com/t/gain-factory-weight-gain-factory-builder/34726/...
The idea is to use logic gates to detect when the structure outputs the items and only then input the correct amount of items, but the post I linked explains it better.
Edit: hellwraiz beat me to the punch on answering, their setup is good too!
That sounds interesting! I still have to figure out how to use logic gates.
And, thank you for the help. Did found a work around the regents aligning problem but it's considerably more tedious than what I've been shown above.
No problem, it's good you figured it out!
The logic gates are either open or closed, and their state inverts when they detect an item at their source coordinates. You can manually invert the logic gate by control right clicking it, and you can set its source coords by control left clicking on a point while placing it. The logic gate can also read the state of an inspector panel, which works like a logic gate, except it detects properties of objects.
Hi, thank you for playing. When it comes to automatic aligning of structures, you can hold space while placing to place a structure next to another structure if your mouse is over the other structure's hitbox. I hope to make this more robust in the future, but even in its current state, it should be of help.
When it comes to item descriptions, I get that it isn't always the most clear how things work. I should probably rework a few of the descriptions to make the mechanics easier to learn.
I've been considering electric furnaces, but it would have to be late game stuff, probably the last machine you make, but I still haven't decided on the specifics, or if I'll actually add them. I have been worried that they would be too overpowered or that they would make the regular ovens fully obsolete.
i can also suggest upgrade version of logic gates, because even if i indersood how they work and finally set everything up, they can still let go 2 items from conveyer belts somehow if it on normal speed. I think everything could be much easier if there would combination like shift+right mouse at set gate that set it to let go only 1/2/3/how conveyer goes items per opening so it would be much easier to set automation. It is really extremely needful item imho because it is extremely not intuitive process to set it with just logic gates even if you read description. forum and saw some pictures of preset factory
Have you had 2 items go through the gate on a normal speed conveyor? If so, that is something that I'll have to fix. I think the logic gate itself works fine, but it is the case that some setups are pretty difficult to figure out (especially for the oven where fuel is an ingredient). I'll see what I can do to make automation easier to understand in the future.
Yes, so the logic gates have a source (set by control left clicking on a position), and when there is an item at the source position, it opens. It can also detect the state of the inspector panel which in turn can detect most other things. You can invert the logic gate by control right clicking it after it has been placed.
I think you do understand the gates, I think you were just having some trouble with the output count of the recipe.
So the fuel pellet recipe outputs 2 and not 1, that means that the gate will be open long enough for 2 items of porcelain to go through at that belt speed. You can fix this by making the output belt twice as fast, or by making a splitter setup at the output belt, so that the gate detects half the number of items.
I would also advise you to make the output belt longer, so that you don't get weird timings and stuff. If the funnel is trying to place items where the gate is detecting, it could result in the belt only detecting "half" the item, meaning that it doesn't detect the item's full passage, and it could result in the gate staying open less than it should.
i ve tried that, get rid of funnels, set new conveyer, made conveyer x2 speed ( i ve tried that before, but with funnel) and... it still sometimes messes up because logic gate let 2 glowy things through. I have no idea how, but this is really uncomfortable. But it definetely works better now, now it takes more time for it to completely stop working.
splitter version. Partially worked i think. Now there goes only 1 glow. but 2 starch instead of 3. UPDATED. I set speed to green(x4) and it started working as was planned. I have no idea why. 
It's good you got it to work.
I tried to replicate your setup, and it seems to work without a splitter as well:
Both of the gates are taking the same point on the output belt as source. The output belt is at 2x speed, the porcelain belt is at 1x speed and the starch belt is at 3x speed. I ran the setup for 100 recipes, and it didn't seem to jam for me.
Btw, congratulations on automating nuclear fuel!
Updated2. Sometimes autocraft still fails. I just looked and craft isnt going, there is no glowy glazed parcelain in press. Which means that in one moment logic gate bugged and everything turned off.
From what I have tested when playing, and even before I released the game, the logic gate was pretty solid. The code is simple and it's probably not what is causing the problem. If you want to, you can send me the save data (either upload it here if it works, or on discord), that way I can look around and see what the problem is could be.
You can also add me on discord, that way I can help you easier. Discord: kittykillerkuriosity
The waffles are supposed to have priority over the biscuits, so it's not supposed to become a biscuit if you put too much chocolate. I messed up on this one and the priority is wrong in the oven, but it's not impossible to craft waffles. To make it work, you'll have to use butter for fuel instead of chocolate.
I'll fix this in the next version.
I'm happy to hear
I get what you mean when it comes to the horizontal/vertical locking, and I think it would be useful.
When it comes to the font, I do agree that it's not the easiest to read. I can't draw the font on a smaller scale than the pixels of the game unless I change how a lot of things work, but I have been looking at changing the font so that it's more readable at least.
I have been working on making the game a lot more polished and convenient to play for the next update, so a lot of these things should be fixed.
You select a position before placing the gate by control left clicking, and then as long as there is an item at that position, the gate will stay open. You can control right click the gate after it has been placed to invert it. This means that it will be open for as long as there isn't an item at the target position. The gate can also detect the state of the inspector panel, and the inspector panel changes state based on what it is observing.
Yeah...that's... Nope, I'm in the dark, too. This is pretty much how it's described in the game. I still don't get how they work. If you could dumb it down a few notches (or provide a visual guide?) that might help.
I have no idea what the "logic" behind these things is (I never was good with computers) so it's even more confusing when you introduce the inspector panels. All I understand is that they show a value (like how much of something, such as fuel, is in a certain place), but that's it.
Here is a little guide on how to use the logic gates:
Hold the logic gate
Set its source by control right clicking
Place the logic gate
You can view its source coords by hovering over the logic gate
The gate stays open for as long as there is an item at source
Inspector panels can be used alongside the logic gates, as they can detect information about structures and react to it. You can have a panel detect if there is an item inside the press, and a gate that detects if the panel has detected something.
I hope this helps
I was actually looking into how I could add mod support a while back, but I couldn't figure out a good way to do it. I have been considering just releasing the source files when I release the next update, and in that case, you won't need to decompile the game yourself.
It should be out before the summer. I have a few more features to implement, as well as bugfixing and polishing, but it shouldn't be too long left now.
There will probably be an electrical furnace either in the next update or shortly after via mods (as the developer has stated they'll probably release the source code for the game).
But going back to the issue you're having there is a way to make it work (it's a little complicated). I will probably show the blueprint of how to do it shortly.
Tried to make a burner email account to upload the PDF but Google thought I was a bot, sorry about that.
Managed to take this screenshot of it. You'll have to open the image in a new tab because of how small it is.
You can probably make a system that detects backlog at the funnel or belt leading into the chest, but I don't think there is a way to use the inspector panel to detect if the chest is full. In the next update, there will be a way to configure the inspector panel, so then you will be able to set its threshold to the capacity of the chest and detect fullness in that way. For now, fullness has to be detected indirectly.
You could probably have a logic gate detect if there are items on the input belt and start some sort of timer contraption, then if the items haven't been cleared out by the end of the timer, it means that the chest is full.
so, i developed automated caramel mass but every so often the fuel doesn't get added in time or something and i have no idea what the problem is, i've had similar issues with similar machine's and was wondering if it was a screen loading issue or something? since it only ever seems to happen when they're out of frame (the automated banana-toast on frame can also have a similar issue)
edit: just realize it's not obvious but the screen next to the iron chest is linked to the furnace, which is linked to all the gate's used by the setup not that it's all that important
I have wanted to add support for translations of the game, and I think it would be a good thing. I myself don't know russian or ukrainian, so I wouldn't be able to translate the game myself, but I think I definitely should make a system where people can make translations for it. I can't promise anything yet tho, but I have been considering it.
I am currently doing the last of the playtesting. It is basically done, just a few more things to polish up before release. If all goes well, it should be out within the next week.
If you want to play ASAP, I'm pretty sure you can reassign a key on your keyboard to bind to 'S'. I found this tutorial if you're on Windows 11. But honestly it'd probably be better if you just got a new keyboard I couldn't imagine how annoying it'd be to type something and have to autocorrect everything because I couldn't use 'S' lol.
Inspector panels are really useful for furnaces.
With inspector panels, you are able to detect if a furnace is out of fuel. This is useful because you can have a logic gate 'connected' to the inspector panel that can allow for fuel (such as chocolate fossil) to be inserted into the furnace. I really haven't found any other uses for the inspector panel.
Logic gates are one of the most useful items in the game.
The majority of my earlier designs use logic gates. I used them to detect when an object is created from any machine and allowed for its crafting items to be inserted into the machine. Just make sure that you do not run out of a crafting item, as if you do it could potentially ruin your whole setup. I suggest over-producing items for all your setups, and any overflow just destroy it with a trash can.
Please let me know if you have any questions with what I said (or anything else). I want to write a guide for this game after the update gets released, as this game is honestly an 11/10 but I know some people are not familiar with factory games so any feedback will be appreciated.
A sterling engine has 6 items for its recipe. You can view the other items with the brown up arrow next to the furnace in the crafting book.
EDIT: I felt like I was missing something and I was. Sorry I thought you didn't know that you could 'scroll' through the items (it looks like you already did). Hope you found out what was wrong. I've seen some people experience the same issue but I'm not too sure if it's a game bug or user error.
I will make a guide for this game down the line, but honestly the best thing you could do is look at the itch.io page for tips the dev listed. Experimenting also helps that's how I learned a lot of stuff when I played the old Gain Factory and I'm doing that again with the new mechanics and objects
I wasn't gonna add an electric furnace that turned smelting into just another crafting process. The benefit to the arc furnace is that it doesn't consume fuel, so for recipes that use fuel as an ingredient it simplifies the setup. If you have an automatic graphene setup, it can supply a large number of furnaces. The speed boost also makes it so that fewer furnaces need to be set up.
I wanted the arc furnace to be a late game thing that is useful once you set it up, but that takes some effort to get running. I didn't want the arc furnace to simply replace the oven.
You need to blow up honeycomb using a nuke to turn it into graphene. Nukes can't be automated using the press but they can be automated using rockets and silos.
The cryo generator need a logic component at its source to be active. You can put a logic switch where its orange arrow is and click on the switch to turn it on.
I will look into it. Until then, feel free to edit game_data_.ini inside the game files (%localappdata%/gain_factory_reloaded_). You can set game_complete_ to 1 to unlock the second goddess. You can also set the value of unlocked_panties_ 3 to unlock both panty styles, 2 for only the bee panties, and 1 for only the cowgirl panties. Same goes for the other unlock values.
I don't have any control over the layout as far as I know. The game engine does it automatically. If you want to do texture edits I would advise you do wait until I release the source files for the game. Then you will be able to edit the individual sprites and use the engine to export the texture pages automatically.
I will provide more information about all this once I release the files.
Yeah there are a few things that aren't in the language file. For those things you can edit the UI texture page to translate or just leave them untranslated. I probably should just add them to the language tho.
The photocards were going to be a kind of achievement system where you unlocked bonus artwork basically, but I never got around to implementing it.
I'll have to fix the balancing. I never buffed the reactors after adding the temperature stuff, so they profit even less on electricity. After the trouble of setting up nuclear fuel, they need to be worth it.
autosave's set me up moments before a crash, though it interests me how it happened. From what I can tell, at the end of where the chocolate was funneling, where it's transferring both to the left and right at the same time, the moment it started to transfer to the left, the game crashed. I'm not sure if it's the offset position of the miner, the floaty hand I'm using to carry over the choco, the fact I have two overlapping funnel points, or what, but I think the issue has to do with that location. Eh, might be completely wrong, to. Who knows.
I haven't designed reloaded to be able to load old saves, so it wouldn't be possible to just load it.
It is possible to convert the save, but it involves editing the savefile and replacing all the sprite and object IDs with the ones from reloaded, as well as replacing all the integer item IDs with the new string IDs, and also adding the missing variables to all the structures. It is probably possible to write a script for that, but other than that, if you try to load an old save into reloaded, it would probably crash.
For autosorting from a belt, you can line up some filter funnels on the side with filters for the desired items and make a pretty robust sorting system it that way. The funnels will pick the items off the belt when they move past, kinda like an ice water stream and hoppers in minecraft sorting systems.
The other funnels are like the filter funnel. The splitter divides the items into two lanes (either exactly evenly, or where there is space), and the long distance funnel is just a very long funnel but without a filter.
I'm no expert here, but I believe the drop on fps is items on belts (in fact I had a very long belt that was so full of items it crashed my game) so ideally optimizing belts would solve that issue
edit: An I idea I've had to help remedy logistically issues is to let Inspector Panels filter what item they can see in an inventory in the same manner as Filter Funnels
You can already kinda sort the recipe book. If you click the empty heart box above the item descriptions, it adds the item to the favourites. Then you can click the heart button above the item list to view only favourites. The order in which you favourite items determines the order in which they are displayed.
When it comes to the fps thing. The game doesn't skip frames, but instead slows down when lagging, so I wouldn't have expected the lag to affect the logic. If you experience that the lag affects how the simulation unfolds, I would recommend that you try to reduce lag. Tigorahan is right that items on belts cause lag, so it is best to use long distance funnels or hands for transportation.
When a character reaches their maximum size for a body part, it triggers a dialogue option that increases the friendship by 1. This means that in total, you can get 4 additional friendship from maxing out body parts.
You can use funnels to funnel items from conveyors or the ground into feeders (this applies to all inventory structures).
Not sure if you would prefer new comments here or in a new topic, but:
Is it possible to make it so when you are placing floating hands, ctrl+click only places the input/output for the floating hands and does not interact with the buildings you click? It seems ctrl+click is increasing the storage limit on chests, though it doesn't seem like ctrl+right click decreases it.
Additionally, it seems like there's a minor dialogue bug when you talk to girls about their body, the engineer says "or a jug of tea..." instead of something more appropriate
You can set the source of the yeast bomb by control left clicking somewhere in the world. Then you can place the yeast bomb next to the tungsten vein and when you place an item at the source of the yeast bomb, it explodes. You can think of the source as a trigger point for the bomb. The bomb reacts to items and to other logic components at the trigger point.
Yeah you hold the bomb in your hand while setting the source, and then after you've set the source, you place the bomb as a structure by right clicking. All structures that require a source or a target work like this, so things like the logic gates. The bomb can also be put inside the press to automatically detonate it.
I don't have the capacity at the moment to make a full tutorial of the game, but if someone wants to take that task upon themselves, go for it.
Ho risolto, ho notato che dovevo cliccare anche ctrl e il tasto sinistro contemporaneamente.
Clockwork Wrenches basically limit the amount of items that go into a machine. They're useful for items that have similar crafting recipes to other items so that you don't put in too many items.
It's kind of hard to explain but basically they aren't used in any crafting recipe which makes them somewhat useful (but I usually just insert silicon rock because 99% of the food crafting recipes don't use them)
I do still plan on uploading the source code, I've just had a lot of irl things I needed to handle. I'll get it done as soon as I have time, hopefully by the end of this month, but I won't promise anything.
Alright so it's pretty complicated and it's definitely late game, so if you have any questions feel free to ask.
I still haven't played that much and need to figure out this setup more.
And a small problem: when I try to put a long funnel, its output point follow the mouse cursor. When everything is zooming in, I cannot see the input point; if zooming out, input point is visible but everything is small and I cannot set things precisely.
This thing also apply on belts, but not so severe.
There is a priority system in the recipes, so there is never a point where the ingredients required to craft something will craft something else that only takes a subset of those ingredients, as long as you put only the right amount of ingredients into the crafter. The issue with the transistor recipe making an oven comes from that the oven has higher priority, which is an issue when you put 2 rock and 2 metal into it, but if you only put one rock and one metal into the crafter, it crafts the transistor as normal.
You need to automate nuke production, so you need to automate nuclear fuel. The reactors produce more plutonium if they run at a higher temperature. Then you can use the rocket silo to automatically place down rockets, which will inherit the source and target coords from the silo. Then you just load the rockets up with nukes and fuel and have them fire on a timer or something. You will need to also automate rockets, so your nuke setup needs to produce enough graphene to run itself.
From my experiences, long distance funnels are very useful for long distances while hovering hands are VERY useful for shorter distances. I always try to use a bare minimum of conveyors, only really using them to input items at certain speeds due to the lag several items can cause.
Gain Factory Reloaded is more or less finished (except for bugfixes), and I probably won't make any more content updates to it. GMS2 is kinda limiting, the code I wrote for Gain Factory is not so good to work with, and making npc and player sprites has been absolute hell lol. If I should make more Gain Factory, I want to rework the entire thing from the ground up.
Depending on where life takes me in the coming year, an option is to start development on this rework and have a proper steam release, or it could be I want to make a entirely new game, or it could be that I end up making nothing under kittykiller and instead work on completely different projects.
So basically, Gain Factory Reloaded is done, it may be that I make more games in the future, but nothing for certain.
Honestly wherever life takes you I will 100% support your future work even if that means we don't get to see any more NSFW content and/or continuation of Gain Factory. I just wanted to ask because Gain Factory Reloaded kind of came out of the blue (not a complaint it was a really good update all around) and sometimes I check on here to see if there's been any updates. In the chance you do create Gain Factory 2 I would really like to see a blueprint feature because that's the only thing I think is missing from Gain Factory Reloaded, but if life works out differently that's great too.
If you do plan on releasing any games on Steam I 100% intend to buy them even if they aren't Gain Factory related.
Thank you, it's cool you want to donate. I used to have a patreon open, but I closed it since I wasn't really working on Gain Factory anymore, so currently I'm not taking donations.
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