turning rimworld into factorio 1 step at a time

An EXTREMELY under appreciated mod. Makes building a and controlling power grids SO much easier!

Is there a way to make it so wires always default to black?

Alright sounds good thanks for the quick reply and when I start my PC it takes longer with 100 mods vs when I merge those 100 in to 10 so it does in a way for modding purposes but all good not trying to be argumentative just explaining my reasoning (dyslexic words hard and autistic sorry). Hope you have a wonderful day! and thank you for the luck!

Hi, no I do not want this mod embedded inside others. Adding this mod as a dependency vs embedding inside another makes no performance difference so that argument doesn't track. Good luck with your project!

Hey @Epicguru I'm making an overhaul mod for between medieval and Industrial was wondering if I could use this mod within it (will credit you). For now al make it a dependency but I wish to keep the amount of dependencies down for machines that can't take a large mod list. No matter what I hope you have a wonderful day and thanks for the Awesome Mod!

This is probably one of my favorite mods, never knew just how much I needed it for both utility and looks. Would it be possible to added a setting that makes connecting poles an action that has to be done by a colonist, that way I can disconnect wires to remove power from a section while still remaining in balance with vanilla? Thanks!

Something in this mod whenever you connect poles and power points vomits several yellow warnings in the log UI, it spams a lot, is it intentional? been using this on gravships a lot.

i have been connecting my gravships to my asteroid's power grid using Power Lines, and that got me thinking...
would it be possible to create water hoses ? like, connecting Dubs Hygiene with a Gravship using a simple hose ?

If you move the power pole connectors at all, it will mess up. This can be tested with Minify Everything too.

I don't own the DLC to test with so hopefully someone can make a patch for it.

I love this mod so much. Every time I land I set up geothermals and then powerpoles to connect them to my grav ship (I use Power Poles Extended for a wall connection point). As mentioned before, the only problem is that connections act weird when you launch or otherwise move the power poles without disconnecting the wires first. Sometimes they're disconnected, sometimes they still have the wire sticking out where it used to be and you have to select multiple power poles to get the "Disconnect All" widget. Kinda wish the widget showed up when selecting a single pole to remove all connections to just that one pole.

they work in 1.6 but having them on a gravship when it launches causes their cables to disconnect. not much use for them on a gravship but it if someone does use them they'd have to reconnect all the power poles every time they launch their gravship

I think these should require a smidge of uranium, like 3 or 5, to balance things out.

Not saying you should change it, just what I think would work.

the preview pic is just like how organized my power grid in factorio is

Appears to work fine in 1.6. No errors when I tested. Also worked with the power poles in Fortifications - Industrial.

UPDATE WHEN?????????????

@kirb @Niki Use "Give up your building (Continued)" it's a bit cheating but it basically 'unclaims' your build (to the insectoids oddly enough) so raiders won't see it as yours and ignore it, very useful for decor.

Stones are the modern standard

@kirbcake, place them inside wall, raiders like destroying EVERYTHING accessible, even decorations :c

so what do you guys do with these things to stop them from being destroyed in every single raid

Huh, nevermind it looks like there is mod options now for it, thank you for adding that Epicguru

@Jacbo if you could tell us how to do that, it would be awesome. Im looking through the mod folder to try to do it now.

Lovely mods, especially this and timelapse for me. I understand you're not making mods much anymore but thanks for keeping updated we appreciate it now I only wish I too was capable of modding, but my brain, it's gone. I am all Bones.

I may add the option at some point but I am currently not working on my mods, no time.
I've added the GitHub link for this mod to the description if you want to tackle it yourself.

any chance we can get a wire thickness setting? I was going to do it myself but the RimForge repo doesn't look anything like the decompiled assembly for this and the decomp is missing stuff that is needed to recompile.

Also for the people talking about TPS, if you turn down the resolution setting (how many segments are in each drawn wire), there's almost no impact. The default is/was too high in 1.4.

it's not essential, and won't be as long as it's tps intensive

Guys, try the mod to see if you get performance issues because each pc/modlist/etc. is different. It has had no noticeable impact on my low-end laptop in conjunction with about 200 other mods.

Also, this mod is essential. It really should be implemented into the game.

经过测试，不只是木电杆，水泥杆也会有这个bug

bug:
当木电线杆(A)链接另外一个电线杆(B)后，搬运木电线杆到另外一个地方，搬运后，电线杆(B)会在木电线杆(A)放置到新位置后用电线链接木电线杆(A)的旧位置，但电网链接成功了，保存后读取存档，会发现电线杆(B)链接向了木电线杆(A)的新的所在位置，无论多远。
目前测试发现，只有木电线杆可以做为A，B可以是木电线杆也可以是带灯水泥电线杆

is this mod still TPS heavy?

@Bobgey ooh, power-pole lighting sounds cool!

Would it be possible to add a pole that also has a light on it for street lighting? I found this cool Outdoor Lighting mod (https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2888755935) which adds some nice-looking streetlights in various colors which automatically turn on and off along with the day/night cycle. It would be great to get something like this added onto these poles so that we can have some outdoor lighting along with power lines together, like it is in reality.

It runs fine on my old laptop. You'll have to test to see how it runs for you. There are options to change the visual quality for more performance.

Are the performace issues found in the older comments still a thing? would love to use it but id rather save that performace for something with more function

I ought to be able to build connectors against any building, artificial or natural. Does anyone know a way of doing this with RimmsQOL or any other way?

meh, I dont need a wiki anyway for power poles. Just thought id pass it along

You've got loads of errors in that modlist, I don't think your issue is caused by power poles.

Bug notice: https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/74e8af62d5141884688563cf1b0064d6

My headcannon for why power poles dont Zzzt, is because the pawns that built them were not completely incompetent and did not leave exposed wiring and bodgey connections everywhere. Lets face it, the base game Zzzt event is rather silly.

Updated to 1.5. Also renamed the mod.

Please update 1.5

Yes, that's right. I could potentially change the mod to make poles be considered in the zzzt event, but I don't think it's a big deal and I'm sure you can headcanon a reason why they don't short-curcuit :)

From my understanding the zzzz event is created from conduits. If someone has a base solely made up of power polls - will they avoid zzzz events?

Wish there was a steel option, but still nice!

fits in nicely when trying to build a city design that covers the entire map :P I need to make the poles stuffable doe.

Thank you Epicguru <3

I love this mod!!!!

Note: If you try to change the slack of the cable and nothing happens, try changing the slack on the other pole that the cable connects to.

@Karew I tested this and uninstalling works fine in my testing. If you have log files I can look into it.