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Rare Earth Ore

Now, on map! Since we will be using a lot of it, it was needed to add them as ore patches among the Bolide one. Here the ore and the special mine to mining it.

Geothermal

One of the fixed resources in the map where you can extract hot geothermal water for several uses. The most common is to generate energy into a heat exchanger for steam for the turbines.

Upcomming

What could be that? XD

Nexelit Substations

An internal joke between me and Kingarthur about how the graphics in hi-tech and the advanced futuristic structures are being made with StarCraft's protoss inspiration. So we come with the "pylon" joke haahah. Well..now you must construct more pylons, in this case, nexelit crystals in substations. These substations are better and cover way more. :")

Night Fx for pyHT trains

I decided to light them up at night. :) Will be added in the next big release

Solar Stirling

A solar concentrator cant work without their stirling engines heating up all that fluid.

The Solar Concentrator

Solar dish Stirling processing unit similar to the LRF one, but for the Solar dishes that uses the Stirling tech to heat up a fluid. You must connect your solar arrays to this main building to it process the heat into something useful. Its planned to be a blue level of tech, maybe production level. Looks good at night, where it can still process the excess amount of heat fluid while the dishes are disable because night.  :D

Turbines

Here's the 4 stages of turbines. Lost of the buildings in this mod will generate some heat fluid. No matter if you want to go by burning stuff, renewables or nuclear/fusion..in the end all of them probably will provide some kind of heat and you can use it to make steam for these turbines for energy or use it direct-to-energy in futuristic converters. Each method have pros and cons, for example, burnables you have energy density and lots of pollution, renewables relays on instability and lots ...

The Lightning Catcher

Another exclusive energy building from pyHT, unlocked in pyAE. A way to grab energy direct from the atmosphere by redirect the lightnings into the building. The energy pulses will be quickly stored in advanced batteries to be released in your powergrid slower...Not a good thing to keep your base only with them, since they make spikes in energy. You can always easy the spikes with accumulators anyway.

The Anti-solar panel

"It’s based on the concept of using heat to generate energy but an  inverse version of the solar panel. While the solar panel uses the heat  difference between the sun and Earth with the Earth being the cooler  side – their system makes use of the heat difference between the  coolness of the night atmosphere and the Earth with the Earth being the  hotter side." - 2019

This concept was bring you by pyHT mod, this hightech solar panel that works only at night ...

The organic "roboport"

A floating platform, a mix of technology and biology that can holds mk01 to mk03 "bots" thats actually show the current ones hold by it. The mk01 will wait command over the main area. The mk02 will hide inside like a good swarm of insects. And the cute mk03 will be hanging on the edges sleeping, waiting to carry your cargo. IF things go right, you may soon have this alternative bot logistic in your base. Remember, no electricity! just food :D

"Organic bots"

MK01 to Mk03 organic versions of the bots for pyAL, following a good idea that poped out in the discord server. Now Kingarthur is fighting to make it work since, factorio limitation, bots cant have animations. They will be smaller in game due also the limitations. I did some break from pyAE to model these lil critters. Soon a roboport for them too. They will bring some different approach from vanilla bots such as no dependency of power (but you may need to keep them fed instead) for example.<...

New Labs

We are tired of people complain about putting fish on them. So, in the next pyCP release, we will add this new labs over the vanilla ones with no module slots.

Advanced Steam Turbines

In the end, everything will be used to make steam... burning stuff, nuclear, fusion, solar...so, we will need some turbines to generate energy. Thats the MK03 version (its using combustion mixture to test, but in the end will be steam). More versions with time. Im jumping from part to part into this mod to not get burned. The only graphic part already completed is the wind one.

Solar Tower Update

Its working! Graphically :D We managed to make the heliostats always rotate towards the central building. The area to be max covered still to be decided, probably 3X3 chunks per building.

Mega Structure

Once you invest into solar, you may unlock this massive structure which is a solar tower. Plus, you will need to plop around it tons of heliostats to reflect sun into the top part of the tower to improve efficiency. Its a massive project, will need tons of materials and it will occupy a massive area, but its clean at all. The solar tower is the biggest structure in py mods so far (and we arent counting the hundreds of heliostats around the main structure that must be crafted and plopped) and ...

Solar Panels

Here the MK01 to MK04 solar panels. Its photovoltaic, so you must build the precious silicon chain to make the cells for those. Each level will provide more power, but also will require more pure silicon and precise dopping to improve efficiency.

Solar panels

Here the mk03 solar panel. A thing of this size will track the sun too :)

The LFR Power Plant

""Probably"" on blue level, you will be able to invest hard into thermossolar technologies enough to unlock the LFR power plant. Its a 2 modular building, one power plant and the solar fields plus several small add ons (like cooling towers and turbines etc) to make your power plant in some level of customization. Like real life LFR, you need vast solar fields and it will occupy a massive area to heat a special fluid inside these pipes to heat water later and use the steam to generate power. T...

Aerials

Whats better than have your wind turbine on ground? have it in the sky. Good altitudes have more wind and in a more constant way. So, you may want to invest in the aerial wind turbines. They need a ground base to go from time to time to inject in your power grid the sweet free power from the wind they got while hovering around looking for the best wind. I hope you have good accumulators to store these peaks.

Special buildings

pYAE wont need pyAL or pyHT mod. But if you play with one or both of them, you will be able to use special buildings, such as that cute lil "fish" turbine when playing with pyAL for example.  Similar to the High-tech pumpjacks in pyHT.

Wind wind wind!

Here the 4 levels of vawts and hawts. 4 more to go before go to solar. :)

HAWTs done :)

now its time to make the VAWTs.

Wind power!

One of the branches of this mod is the wind power. We will have mk levels of each basic type of wind generation. From HAWT to aerial units. For now they are set and forget, but we will try to put in the code a way to random the wind generation to provide a more unstable power input (just like this kind of energy have RL). They also will respond to the game wind direction (in the models that are allowed to).

Next Step

We declared pyAL "finished", that means only bug fixes and small balances shall be done in the mod. Of course, we have lots of new mechanics to still add in pyAL, but we need to move one to "breath" for a bit.

To do that, we picked up a planned mod that is aimed to be """small""" in py terms. Will be nice to us take new air and refresh ideas. In this mod, totally optional, we will allow players to invest and use more alternative methods of generate energy and preparing you al...

The Smelter

Due the constant grow of metal and non-metal alloys we ended up with several recipes scattered in different machines. And with plans to more alloys be added in the future mods. We decided to add a machine just to mix and dose metals, the smelter. Soon it will be added in the pyRO mod and will have almost all alloys recipes redirected to it. Oh, and this building will require liquid fuel, just like the glassworks ;)

Simiks

A brand new creature is about to be added. The Simiks are the first exotic alien creature (this name because they arent from the Nauvis system, even less from Nauvis planet. Your data array just captured this data sequence and you decided to bring it to life there. Adapted, of course. They arent carbon based and since their main planet is a hot hell they can provide lots of interesting methods and substances for your factory. For example, their body temperature is very high, allowing you to h...

Nukavan Remake

Well.. caravans in general are getting a remake (in the coding!) because it have some bugs and such and kingarthur decided to start it from scratch to make it better and less buggy. But the nukavan was just using the same skin of the caravan. Not good in my standards, so i made that new sprite for it

High tech transport

pyHT is about to get its own hi-tech and very efficient train set. These floating train will be able to travel over water at high speed and good efficiency. The power of nexelit now on the vehicles. It will requires a nexelit battery, but that not important. xD

Thinking better

Well..the new oil thing was complex...so we decided to make remake it simpler. Some people was asking why we are doing that. Because resource generation changed a lot and the amount of resources provided by a full py suite is kinda big for the system manage well. 

So the new oil system will have only one source..for all levels of reserve. What size will be is decided by the machine you put over it and the drilling fluid you used to drill that spot. Example:

You fou...