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This is a bounty for the community mod PlanetsLib . In Space Age, the icon of each planet on the starmap is rotated such that the bright side faces the sun. However, Factorio v2.0.61 added a modding API which allows modders to customize the rotation of planets displayed on the starmap. It is called 'starmap_icon_orientation'. Using this new API, we'd like to improve the support of modded solar systems in PlanetsLib by allowing locations to be tagged with a new field 'light_source'. When present, it causes all the orbital children (and grandchildren, ...) of the location to be rotated so that their bright side faces that location.

A problem planet modders find is that vanilla Space Age planets have extensive and strong rewards. They made sense to be designed this way for the expansion, giving compelling goals for visiting each one. But it leaves modded planet fighting for space. This bounty is for a mod that opens up new planet reward space in any significant way. A minimal solution would remove existing rewards of vanilla planets and let other mods add them back on their own planets in compatibility patches. However, note that some players would not see the appeal of downloading such a mod. Another approach would be to delete some vanilla planets entirely, although since such mods already exist, a little more than this would be needed to quality as a solution. It is also worth thinking about the incentives from the planet author's point of view. Good luck!

Occasionally, a modder wants to disable the vanilla GUI for an entity and replace it with their own. This commonly occurs when they want to remove some part of the vanilla GUI to reduce confusion (since it is not possible to edit vanilla GUIs directly). For example, the Radiation-proof Inserter in the Cerys mod disables the GUI entirely because its custom logic conflicts with the player being able to set circuit settings. Ideally, the inserter could have a GUI of its own which intercepts the vanilla one. It would be a huge task to replicate the entirety of vanilla entity GUIs, but a more feasible task is to make a 'barebones' entity GUI in a library mod for mod authors to extend. To complete this bounty, a barebones GUI should be provided have a proper frame, title, close button, entity status and entity preview, with similar styling to vanilla Factorio. It should automatically replace the vanilla GUI in a simple way, the developer should be able to attach their own children to the interior. A published or draft mod is acceptable. However, please note: library dependencies, for them to add value, should be very clean and stable, but also allow flexibility and don't introduce too many unnecessary layers of abstraction.

In the mod Burning Cargo Pods , items and the player burn up in the atmosphere unless the player prepares a cargo pod item in advance. The main problem with the mod is a graphical one: if the player jumps out of a space platform, they are always depicted as travelling in a cargo pod. This bounty is for an animation of the player freefalling out of a space platform without a cargo pod attached. Presumably you can achieve it by editing the cargo pod image files to replace them with a sprite of a character.

This bounty is for one or more high-quality menu simulations for Cerys. I have been told by Loup&Snoop that when using the 'save' approach to simulations, it is possible to import mod files. This means the code should not need to recreate the solar wind scripting (like the Cerys Briefing simulation does). Please avoid making any plutonium farms including charging rods, that should be unspoiled.

Many overhauls and mods want a victory condition that doesn't involve leaving the solar system or the planet. This is a daunting task to conceive and create, and in some cases, it would be helpful to have a plug-in mod to handle the endgame. For the benefit of the community, it would be helpful to have a general mod called 'Victory' which provides a technology named 'Victory' that you win the game when you research. The value-add of this mod would be to make an interesting victory effect for the player — for example, every player's surroundings explode in confetti and cataclysmic explosions whilst a horde of friendly biters parade around their base.

Organized Solar System is a mod which uses a 'tier value' of each planet to adjust its angle around the star. Tier zero is at 0° (vertically above the star), then each additional tier is 54° counterclockwise. Tier 5 is directly to the right, and contains the solar system edge and shattered planet. Planets can also have intermediate tiers. Currently, the mod does not come with a starmap background. I would someone to make a starmap background image for this mod which looks nice, but somehow also indicates the positions of each tier — perhaps with an elegant dashed line emanating from behind the central star. The maximum size of a Factorio sprite is 4096x4096, but using 4 sprites at appropriate positions it is possible to make an 8192x8192 background, which is probably what we want to use for this mod.

The https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Space-Age-Hardcore-Mode modpack has a notable missing component: a 'Hard Nauvis' mod. There are a few existing Hard Mode changes that apply to Nauvis (mixed ores, dark nights, delayed technologies), plus some optional dependencies for enemy mods that the player might like to use, but not enough to justify a Hard Nauvis mod just yet. This bounty can be completed by providing a high-quality mod of any kind that can be used as a building block for Hard Nauvis.

PlanetsLib has a helper script to create an 'orbit ring' graphic. This is used by modded moons to make it look liken the moon is orbiting the planet, since the base orbit rings functionality only works for planets orbiting the central star. The helper script has a bug in which the size of the ring in the generated image is not exactly correct — ingame, the moon does not sit exactly in the center of the ring's line. The bounty is to fix this.

Cerys makes nuclear fuel reprocessing more realistic by adding a nitric acid treatment step. This bounty is for a vanilla-modifying mod which changes uranium reprocessing to also include this step. As a stretch goal, we could add extra PUREX steps to both vanilla and Cerys reprocessing. You may wish to add a nitric acid recipe for Nauvis.

This bounty is for a mod that does a significant and decent-quality overhaul of the space crafting chain. By changing the materials obtained from asteroids and the recipes that turn them into space science, thruster fuel and the other necessities of running a spaceship, the mod should make space feel fresh to an experienced Space Age player. A full overhaul of space is not required to complete this bounty, just a significant expansion of the crafting chains to include a handful of more steps.

This unpowered entity automatically makes ghost solar wind particles appear at its tip, which float off to the right. This will help players interact with the solar wind mechanic on Cerys. The graphics should fit well with the Cerys mod. You can learn more about the Cerys art styling by viewing an uploaded base such as this one: https://www.foundrygg.com/bases/i/be_zlgu69dhki45o9ekjltbpe3e . Solar wind are the pink particles seen left of the moon, which are manipulated by the charging rod entities. This tower entity will be constructed by the player so as opposed to the Fulgoran heating towers, it could look dieselpunk. It should probably look very simple, like a tool used by surveyors. The implied height should be ~2/3rd the size of the charging rod.