FARL-Continued 4.3.0

Test build — not on the mod portal yet. Feedback wanted before it goes public.

A Factorio 2.0 continuation of Choumiko's FARL,
by way of Zach's FARL-Revised. MIT licensed.

Installing

Unzip FARL-Continued_4.3.0.zip into your mods folder, or drop the zip in as-is:

• Windows: %APPDATA%\Factorio\mods
• Linux: ~/.factorio/mods

Restart Factorio. Disable any other FARL first — they define the same
prototypes and cannot load together.

What changed

Rail geometry is rebuilt on Factorio 2.0's engine API rather than 1.1's
hand-derived offset tables, which is why the original stopped working:
2.0 replaced one-tile rails and a single curve entity with two-tile straights,
half-diagonals, and curves split across two pieces, and widened directions from
8 steps to 16.

• Track, curves and signals use positions the engine reports
• Parallel tracks rebuilt: each lane holds its own spacing, taken from
  whichever blueprint matches the current heading
• Lane signals line up abreast of the main line's
• Bulldozer and maintenance work
• Blueprint templates, poles, lamps, concrete, water bridging, cliff removal

Known limitations

• Elevated rails are not supported. It can run along existing elevated
  track but cannot lay new elevated rail, which needs rail supports placed.
• Two tracks. Templates with more than two do not place correctly.
• Lanes pause through turns and resume after, leaving the corner to lay by
  hand. A lane cannot hold its spacing through a curve: the inner one would
  need a radius no rail piece provides, the outer far more rail than the main
  line lays in the same time.
• Turns settle on orthogonal and 45 degree headings only, which are the
  headings the two blueprints describe. Toggleable in the FARL panel.

What would help most

• Multi-track templates, and whether lane spacing holds where you expect
• Bulldozer and maintenance on track FARL did not lay
• Modded rails
• Anything that stops the train — the messages now name the cause and position

If something goes wrong, factorio-current.log in your Factorio directory
carries every FARL message, prefixed [FARL]. That plus a description of what
you were doing is enough to work from. /farl_debug_lanes adds parallel lane
spacing diagnostics if the problem is lane placement.