A mod manager for Factorio.
This tool allows you to:
- Match to a mod configuration of a running server with a single command
- Manage sets of mods, called modpacks
- Enable and disable single mods
- Easily share mod configuration to other players
Hopefully this will become completely obsolete at some point as Factorio evolves, but until that this will be useful.
This is not an offical Factorio product, just a useful tool developed by a few Factorio-addicted players.
Install Python 3 from https://www.python.org/downloads/. After installing Python 3 run
pip3 install requests lxml bs4 keyring appdirs
in terminal or cmd. If you want to use the GUI too, you must also run
pip3 install PyQt5
Before use, install dependencies. See above for more information.
For graphical application, double click gui.py file. If you are using GUI, you should look at GUI Tutorial.
Run ./cli.py credentials set to save your factorio portal login information.
On Unix-like systems, including Linux and macOS, the command line text editor can be set by using EDITOR environment variable. Most likely you want to set this in your ~/.bashrc with export EDITOR=vim (you can of course use other editors than vim, e.g. nano).
Running ./cli.py help will display a list of available commands.
The modpack files stored in the modpack folder are all normal .txt files. The parser ignores empty lines and lines beginning with "#" (comments). All non-comment non-empty lines are interpreted as mod names. You can also require specific versions by adding their version number to after the mod name. These mods are not updated with other mods.
# Comments are allowed
# Mods are listed in any order by name in mods.factorio.com url
# Newest version of EvoGUI
EvoGUI
# Version 2.3.4 of RSO
rso-mod 2.3.4
Mod names come from the mod portal. If you for example want to include a mod called Foo made by bar, the mod portal url should be: https://mods.factorio.com/mods/bar/Foo and you should add "Foo" to the modpack file.
There should only be one mod per line and the mod names are case specific.
You can freely copy modpack files around, they are just lines of text with mod names.
You can add your own mod files and modify the current ones freely.
Installing a pack deletes or caches all .zip files in your mod folder. This is good to know if you store something in there. This also makes it so, re-installing a pack updates all the mods.
If you want, you can freely reach me on reddit /u/hajhawa. I will gladly respond to any tech problems you might have (I'm sure there will be plenty). Alternatively, you could open an issue on GitHub.
You can run automated tests by python3 -m pytest.
You need pytest for this. It can be installed by pip3 install pytest.