It’s a collection of supplementary biomes such as Volcanic, Snow, Crater, Sand, Grass and Dirt with various colors. In this Factorio Mod Spotlight I go over the Alien Biomes mod. The mod is compatible with Bobs Enemies, Rampant and Natural Evolution Enemies. It adds a total of 29 new biomes to Factorio with new trees, and doodad varients. Week starting 29 April 2017! Alien Biomes Alien Biomes High-Res Terrain even distribution A fraid of the dark arumbalights-again ... Factorio Top 10 Tips and Tricks - Duration: 14:24. I have an i7 7700k and 32 gb ram plus gtx 980 ti. It also includes trees and decorative variants that can help beautify your factory. 245 posts Page 13 of 13. One of the interesting mod to use whilst playing factorio is Alien Biomes. Press J to jump to the feed. I was thinking about it and I thought it would be cool if different biomes were added giving the game a reason to explore and search outside the starting area, now I know that this game is still early development. I didn't have the same issues with my old card, but I also used to run sprite resolution at normal instead of high.I noticed that a lot of assets are just a recolor of each other, is it possible to just use tint while referring to the same file to reduce atlas? Yama Kara 270,057 views. Factorio version: 0.17.x latest experimental Mods used: Krastorio Afraid of the Dark Alien Biomes Alien Biomes High-Res Terrain Auto Deconstruct Biters Begone! Biters now drop alien ore, which can be smelted into alien metal, which is the ingredient for alien items that are better than their vanilla counterparts. Problems after that seem to be down to the number of new decoratives added. (Alien Biomes reply) Unfortunately for my new modpack planet's variation and beauty, this was the one I ditched, so I probably enjoyed it for the shortest period, my ATLO for this modpack happened to be in alphabetical order, so of the tile mods, Alien Biomes was installed first and had the most starts during the build phase (which isn't done yet). Not sure if this is a problem with Alien Biomes or factorio in general.I noticed that a lot of the terrain details, such as lava lakes, dirt patches, etc lay over the stone and concrete floor layers. 60/60 to ~37/37. V3 is a complete rebuild, starting a new map is advised, but there is a terrain regeneration option that will preserve parts of your base. thus i stopped using several of these mods, no matter how nice they looked and how much i would have liked to play with them. ALSO This week we have a bunch of the QoL mods updated for 0.15, and Alien Biomes! [MOD 0.14] Alien Biomes. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts ... Archived. Also introduces Hyper-Modules which level up after killing a lot of Biters. Includes new tree and decorative variants. Bob's Enemies Bottleneck Closest First I recently upgraded to a 1080ti so I was really blindsided when I can run Doom at 60fps but not factorio. There are planet controls in the mod options. Every Alien Biomes Biome (Screenshot Album) Modded. When playing with alien biomes i am experiencing large Frame drops when zooming out. A collection of additional biomes: Snow, Volcanic, Crater, various colors of Dirt, Sand and Grass. Not sure if this is a problem with Alien Biomes or factorio in general. The thing is, the workaround was made so people can get to the menu to disable some mods without hacking their files.

when i used Alien Biomes, Dectorio and Asphalt Roads (and even more other mods) in 0.16, i always hit the "255 IDs" hardlimit of Factorio.
So despite significant performance increase since updating to the most recent iteration of this mod, I still get FPS/UPS drops when fully zoomed out. So I've been using the beta version the mod you've posted in here and I've noticed severe performance issues. I guess having the mod there might change the load order of something so maybe a different mod adds another tile in after the alien biomes final fixes tries to work around the 255 limit. 60/60 to ~37/37. Since you can do that anyway, you just need to disable mods that are adding too many tiles.So despite significant performance increase since updating to the most recent iteration of this mod, I still get FPS/UPS drops when fully zoomed out. wvlad wrote: So I tweaked regeneration to not break my buildings with water, feel free to use it in the mod if you decide so. Anyway, what I did is remove alien biomes, load the save, save it under a new game, add alien biomes again, reload the new save, regenerate the terrain and endure all the concrete disappearing. Without the mod installed I get a full 60.Without this mod, i have 59-60 FPS, with this - FPS periodicaly drops down to 40-50, and when explore new tiles - i'm get half-second freezes... My processor wery low, but without alien biomes i can't any freezes.Initially there are UPS drops if you're doing the terrain regeneration becuase so many chunks get regenerated.
Copyright © 2015 - 2020 Wube Software - all rights reserved. Topics and discussion about specific mods. Any ideas?I have the same issue, though with a much weaker GPU (GTX 760). HR Terrain Textures are in a separate mod. Alien Biomes. r/factorio: Subreddit for the game Factorio made by Wube Software.

Includes new tree and decorative variants. I've checked the code and the only thing in data.raw that it changes with/without the hr mod is whether or not a high res texture file is specified, nothing else changes. 1 year, 10 months ago Doesn't happen if I toggle Alien Biomes off and toggling AB HD textures has no effect. Come and join our Community Maps! The latest version uses less decorative textures and uses tinting to get the colour variations but I have not had feedback on whether that fixed the problem (I can't recreate the problem myself). So specs shouldn't be an issue. So I was playing factorio and it dawned on me that there is just one biome really, just one large open area with trees scattered throughout. A collection of additional biomes: Snow, Volcanic, Crater, various colors of Dirt, Sand and Grass. I think it has to do with the sheer number of decoratives placed by this mod.