#Note Because of the announcement of Factoriopedia I decided to limit the functionality of this mod to the quick search part. If possible quick search will directly open Factoriopedia in update 2.0 which should allow for quicker access to Factoriopedia. Therefore any future updates will only focus on the quick search part

Factorio Codex

This mod adds a Satisfactory like codex and quick search to factorio. Currently, this mod is in its Alpha stages. This means this mod might not be stable and there will be a changes in the future to the functionality and maybe ui.

Quick Search

By default, you can open quick search by pressing the n key on your keyboard. This opens a text-box you can type into to search for items, fluids or technologies. When you find what you searched for you can click on the search result, the codex will open and show more information about what you clicked on.

Functionality

• Search for any item, fluid or technology
• Results are sorted such that technologies appear last and the item or fluid with the best match of your

search term appears first (hidden items, fluids or technologies get excluded from the search)

• Clicking on a search result will show more information about that item in the codex
• While translation is taking place you will be asked to wait until it's finished before any results get shown to you.
• If this mod completed the translation stage in this save before, this old data will be used for searches until the

translation completes. However, this old data will not contain any information about new items, fluids and if you search for those you still have to wait.

• Compute the solutions to math formulas like 144/45 or 15/3.2. Also supports brackets!
• Math formulas respect the order of operations: exponents ^ first, then multiplication * or division /

and lastly addition + or subtraction - (the evaluation progresses from left to right except for exponents, which go the opposite way: 3^2^5 => 3^10 )

• Clicking on the result of a math formula will overwrite the search field with the result

(Note: results that contain e like 1e+100 are not considered part of a valid math formula and need to be changed by you! To get a usable number you have to replace e with 10^ and the following + sing but keep a - sign)

Codex

The codex can only be opened by using the Quick Search (default key n) and clicking on a non math result (clicking on Waiting for translation... also doesn't take you to the codex) The codex shows information about items, fluids and technologies. At the moment the main focus of the codex is showing ways to produce or consume items/fluids. Viewing technologies gives information about modifiers / recipes this technology unlocks.

Functionality

• TODO

TODO List

• [X] Improve search functionality and sorting
• [X] Add locale support for hardcoded english stuff and hotkey name
• [X] Better recipe support (e.g. show output chance, min and max ...)
• [ ] Finish description of the mod
• [ ] Recipes with only burner machines need some sort of indication that they are not free
• [ ] Open inventory/technology tree from codex IF possible
• [ ] Add search to codex (low priority since quick search exists)
• [ ] Better description for items/entities ...
• [ ] Think about more TODO's

Changelog

• Version: 0.0.19
• Codex Features:
• When viewing recipes the "Produced by" tab prioritizes recipes that mainly produce the currently viewed item.
• Features:
• Added command to reset and rebuild mod data ("/fc-rebuild-all").
• Changes:
• Instead of crashing the game most errors will now be logged and only a notification will be shown to the player.
• Massive performance improvements while using quick search.
• Bugfixes:
• Fixed a bug where offshore pumping recipes (pumping water) would show up as "Rocket launch crafting".
• Fixed a bug where the codex would show "\_\_1\_\_" instead of the miner speed
• Fixed a bug where the mod would crash when clicking on the quick search result "Waiting for translation...".
• Fixed a bug where shared player data failed to initialize correctly after a saved game was loaded.
• Fixed a bug where after installing/removing mods some new recipes wouldn't show up.
• Fixed a bug where invalid prototypes cause the translation to crash.
• Fixed a bug where invalid prototypes crash the codex.
• Fixed a bug where invalid prototypes crash quick search.
• Fixed a bug where the codex failed to show the entity list on first load.
• Version: 0.0.18
• Codex Features:
• Now showing information like new recipes and modifiers for technologies.
• Improved tooltips for recipe ingredients and products now shows average, min and max amount as well as probability.
• Moved resource mining "recipes" to their own list titled "Mined from".
• Added tooltip which displays the machine crafting speed for each machine that can craft a given recipe.
• Added history feature which allows going back and forth to previously visited things (limit: 10 items).
• Quick Search Features:
• Improved performance drastically for searches with a lot of results (searching for 'e' can result in up to 3.6k results in SE + K2. This previously needed ~150ms and now only requires ~75ms).
• Reduced the maximum number of shown results to 100 (you were not planning to look through more than that anyway right? right?).
• Features:
• Added support for the mod "Lua API global Variable Viewer (gvv)" (https://mods.factorio.com/mod/gvv).
• Changes:
• Completely new code base, it is only equal in functionally. No line was untouched.
• Version: 0.0.17
• Bugfixes: