About Colour on Place
From Factorio Mod PortalAutomatically colour enties (e.g. cars, trains, and spidertrons) with the Player's colour when placed, unless the game has already assigned them a non-default colour.
Makes it so that when you place colourable entities, they default to using the player colour. In particular, all of the following will use the player's colour when placed:
- Cars and Tanks: as in Vanilla, they will update their colour to the colour of their driver (note that blueprints do not save the colour of these, so they will use the colour of the player that placed the blueprint, not the player that created it)
- Train Stops: as in Vanilla, the colours of a train stop placed via a blueprint/ctrl-c/ctrl-x will be preserved (unless the train stop never had it's colour set in the first place).
- Locomotives: similar to Train Stops, except that as in Vanilla, by default, the locomotive will automatically change colour when driving to a train stop (this can be turned of in the locomotive's GUI).
- Spidertrons: similar to Train Stops, except that as in Vanilla, the colours of spidertrons are saved when picked up and placed in your inventory
- Cargo Wagons and Fluid Wagons: if you have the Fluid Wagon Color Mask mod installed, these will behave like locomotives; otherwise they will remain uncoloured as in Vanilla.
- Turrets (except the Artillery Turret): these do not get modified by this mod, as Vanilla already sets their colour to the owning force (which may have a different colour to the player).
This mod should hopefully work with any other mod's that add new colourable entities, in particular, this mod will set the color field of any LuaEntity with no color (e.g. freshly placed Train Stops or Locomotives), an invisible colour (e.g. Cars and Tanks), or the default orange (e.g. Spidertrons). If you don't like the way it works with another mod though, let me know in the discussion!
Highlights
From source dataFootprint
Rated a light load on a server.
License
Published under MIT.
Last update
Its author last shipped an update 22 mo ago.
Colour on Place on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Supported on Nxeon Factorio servers. We download it from Factorio Mod Portal, place it, and restart the server.
- Server side
- Required on the server
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Factorio — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 0.0.1, released 2024-12-31
Dependencies
- Optional: Fluid Wagon Color Mask
Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.
Run Colour on Place on a Factorio server
Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogVehicles & ships
Cars, boats, aircraft, ships and other things to drive or fly.
Runs on your server
From source side supportFactorio Mod Portal lists Colour on Place as required on the server. Check its Factorio Mod Portal page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Factorio
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
Verified at the source
- ✓Factorio Mod PortalOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-09Open ↗
- ✓AuthorIsaacOscar, as published on Factorio Mod Portal
- ✓LicenseMITFree

