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Colour on Place

by IsaacOscar · for Factorio

Automatically 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.

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22 mo agoLast updated
MITLicense
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About Colour on Place

From Factorio Mod Portal

Automatically 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 data

Footprint

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

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 catalog
Listed on Factorio Mod Portal as “Mods”

Vehicles & ships

Cars, boats, aircraft, ships and other things to drive or fly.

Runs on your server

From source side support

Factorio 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

Colour on Place, answered

Generated from the mod’s own source data.

Do my players need to install Colour on Place?

Factorio Mod Portal lists Colour on Place as required on the server. Check its Factorio Mod Portal page to see whether players need it too.

Is it free?

Yes. Colour on Place is free to download from Factorio Mod Portal. Its license is MIT.

How do I add it to my Nxeon server?

Use “Add to a server” on this page, or open NxLabs from your dashboard. We install it, restart your server and switch it on.

NxLabs

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