About The Ruins Mod - Fortress Ruins Fix for Alien drone Timer
From Factorio Mod PortalReduces the timer on alien drones spawned by attacking certain buildings added by Fortress Ruins.
The Ruins Mod - Fortress Ruins Fix for Alien drone Timer
Ever came across a Fortress Ruin with a energy crystal and thought it would be nice to get some energy from it? Ever happened to accidently shoot it while trying to clear the turrets that protect it?
If you answered yes you probably encountered the alien drones added by the Fortress Ruins that will protect the energy crystal. They're doing a fine job but unless you play with particular mods or don't actually care about the crystal you might end up in a situation where dozens of bots are protecting that crystal.
The default time to live for them is around 1 year. So you'd need to walk away from them for a whole year of real time to disappear. Which just seemed excessive for me and did tank my UPS. Hence I wrote this mod which adds a startup setting to reduce the time to live to a value of your choosing. By default it will be 3600 seconds (1 hour) which seemed like a good compromise between the bots being annoying and not just being a minor nuisance.
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Built for Factorio 1.1.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
License
Published under MIT.
The Ruins Mod - Fortress Ruins Fix for Alien drone Timer 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
- 1.0.1, released 2023-05-02
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.1 | 2023-05-02 | 1.1 | n/a |
| 1.0.0 | 2023-01-20 | 1.1 | n/a |
Dependencies
- Optional: The Ruins Mod - Fortress Ruins Fixed For K2+SE Modpacks
- Optional: The Ruins Mod - Fortress Ruins
Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.
Run The Ruins Mod - Fortress Ruins Fix for Alien drone Timer 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 The Ruins Mod - Fortress Ruins Fix for Alien drone Timer 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
- Game versions
- 1.1
Verified at the source
- ✓Factorio Mod PortalOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-09Open ↗
- ✓AuthorForemanSeth, as published on Factorio Mod Portal
- ✓LicenseMITFree
