Lazy Bastard's Friend

Lazy Bastard's Friend

An early-game quality-of-life mod. While active, it periodically "raids" a radius around each player — pulling finished products out of machines, feeding fuel and ingredients into burners/crafters/labs, and keeping your turrets topped up with ammo — so you never have to hand-feed a furnace line again. Skip the tedious part of the early game and get back to building.

It automatically retires itself once your factory's science throughput passes a configurable threshold (default 45 SPM), at which point real logistics should have taken over. Admins can always re-enable it.

Features

• Collect — pulls finished products and burnt fuel results out of machines,

plus (opt-in) chest contents and ground-dropped items, into your inventory.

• Feed — pushes fuel and recipe ingredients into burners, crafters, and labs

in range. Only machines with a recipe set are fed (an idle furnace keeps getting fed what it last smelted); labs are fed only the packs your current research needs.

• Combat — keeps ammo turrets and artillery topped up from your inventory.
• Rebalance — moves surplus fuel/ingredients from over-stocked machines to

under-stocked ones sharing the same item, even when you're carrying none to give — a coal-hoarding furnace can top off its coal-starved neighbor.

• Trash drain — empties your logistic trash slots into nearby chests

(already holding the item, then requesting it, then any empty chest).

• Per-entity exclusion — hover any machine and press a (unbound by default)

hotkey to permanently exclude it from raids, independent of any channel.

• Starvation feedback — optional icons flash over machines that wanted an

item you couldn't spare (red) or are already fully stocked (green).

• Reserved items — set per-item minimums the mod will never dip into when

feeding machines or turrets; import them straight from a logistic group, or edit them from an in-panel slot grid.

• Area-of-effect display — a configurable circle or square shows exactly what's

in range, with adjustable radius, shape, color, and opacity; optionally shown to other players too.

• Auto-retirement (SPM watchdog) — stops itself once your factory's science

throughput passes a threshold; only an explicit admin action re-arms it.

• Multiplayer-aware — overlapping players split collected items and share

machines fairly, with no double-feeding or double-collecting.

• Per-player controls — every channel and behavior flag can be toggled

individually from a settings panel anchored to the character screen, plus a toolbar shortcut for a quick on/off.

• Admin panel (/lbf-admin) — a global master switch plus per-channel locks,

watchdog on/off with live SPM readout and threshold, and a searchable, sortable player list with per-player On/Off and per-channel locks.

• Remote interface — a full scripting API (docs/API.md) for other mods or

scenarios to drive and query the mod's state.

Settings

Radius bounds, the update period, chest-raiding permission, and the SPM watchdog (enable + threshold) are server-configurable map settings. Everything else is a per-player preference, editable from the in-game panel or mirrored mod settings.

Links

• Remote API — scripting interface for other mods/scenarios

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