Church and Prayers

Church and Prayers

A strange sanctuary that turns offerings into war.

Church and Prayers adds a special church building that consumes raw fish and valuable items to generate Prayer Fog. The fog empowers the church's ritual, spreading influence over nearby alien life and turning enemy creatures against their own kind.

What It Does

• Adds a new placeable Church building
• The Church accepts raw fish and offerings
• It burns fish over time to build up Prayer Fog
• The fog is handled as a hidden gameplay system and is not visible in the world view
• Its activity is reflected through the map/minimap pollution layer
• Nearby enemies can be converted to your side and ordered to attack other enemy colonies

Enemy Conversion

Prayer Fog can affect:

• Biters
• Spitters
• Worms
• Spawners
• Other hostile enemy structures

The stronger the fog becomes:

• The more enemies the Church can try to convert
• The longer converted enemies remain under your control
• The greater the pressure placed on nearby enemy colonies

Prayer Technologies

The mod includes dedicated technologies that improve the speed of Prayer Fog generation:

• Prayer Discipline
• Prayer Chorus
• Prayer Ascension

Researching them increases how quickly the Church builds up its fog and reaches full strength.

Environmental Interaction

Prayer Fog is not static.

• Trees absorb part of the fog
• Water weakens the spread
• Fog grows and decays over time instead of appearing instantly

This makes placement matter and gives the system a more natural rhythm.

Runtime Settings

Per-map settings let you tune the behavior:

• Church pulse interval
• Fog radius
• Offering threshold
• Max conversions per pulse
• Prayer Fog spread speed
• Absorption by trees
• Absorption by water
• Conversion speed
• Conversion success chance

Notes

• Designed for Factorio 2.0
• Prayer Fog is intentionally map-only in presentation
• There is no visible fog effect in normal world view
• The minimap uses native pollution-style map visibility

Basic Use

1. Place a Church
2. Insert raw fish and optional valuables
3. Let the Church begin its ritual
4. Watch nearby enemy colonies fall under pressure as the Prayer Fog spreads