Can I make landmines snap to a grid?
When playing Factorio it seems that landmines are the only object I can place where it doesn't snap to a grid. I want to make a dragon's teeth barricade with land mines interspaced but the inconsistent manual landmine placement makes it difficult to cleanly place the mines between the walls.
I tried using drones and blueprints to automate the process but very minor inconsistencies grow when scaled up using drones. I've seen pictures of other people who have their mines placed in a grid format, I just can't figure out how to do so myself.
Best Answer
I did it similarly to Marty's method, without a mod. I went slightly more accurate however and used a 1x1 tile boundary instead, in my case the debug mode. Then I blueprinted and set the snap to grid, 1 by 1. If you mouse over the flag and the mine in the blueprint preview, you will see green and yellow selection borders.
Move the mine a few pixels back and forth until you see no difference between these two borders, and you'll be set.
Make sure to save the blueprint somewhere in your library. I have a book called "Misc" for this kind of stuff. If I ever need to place mines for some build, I use that print as the basis for the initial setup, which I can then easily multiply.
Be aware that mines do not rotate visibly, but if you try to paste rotated mines over each other, they will show up red. The game does in fact track rotation of these mines, so you'll need to deal with that if you want to overlap prints of fortifications that can go around corners, etc.
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Can you disable a landmine?
Detection and removal of landmines is a dangerous activity, and personal protective equipment does not protect against all types of landmine. Once found, mines are generally defused or blown up with more explosives, but it is possible to destroy them with certain chemicals or extreme heat without making them explode.How are landmines activated?
They can be activated by direct pressure from above, by pressure put on a wire or filament attached to a pull switch, or even simply by the proximity of a person within a predetermined distance. Antipersonnel landmines claim victims across the globe each day.How much does it cost to make a landmine?
Landmines cost only $3 to $75 to make and lay but, using traditional techniques, cost an average of $300 to $1000 each to remove.Do landmines go off when you step off them?
There is a common misperception that a landmine is armed by stepping on it and only triggered by stepping off, providing tension in movies. In fact the initial pressure trigger will detonate the mine, as they are designed to kill or maim, not to make someone stand very still until it can be disarmed.How to Snap Objects to a Custom Grid in 3 minutes - Unity Tutorial
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