Rust Factorio Mod Packer

Idea behind this project was to create a compiled and fast replacement to my shell script that packed factorio mods (very useful in my Factorio mod development pipeline). This program packs all files in current direcory (excluding unix-style hidden directories to ignore git stuff) into a properly-formatted mod and puts it into mods folder ($HOME/.factorio/mods on Linux or %AppData%\Factorio\mods on Windows). Works on Linux and Windows, builds are included on Releases page. MacOS support isn't planned.

All versions are available on GitHub releases page.

Mod File Structure Example

<mod_name> and <mod_version> are "name" and "version" values from mod's info.json file.

• <mod_name>_<mod_version>.zip
  • <mod_name>_<mod_version>
    • info.json
    • data.lua
    • control.lua
    • etc

Speed

This program manages to outperform (i.e. do the job faster) my 7zip-based build script on my machine (Ryzen 5 3600). This is achieved by using library mtzip (also made by me). It splits the file compression jobs into tasks that can be run concurrently.