Factoria is Liber Ark's beating industrial heart, located on the eastern side of the Ark. All daily necessities, from food to clothes to medicines to even homes, are produced in Factoria's round-the-clock workshops.
The district is made up of 64 blocks, with blocks one through eight designed as the Ark's primary trade port.
Factoria is an application for manipulating the .dir/.dat archives used in the PC versions of the Sky games.
The most important functionality, of course, is extracting the constituent files from an archive. This can be done simply by dragging the .dir1 file over the exe, which will place the files in a subdirectory of the same name next to it.
Other functionality, only available on the command line, includes:
- listing file contents,
- adding and deleting files2,
- creating archives from scratch.
However, use of these features is largely discouraged: there is very little benefit in creating or editing archives compared to using LB-ARK.
Footnotes
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Dragging the
.datfile currently does not work. This may change in the future. ↩ -
For performance reasons, adding and deleting files will avoid affecting other entries of the archive. Deleted or relocated entries will be zeroed out, so there's no risk of accidentally leaking deleted file data, but the space it previously occupied is still there, as well as other evidence of the edit history. Before publishing an archive, it is therefore recommended to use the
rebuildsubcommand to eliminate this unused space. ↩