# \[In-progress\] Base mod! generators

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**Created:** [October 18, 2020, 4:55pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/in-progress-base-mod-generators/24978 "2020-10-18T16:55:31Z")\
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No. Currently, buildings have an extremely lightweight footprint in terms of memory and processor time; vehicles have an extremely heavyweight footprint in the same terms.

There was an extensive discussion between 4 senior devs on this topic last night on the discord server, see [https://discordapp.com/channels/598523535169945603/598535887801810944/768213398541565952](https://discordapp.com/channels/598523535169945603/598535887801810944/768213398541565952) and on and on for the next 6 hours.

Basically, what we expect to have happen at some point:

- some of the `vehicle` code will get migrated to be usable by other entities
- it will be possible to convert some `furniture` (mostly electrical appliances) into an `appliance` class which uses the `vehicle` power generation/usage code; most electrical appliances will stay `furniture` to minimize performance concerns but the player will have the option of making the furniture they care about into `appliance`s.
- most buildings will remain a collection of `terrain` and `furniture`, but again the player will have the option to take over a specific building and turn into to a `facility`, which again uses the `vehicle` power generation and usage code.

So ideally, your home base is going to be a fully powered `facility` with solar panels, a combustion powered generator, overhead lights, and floor lamps and machine tools as `appliance`s. The mansion that you raid, loot, and leave will remain a collection of `furniture `and `terrain`, and the mansions’ floor lamps that you never use will remain `furniture`. Very light weight for performance concerns for the stuff you don’t care about, heavyweight memory and performance concerns for the stuff you do care about.

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