AI disclosure: this mod was made with the help of AI (Claude by Anthropic).
AluminiumX
A more realistic aluminium chain for Krastorio 2 Spaced Out: bauxite washed with sodium hydroxide, electrolysis to aluminium powder, red sludge you have to deal with, and an aluminium chloride catalyst for the late game.
Based on brevven's bzaluminum: the bauxite ore and most aluminium graphics come from there. AluminiumX rebuilds the chain the way the Bayer process and electrolysis work, and ties aluminium into K2 and Space Age recipes.
Features
- Bauxite ore on Nauvis, also in the starting area. The map settings give it the same defaults as iron ore.
- Salt and sodium hydroxide.
- Salt from water in K2's filtration plant, available from the start: 1000 water → 10 salt.
- Sodium hydroxide in the electrolysis plant or the advanced chemical plant: 1 salt + 80 water → 40 sodium hydroxide.
- Sodium hydroxide and by-products: 6 salt + 100 water → 50 sodium hydroxide, 25 chlorine and 25 hydrogen, for K2.
- Bauxite washing in the electrolysis plant: 5 bauxite + 50 sodium hydroxide → 3 aluminium oxide and 3–5 red sludge.
- Two ways to aluminium powder.
| Route | Recipe | Powder per aluminium oxide |
|---|---|---|
| Direct electrolysis | 5 aluminium oxide → 2–3 aluminium powder | 0.5 |
| Enrichment first | 9 aluminium oxide + sulfuric acid + water → 6 enriched aluminium; 5 enriched aluminium → 6 powder | 0.8 |
- Aluminium plates smelt from powder in any furnace (5 → 5); 2 plates make an aluminium beam.
- Advanced aluminium smelting in K2's advanced furnace: 20 bauxite + 5 carbon → 10 plates, skipping the whole chemical chain.
- Red sludge recycling (research with the production science pack):
| Recipe | Machine | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Red sludge processing (metals) | chemical plant | 1 sludge + 30 sulfuric acid → iron ore (85%), rare metal ore (20%), sand, dirty water |
| Landfill from red sludge | assembling machine | 20 sludge + 20 sand + 50 water → 1 landfill |
| Red sludge smelting | foundry | 10 sludge + 1 calcite → 50 molten iron + 2 stone |
| Concrete from red sludge | assembling machine | red sludge instead of iron ore: 5 stone bricks + 2 sludge + 100 water → 10 concrete |
- Aluminium catalysis (metallurgic and agricultural science). Aluminium chloride, made from aluminium powder and K2's chlorine, speeds up other industries:
| Recipe | With the catalyst | Without it |
|---|---|---|
| Advanced coal liquefaction | 95 heavy oil, 30 light oil, 15 petroleum gas | 90 / 20 / 10 |
| Advanced coke liquefaction (K2's coke) | 30 heavy oil, 95 light oil, 15 petroleum gas | 20 / 90 / 10 |
| Advanced plastic polymerization | 3–5 plastic bars, half the catalyst comes back | 2 plastic bars |
| Advanced carbon fiber synthesis | 10 carbon + 20 petroleum gas → 1 carbon fiber, half the catalyst comes back | yumako mash in the biochamber |
The liquefaction recipes use up the catalyst and run in K2's advanced chemical plant; the others run in the chemical plant.
Changes to other recipes
- Flying robot frame: aluminium plates instead of steel plates. Robotics needs Aluminium processing.
- Low-density structure: a second recipe with 20 aluminium plates instead of copper plates.
- Space platforms: the space platform starter pack and space platform foundation take aluminium beams instead of steel.
- Cryogenic plant: +40 aluminium beams.
- K2: advanced solar panel +2 aluminium beams, lithium-sulfur battery and AI core +1 aluminium plate.
Research
- Sodium hydroxide processing → Aluminium processing (chemical science), Red sludge processing (production science), Aluminium catalysis (metallurgic and agricultural science).
- Advanced aluminium smelting comes with K2's Advanced furnace research.
Requirements and compatibility
- Factorio 2.0 and 2.1.
- Required: Space Age and Krastorio 2 Spaced Out.
- Incompatible with bzaluminum, the original mod: both add the same bauxite ore.
- Age of Production (optional): its iron, copper, calcite, stone and coal synthesis recipes need sodium hydroxide.
- For mod authors: the items use plain names (
bauxite-ore,salt,sodium-hydroxide,aluminium-plate,aluminium-beam,aluminium-chloride), so other mods can use them.
Languages
- English
- Magyar (Hungarian)
Credits
- brevven for bzaluminum, the original mod and its graphics.
- bluegreen1024 for the bug report on the catalyst recipes.