Battery-Electric Train

by catweax

Electric trains, but UPS-friendly. Provides battery-powered locomotives, reusable battery packs and charging facilities. Balanced for vanilla gameplay by default, but trains can be as fast as you want.

Content
9 days ago
1.1 - 2.0
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Changelog

Version: 2.0.1
Date: 2024-11-12
  Bugfixes:
    - Fix crash when mining/deconstructing a battery-electric locomotive with a partially discharged battery pack inside.
Version: 2.0.0
Date: 2024-11-11
  Info:
    - Re-release for Factorio 2.0
  Changes:
    - Battery recycling is disabled by default for new games to avoid problems with Space Age.
    - Battery-electric locomotives are now placed in the same item group as the other train items.
    - Renamed basic batteries and chargers to have a "1" at the end.
  Features:
    - Battery pack charging efficiency can be adjusted. This will influence charging time and thus total power consumption.
    - The capacity of battery packs can be adjusted if you don't want to wait for the high-capacity battery packs late in the game or want more capacity in general.
Version: 1.1.7
Date: 2022-03-13
  Bugfixes:
    - Fix game unable to start with a fractional breaking force multiplier.
Version: 1.1.6
Date: 2022-02-24
  Bugfixes:
    - Krastorio 2 integration should always work now, independent of mod load order.
  Locale:
    - Ukrainian locale added, provided by Met_en_Bouldry (https://mods.factorio.com/user/Met_en_Bouldry).
  Modding:
    - Always add the equipment grid setting but hide it if there are none available; allows other mods to add equipment grids and unhide the setting.
Version: 1.1.5
Date: 2022-02-13
  Modding:
    - EvenMoreLight: More light for battery-electric locomotives too.
    - Krastorio 2: Add Krastorio 2 locomotive equipment grid to battery-electric locomotives.
Version: 1.1.4
Date: 2021-09-09
  Modding:
    - Bob's Vehicle Equipment: Add Bob's equipment grids to battery-electric locomotives.
Version: 1.1.3
Date: 2021-08-14
  Features:
    - Battery pack recycling can be disabled to improve compatibility with other (recycling) mods or just to make things more difficult.
    - Braking force multiplier for cheatsy wagons and locomotives. Makes higher acceleration and top speed settings actually useful.
Version: 1.1.2
Date: 2021-06-17
  Features:
    - Return a discharged battery pack when mining or deconstructing a battery-electric locomotive with a partially discharged battery pack inside, instead of losing it.
  Locale:
    - German locale added.
  Modding:
    - Industrial Revolution 2 is now compatible.
Version: 1.1.1
Date: 2021-06-15
  Bugfixes:
    - Cheatsy wagon top speed takes fuel bonus into account.
    - Reduced dependency on vanilla electric furnace, in case another mod removed it.
  Ease of use:
    - Cheatsy speed and power settings mention min and max values in the description tooltip.
  Modding:
    - Space Exploration: Chargers can be placed in space.
Version: 1.1.0
Date: 2021-06-09
  Info:
    - Initial release for Factorio 1.1