Comfort Patch

A quality-of-life patch that makes Factorio far more comfortable to play and
greatly speeds up your whole progression.

⚠️ This mod is for casual players. It does not try to rebalance the game — it just adds
comfort. I personally do not think the base game recipes are wrong in any way; this is
simply an "easy mode" for those who want a more relaxed factory.

Runs at data-final-fixes, so it applies on top of the base game,
any other mod: more generous recipes and batch
production, upgraded power and logistics, buffed quality modules, and a host of
tweaks across Nauvis and every Space Age planet. Every change is guarded, so if
an item is missing the tweak is simply skipped without breaking anything.

Requires: base, space-age (which also brings Quality).

🔩 Intermediates

• Copper: 1 plate → 4 cable
• Steel: 5 iron → 2 steel in 8 s
• Iron gears: 2 iron → 2
• Circuits — times: red 3s, blue 5s, LDS 3s; outputs: green 4, red 2, blue 1 (just faster), LDS 2
• LDS: 10 copper + 2 steel + 5 plastic → 2
• Plastic → 4 · Landfill 25 stone → 1 · Stone wall 5 brick → 2
• Electric engine: requires 2 engine units (+1) and produces 2 per craft (lubricant and circuits unchanged)
• Space platform foundation: 10 steel + 10 cable → 2, 1,000 per rocket

🌋 Foundry (casting)

• Carbon → 2
• Casting from molten metal: everything ×2 vanilla (iron/copper plates 4, steel 2, gears 2, sticks 8, cable 4, LDS 2, concrete 20)
• Tungsten: plate ×2 (stack 100), carbide ×3 (stack 200)

🤖 Logistics & construction

• Belts (red/blue/turbo): output ×2
• Cargo weights: belts 1000, undergrounds 2000, splitters 2000
• Robots: stack 100, weight 1000; flying robot frame ×2
• Buffed roboports: MK2 = 50 charging slots / 500 MJ buffer · MK3 = 100 slots / 1000 MJ · vanilla with a decent buffer
• Robot batteries: logistic 7 MJ, construction 5 MJ (includes modded robots)
• Concrete (normal/refined/hazard): stack and weight 1000

💥 Military

• Ammo: yellow 6, red 4, uranium 2
• Grenade → 5 · Tesla ammo → 5 · Explosives → 8 · Cliff explosives → 10
• Combat drones (distractor / defender / destroyer) → 3 per craft and last 5× longer once deployed
• Artillery: new shell recipe (4 explosives + 1 calcite + 2 tungsten + 1 radar) that yields 2 per craft, stack 100; turret (100k) and wagon (200k) rocket weights
• Equipment: battery Mk3 and personal roboport Mk2 → 2 per craft

🎛️ Modules & quality

• Tier 2 and 3 (speed/productivity/quality/efficiency): ×2 per craft
• Quality chance buffed, with a correct progression: Quality 1 +2%, Quality 2 +4%, Quality 3 +6% (vanilla: +1 / +2 / +2.5%); vanilla speed penalty kept

☢️ Nuclear power

• Reactor: 160 MW, no neighbour bonus, consumption scales with quality
• Uranium fuel cell: 112 TJ; no productivity on fuel cells or their reprocessing
• Recipes for heat exchanger and turbine at 10% cost
• Reactor: max temperature 1500, thermal buffer 20 GJ
• Heat exchanger: 320 MW at 1200 °C (much more steam)
• Steam turbine: 5500 MW, 3/tick consumption
• Hot-pipe boiler: ×5 power
• Heat pipe: → 10 per craft
• Rocket cargo weights for every nuclear component

🪐 Space Age

• Fulgora: holmium solution 200 (vanilla plate), electrolyte 20, superconductor 3, supercapacitor in 5 s, carbon fiber 2
• Gleba: reworked bioflux (12 mash + 10 jelly → 5), artificial soils 20, fruit processing ×1.5 (6 jelly / 3 mash) + 5% seed, tweaked iron bacteria, nutrients from spoilage 2
• Aquilo: lithium plate 5, lithium from fluids only (50 brine + 100 ammonia), ⭐ lithium brine extraction ×50 (~100/s per pump), a reworked fluoroketone loop (heating outputs 200 hot; cooling is 50 → 50, temperatures preserved), and quantum processor → 3 per craft (fluoroketone-hot byproduct preserved)
• Fusion (cheaper): reactor 100 tungsten / 50 superconductor / 25 supercapacitor / 100 quantum processor · generator 50 / 25 / 15 / 50 · fuel cell 3 lithium + 1 holmium + 50 ammonia
• Cryogenic science: needs 3 fluoroketone-cold (was 6), no longer returns fluoroketone-hot, and yields 2 packs per craft (was 1)
• Orbit: thruster with 2× thrust and half the consumption; far more abundant thruster fuel and oxidizer; ice platform 25
• Recycling: scrap recycling with vanilla chances ×1.5
• Rocket fuel: 7 s and 2 per craft

⏳ Spoilage

• Everything ×3 vanilla: nutrients 15 min, pentapod egg 45 min, biter egg 90 min, agricultural science 3 h, bioflux 6 h

An "easy mode" for casual players, not a rebalance. It stays generous without
breaking the game's logic: nothing is cheaper than its ingredients and every tier
still costs more than the last. Enjoy!