Changelog

Version: 1.7.8
Date: 2026-03-10
  Bugfixes:
    - Unhide the IPL cargo pod circuit signal and factoriopedia desc.

Version: 1.7.7
Date: 2026-03-10
  Bugfixes:
    - Fix the channel encoding feature not working.

Version: 1.7.6
Date: 2026-03-06
  Bugfixes:
    - Fix another crash that occured when an antenna was removed while pods were in transit and the buffer
      had been previously cleaned prematurely.

Version: 1.7.5
Date: 2026-02-27
  Bugfixes:
    - Fix a crash that occured when an antenna was removed while pods were in transit.
    - Cleanup old empty pod buffers in storage.
  Changes:
    - Add a better handling of the lazy cleanup system (should not produce noticeable changes for the end user).

Version: 1.7.4
Date: 2026-02-26
  Changes:
    - Adjust the scaling of the icon of the recipe for the IPL Starter Pack.

Version: 1.7.3
Date: 2026-02-23
  Bugfixes:
    - Fix a crash that happened when a cargo pod was delivered to a platform after the requester antenna was removed.

Version: 1.7.2
Date: 2026-02-19
  Bugfixes:
    - Fix a crash when passing a non-item signal to the requester antenna.

Version: 1.7.1
Date: 2026-02-17
  Changes:
    - Add the ability to blueprint the IPL Bays.

Version: 1.7.0
Date: 2026-02-15
  Changes:
    - Add "Hard Mode" in the mod startup options.
    - In Hard Mode, you must have IPL Cargo Pods in your hub's inventory to make deliveries.
    - You have to craft the IPL Cargo Pods yourself.
    - You can only launch IPL Cargo pods from dedicated IPL bays, and each bay can only shoot pods of its own quality.
    - The inventory size and weight capacity of the pods scale with their quality.

Version: 1.6.2
Date: 2026-02-14
  Changes:
    - Add antenna diode to locale.
    - Rework settings management (no change for the user).

Version: 1.6.1
Date: 2026-02-12
  Changes:
    - Change the recipe for the IPL Ready space platform starter pack (now uses constant combinators and radars, like the antennas).
    - Change the starter items of the IPL Ready space platform starter pack to include 3 constant combinators.

Version: 1.6.0
Date: 2026-02-07
  Changes:
    - Add an IPL Ready Platform Starter Pack ! This starter pack is certified by IPL and Platform Construction Needs Reader ! One starter pack for all your platform logistics needs !
    - Separate load spreading logic from IPL
    - Add load-spreader as a mandatory dependency.
    - Add Platform Platform Construction Needs Reader as an optional dependency

Version: 1.5.0
Date: 2026-02-04
  Changes:
    - Many code quality changes you don't care about.
    - Update antennas description for more explicit documentation on how to use them.
    - Update the documentation on the mod portal.
    - Add a few minor optimizations.
  Bugfixes:
    - The deep space platform sync now shows the tech prerequisites.

Version: 1.4.2
Date: 2026-01-19
  Changes:
    - Add back an optimization that was removed when deep space tech was added.

Version: 1.4.1
Date: 2026-01-19
  Bugfixes:
    - Fix a critical bug that prevented platforms from seeing one another and broke IPL Logistics.

Version: 1.4.0
Date: 2026-01-18
  Changes:
    - Code quality you don't care about.
    - Add a new technology : deep space sync, to allow platforms to exchange items when they are at a space location where there is no planet. Do note that using this feature will have a performance impact proportional to the number of platforms processing exchanges at such location, although it should remain negligible in real world scenarios.

Version: 1.3.1
Date: 2026-01-05
  Changes:
    - Add command to reset pod buffer: "ipl-reset-podbuffer". This is a debug / unstuck command. Please use it only if you are confident a bug or incompatibility broke IPL system. If you used a planet mod that uses PlanetsLib with a version earlier than 1.15.1 and have tried to use IPL with platforms in orbit of a planet for which you had not researched a technology allowing you to drop pods on its surface, then you will have to use this command.
    - Add warning related to PlanetsLib

Version: 1.3.0
Date: 2025-12-28
  Bugfixes:
    - Fix a minor bug that was very slightly impairing performance.
  Features:
    - Add channel encoding (must be enabled in the options).
    - Hide the Antennas guis by default, because many users believe they had to setup the antennas using the GUI, while the GUI is only a DISPLAY feature. You can still enable it in the options if you want to.

Version: 1.2.0
Date: 2025-11-21
  Bugfixes:
    - Fix a crash when a platform with an antenna is at "solar system edge".
  Features:
    - Add simple channels. Use the virtual signal "C" on a provider / requester antenna to set a channel. By default, this signal is considered to be 0, so you don't have to change anything if you don't want to use channels.

Version: 1.1.3
Date: 2025-11-08
  Bugfixes:
    - Crash when deconstructing a threshold antenna.

Version: 1.1.2
Date: 2025-11-05
  Changes:
  Bugfixes:
    - Rare bug when a non item signal sneaks past first nil checks.

Version: 1.1.1
Date: 2025-10-28
  Bugfixes:
    - Desync bug in MP due to unregistering the on click listener.

Version: 1.1.0
Date: 27. 10. 2025
  Changes:
    - Remove logistic sections from antennas. All antennas built before 1.1.0 will be unwired, and automatically replaced.
    - Move the technology behind "logistic-system" and "space-platform-thruster".
    - Refactor a lot of the code to improve performance and kill potential bugs.
    - Set both mod settings : IPL platforms per tick, and IPL requests per tick to a default of 2 (you really shouldn't need to touch these settings, increasing these numbers will make the mod run faster, but also will also eat more UPS).
  Features:
    - Platforms can now send partial stacks instead of entire stacks. Meaning that they are able to send just 1 item.

Version: 1.0.1
Date: 13. 10. 2025
  Changes:
    - Add Patreon message.