Runs the research queue for you: picks the next technology, watches your science supply, and switches research when a pack runs dry.
Providing the player with new tools or adjusting the game interface, without fundamentally changing gameplay.
Version: 1.1.2
Date: 01-11-2026
Features:
- Research productivity now preempts other non-pinned research whenever its science packs are available and returns to the displaced technology when its supply runs dry.
- Science pack stock counts across labs, logistic networks, surfaces, space platform hubs, and cargo pods now weight higher-quality packs by their science capacity multiplier (1x normal, 2x uncommon, 3x rare, 4x epic, 6x legendary).
Balancing:
- Infinite technology importance now decays with level and cheap-technology cost bonuses are bounded by importance, so deep low-value infinite levels no longer outrank shallow high-value research.
Bugfixes:
- Fixed Factorio 2.1 leveled technology names (such as mining-productivity-3, worker-robots-speed-7, follower-robot-count-5, and artillery-shell-speed) not matching their configured weights and level caps.
- Fixed the "Allow instant plan-demand override" and "Pause after current research" checkboxes in the Decision Console not toggling their settings when clicked.
Version: 1.1.1
Date: 29-10-2026
Bugfixes:
- Fixed a crash when other mods complete research while creating a new force, including Dynamic Rain with Even Distribution.
- Research queued during force creation is retained after initialization.
Version: 1.1.0
Date: 22-10-2026
Changes:
- Removed the lab supply cluster requirement: research selection is now always force-wide, so science packs spread across different lab networks count as available.
- Removed the per-technology repeat-policy and level-target buttons from technology rows; saved and imported repeat rules still apply.
- In-transit science totals now refresh as a bounded resumable job.
Info:
- Lab supply groups remain in the Research Health diagnostics and affected-lab inspection.
- Saved and imported cluster-mode settings are retired automatically.
- Portal versioning continues from the 1.0.0 portal release; pre-portal internal version numbers are retired.
Version: 1.0.0
Date: 14-10-2026
Features:
- Research control center with strategy profiles and planning pause.
- Per-science priorities, hysteresis thresholds, flow forecasts and starvation prediction.
- Surface and lab-supply-cluster-aware science availability.
- Queue science budgets, deficits, limiting-science reporting and completion estimates.
- Per-technology repeat rules and maximum repeat levels.
- Named plan presets and import/export strings.
- Manual trigger objectives, multiplayer administrator locking and plan history.
- Native time-sliced parallel research and optional Parallel Research integration mode.
- Performance mode and German, French and Portuguese translations.
Compatibility:
- Runs on Factorio 2.1.