Liquid Rocket Fuel

Enhance your Factorio 2.0 space age with Liquid Rocket Fuel, a mod that adds a fluid-based alternative to rocket fuel for rocket silos.

Features

• Liquid Rocket Fuel: Craft 100 units from 8 solid fuel + 8 light oil, used in rocket silo recipes (80 units per part (in total 36% less light oil usage), scaled with external-rocket-parts settings). Recipe can also be used in biochamber.
• Liquid Rocket Fuel from Jelly: recipe and technology, about 20% less fruits used for the fuel!
• Rocket Fuel Canister: Renames vanilla rocket-fuel for clarity.
• Vanilla Recipes: Without external-rocket-parts, rocket silo recipes use 1 rocket fuel canister + 1 processing unit + 1 low-density structure, or 80 liquid rocket fuel + 1 processing unit + 1 low-density structure, to produce 1 rocket part.
• External Rocket Parts Compatibility: Integrates with external-rocket-parts to support cost_setting and diversity-setting for customizable rocket part costs and planet-specific fuel demands based on gravity.
• RocketFuelSteel Compatibility: Works with RocketFuelSteel, which adds a steel plate to the rocket fuel canister recipe for extra challenge, and makes switching to liquid rocket fuel even more worthwhile.
• Technology 1: Unlocks liquid rocket fuel with 500 research units, requiring automation, logistic, chemical, production, and space science packs (30 seconds per research).
• Technology 2: Unlocks liquid rocket fuel from jelly with 250 research units, requiring automation, logistic, chemical, production, and agricultural science packs (60 seconds per research).

Dependencies

• Required:
• Space age: I was too lazy to also support base.
• Optional:
• external-rocket-parts: Enables customizable rocket part recipes and planet-specific fuel scaling.
• RocketFuelSteel: Adds a steel plate to the rocket fuel recipe.

TL;DR

Adds liquid rocket fuel for rocket silos, renames rocket fuel to "Rocket Fuel Canister," uses vanilla recipes (fuel + processing unit + low-density structure) without external-rocket-parts, supports optional external-rocket-parts and RocketFuelSteel, and requires mid-game research.

Credits

• Author: NOiZE
• Development Assistance: Grok, Claude