⚡ Powered Concrete

Powered Concrete lets your factory floor carry electric coverage through powered concrete, powered refined concrete, and powered hazard concrete — without filling clean builds with visible power poles everywhere.

Build cleaner. Expand faster. Let the floor carry the grid.

⚙️ What It Does

Powered Concrete turns selected floor tiles into a hidden electric network.

Instead of placing power poles across every clean factory floor, you can build powered tiles that provide electric coverage directly through the ground. Power only exists where powered concrete has actually been placed, so the default behaviour still feels like a proper tile-based system instead of one giant invisible power field.

This Factorio 2.0 rebuild keeps exact tile-by-tile powered floor coverage as the default, removes the old flib dependency, cleans up the crafting layout, supports Q / pipette behaviour, and includes optional UPS tuning for very large factories or multiplayer servers.

✨ 1.2.3 Polish Pass

Version 1.2.3 is a clean visual, icon, migration, and documentation pass for the current 1.2.x system.

• ⚡ Refreshed powered overlay icon
• 🔌 Refreshed unpowered overlay icon
• 🔁 Refreshed convert icon
• ⚡ Refreshed powered-convert icon
• 🧱 Exact tile-by-tile powered floor behaviour kept as the default
• 🚀 Optional connector-grid UPS mode kept for large bases and servers
• 🔁 Migration support kept for old PoweredConcreteSpaceAge 0.1.x saves
• 🧹 Cleaner wording and updated Mod Portal / GitHub description text

✅ Features

• ⚡ Powered Concrete
• ⚡ Powered Hazard Concrete
• ⚡ Powered Refined Concrete
• ⚡ Powered Refined Hazard Concrete
• 🔌 Hidden floor-based electric coverage
• 🧱 Exact tile-by-tile powered floor logic by default
• 👁️ No visible power poles across your factory floor
• 🚀 Optional big-base UPS tuning through connector cells
• ⚙️ Startup setting for connector grid size
• 🧪 Q / pipette support for all powered tile variants
• 🤖 Works with player building, robot building, mining, and scripted tile changes
• 🛠️ Includes /powered-concrete-rebuild admin command
• 🔁 Migration support from deprecated PoweredConcreteSpaceAge 0.1.x saves
• 📦 Factorio 2.0 compatible
• 🧹 No flib dependency
• ✅ Safe to use without Space Age

🧱 Clean Crafting Menu

The crafting menu is kept focused on the actual floor tiles players need.

Extra conversion and hazard-marking recipes are kept hidden so the crafting UI stays clean.

🧠 How It Works

When powered concrete is placed, the mod creates invisible electric connectors under powered floor cells. These hidden connectors provide electrical coverage while keeping the surface visually clean.

The system tracks tile placement and removal from players, robots, mining, and script-based tile changes so the hidden power network stays synced with the actual powered floor.

Powered Concrete does not make the whole map powered. The floor only carries electric coverage where powered concrete exists.

🛠️ Settings

Powered Concrete includes one startup setting for tuning accuracy and performance.

⚙️ Connector Grid Options

Higher values can reduce hidden connector count, but power coverage becomes cell-based instead of perfectly exact inside each cell.

Default: 1

⭐ Recommended Settings

For normal gameplay and the cleanest behaviour:

For large factories or multiplayer servers:

For huge paved city-block bases where UPS matters most:

🔁 Migration From PoweredConcreteSpaceAge

Version 1.2.2+ includes migration support from the deprecated PoweredConcreteSpaceAge 0.1.x mod.

Matching old PCSA items, placed tiles, recipes, and hidden powered-tile poles are migrated into the main Powered_Concrete prototype names.

The old mod is marked incompatible so both versions do not accidentally load together.

For safest results:

1. Remove the old deprecated PoweredConcreteSpaceAge mod.
2. Add this main Powered Concrete mod.
3. Load your save.
4. Run /powered-concrete-rebuild if you want to force-refresh the hidden connector network.

Optional PCSA / Krastorio reinforced powered plates are not converted because Powered Concrete does not currently define replacement prototypes for those variants.

🔄 Rebuild Command

If your powered floor network ever needs to be rebuilt or refreshed, you can run:

/powered-concrete-rebuild

This rebuilds all hidden powered concrete connector nodes.

Use it after changing the connector grid startup setting, testing old saves, recovering from heavy scripted tile edits, or checking a migration from the old deprecated Space Age fork.

Only admins can run this command.

🧪 Behaviour Notes

• Powered floor only provides coverage where powered concrete has been placed
• Default mode is exact tile-by-tile coverage
• Larger connector grid sizes are optional UPS tuning modes
• Conversion-style recipes are intentionally hidden from the normal crafting UI
• The four powered floor recipes unlock with concrete research
• Hidden connectors are rebuilt automatically on load or configuration changes
• The rebuild command is included as a manual safety tool
• This mod does not require Space Age
• This mod should not be loaded together with the old deprecated PoweredConcreteSpaceAge fork

🔗 Compatibility

Powered Concrete is built for Factorio 2.0.

This version updates the original concept for modern Factorio with cleaner runtime syncing, updated prototype handling, no old flib dependency, Q / pipette support, hidden conversion cleanup, optional UPS connector tuning, and migration support from the deprecated Space Age fork.

Works on its own

You do not need Space Age installed for Powered Concrete to work.

Old mod migration

Powered Concrete is intended to be the main replacement for the old deprecated PoweredConcreteSpaceAge version.

Do not load both versions together.

📌 Design Goal

The goal of Powered Concrete is simple:

Make clean factories easier to build without making electric coverage feel free or global.

It is meant to sit between vanilla power poles and a fully invisible power grid:

• Cleaner than pole spam
• More controlled than global hidden power
• Exact by default
• Tunable for big bases
• Useful for clean bus builds, malls, city blocks, and polished factory floors

☕ Support

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Any support helps me keep improving and polishing my Factorio mods.

🙏 Credits

Original Powered Concrete mod by JuneGame.

Factorio 2.0 compatibility, cleanup, exact-tile runtime rebuild, Q / pipette fixes, migration support, refreshed overlay icons, documentation, and release packaging by Squishy1870.

Factorio is made by Wube Software. This is an independent fan-made mod and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Wube Software.

📜 License / Attribution Notice

Keep the original author credit intact.

This package includes work derived from the original Powered Concrete mod by JuneGame. See the included license and attribution files in the mod package / repository for the current redistribution terms.

💬 Final Note

Powered Concrete is for players who want cleaner, sharper factories where the floor does more than just look good.

Perfect for big bases, clean bus builds, malls, city blocks, and factory floors where visible power poles get in the way.