⚡ WePlay: Mr. Fusion ⚡
Great Scott! It eats anything!
Your pockets are full of junk again, huh? Banana peels, stray gears, that one stack of wood you picked up in 1955... Why haul it home when you can burn it for power right on your back?
Mr. Fusion is personal armor equipment generator that eats items from your trash slots (and anything on its filter list) and pours the energy straight into the batteries in your equipment grid. It's a home energy reactor for the factory engineer on the go!
🔋 What It Does
- Burns junk for power. Fuel items give their full fuel value (one coal = 4 MJ). Non-fuel junk like gears, pipes, and plates still gives a little zap of energy.
- Charges your batteries. Energy goes into the other batteries in your armor grid, so make sure you've got at least one battery equipped!
- Wastes nothing. If a big fuel item has more energy than your batteries can hold, Mr. Fusion saves the extra and pours it in as soon as there's room. You won't need 1.21 gigawatts, but if you ever do, he's got you covered.
- Stacks up. Every Mr. Fusion in your grid burns more items per second. Two reactors = twice the junk munching!
- Safe for your stuff. It never burns items that hold their own data, like armor with equipment inside, blueprints, or anything with an inventory. Your power armor is safe, Marty!
🗑️ Burning Your Trash Slots
Mr. Fusion uses the trash slots Factorio already gives you, so there's no new system to learn!
- Open your character's Logistics tab.
- Set a maximum amount for any item you don't want to carry around.
- Anything over that max lands in your trash slots, and Mr. Fusion burns it for power.
📝 Trash slots appear once you've researched character logistics. Want to burn stuff before that? Check out the filter list below!
🎛️ The Mr. Fusion Button & Filter List
Look for the Mr. Fusion button on your shortcut bar (next to the blueprint and toolbox buttons). Click it to open the Mr. Fusion window:
- ☑️ Burn trash slots: Turn trash-slot burning on or off.
- 🧺 Filter slots: You get 20 item slots. Click an empty slot and pick an item, and Mr. Fusion will burn that item straight from your main inventory. This works from the very start of the game, no logistics research needed!
- Remove a filter: Right-click a slot to clear it.
Click the button again (or press E/Esc) to close the window. Your filters are saved per player, so everyone in multiplayer can have their own setup.
💡 Tip: Toss in wood early on for an easy power boost, or stone and scrap to keep your inventory clean while you explore!
🔧 Getting One
- Unlocked by: Modular Armor
- Recipe: 1 Stone Furnace + 10 Iron Plates + 5 Electronic Circuits
- Grid size: 2×4
⚙️ Mod Settings (Map settings tab)
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Items burned per second | 2 | How fast each Mr. Fusion eats items |
| Fuel efficiency | 1.0 | Multiplier on an item's fuel value |
| Energy from non-fuel items | 200 kJ | How much power you get from plain junk |
Turn the knobs up to go full flux capacitor, or down if you want it more balanced. This is heavy... duty power generation, after all. 😎
📦 Compatibility
- Factorio 2.1
- Space Age not required
- Works with overhaul mods like Krastorio 2 and Space Exploration. Their fuel items burn at their own fuel values!
Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads. We just need a full trash slot. 🍌⚡