AAI Loaders, a sane rebalance


Rebalances the AAI Loaders in a sane manner. Specifically, it makes the loaders get unlocked with the respective logistics technology and their recipes similar to those of splitters.

Tweaks
16 days ago
2.0
1.17K
Logistics
Owner:
Samuel_Bucher
Source:
N/A
Homepage:
N/A
License:
The Unlicense (Public Domain)
Created:
3 months ago
Latest Version:
1.0.3 (16 days ago)
Factorio version:
2.0
Downloaded by:
1.17K users

The loaders from Earendel's AAI Loaders mod are beautiful both visually and functionally. Their recipes, however, are quite the opposite. If you don't want to spend lube to simply take items out of or insert into machines and chests, then you have to spend a ludicrous amount of resources to craft a single loader. And even if you are fine with spending lubricant, their recipes still require more advanced materials than the underground belts and splitters of the same tier. I found this to be loony, and there was no existing and up-to-date mod that fixes it in the way I was content with, so I had do this myself.

List of tweaks:
- Loaders are unlocked via their respective logistics research, along with underground belts and splitters. Original loader technology is removed.
- Loaders are a lot cheaper and faster to craft, with their recipes being similar to those of splitters.
- Express and turbo loader rocket capacity is increased (25->50 and 10->25).
- Option to enable lubricant use by the loaders was removed.

Also, this is my first mod :)