AAI Loaders Stacking & Filtering - Bob's tiers

Adds the missing stacking and lane-filtering AAI loaders for the belt tiers of Bob's Logistics, starting with the ultimate tier (75 items/s).

Bob's Logistics already creates the Ultimate loader, but AAI Loaders - Stacking and Filtering never builds its variants. This mod fills the gap, with the same stats, icons, recipes and technologies as the other tiers.

Why the variants were missing

The stacking mod builds its variants from the AAI loaders that exist when its own data stage runs. It does not depend on Bob's Logistics, so it loads first and never sees the tiers Bob adds afterwards.

This mod depends on both and runs after them, in data-updates.

Added loaders

For each tier below, up to three variants are added:

Only variants enabled in the stacking mod's settings are added. Stacking variants still require Space Age (stack inserter), exactly like the other tiers.

Recipes and unlocking

Splitters are resolved for each tier (bob-ultimate-splitter, bob-basic-splitter, lane splitters if that integration is enabled), or by matching the belt speed.

Fixes for existing variants

Bob's Logistics changes some loaders after the stacking mod copied them. This mod realigns every variant with its base loader:

• Colours: turbo variants are purple like Bob's turbo loader, ultimate variants are green. Without this mod, turbo variants keep the original AAI Loaders colour.
• Inventory: variants sit in the same row as their loader.
• Speed: with Bob's belt speed overhaul, the variants of every tier now run at the speed of their loader.
• Upgrade planner: turbo variants upgrade to the matching ultimate variant; basic variants upgrade to the regular ones.
• Unlocking: Bob recreates the turbo loader technology, which removed the Turbo loader (lane filtering) unlock. Any variant that no technology unlocks is attached back to its expected technology.

Only the stacking / lane-filtering abilities and the overlay icons differ from the base loader. Each change is written to factorio-current.log.

French translation

Neither Bob's Logistics nor the stacking mod translate these loaders into French. This mod adds:

• Bob's loaders: Chargeur basique, Chargeur turbo, Chargeur ultime (names and technologies), following Bob's own French names for belts.
• Stacking mod: every variant, technology and startup setting, e.g. Chargeur turbo (empilement).

Variant names reuse the AAI Loaders name of their tier, so an existing AAI Loaders translation is kept, never overridden.

Requirements

• Factorio 2.1
• AAI Loaders
• AAI Loaders - Stacking and Filtering - Factorio 2.1
• Bob's Logistics
• Space Age is optional (needed for stacking variants)

Compatibility

• Safe to add to or remove from an existing save. Removing it deletes the placed variants it added.
• In an existing save, variants unlocked by a technology you already researched are enabled when the save is loaded.
• Works with every AAI Loaders mode (lubricated, expensive). Nothing is added in graphics-only mode.
• If a tier has no technology, no lubricant pipe or no splitter, its variant is skipped and a line is written to the log.

Credits

• Loaders and graphics: AAI Loaders by Earendel.
• Stacking and lane-filtering variants: AAI Loaders - Stacking and Filtering by LuminaSapphira, updated for 2.1 by paules. This mod reuses its code to build the variants.
• Belt tiers: Bob's Logistics by Bobingabout.