Changelog

Version: 0.4.1
Date: 2025-10-21
  Bugfixes:
    - Fix incorrect order of coke fuel setting

Version: 0.4.0
Date: 2025-10-20
  Minor Features:
    - Add option to use default furnaces as kilns instead of adding new entities
    - Optionally make LDS casting also require coke
    - Add setting to change coke's fuel value
  Modding:
    - Add optional recipe_category parameter to smelt_in_kiln

Version: 0.3.4
Date: 2025-06-16
  Changes:
    - Add electric kiln smelting category

Version: 0.3.3
Date: 2025-06-08
  Locale:
    - Add CN locale (credit: Houraiji-Kyuusyou)

Version: 0.3.2
Date: 2025-04-24
  Changes:
    - Add an unlock for the new Coke from carbon recipe

Version: 0.3.1
Date: 2025-04-24
  Minor Features:
    - Add recipe to make coke from carbon
  Changes:
    - Undo adding coke to the recipe for carbon (since that'd cause a weird loop)

Version: 0.3.0
Date: 2025-04-14
  Changes:
    - Move technology changes to data updates
    - Change kiln smelting technology to always be a research trigger
    - Simplify recipe for electric kiln to be a slightly more expensive electric furnace
    - Reduce module slot count for electric kiln back to 2
  Compatibility:
    - AAI Industry: Add kiln smelting recipes to Industrial furnace, and increase its cost to include LDS and an electric kiln

Version: 0.2.0
Date: 2025-03-29
  Compatibility:
    - Reintroduce adding tin plate to glass smelting as an optional feature (enabled by default)
    - Fix compatibility with bronze plates from Tin

Version: 0.1.4
Date: 2025-03-22
  Balancing:
    - Increase Coke value from 1MJ to 1.6MJ
  Compatibility:
    - Respect "Hide from player crafting" setting from Crushing Industry

Version: 0.1.3
Date: 2025-03-22
  Bugfixes:
    - Tungsten carbide can now be crafted in both assembling machines and electric kilns
    - Fix organic or kiln smelting being added by Wooden Industry instead

Version: 0.1.2
Date: 2025-03-20
  Compatibility:
    - Fixed smelting time for Lead plate from crushed ore
    - Properly move smelting of crushed lead and titanium ore to "kiln-smelting"

Version: 0.1.1
Date: 2025-03-20
  Bugfixes:
    - Kilns can now be connected to circuit networks just like furnaces
  Compatibility:
    - Compatibility changes have been moved to their own files in prototypes/compat/
    - CI: Smelting Crushed bz ores (Lead and Titanium) now require catalysts like their non-crushed counterparts
  Modding:
    - A light API has been introduced with functions for modifying recipes
    - AlloySmelting.smelt_in_kiln() changes a recipe's category to "kiln-smelting" and sets auto_recycle=false
    - AlloySmelting.add_catalyst() adds an ingredient to the recipe, optionally scaling the rest of the recipe beforehand

Version: 0.1.0
Date: 2025-03-18
  Major Features:
    - Initial release