Added Angel's and Bob's Space Age integration with extra planets balanced: Planetaris-arig, Planetaris-hyarion, Paracelsin, Maraxsis and Moon of Nauvis Muluna.
Large total conversion mods.
Version: 1.3.3
Date: 14. 11. 2026.
Features:
- Add a native Milestones preset with automatic optional-planet filtering. Milestone design based on jorexe's original AngelBob configuration: https://gist.github.com/jorexe/9e56a55ce93dd39901a97f2bcd37ff21
Bugfixes:
- Localise the Seafloor Pump access requirement in tooltips and placement messages.
- Skip the basic logistics chest adjustments when there is no clear Storage Chest unlock.
- Recover obsolete Muluna aluminium from character inventories on Muluna, or on request with /ab-fix-muluna-aluminium.
- Match Muluna landing cargo aluminium to the Vacuum Furnace and Advanced Boiler. Update obsolete stacks in Muluna supply pods.
- Restrict Steam Crusher crafting to Muluna and name the placement condition.
- Lunar rocks yield Angel's Crushed Stone when Angel's Refining is installed. Muluna gravel still uses its original crushed stone.
- Handle non-string icon entries when scanning for the shared carbon icon.
- Accept legacy discharge animation metadata on electric energy interfaces.
- Restore research for Cobalt Sheet Coil and verify water and coolant recipes in Strand Casting Machine tiers 3 and 4.
Version: 1.3.2
Date: 06. 11. 2026.
Bugfixes:
- Treat inherited third-party research-trigger extension metadata as a compatibility warning in permissive mode; retain strict and essential-field checks without changing native trigger semantics.
- Resolve entity and module names in generated recipes, repair three confirmed inherited recipe-name failures, and audit final modified recipes against installed English suppliers.
- Reapply the targeted Wooden Board correction after final compatibility changes and before terminal validation.
- Resolve the existing first-science wooden-board input from final recipes, including aliases, and validate its pre-science unlock.
- Preserve custom recipe states by using native technology updates and existing targeted unlock repairs instead of a global technology-effects reset.
Features:
- Basic Passive Provider and Requester Chests now share the final Storage Chest unlock and ingredient list; paired recycling refunds remain aligned, while robot recipes and advanced logistics remain unchanged.
Compatibility:
- Default to permissive diagnostics for explicitly identified unsupported external planets while retaining strict mode, core validation and native engine errors.
- Skip unavailable optional external bootstrap bridges with warnings; retain bounded planet-specific recipes and critical checks for generated integrations.
Info:
- Five maintained optional planets and all dependency versions are unchanged. Legacy Muluna pending-notification saves retain the upstream warning.
Version: 1.3.1
Date: 29. 10. 2026.
Bugfixes:
- Move the existing Wooden Board unlock to Burner Mechanics only with AAI Industry and Bob's Greenhouse, preserving its recipe and all research costs.
- Declare verified Factorio 2.1 dependency minimums, including Bob's Electronics, while preserving optional planets and retaining useful older tested releases; see the exact dependency lock and migration support report.
- Remove only Rampant Fixed's unsupported demolisher-scales-rampant mining-trigger count, recording its original value and preserving strict validation, mining targets, prerequisites and unlocks.
- Run optional-planet absence audits and a read-only terminal 2.1 schema/reference check after the final gameplay mutations; report release-gate failures and warnings accurately.
- Guard the optional Muluna surface property when creating a disposable steam diagnostic surface without Muluna.
- Bound the Assembler 1 Transport compatibility repair to four item ingredients, independent of future Gold recipes, and explicitly order after optional Rigor Module.
- Remove verified self-replacement ingredient calls and inactive Vulcanus byproduct/Arig log-only modules; retain required migration and steam compatibility layers without changing production chains.
- Corrected the constructive proof's rejection of hidden map-generated capture spawners with Bob's Enemies; preserved natural-source, capture, research and production requirements without changing gameplay prototypes.
- Restored seven-item Utility science crafting in Assembling Machine 3 when Bob ingredient limits are enabled; preserved higher compatibility limits, advanced assembler research and all science costs.
- Restored electric assembler access to Bob's Transport and Gold science packs after the AAI Industry and Rigor category interaction, preserving research and recipe quantities.
- Raised only conventional assemblers with explicit ingredient limits below the reviewed four-item science recipes; retained higher limits and burner/specialist machines.
- Grouped installed Rigor Module tiers and their crafting/recycling recipes under the existing Bob Modules menu without changing effects, probabilities or upstream runtime scripts.
Info:
- Unpublished compatibility candidate. Consult the accompanying validation report for the tested Factorio 2.1.24 and Muluna 2.9.5 dependency scope.
Version: 1.3.0
Date: 23. 10. 2026.
Features:
- Central optional-planet registry and conditional integrations for Factorio 2.1.
- Configuration-aware science and research progression using existing Space Age tiers.
- Active-planet audit coverage and isolated 32-configuration validation matrix.
Bugfixes:
- Kept obsolete Bob cobalt smelting hidden and restored translated product names on the maintained Angel cobalt casting chain.
- Restored AAI's existing early sand/glass route and gated basic hand components at Burner Mechanics without granting science or researching Electronics.
- Migrated legacy mine-entity research targets to the Factorio 2.1 entities array before strict validation; preserved capture/build triggers and optional AAI Industry load order.
- Kept AAI Sand processing as a mining trigger using verified quartz-bearing Bobmonium when Angel's ore override removes the original Bob Quartz resource.
- Restricted direct scrap output integration to its named recipes and handled plural recipe categories.
- Removed the unused historical ore-ratio file without changing Angel ore yields.
- Added dynamic craftability coverage for all defined module tiers and Automation machine unlocks.
- Extended completion proofs with native asteroid spawn, combat-breakup, collection and spawner-capture sources.
- Corrected multi-category machine diagnostics without changing recipes or machine fluid boxes.
- Interpreted automatic and optional fluid-box indexes correctly in shared machine diagnostics.
Info:
- Validated minimum engine is Factorio 2.1.23; all five supported additional planets are individually optional.
- Consult the companion VALIDATION.md for verified configuration coverage and release status.
Version: 1.2.18
Date: 15. 10. 2026.
Bugfixes:
- Migrated removed FluidBox temperature fields to supported machine input limits on Factorio 2.1.22 while retaining older-engine compatibility.
- Updated live steam diagnostics for the current fluid and machine temperature APIs.
- Declared Bob Electronics as required for the canonical circuit and resin progression.
- Corrected steam audits to check the active machine registry without requiring optional Bob Mining.
- Made the existing Arig calcite and lime routes available on discovery to break the clay-brick, silicon furnace and Glass unlock cycle.
- Improved Arig progression proofs to model collected sand, runtime groundwater bores and plural mining triggers without seeding materials.
- Preserved Spidertron Patrols 2.7.0 dock circuit support with the connector-list format required by Factorio 2.1.21.
- Restored Muluna cellulose and sapling fuel categories by inheriting the current wood fuel contract.
- Fixed specialist research proofs to recognize plural fuel categories, including Biochamber nutrients, on Factorio 2.1.20 and newer.
- Added a Vulcanus liquid-resin continuation using the existing local solid resin for the normal Angel fibreglass board chain.
- Added active transistor recycling checks and explicit Recycling unlock compatibility while preserving its existing fast processing time.
- Unlocked existing Arig Bobmonium acid washing on planet discovery to remove its post-Press research dependency.
- Added heating requirements to applicable Angel electric processing machines while preserving burner and Blast Furnace exemptions.
- Added productivity support to Galvanization Science and safe net-production Aquilo fuel and battery recipes.
Changes:
- Added supplementary Fulgora resin synthesis using local naphtha and carbon without changing resin recycling.
Version: 1.2.17
Date: 22. 09. 2026.
Bugfixes:
- Fixed Advanced Circuit and Processing Unit recycling using final canonical crafting ingredients.
- Restored vanilla-style self-recycling for smelted Iron and Copper Plates while preserving correct Steel Plate recycling.
- Repaired malformed icons on dynamically generated Paracelsin Macerator recipes.
- Fixed legacy ItemPrototype fuel-category compatibility for all affected fuels on Factorio 2.1.20 while retaining 2.1.19 support.
- Fixed Oil Refinery 4 having fewer module slots than the preceding refinery tiers.
Version: 1.2.16
Date: 18. 09. 2026
Balancing:
- Bob's Enemies expansion parties now default to a base size cap of 8 while AngelBob AI performance balancing is enabled, preserving lower original ranges.
- Reduced the default new-map evolution group size factor from 8 to 6 when Bob's Enemies is installed.
- Expansion balancing temporarily lowers Bob's minimum expansion group size when required by the selected cap and restores both original values when disabled.
Bugfixes:
- Replaced the first Paracelsin Electrochemical Plant's bulk iron plates with local sphalerite, retaining its electronics, concrete and crafting time.
- Classified Vaterite Concrete as a permanent planet specialist recipe rather than generic bootstrap content.
- Updated changelog validation metadata for this patch version.
- Replaced the Paracelsin starter concrete workaround with arrival-unlocked, hand-crafted Vaterite Concrete; concrete and first-plant iron are audited independently.
- Added Crusher 2 support to space-platform sustainment recipes.
- Fixed specialist progression audit crashes from table-shaped item identifiers.
Features:
- Added adjustable Bob's Enemies expansion AI performance controls for Factorio 2.1, including a live expansion-group size cap from 5 to 15 and a separate startup evolution scaling setting.
- Added item-only space-platform copper and steel sustainment recipes without opening general metallurgy.
Version: 1.2.15
Date: 10. 09. 2026
Balancing:
- Added improved space-platform iron and ammunition sustainment routes so ship defence no longer depends only on the slow emergency low-gravity iron plate recipe.
Bugfixes:
- Restored the existing brown-algae lithium-salt unlock independently of the other Angel producer, ignoring unlocks behind disabled prerequisite technologies.
- Restored Cryogenic Plant hot-to-cold fluoroketone recooling access on Aquilo and space platforms without changing fresh coolant production.
- Recognized player hand-crafting in specialist progression proofs so Maraxsis fish oil does not require a crafting machine.
- Made generic external-planet bootstrap recipes localization-safe and included their terminal result in release-gate validation.
- Localized extended infinite-ore suffixes and added the fallback cobalt sheet-coil locale key.
- Removed duplicate Vulcanus synthetic resin production and retained the original conservative canonical route.
- Enabled Refraction Science in the Refraction Plant with productivity support while preserving the Electromagnetic Plant starter route.
- Synchronized Advanced and Supported Solar Panel recycling with their final AngelBob ingredients at normal quarter returns.
- Added restricted, lower-yield Trench iron and copper ingot extraction with local limestone support and existing Angel steel and casting progression.
- Preserved upstream tile requirements when allowing selected Trench machines on ground, while continuing to reject open-ocean placement.
- Hardened lithium selectability checks so every visible Angel lithium producer must have usable machinery, reachable inputs and a valid unlock.
- Restored the existing Angel-modified copper tungsten sintering recipe and removed the unreleased custom mixture chain.
- Removed a leftover molten-copper input from the Angel powder sintering route when the supplied Bob and Angel overrides left it requiring fluid in an oven without fluid ports.
- Restored canonical hot-to-cold fluoroketone cooling on space platforms while keeping fresh coolant production Aquilo-specific and hiding the old duplicate cooling recipe.
- Restored Trench-ground placement for the existing algae, carbon and coal-cracking machinery needed by Maraxsis Super Sealant without adding petrochemical recipes.
- Added terminal lithium, coolant circulation and Trench sealant checks covering reachable research, constructible machines, placement, fluid ports and ingredient provenance.
- Distinguished the initial imported platform coolant charge from recurring imports in space-platform material diagnostics.
- Updated the copper tungsten audit to validate upstream quantities, usable machinery, reachable research and the absence of custom duplicate production routes.
- Added a terminal Hyarion diamond reachability audit covering local inputs, furnace construction and fuel, unlock order, and downstream diamond identity.
- Replaced hard-coded English presentation overrides with locale references and made the terminal localization audit read-only.
- Fixed Accumulator 2 recycling to return its missing cobalt component at the existing quarter-return ratio.
- Matched Angel nuclear fuel-cell transport weights to their uranium equivalents.
- Capped rocket-part maximum productivity at 300 percent without removing productivity research.
- Kept lithium plate recipe identity aligned with the canonical lithium-plate item.
- Applied plastic productivity research to final Angel plastic solidification without boosting consecutive liquid-plastic stages.
- Closed Arig's early lime and quartz dependency gaps using local calcite and the existing bobmonium acid wash.
- Enabled productivity support for appropriate Arig Press science and intermediate recipes.
- Enabled productivity support for appropriate Hyarion Polisher science and intermediate recipes.
- Preserved space-platform restrictions so full Angel/Bob smelting and Vulcanus foundry ingot chains are not enabled in space.
Compatibility:
- Updated the optional Maraxsis minimum to the tested 1.34.52 release.
- Added release-gate audits for specialist machine productivity, space-platform sustainment, and the established Vulcanus slag-to-stone chain.
- Made Maraxsis an optional specialist dependency with absence-aware compatibility checks.
- Added guarded Paracelsin Water Harvester support and limited Bob Warfare rocket booster sustainment on space platforms.
- Added low-yield Hyarion diamond recovery from local quartz in the existing quartz furnace.
Changes:
- Reverted redundant Vulcanus direct stone byproducts while preserving residue production, slag crushing, and the existing Groundwater Bore.
Version: 1.2.14
Date: 31. 08. 2026
Bugfixes:
- Fixed a Hyarion 1.3.17 technology prerequisite cycle involving the refraction plant, refraction science, and ruby laser technologies.
- Made bootstrap cleanup technology traversal cycle-safe so third-party prerequisite loops no longer cause stack overflows.
- Fixed stale steam-fluid migration crashing on save load when a fluidbox index is no longer valid.
- Made stale steam-fluid scanning index-safe while preserving the storage-guarded multiplayer-safe migration behaviour.
Compatibility:
- Added Hyarion tech-cycle compatibility and release-gate coverage.
- Expanded steam migration safety audits to cover invalid fluidbox index handling.
Version: 1.2.13
Date: 30. 08. 2026
Bugfixes:
- Fixed a multiplayer desync caused by stale steam-fluid cleanup being scheduled from on_load instead of a saved one-shot migration state.
- Added safer steam migration handling so stale-fluid cleanup no longer reruns on each joining client.
- Added a Fulgora aggregate-to-lead route feeding the existing Angel lead plate and sulfuric-acid battery chains.
- Ensured Fulgora specialist intermediate recipes inherit productivity support where equivalent default recipes allow productivity.
- Fixed Vulcanus foundry low-density structure recipe not accepting productivity modules.
- Restored the existing Vulcanus-local rocket fuel route without space ice delivery.
- Restricted Angel's seafloor pump to Nauvis and Maraxsis surfaces instead of unrelated ocean planets.
- Added an Arig local clay washing route so clay progression no longer depends on seafloor pump access.
- Restricted the Arig plastic press recipe to Arig's actual pressure and dust conditions.
- Moved Arig pure sand glass processing to chemical smelters with two fluid inputs, retaining its oxygen requirement.
Compatibility:
- Added release-gate audits for steam migration multiplayer safety, Fulgora lead/battery progression, Fulgora productivity support, Vulcanus launch recipes, seafloor pump restrictions, and Arig clay/plastic/glass progression.
Version: 1.2.12
Date: 23. 08. 2026
Bugfixes:
- Added guarded compatibility checks for Bob's Inserters blueprint and copy behaviour.
- Made Angel's Infinite Ores optional and guarded extended infinite ore logic to avoid map generation issues when infinite ores are disabled.
- Fixed Angel's Infinite Ores compatibility so disabling infinite ores in map generation no longer suppresses normal finite Angel/Bob ore spawning.
- Fixed Muluna cycling steam turbine recycling to return titanium pipes instead of iron pipes.
- Canonicalised Maraxsis coral and mollusk husk limestone outputs to Angel's limestone so they can be used in the Angel/Bob glass chain.
- Preserved Maraxsis' native hydraulic science chain so wyrm specimens, confinement cells, and fish food remain useful instead of replacing the recipe with a generic tungsten/pump/lubricant route.
- Added Maraxsis hydrogen compatibility with Angel Petrochem hydrogen to avoid isolated duplicate hydrogen fluids.
Compatibility:
- Added audits for inserter compatibility, infinite ore map generation safety, Muluna turbine recycling, and Maraxsis limestone outputs.
Version: 1.2.11
Date: 21. 08. 2026
Balancing:
- Added a Fulgora fuel-oil desulfurisation route so surplus fuel oil can be converted into hydrogen sulfide gas for continuous sulfuric acid production without bypassing Angel Petrochem.
- Allowed Muluna lunar residue processing in intended electric Muluna crushers as a later scale-up route while keeping the steam crusher as the starter route.
- Adjusted ordinary steam condensation to recover 900 water from 1000 steam when Bob's Power is active.
Bugfixes:
- Restored removed legacy basic ammunition recipe prototypes as hidden compatibility stubs so external mods referencing old ammo bootstrap recipes, such as firearm-magazine-nickel, no longer break while keeping the recipes out of normal crafting.
- Restored Maraxsis atmosphere-barrel emptying to the pressure-safe chemical plant so the first pressure dome can be started without globally loosening Angel barreling.
- Retargeted Bob's hydrazine generator to Angel hydrazine when Bob's hydrazine fluid is absent.
- Protected Muluna lunar mud, clay, clay brick, and concrete support recipes from bootstrap cleanup so Muluna no-import progression remains available.
- Fixed recipe planet icon overlays so only recipes genuinely specific to a single planet display a planet icon.
- Removed incorrect planet overlays from shared Angel/Bob/vanilla recipes and deduped original recipes.
- Fixed final diagnostics so recipe balance, space-platform continuation machine coverage, and canonical Bob electronics names are reported consistently.
- Explicitly classified Muluna regolith digging as a valid fixed-recipe collection action in the recipe balance audit.
- Updated Muluna support diagnostics to use the current lunar recipe names instead of obsolete start recipe names.
Changes:
- Added release-gate and audit coverage for Maraxsis pressure bootstrap, Bob hydrazine generator compatibility, Bob Power steam condensation, legacy ammo compatibility, Muluna clay and concrete support, Muluna residue scale-up, Fulgora sulfuric acid support, and planet icon overlays.
- Kept generic unsupported-planet bootstrap and extended infinite ores settings guarded so supported planets and default Angel infinite ores behaviour remain unchanged.
Version: 1.2.10
Date: 17. 08. 2026
Balancing:
- Added a Fulgora fuel-oil desulfurisation route so surplus fuel oil can be converted into hydrogen sulfide gas for continuous sulfuric acid production without bypassing Angel Petrochem.
Bugfixes:
- Restored removed legacy basic ammunition recipe prototypes as hidden compatibility stubs so external mods referencing old ammo bootstrap recipes, such as firearm-magazine-nickel, no longer break while keeping the recipes out of normal crafting.
- Restored Maraxsis atmosphere-barrel emptying to the pressure-safe chemical plant so the first pressure dome can be started without globally loosening Angel barreling.
- Retargeted Bob's hydrazine generator to Angel hydrazine when Bob's hydrazine fluid is absent.
- Adjusted ordinary steam condensation to recover 900 water from 1000 steam when Bob's Power is active.
- Fixed final diagnostics so recipe balance, space-platform continuation machine coverage, and canonical Bob electronics names are reported consistently.
- Explicitly classified Muluna regolith digging as a valid fixed-recipe collection action in the recipe balance audit.
- Allowed Muluna lunar residue processing in intended electric Muluna crushers as a later scale-up route while keeping the steam crusher as the starter route.
- Fixed recipe planet icon overlays so only recipes genuinely specific to a single planet display a planet icon.
- Removed incorrect planet overlays from shared Angel/Bob/vanilla recipes and deduped original recipes.
- Protected Muluna lunar mud, clay, clay brick, and concrete support recipes from bootstrap cleanup so Muluna no-import progression remains available.
- Updated Muluna support diagnostics to use the current lunar recipe names instead of obsolete start recipe names.
Version: 1.2.9
Date: 07. 08. 2026
Bugfixes:
- Fixed low-gravity ammunition to use the exact iron plate item produced by the low-gravity maintenance route.
- Updated low-gravity maintenance audits to use resolved Angel/Bob item names instead of hardcoded plate names.
- Fixed basic bootstrap audit crash when checking recipes already removed by cleanup.
- Updated bootstrap audits to treat missing unwanted shortcut recipes as successfully removed.
- Preserved protected low-gravity ammunition and maintenance recipes while removing ordinary bootstrap clutter.
- Restored protected Muluna custom progression routes for low-density structure, processing units, rocket fuel, electronic circuits, and aluminium cable support.
- Updated bootstrap cleanup so Muluna-specific return/progression recipes are not removed as generic shortcut clutter.
- Updated diagnostics to check the active Muluna recipe names instead of reporting stale missing routes.
Changes:
- Restored custom low-gravity maintenance recipes, including the low-gravity iron plate route needed for platform ammunition.
- Updated bootstrap cleanup so low-gravity maintenance recipes are protected while ordinary bootstrap shortcuts remain removed.
Version: 1.2.8
Date: 05. 08. 2026
Changes:
- Preserved custom low-gravity recipes for platform and Muluna self-sufficiency while removing basic bootstrap shortcuts.
- Updated bootstrap audits to distinguish custom low-gravity progression recipes from basic-resource shortcut clutter.
- Removed remaining recent bootstrap recipes for repair packs outside Muluna, science packs, stone, first ore crusher, cellulose substitute, basic belts, basic inserters, basic pipes, and wood-free electric poles.
- Tightened bootstrap audits so basic shortcut recipes cannot remain visible.
- Removed recently added bootstrap/support shortcut recipes that duplicated Angel/Bob or vanilla routes.
- Removed recent basic-resource bootstrap recipes for iron plate, copper plate, coal, water, and concrete.
- Preserved older intentional progression recipes while removing newer shortcut clutter.
- Restored and protected the original low-gravity firearm magazine recipe.
- Bumped the Factorio 2.1 release version to 1.2.8 after completing the bootstrap clutter cleanup and live steam validation.
- Removed remaining unnecessary bootstrap/support shortcut recipes where Angel/Bob or vanilla already provides a reachable source.
- Removed unnecessary trace ore feed, LDS support, circuit support, iron plate, concrete, water, coal, rocket fuel, petrochem feed, and chemical plant shortcut recipes.
- Strengthened shortcut recipe audits to fail if duplicate bootstrap routes remain visible.
- Restored the original low-gravity firearm magazine recipe using iron plate and carbon for platform ammunition production.
- Tightened bootstrap clutter cleanup to remove newer shortcut recipes while preserving older intentional no-import/progression recipes.
- Added grandfather protection for bootstrap recipes intentionally present before the 1.2 branch.
- Added audits for protected bootstrap recipes and low-gravity ammunition.
- Migrated legacy ambient-sound planet fields for Factorio 2.1.13 compatibility.
Version: 1.2.7
Date: 04. 08. 2026
Bugfixes:
- Fixed steam connection repro so it uses real player-like placement instead of forced creation and teleport attachment.
- Added exhaustive testing of all normal steam consumer machines.
- Added fallback unfiltered fluidboxes for non-generator normal steam consumers to avoid creating separate pipeline contracts.
- Updated the release gate to fail unless the real steam connection repro passes.
- Fixed steam compatibility testing so placed steam engines, turbines, pipes, and steam-input machines can be compared at runtime instead of relying only on data-stage prototype assumptions.
- Continued investigation of the Factorio 2.1 steam-engine and steam-turbine pipe contract incompatibility with one centrally selected normal-steam contract.
- Fixed remaining Factorio 2.1 steam incompatibility by forcing all normal steam inputs and fluidboxes to a single Min: 165 C contract.
- Updated steam engine and steam turbine steam-side fluidboxes to match ordinary Angel/Bob/Muluna steam machines.
- Updated runtime steam migration and all steam audits to use 165 C as the single normal-steam contract.
- Removed the previous Min: 50 C ordinary-steam compatibility attempt.
- Removed the remaining Vulcanus and generic starter furnace and burner generator substitute recipes.
- Updated every no-import start to use the original stone furnace and Bob or vanilla burner generator recipes, including vacuum surfaces that previously required copies.
- Fixed Muluna turbine steam condensation compatibility with Bob's Power by increasing water recovery when Bob's modified steam ratio is active.
- Removed remaining starter assembler and bootstrap basic ammunition recipes.
- Updated no-import routes to use original assembler and ammunition recipes.
- Removed unnecessary starter furnace, starter generator, starter assembler and bootstrap ammunition recipes.
- Updated no-import routes to use normal stone furnace, burner generator, assembler and ammunition recipes where available.
- Improved bootstrap audits to catch starter recipe bloat.
- Removed remaining unnecessary visible bootstrap recipes.
- Removed unnecessary visible bootstrap recipes where normal local Angel/Bob routes already worked.
- Reduced recipe menu and Factoriopedia clutter from bootstrap generation.
- Kept only bootstrap recipes that solve real no-import starting blockers.
- Reused normal Fulgora ice-melting and clay-brick recipes and hid superseded Muluna lunar helper routes.
- Made each Fulgora mud and clay bootstrap recipe conditional on a normal local input and machine route check.
- Removed unnecessary bootstrap, start, and emergency recipes where AngelBob or vanilla already provides a reachable source.
Changes:
- Added a final bootstrap clutter cleanup pass.
- Strengthened bootstrap necessity and recipe clutter audits.
- Kept only bootstrap recipes with a proven no-import softlock reason.
- Added live steam fluid ID diagnostics for real placed entities.
- Added a physical steam connection repro command for real pipeline placement tests.
- Strengthened stale and process-steam cleanup for existing saves.
- Updated the steam release gate to report live connection repro status separately.
- Added runtime live steam diagnostics for selected entities and nearby steam networks.
- Improved isolated-package testing guidance to prevent an older duplicate same-version archive from being loaded.
- Added bootstrap necessity and recipe clutter audits to the Factorio 2.1 release gate.
- Added hardcoded-bootstrap route checks.
- Improved bootstrap clutter audits to catch planet-specific hardcoded recipes.
Version: 1.2.6
Date: 29. 07. 2026
Bugfixes:
- Fixed Factorio 2.1 steam incompatibility by patching every relevant ordinary steam-engine generator fluidbox to the shared Min: 165 C contract.
- Fixed the vanilla steam-engine side and pass-through fluidbox exposing Min: 50 C while Angel/Bob ordinary steam machines exposed Min: 165 C.
- Kept the five bootstrap process machines steam-powered and compatible with ordinary boilers and ordinary steam engines without rewriting turbines or higher-temperature generator tiers.
- Verified ordinary steam engines, Angel/Bob steam machines, and custom Muluna steam machines can share ordinary 165 C boiler steam with Min: 165 C.
- Removed the experimental process-steam fluid and boiler prototypes so ordinary power and process machines use only the shared steam fluid.
- Migrated existing placed process machines to the shared ordinary-steam contract while preserving recipes, progress, flags, and inventories.
- Replaced placed legacy process-steam boilers with ordinary boilers, retargeted legacy Editor Extensions sources to steam, and cleared obsolete process fluid from existing saves.
- Ran the idempotent global-steam migration after every save load so rebuilt archives retaining version 1.2.6 still refresh stale placed machines.
- Fixed missing locale keys for generated bootstrap, no-import, and emergency recipes.
- Fixed the remaining unsafe localised recipe names on generated planet, low-gravity, bootstrap, emergency, support, and specialist routes.
- Fixed no-import start simulation so every planet must prove real step-by-step local progression.
- Fixed non-Vulcanus no-import bootstrap gaps.
- Fixed duplicate player-facing emergency-route recipes generated by the no-import start system.
- Prevented pressure-only emergency-route variants from remaining player-facing when one planet, output, role, and purpose route is sufficient.
- Reduced crafting-menu and Factoriopedia clutter by reusing locally reachable default recipes instead of creating redundant planet emergency routes.
- Preserved unique planet emergency-route names through final safety and presentation validation.
- Corrected Maraxsis trench reachability validation to follow geothermal-generator trench-tile buildability while preserving the upstream main-surface hydraulic-science recipe.
- Fixed duplicate-product validation so distinct quality, spoilage, temperature, and probabilistic product variants are preserved.
Balancing:
- Completed a full recipe balance review across mod-added, mod-modified, generated, planet-specific, rocket, and space-support recipes.
- Checked bootstrap, emergency, support, standard, specialist, endgame, and internal-helper routes without strengthening fallback production.
Changes:
- Updated shared Min: 165 C ordinary-steam compatibility audit/reporting and kept /ab-process-steam-report as a backward-compatible command name.
- Updated /ab-process-steam-migrate to migrate legacy process-steam entities back to ordinary steam.
- Updated steam audits to validate fluid_box, input_fluid_box, and output_fluid_box fields on ordinary generator prototypes and detect mismatched Angel/Bob or custom consumers.
- Updated steam temperature network auditing to require every ordinary 165 C boiler, generator, and consumer endpoint to use Min: 165 C.
- Updated steam temperature contract reporting, /ab-steam-temperature-report, and /ab-steam-layout-test for the shared ordinary-steam contract.
- Updated no-import route simulation to model actual_temperature=165 and minimum_contract=165 on the ordinary boiler-to-process-machine steam route.
- Added steam_compatibility to the static and runtime release gates and marked process_steam as removed.
- Kept steam_temperature_network and steam_temperature_contract authoritative for detecting incompatible steam endpoints.
- Updated terminal steam fluidbox auditing and /ab-steam-fluidbox-report to cover ordinary generator ports, boiler outputs, and non-generator steam consumers while leaving turbines and higher-temperature tiers unchanged.
- Added route-trace validation for every planet, not only Vulcanus.
- Added a terminal locale-key audit and connected locale-key, emergency-route dedupe, and no-import simulation results to the release gate.
- Kept emergency route deduplication and release gates passing.
- Added deterministic emergency-route selection keyed by planet, output, route role, and player-facing purpose.
- Added an emergency-route dedupe audit and the /ab-emergency-route-report diagnostic command.
- Added emergency_route_dedupe to the static and runtime release gates.
- Kept the no-import start audit and fixed-point simulation authoritative after route deduplication.
- Added planet icon overlays to planet-specific recipes without replacing their main product icons.
- Added terminal planet-recipe icon auditing and the /ab-planet-recipe-icon-report runtime command.
- Added a bootstrap-specific planet icon and surface-exclusivity audit that requires every visible start, starter, or bootstrap recipe to carry exactly its matching planet overlay and remain limited to its intended planet.
- Extended the locale-key audit to cover every visible mod-owned and planet-specific recipe after final generation.
- Added a full recipe balance audit with loop and outlier detection for plates, ingots, fluids, electronics, science, rockets, and planet-specific routes.
- Added per-planet and recipe-family balance summaries, the /ab-recipe-balance-report runtime command, and the recipe_balance release-gate field.
- Kept emergency-route dedupe, locale-key, planet-icon, no-import simulation, and existing release gates authoritative.
Version: 1.2.5
Date: 28. 07. 2026
Features:
- Completed the Planet Independence and Full AngelBob Chain Completion pass for Nauvis, Muluna, Vulcanus, Fulgora, Gleba, Aquilo, Arig, Maraxsis, Paracelsin, and Hyarion.
- Added true surface-locked no-import starts for Nauvis, Muluna, Vulcanus, Fulgora, Gleba, Aquilo, Arig, Maraxsis, Paracelsin, and Hyarion.
- Added low-yield space-platform continuation recipes for repair packs, ammunition, circuits, and foundation maintenance.
- Added a deterministic fixed-point no-import simulation for all ten planets, with staged resource, power, machine, industry, science, speciality, and rocket-support route traces.
- Added read-only /ab-no-import-sim and /ab-no-import-route runtime reports backed by the prototypes loaded into the current save.
Balancing:
- Classified audited routes as bootstrap, standard, or specialist so local fallback access cannot silently replace each planet's stronger themed industry.
- Preserved Vulcanus as the heavy-smelting planet, Fulgora as the electronics and recycling planet, Gleba as the biological planet, Muluna as the aluminium and low-gravity logistics moon, and the remaining planets' documented specialist identities.
- Kept no-import emergency recipes surface-locked, slow, material-heavy, non-productive, and weaker than standard or specialist routes.
- Normalised the merged tungsten plate to a 1,000-item rocket capacity.
- Corrected five flipped Vulcanus support-plate recipes from one ingot yielding four plates to an intentionally inefficient four ingots yielding one plate.
- Kept space-platform continuation limited to survival, travel, and provisioning instead of enabling full AngelBob factory chains.
Bugfixes:
- Completed Factorio 2.1 compatibility work for recipe prototypes, technology triggers, spoilable products, surface conditions, and current dependency prototypes.
- Migrated recipes to the Factorio 2.1 categories field and removed deleted recipe display fields.
- Migrated probabilistic recipe products to Factorio 2.1 independent_probability and updated mining research triggers to the entities list.
- Added a final prototype reference audit for recipes, categories, machines, technologies, module limitations, mining targets, and research triggers.
- Added a complete chain reachability audit for recipe, technology, machine, science-pack, surface, and planet-identity dependencies.
- Fixed quality compatibility so mining and normal item crafting can produce higher-quality outputs, and added a quality safety audit.
- Restored the missing cobalt ingot-to-molten-cobalt and molten-cobalt-to-sheet-coil unlocks, removed circular cobalt casting routes, and added a cobalt unlock audit.
- Preserved the canonical molten cobalt to sheet coil to cobalt plate chain while keeping duplicate and cheap bypass recipes hidden.
- Connected Vulcanus tungsten-carbide specialisation to the canonical Angel tungsten chain and validated the final unlock.
- Unified duplicate tungsten ore, plate, and carbide aliases and retained existing-save item and filter migration support.
- Preserved current Maraxsis limestone, glass, salt, trench, hydraulic-science, deepsea, biology, submarine, quality, and rocket-return progression while removing stale prototype references.
- Added the Muluna mud, clay, clay-brick, and concrete bootstrap, repaired its steam-powered Vacuum Furnace chain, and removed obsolete atmosphere and surface-property blockers.
- Restored Muluna aluminium cable, aluminium plate, electronic-circuit, low-gravity logistics, rocket-return, and existing-save unlock support.
- Completed Fulgora scrap, aggregate, naphtha, silicon, carbon, hydrogen-fluoride, electronics, trace-cobalt, electromagnetic-science, and rocket-return routes.
- Completed Gleba biomass, bacteria, bioleaching, cellulose, board, clay, biological-machine, science, and rocket-return routes.
- Completed Aquilo ice, ammoniacal-solution, ammonia, fluorine, lithium, battery, coolant, liquid-nitrogen, cryogenic-science, and rocket-return routes.
- Completed Arig oil, natural-gas, naphtha, compression-science, heavy-mineral-sand, machine, logistics, and rocket-return support.
- Completed Paracelsin mineral, acid, advanced-chemistry, electrochemistry, galvanisation-science, machine, and rocket-return support.
- Completed Hyarion crystal, quartz, gem, beryl, polishing, refraction, Automation 4, module tier 5, and rocket-return support.
- Added a true Vulcanus no-import bootstrap from native stone, calcite, and coal through trace plates, cable, wood-free poles, burner power, assembling, groundwater, chemical processing, tungsten, and rocket support.
- Added slow local starter machines where normal furnaces, generators, assemblers, or chemical plants are blocked by pressure, oxygen, or freezing.
- Added surface-specific offshore-pump and pumpjack bootstrap routes so local fluids are never granted before a reachable collector.
- Added a vaterite-powered starter hard-rock drill path for Paracelsin sphalerite and tetrahedrite.
- Added an Arig cactus-to-process-water route so harvesting fluid-bearing cactus does not assume fluid can enter an empty inventory.
- Refreshed planet-discovery, Muluna clay, quality, and cobalt technology effects for existing saves without resetting unrelated technology effects.
Changes:
- Audited ore refining, crushing, sorting, flotation, leaching, smelting, ingots, molten metals, casting, coils, plates, wires, petrochem, gases, acids, water treatment, bio processing, wood/cellulose, electronics, batteries, modules, military, logistics/robotics, rockets, and space-platform support on every planet.
- Added a terminal planet self-sufficiency audit and planet-chain coverage audit for all ten supported planets.
- Added a recursive no-import-start audit that validates local roots, recipe inputs/results, unlocks, machines, surface conditions, pre-power ordering, science, defence, and rocket support.
- Added a plate-family rocket-capacity audit, support-plate audit, Vulcanus-start audit, no-import route balance checks, and expanded safety and balance-sanity validation.
- Expanded planet-standard, progression-smoke, self-sufficiency, chain-reachability, chain-coverage, and release-gate checks with the no-import standard.
- Connected prototype references, chain reachability, planet self-sufficiency, planet-chain coverage, no-import start, no-import simulation, and runtime Factorio 2.1 results to the terminal release gate.
- Rebuilt the release changelog from supported source and historical entries and added a strict changelog format and shared-entry checker.
Version: 1.2.4
Date: 22. 07. 2026
Bugfixes:
- Fixed quality compatibility so mining and normal item crafting can produce higher-quality outputs correctly.
- Added a quality safety audit and manual quality smoke-test checklist.
- Fixed missing research unlocks for cobalt ingot to molten cobalt.
- Fixed missing research unlocks for molten cobalt to cobalt sheet coil.
- Added cobalt unlock audit to prevent orphaned cobalt smelting/casting recipes.
Version: 1.2.3
Date: 19. 07. 2026
Changes:
- Added stronger regression gates for rolling-stock upgrades, dependency recipe loops, planet progression smoke checks, and balance sanity.
- Added a planet-standardisation audit pass covering local progression, recipe visibility, machine availability, surface conditions, building bypasses, and existing-save unlock coverage.
Bugfixes:
- Added clearer Fulgora-local routes for hydrogen fluoride, silicon wafers, carbon/coal, and low-yield trace cobalt recovery to support electronics progression.
- Made transistor recycling a bootstrap/recovery route rather than the only intended source of silicon wafers on Fulgora.
- Fixed a Fulgora hydrogen fluoride recovery presentation issue where the route could be reported as a duplicate of scrap recycling.
- Updated the final planet-standardisation audit so detailed planet blockers correctly fail the final audit result.
- Added existing-save unlock and audit coverage for Fulgora cobalt recovery.
Version: 1.2.2
Date: 19. 07. 2026
Bugfixes:
- Removed invalid circular cobalt metallurgy casting recipes.
- Restored a selectable non-calcite molten cobalt route from cobalt ingots.
- Restricted atmosphere-dependent air filtering from working on Muluna and space platforms.
- Added a Muluna-local concrete bootstrap route so rocket silo construction no longer depends on limestone imports.
Version: 1.2.1
Date: 19. 07. 2026
Bugfixes:
- Added the missing Muluna clay bootstrap route so mud, clay, and clay brick can be made locally through the Muluna Steam Crusher.
- Added existing-save unlock support for the Muluna clay bootstrap recipes.
Version: 1.2.0
Date: 17. 07. 2026
Changes:
- Added stronger regression gates for rolling-stock upgrades, dependency recipe loops, planet progression smoke checks, and balance sanity.
- Initial Factorio 2.1 compatibility update.
- Audited required dependency minimums for the Factorio 2.1 release line.
- Migrated recipes to the Factorio 2.1 categories field and removed deleted recipe display fields.
- Moved recipe freshness controls to spoilable product entries.
- Preserved Maraxsis 1.34 trench, quality, wyrm and supercritical-steam progression.
- Added a complete recipe, technology, machine, surface, science-pack and planet-identity reachability audit.
- Added focused Maraxsis data-stage and runtime diagnostics for limestone quality, glass, salt, hydro-plant, trench, hydraulic science, deepsea, biology, submarine and rocket-return progression.
Bugfixes:
- Hid orphaned vanilla molten iron and molten copper compatibility fluids and recipes from Factoriopedia while preserving Angel/Bob foundry routes.
- Added a distinct green compost-style biomass icon so biomass is no longer visually identical to wood.
- Blocked Bob roboport tiers 2-4 on Arig and added matching dust-resistant Arig variants behind both Arig and Bob technology progression.
- Connected Vulcanus tungsten specialization to an improved lava-and-calcite carbide route using final Angel tungsten casting powder, and added final validation for its unlock.
- Reworded planet-muluna's unconditional early-2.1 fluidbox notice as informational after validating the working Muluna steam and Vacuum Furnace fluidboxes.
- Added a Muluna-local clay/mud/clay-brick bootstrap route so the first vacuum furnace no longer requires imported Nauvis clay bricks.
- Fixed the Muluna vacuum furnace chain depending on Blast Furnace 2 without a local clay brick route.
- Migrated probabilistic recipe products to Factorio 2.1 independent_probability.
- Updated mining research triggers to the Factorio 2.1 entities list.
- Updated Gleba progression diagnostics to read Factorio 2.1 mining-trigger entity lists.
- Added terminal schema validation for removed recipe fields, legacy categories and probabilistic products.
- Expanded removed combined categories before Gleba recipe creation so biological, board, clay and rocket-return recipes are no longer skipped.
- Added a final cross-prototype reference audit covering recipes, categories, machines, technologies, module limitations, mining targets and triggers.
- Restricted Maraxsis geothermal sulfur to the native Maraxsis pressure range.
- Fixed the Muluna Advanced Boiler receiving an obsolete low-gravity placement condition that excluded current Muluna surfaces.
- Stopped generic Angel/Bob aliases from replacing Maraxsis-native glass, limestone, sand and salt chains.
- Redirected Maraxsis coral spoilage and mollusk mining to canonical Angel limestone without losing the upstream quality increase.
- Removed stale references to Maraxsis recipes and technologies deleted in Maraxsis 1.33 and renamed in 1.34.
- Updated Muluna aluminium recipes from the obsolete exact-gravity gate to the Factorio 2.1 is-muluna surface property.
- Restored the Muluna aluminium-cable unlock after the standalone upstream cable technology was removed.
- Restored the missing Angel molten-cobalt unlock needed by the visible cobalt-plate chain.
- Restored the six missing Planetaris coloured underground-pipe unlocks on their matching dye technologies.
- Rebuilt the Fulgora electromagnetic solder route from the live Angel solder recipe instead of Bob's hidden legacy solder-alloy recipe.
- Updated the Aquilo silver-zinc battery route to consume the live Bob zinc plate instead of Paracelsin's hidden compatibility alias.
- Allowed dedicated-server consoles to run the read-only runtime diagnostics command for headless release testing.
Migration:
- Added safe aliases for legacy gold wire and Bob's logistics items when their replacements exist.
- Added a safe limestone-to-Angel-limestone item migration for existing saves.
Version: 1.1.40
Date: 10. 09. 2026
Balancing:
- Added improved space-platform iron and ammunition sustainment routes so ship defence no longer depends only on the slow emergency low-gravity iron plate recipe.
Bugfixes:
- Made generic external-planet bootstrap recipes localization-safe and included their terminal result in release-gate validation.
- Localized extended infinite-ore suffixes and added the fallback cobalt sheet-coil locale key.
- Removed duplicate Vulcanus synthetic resin production and retained the original conservative canonical route.
- Enabled Refraction Science in the Refraction Plant with productivity support while preserving the Electromagnetic Plant starter route.
- Synchronized Advanced and Supported Solar Panel recycling with their final AngelBob ingredients at normal quarter returns.
- Added restricted, lower-yield Trench iron and copper ingot extraction with local limestone support and existing Angel steel and casting progression.
- Preserved upstream tile requirements when allowing selected Trench machines on ground, while continuing to reject open-ocean placement.
- Hardened lithium selectability checks so every visible Angel lithium producer must have usable machinery, reachable inputs and a valid unlock.
- Restored the existing Angel-modified copper tungsten sintering recipe and removed the unreleased custom mixture chain.
- Removed a leftover molten-copper input from the Angel powder sintering route when the supplied Bob and Angel overrides left it requiring fluid in an oven without fluid ports.
- Restored canonical hot-to-cold fluoroketone cooling on space platforms while keeping fresh coolant production Aquilo-specific and hiding the old duplicate cooling recipe.
- Restored Trench-ground placement for the existing algae, carbon and coal-cracking machinery needed by Maraxsis Super Sealant without adding petrochemical recipes.
- Added terminal lithium, coolant circulation and Trench sealant checks covering reachable research, constructible machines, placement, fluid ports and ingredient provenance.
- Distinguished the initial imported platform coolant charge from recurring imports in space-platform material diagnostics.
- Updated the copper tungsten audit to validate upstream quantities, usable machinery, reachable research and the absence of custom duplicate production routes.
- Restored the existing brown-algae lithium-salt recipe through live lithium research when both Angel producers were locked behind obsolete Bob technology.
- Added a terminal Hyarion diamond reachability audit covering local inputs, furnace construction and fuel, unlock order, and downstream diamond identity.
- Replaced hard-coded English presentation overrides with locale references and made the terminal localization audit read-only.
- Fixed Accumulator 2 recycling to return its missing cobalt component at the existing quarter-return ratio.
- Matched Angel nuclear fuel-cell transport weights to their uranium equivalents.
- Capped rocket-part maximum productivity at 300 percent without removing productivity research.
- Kept lithium plate recipe identity aligned with the canonical lithium-plate item.
- Applied plastic productivity research to final Angel plastic solidification without boosting consecutive liquid-plastic stages.
- Closed Arig's early lime and quartz dependency gaps using local calcite and the existing bobmonium acid wash.
- Enabled productivity support for appropriate Arig Press science and intermediate recipes.
- Enabled productivity support for appropriate Hyarion Polisher science and intermediate recipes.
- Preserved space-platform restrictions so full Angel/Bob smelting and Vulcanus foundry ingot chains are not enabled in space.
Compatibility:
- Added release-gate audits for specialist machine productivity, space-platform sustainment, and the established Vulcanus slag-to-stone chain.
- Made Maraxsis an optional specialist dependency with absence-aware compatibility checks.
- Added guarded Paracelsin Water Harvester support and limited Bob Warfare rocket booster sustainment on space platforms.
- Added low-yield Hyarion diamond recovery from local quartz in the existing quartz furnace.
Changes:
- Reverted redundant Vulcanus direct stone byproducts while preserving residue production, slag crushing, and the existing Groundwater Bore.
Version: 1.1.39
Date: 31. 08. 2026
Bugfixes:
- Fixed a Hyarion 1.3.17 technology prerequisite cycle involving the refraction plant, refraction science, and ruby laser technologies.
- Made bootstrap cleanup technology traversal cycle-safe so third-party prerequisite loops no longer cause stack overflows.
- Fixed stale steam-fluid migration crashing on save load when a fluidbox index is no longer valid.
- Made stale steam-fluid scanning index-safe while preserving the storage-guarded multiplayer-safe migration behaviour.
Compatibility:
- Added Hyarion tech-cycle compatibility and release-gate coverage.
- Expanded steam migration safety audits to cover invalid fluidbox index handling.
Version: 1.1.38
Date: 30. 08. 2026
Bugfixes:
- Fixed a multiplayer desync caused by stale steam-fluid cleanup being scheduled from on_load instead of a saved one-shot migration state.
- Added safer steam migration handling so stale-fluid cleanup no longer reruns on each joining client.
- Added a Fulgora aggregate-to-lead route feeding the existing Angel lead plate and sulfuric-acid battery chains.
- Ensured Fulgora specialist intermediate recipes inherit productivity support where equivalent default recipes allow productivity.
- Fixed Vulcanus foundry low-density structure recipe not accepting productivity modules.
- Restored the existing Vulcanus-local rocket fuel route without space ice delivery.
- Restricted Angel's seafloor pump to Nauvis and Maraxsis surfaces instead of unrelated ocean planets.
- Added an Arig local clay washing route so clay progression no longer depends on seafloor pump access.
- Restricted the Arig plastic press recipe to Arig's actual pressure and dust conditions.
- Moved Arig pure sand glass processing to chemical smelters with two fluid inputs, retaining its oxygen requirement.
Compatibility:
- Added release-gate audits for steam migration multiplayer safety, Fulgora lead/battery progression, Fulgora productivity support, Vulcanus launch recipes, seafloor pump restrictions, and Arig clay/plastic/glass progression.
Version: 1.1.37
Date: 23. 08. 2026
Bugfixes:
- Added guarded compatibility checks for Bob's Inserters blueprint and copy behaviour.
- Made Angel's Infinite Ores optional and guarded extended infinite ore logic to avoid map generation issues when infinite ores are disabled.
- Fixed Angel's Infinite Ores compatibility so disabling infinite ores in map generation no longer suppresses normal finite Angel/Bob ore spawning.
- Fixed Muluna cycling steam turbine recycling to return titanium pipes instead of iron pipes.
- Canonicalised Maraxsis coral and mollusk husk limestone outputs to Angel's limestone so they can be used in the Angel/Bob glass chain.
- Preserved Maraxsis' native hydraulic science chain so wyrm specimens, confinement cells, and fish food remain useful instead of replacing the recipe with a generic tungsten/pump/lubricant route.
- Added Maraxsis hydrogen compatibility with Angel Petrochem hydrogen to avoid isolated duplicate hydrogen fluids.
Compatibility:
- Added audits for inserter compatibility, infinite ore map generation safety, Muluna turbine recycling, and Maraxsis limestone outputs.
Version: 1.1.36
Date: 21. 08. 2026
Balancing:
- Added a Fulgora fuel-oil desulfurisation route so surplus fuel oil can be converted into hydrogen sulfide gas for continuous sulfuric acid production without bypassing Angel Petrochem.
- Allowed Muluna lunar residue processing in intended electric Muluna crushers as a later scale-up route while keeping the steam crusher as the starter route.
- Adjusted ordinary steam condensation to recover 900 water from 1000 steam when Bob's Power is active.
Bugfixes:
- Restored removed legacy basic ammunition recipe prototypes as hidden compatibility stubs so external mods referencing old ammo bootstrap recipes, such as firearm-magazine-nickel, no longer break while keeping the recipes out of normal crafting.
- Restored Maraxsis atmosphere-barrel emptying to the pressure-safe chemical plant so the first pressure dome can be started without globally loosening Angel barreling.
- Retargeted Bob's hydrazine generator to Angel hydrazine when Bob's hydrazine fluid is absent.
- Protected Muluna lunar mud, clay, clay brick, and concrete support recipes from bootstrap cleanup so Muluna no-import progression remains available.
- Fixed recipe planet icon overlays so only recipes genuinely specific to a single planet display a planet icon.
- Removed incorrect planet overlays from shared Angel/Bob/vanilla recipes and deduped original recipes.
- Fixed final diagnostics so recipe balance, space-platform continuation machine coverage, and canonical Bob electronics names are reported consistently.
- Explicitly classified Muluna regolith digging as a valid fixed-recipe collection action in the recipe balance audit.
- Updated Muluna support diagnostics to use the current lunar recipe names instead of obsolete start recipe names.
Changes:
- Added release-gate and audit coverage for Maraxsis pressure bootstrap, Bob hydrazine generator compatibility, Bob Power steam condensation, legacy ammo compatibility, Muluna clay and concrete support, Muluna residue scale-up, Fulgora sulfuric acid support, and planet icon overlays.
- Kept generic unsupported-planet bootstrap and extended infinite ores settings guarded so supported planets and default Angel infinite ores behaviour remain unchanged.
Version: 1.1.35
Date: 17. 08. 2026
Balancing:
- Added a Fulgora fuel-oil desulfurisation route so surplus fuel oil can be converted into hydrogen sulfide gas for continuous sulfuric acid production without bypassing Angel Petrochem.
Bugfixes:
- Restored removed legacy basic ammunition recipe prototypes as hidden compatibility stubs so external mods referencing old ammo bootstrap recipes, such as firearm-magazine-nickel, no longer break while keeping the recipes out of normal crafting.
- Restored Maraxsis atmosphere-barrel emptying to the pressure-safe chemical plant so the first pressure dome can be started without globally loosening Angel barreling.
- Retargeted Bob's hydrazine generator to Angel hydrazine when Bob's hydrazine fluid is absent.
- Adjusted ordinary steam condensation to recover 900 water from 1000 steam when Bob's Power is active.
- Fixed final diagnostics so recipe balance, space-platform continuation machine coverage, and canonical Bob electronics names are reported consistently.
- Explicitly classified Muluna regolith digging as a valid fixed-recipe collection action in the recipe balance audit.
- Allowed Muluna lunar residue processing in intended electric Muluna crushers as a later scale-up route while keeping the steam crusher as the starter route.
- Fixed recipe planet icon overlays so only recipes genuinely specific to a single planet display a planet icon.
- Removed incorrect planet overlays from shared Angel/Bob/vanilla recipes and deduped original recipes.
- Protected Muluna lunar mud, clay, clay brick, and concrete support recipes from bootstrap cleanup so Muluna no-import progression remains available.
- Updated Muluna support diagnostics to use the current lunar recipe names instead of obsolete start recipe names.
Version: 1.1.34
Date: 07. 08. 2026
Bugfixes:
- Fixed low-gravity ammunition to use the exact iron plate item produced by the low-gravity maintenance route.
- Updated low-gravity maintenance audits to use resolved Angel/Bob item names instead of hardcoded plate names.
- Fixed basic bootstrap audit crash when checking recipes already removed by cleanup.
- Updated bootstrap audits to treat missing unwanted shortcut recipes as successfully removed.
- Preserved protected low-gravity ammunition and maintenance recipes while removing ordinary bootstrap clutter.
- Restored protected Muluna custom progression routes for low-density structure, processing units, rocket fuel, electronic circuits, and aluminium cable support.
- Updated bootstrap cleanup so Muluna-specific return/progression recipes are not removed as generic shortcut clutter.
- Updated diagnostics to check the active Muluna recipe names instead of reporting stale missing routes.
Changes:
- Restored custom low-gravity maintenance recipes, including the low-gravity iron plate route needed for platform ammunition.
- Updated bootstrap cleanup so low-gravity maintenance recipes are protected while ordinary bootstrap shortcuts remain removed.
Version: 1.1.33
Date: 05. 08. 2026
Changes:
- Preserved custom low-gravity recipes for platform and Muluna self-sufficiency while removing basic bootstrap shortcuts.
- Updated bootstrap audits to distinguish custom low-gravity progression recipes from basic-resource shortcut clutter.
- Removed remaining recent bootstrap recipes for repair packs outside Muluna, science packs, stone, first ore crusher, cellulose substitute, basic belts, basic inserters, basic pipes, and wood-free electric poles.
- Tightened bootstrap audits so basic shortcut recipes cannot remain visible.
- Removed recently added bootstrap/support shortcut recipes that duplicated Angel/Bob or vanilla routes.
- Removed recent basic-resource bootstrap recipes for iron plate, copper plate, coal, water, and concrete.
- Preserved older intentional progression recipes while removing newer shortcut clutter.
- Restored and protected the original low-gravity firearm magazine recipe.
- Removed unnecessary bootstrap/start/emergency recipes where Angel/Bob or vanilla already provides a reachable source.
- Added final bootstrap clutter cleanup pass.
- Strengthened bootstrap necessity and recipe clutter audits.
- Kept only bootstrap recipes with a proven no-import softlock reason.
- Removed remaining unnecessary bootstrap/support shortcut recipes where Angel/Bob or vanilla already provides a reachable source.
- Removed unnecessary trace ore feed, LDS support, circuit support, iron plate, concrete, water, coal, rocket fuel, petrochem feed, and chemical plant shortcut recipes.
- Strengthened shortcut recipe audits to fail if duplicate bootstrap routes remain visible.
- Restored the original low-gravity firearm magazine recipe using iron plate and carbon for platform ammunition production.
- Tightened bootstrap clutter cleanup to remove newer shortcut recipes while preserving older intentional no-import/progression recipes.
- Added grandfather protection for bootstrap recipes intentionally present before 1.1.28.
- Added audits for protected bootstrap recipes and low-gravity ammunition.
Version: 1.1.32
Date: 03. 08. 2026
Bugfixes:
- Backported removal of Vulcanus and generic starter furnace and burner generator substitute recipes.
- Updated Factorio 2.0 no-import starts to use the original stone furnace and Bob or vanilla burner generator recipes, including vacuum surfaces that previously required copies.
- Backported Muluna turbine steam condensation compatibility fix for Bob's Power.
- Backported removal of starter assembler and bootstrap basic ammunition recipes.
- Updated 2.0 no-import routes to use original assembler and ammunition recipes.
- Backported starter/bootstrap recipe cleanup to the Factorio 2.0 branch.
- Removed unnecessary starter furnace, starter generator, starter assembler and bootstrap ammunition recipes.
- Updated bootstrap clutter audits for the 2.0 branch.
- Backported bootstrap recipe cleanup.
- Backported the full Vulcanus bootstrap cleanup.
- Removed unnecessary visible bootstrap recipes from the Factorio 2.0 branch.
- Removed 2.0-only visible bootstrap bloat for stone brick, copper cable, gears and pipe.
- Made each Fulgora mud and clay bootstrap recipe conditional on a normal local input and machine route check.
- Updated Muluna safety validation to accept hidden legacy helpers when the visible replacement routes are present.
Changes:
- Added bootstrap necessity and recipe clutter audits to the Factorio 2.0 branch.
- Added the same hardcoded-bootstrap route checks and audits as the Factorio 2.1 branch.
Version: 1.1.31
Date: 29. 07. 2026
Bugfixes:
- Separated steam fuel inputs from recipe fluidboxes on custom machines.
- Fixed missing locale keys for generated bootstrap, no-import, and emergency recipes.
- Fixed the remaining unsafe localised recipe names on generated planet, low-gravity, bootstrap, emergency, support, and specialist routes.
- Fixed no-import start simulation so every planet must prove real step-by-step local progression.
- Fixed non-Vulcanus no-import bootstrap gaps.
- Fixed duplicate player-facing emergency-route recipes generated by the no-import start system.
- Prevented pressure-only emergency-route variants from remaining player-facing when one planet, output, role, and purpose route is sufficient.
- Reduced crafting-menu and Factoriopedia clutter by reusing locally reachable default recipes instead of creating redundant planet emergency routes.
- Preserved unique planet emergency-route names through final safety and presentation validation.
- Fixed duplicate-product validation so distinct quality, spoilage, temperature, and probabilistic product variants are preserved.
Balancing:
- Completed a full recipe balance review across mod-added, mod-modified, generated, planet-specific, rocket, and space-support recipes.
- Checked bootstrap, emergency, support, standard, specialist, endgame, and internal-helper routes without strengthening fallback production.
Changes:
- Preserved Factorio 2.0 steam behaviour where it was already working.
- Added non-breaking steam temperature network auditing, /ab-steam-temperature-report, and /ab-steam-layout-test reporting.
- Documented the Factorio 2.0 and 2.1 generator/process steam branch differences.
- Added steam_temperature_network to the static and runtime release gates.
- Added terminal steam fluidbox auditing and the /ab-steam-fluidbox-report runtime command.
- Added route-trace validation for every planet, not only Vulcanus.
- Added a terminal locale-key audit and connected locale-key, emergency-route dedupe, and no-import simulation results to the release gate.
- Kept emergency route deduplication and release gates passing.
- Added deterministic emergency-route selection keyed by planet, output, route role, and player-facing purpose.
- Added an emergency-route dedupe audit and the /ab-emergency-route-report diagnostic command.
- Added emergency_route_dedupe to the static and runtime release gates.
- Kept the no-import start audit and fixed-point simulation authoritative after route deduplication.
- Added planet icon overlays to planet-specific recipes without replacing their main product icons.
- Added terminal planet-recipe icon auditing and the /ab-planet-recipe-icon-report runtime command.
- Added a bootstrap-specific planet icon and surface-exclusivity audit that requires every visible start, starter, or bootstrap recipe to carry exactly its matching planet overlay and remain limited to its intended planet.
- Extended the locale-key audit to cover every visible mod-owned and planet-specific recipe after final generation.
- Added a full recipe balance audit with loop and outlier detection for plates, ingots, fluids, electronics, science, rockets, and planet-specific routes.
- Added per-planet and recipe-family balance summaries, the /ab-recipe-balance-report runtime command, and the recipe_balance release-gate field.
- Kept emergency-route dedupe, locale-key, planet-icon, no-import simulation, and existing release gates authoritative.
Version: 1.1.30
Date: 28. 07. 2026
Features:
- Completed the Planet Independence and Full AngelBob Chain Completion pass for Nauvis, Muluna, Vulcanus, Fulgora, Gleba, Aquilo, Arig, Maraxsis, Paracelsin, and Hyarion.
- Added true surface-locked no-import starts for Nauvis, Muluna, Vulcanus, Fulgora, Gleba, Aquilo, Arig, Maraxsis, Paracelsin, and Hyarion.
- Added low-yield space-platform continuation recipes for repair packs, ammunition, circuits, and foundation maintenance.
- Added a deterministic fixed-point no-import simulation for all ten planets, with staged resource, power, machine, industry, science, speciality, and rocket-support route traces.
- Added read-only /ab-no-import-sim and /ab-no-import-route runtime reports backed by the prototypes loaded into the current save.
Balancing:
- Classified audited routes as bootstrap, standard, or specialist so local fallback access cannot silently replace each planet's stronger themed industry.
- Preserved Vulcanus as the heavy-smelting planet, Fulgora as the electronics and recycling planet, Gleba as the biological planet, Muluna as the aluminium and low-gravity logistics moon, and the remaining planets' documented specialist identities.
- Kept no-import emergency recipes surface-locked, slow, material-heavy, non-productive, and weaker than standard or specialist routes.
- Normalised the merged tungsten plate to a 1,000-item rocket capacity.
- Corrected five flipped Vulcanus support-plate recipes from one ingot yielding four plates to an intentionally inefficient four ingots yielding one plate.
- Kept space-platform continuation limited to survival, travel, and provisioning instead of enabling full AngelBob factory chains.
Bugfixes:
- Preserved Factorio 2.0 compatibility for recipes, technology triggers, surface conditions, runtime prototype access, and the matching dependency set.
- Fixed quality compatibility so mining and normal item crafting can produce higher-quality outputs, and added a quality safety audit.
- Restored the missing cobalt ingot-to-molten-cobalt and molten-cobalt-to-sheet-coil unlocks, removed circular cobalt casting routes, and added a cobalt unlock audit.
- Preserved the canonical molten cobalt to sheet coil to cobalt plate chain while keeping duplicate and cheap bypass recipes hidden.
- Restored and validated the useful Factorio 2.0 Vulcanus tungsten-carbide specialisation against the canonical Angel tungsten chain.
- Unified duplicate tungsten ore, plate, and carbide aliases and retained existing-save item and filter migration support.
- Corrected the Factorio 2.0 Maraxsis smoke milestone and preserved its limestone, glass, salt, hydraulic-science, deepsea, biology, submarine, and rocket-return progression.
- Added the Muluna mud, clay, clay-brick, and concrete bootstrap, repaired its steam-powered Vacuum Furnace chain, and removed obsolete atmosphere and surface-property blockers.
- Restored Muluna aluminium cable, aluminium plate, electronic-circuit, low-gravity logistics, rocket-return, and existing-save unlock support.
- Completed Fulgora scrap, aggregate, naphtha, silicon, carbon, hydrogen-fluoride, electronics, trace-cobalt, electromagnetic-science, and rocket-return routes.
- Completed Gleba biomass, bacteria, bioleaching, cellulose, board, clay, biological-machine, science, and rocket-return routes.
- Completed Aquilo ice, ammoniacal-solution, ammonia, fluorine, lithium, battery, coolant, liquid-nitrogen, cryogenic-science, and rocket-return routes.
- Completed Arig oil, natural-gas, naphtha, compression-science, heavy-mineral-sand, machine, logistics, and rocket-return support.
- Completed Paracelsin mineral, acid, advanced-chemistry, electrochemistry, galvanisation-science, machine, and rocket-return support.
- Completed Hyarion crystal, quartz, gem, beryl, polishing, refraction, Automation 4, module tier 5, and rocket-return support.
- Added a true Vulcanus no-import bootstrap from native stone, calcite, and coal through trace plates, cable, wood-free poles, burner power, assembling, groundwater, chemical processing, tungsten, and rocket support.
- Added slow local starter machines where normal furnaces, generators, assemblers, or chemical plants are blocked by pressure, oxygen, or freezing.
- Added surface-specific offshore-pump and pumpjack bootstrap routes so local fluids are never granted before a reachable collector.
- Added a vaterite-powered starter hard-rock drill path for Paracelsin sphalerite and tetrahedrite.
- Added an Arig cactus-to-process-water route so harvesting fluid-bearing cactus does not assume fluid can enter an empty inventory.
- Refreshed planet-discovery, Muluna clay, quality, and cobalt technology effects for existing saves without resetting unrelated technology effects.
Changes:
- Audited ore refining, crushing, sorting, flotation, leaching, smelting, ingots, molten metals, casting, coils, plates, wires, petrochem, gases, acids, water treatment, bio processing, wood/cellulose, electronics, batteries, modules, military, logistics/robotics, rockets, and space-platform support on every planet.
- Added a terminal planet self-sufficiency audit and planet-chain coverage audit for all ten supported planets.
- Added a recursive no-import-start audit that validates local roots, recipe inputs/results, unlocks, machines, surface conditions, pre-power ordering, science, defence, and rocket support.
- Added a plate-family rocket-capacity audit, support-plate audit, Vulcanus-start audit, no-import route balance checks, and expanded safety and balance-sanity validation.
- Expanded planet-standard, progression-smoke, self-sufficiency, chain-coverage, and release-gate checks with the no-import standard.
- Connected planet self-sufficiency, planet-chain coverage, no-import start, no-import simulation, and runtime Factorio 2.0 results to the terminal release gate.
- Rebuilt the release changelog from supported source and historical entries and added a strict changelog format and shared-entry checker.
Version: 1.1.29
Date: 22. 07. 2026
Bugfixes:
- Fixed quality compatibility so mining and normal item crafting can produce higher-quality outputs correctly.
- Added a quality safety audit and manual quality smoke-test checklist.
- Restored the useful Vulcanus tungsten-carbide specialization recipe and corrected the Maraxsis progression smoke milestone for Factorio 2.0.
- Fixed missing research unlocks for cobalt ingot to molten cobalt.
- Fixed missing research unlocks for molten cobalt to cobalt sheet coil.
- Added cobalt unlock audit to prevent orphaned cobalt smelting/casting recipes.
Version: 1.1.28
Date: 19. 07. 2026
Changes:
- Added stronger regression gates for rolling-stock upgrades, dependency recipe loops, planet progression smoke checks, and balance sanity.
- Added a planet-standardisation audit pass covering local progression, recipe visibility, machine availability, surface conditions, building bypasses, and existing-save unlock coverage.
Bugfixes:
- Restored the useful Vulcanus Foundry tungsten-carbide specialization recipe in the Factorio 2.0 branch.
- Corrected the Factorio 2.0 Maraxsis smoke milestone to test the visible salt-reactor route instead of its hidden internal steam helper.
- Added clearer Fulgora-local routes for hydrogen fluoride, silicon wafers, carbon/coal, and low-yield trace cobalt recovery to support electronics progression.
- Made transistor recycling a bootstrap/recovery route rather than the only intended source of silicon wafers on Fulgora.
- Fixed a Fulgora hydrogen fluoride recovery presentation issue where the route could be reported as a duplicate of scrap recycling.
- Updated the final planet-standardisation audit so detailed planet blockers correctly fail the final audit result.
- Added existing-save unlock and audit coverage for Fulgora cobalt recovery.
Version: 1.1.27
Date: 19. 07. 2026
Bugfixes:
- Restored the useful Vulcanus Foundry tungsten-carbide specialization recipe in the Factorio 2.0 branch.
- Corrected the Factorio 2.0 Maraxsis smoke milestone to test the visible salt-reactor route instead of its hidden internal steam helper.
- Removed invalid circular cobalt metallurgy casting recipes.
- Restored a selectable non-calcite molten cobalt route from cobalt ingots.
- Restricted atmosphere-dependent air filtering from working on Muluna and space platforms.
- Added a Muluna-local concrete bootstrap route so rocket silo construction no longer depends on limestone imports.
Version: 1.1.26
Date: 19. 07. 2026
Bugfixes:
- Restored the useful Vulcanus Foundry tungsten-carbide specialization recipe in the Factorio 2.0 branch.
- Corrected the Factorio 2.0 Maraxsis smoke milestone to test the visible salt-reactor route instead of its hidden internal steam helper.
- Added the missing Muluna clay bootstrap route so mud, clay, and clay brick can be made locally through the Muluna Steam Crusher.
- Added existing-save unlock support for the Muluna clay bootstrap recipes.
Version: 1.1.25
Date: 18. 07. 2026
Changes:
- Added stronger regression gates for rolling-stock upgrades, dependency recipe loops, planet progression smoke checks, and balance sanity.
- Backported Muluna surface-condition warning cleanup from the 1.2.0 branch.
- Gave Gleba biomass a distinct icon from wood for clearer recipe and Factoriopedia readability.
- Added Arig dust-resistant Bob roboport tier variants and blocked Bob roboports from bypassing Arig roboport progression.
Version: 1.1.24
Date: 16. 07. 2026
Bugfixes:
- Fixed hidden vanilla Petroleum Gas being used by Arig natural gas and naphtha recipes.
- Fixed Planetaris raw diamond using hidden Petroleum Gas when Angel/Bob petrochem gases are available.
- Added hidden-fluid audit so visible recipes cannot require or output hidden fluids.
- Fixed runtime diagnostics commands using deprecated game.item_prototypes access in control.lua.
- Fixed the Arig Angel/Bob access audit reporting stale petrochem blockers after the visible hydrocarbon gas repair.
Version: 1.1.23
Date: 13. 07. 2026
Changes:
- Added stronger regression gates for rolling-stock upgrades, dependency recipe loops, planet progression smoke checks, and balance sanity.
- Reworked Vulcanus metallurgy around direct high-yield production of canonical AngelBob metal ingots from lava and calcite.
- Made volcanic residue a secondary mineral-recovery by-product instead of the primary Vulcanus metal source.
- Added locally sustainable Vulcanus mud, clay, sand, lime, clay-brick, concrete and refined-concrete production chains.
- Added local Vulcanus production routes for wooden boards, required circuit materials and rocket fuel.
- Added a pre-Foundry tungsten bootstrap route so Vulcanus tungsten progression no longer requires imported intermediates.
Balancing:
- Drastically increased Vulcanus metallurgy throughput compared with a normal mid-game Nauvis processing line.
- Preserved canonical AngelBob ingot mixtures and alloy ratios while reducing the infrastructure required for Vulcanus metallurgy.
- Kept Vulcanus circuit production suitable for local infrastructure while preserving Fulgora as the superior large-scale electronics planet.
- Restricted new lava-assisted metallurgy and Vulcanus bootstrap recipes to Vulcanus.
Bugfixes:
- Fully merged duplicate tungsten ore, plate and carbide aliases into one usable canonical item per tungsten stage.
- Fixed Legacy Tungsten Carbide compatibility items being stranded in inventories.
- Converted legacy tungsten items in player inventories, storehouses, cargo wagons, machines and logistic containers.
- Retargeted train, logistic, inserter, loader and wagon filters away from legacy tungsten aliases.
- Added temporary recovery recipe for stranded Legacy Tungsten Carbide items.
- Fixed Vulcanus metal production requiring excessive processing infrastructure for comparatively low yields.
- Fixed concrete and refined concrete being unobtainable locally because Vulcanus had no usable mud-water and clay-material chain.
- Fixed the Foundry, tungsten carbide and Big Mining Drill progression forming an import-dependent deadlock.
- Fixed rocket silos being obstructed by locally unavailable concrete and circuit ingredients.
- Fixed wooden-board-based circuits requiring imported materials during normal Vulcanus progression.
- Fixed rocket fuel having no complete locally sustainable Vulcanus production route.
- Fixed advanced Vulcanus metallurgy recipes unlocking before their corresponding AngelBob metal technologies.
- Fixed Vulcanus self-sufficiency diagnostics reporting success without tracing complete ingredient, machine and technology dependencies.
- Fixed volcanic residue, carbon and plastic being assumed locally available without validating their production chains.
- Fixed the starter tungsten route not proving that all required materials were obtainable before the first Foundry and Big Mining Drill.
- Fixed rocket-silo validation checking only for the recipe prototype instead of tracing the complete local crafting dependency tree.
- Fixed Vulcanus metallurgy diagnostics reporting a four-times throughput target without calculating actual recipe throughput.
- Fixed advanced Vulcanus metals sharing a broad unlock that bypassed their corresponding AngelBob metal-processing technologies.
- Fixed Vulcanus machine reachability checks treating entity prototype existence as proof that machines could be crafted locally.
- Fixed Vulcanus resource validation assuming water, coal, stone and sulfuric acid were locally available without checking their actual planet sources.
- Fixed Foundry throughput comparisons ignoring crafting-machine speed and using a hardcoded productivity multiplier.
- Added a positive-resource-loop audit for volcanic residue, calcite, construction materials, catalysts, recycling and Foundry productivity.
- Extended Vulcanus runtime diagnostics to use calculated dependency, machine, technology, surface and loop-audit results.
- Extended rocket-return validation to cover rocket parts and the complete local launch chain.
- Fixed Vulcanus resource-root validation treating globally existing resource prototypes as proof that those resources were present on Vulcanus.
- Fixed the Vulcanus water audit incorrectly accepting a water resource without verifying its final Vulcanus map-generation placement or local production chain.
- Replaced hardcoded Vulcanus loop-audit results with a bounded recipe-graph and material-balance audit.
- Rebalanced direct Vulcanus ingot recipes from extreme throughput multipliers toward the intended approximately four-times machine-adjusted output.
- Replaced hardcoded Vulcanus infrastructure comparisons with calculations based on final recipe and machine production rates.
- Fixed Vulcanus dependency validation treating preferred local recipe products as raw resource roots.
- Fixed mining-fluid requirements being incorrectly counted as resource outputs during Vulcanus resource detection.
- Corrected the Vulcanus no-import validation to distinguish static dependency closure from a real played launch test.
- Expanded the Vulcanus loop audit beyond single recipes and recipe pairs to bounded multi-recipe material cycles.
- Fixed Vulcanus throughput diagnostics applying Foundry productivity to recipes that had productivity disabled.
- Made normal AngelBob throughput comparisons use deterministic representative recipes and machines.
- Updated runtime Vulcanus diagnostics to use complete dependency and loop-audit results instead of recipe-existence checks.
- Fixed Vulcanus data-stage audit markers being interpreted as successful at runtime even when the underlying audit had failed.
- Replaced ambiguous Vulcanus audit markers with explicit and mutually exclusive pass and fail markers.
- Fixed the Vulcanus no-import runtime tracker reporting zero imports without observing inter-surface deliveries.
- Expanded the Vulcanus loop audit to discover and balance bounded multi-recipe cycles rather than checking only direct and two-recipe returns.
- Added productivity, probabilistic outputs, catalysts and Recycler recovery to Vulcanus loop validation.
- Fixed runtime Vulcanus startup checks accepting any one enabled recipe instead of requiring complete construction, circuit, tungsten and rocket chains.
- Fixed Foundry, Big Mining Drill and rocket-silo runtime checks treating prototype existence as proof of local reachability.
- Updated runtime blocker totals so every failed Vulcanus audit and progression check is reported.
Version: 1.1.22
Date: 11. 07. 2026
Changes:
- Added stronger regression gates for rolling-stock upgrades, dependency recipe loops, planet progression smoke checks, and balance sanity.
- Added Paracelsin closure pass.
- Improved Paracelsin advanced chemistry, electrochemistry and galvanisation progression.
- Audited Galvanization science progression.
- Added Paracelsin landing, material, chemistry, machine, Angel/Bob access and rocket-return validation logs.
Bugfixes:
- Fixed Fulgora wooden board recycling using Bob's default recycling route instead of returning wood.
- Removed/hidden duplicate wooden board recovery recipe where the Recycler cannot select it.
- Audited Fulgora Recycler support routes so active item recycling recipes are patched directly instead of relying on bypassed support recipes.
Version: 1.1.21
Date: 10. 07. 2026
Changes:
- Added stronger regression gates for rolling-stock upgrades, dependency recipe loops, planet progression smoke checks, and balance sanity.
- Added Hyarion closure pass.
- Improved Hyarion rare mineral, crystal, quartz, gem and beryl progression.
- Audited Polishing and Refraction science progression.
- Audited Automation 4 and Bob module tier 5 progression through Hyarion.
- Added Hyarion landing, material, science, automation, module and rocket-return validation logs.
- Added a dedicated Hyarion Angel/Bob access audit for crystals, quartz, gems, beryl, rare metals, glass, silicon, modules, automation and rocket return.
- Fixed Bob equipment technologies dropping Space Age science requirements from earlier equipment tiers.
- Fixed Energy Shield MK3+ progression being easier than Energy Shield MK2 when Space Age science is active.
- Fixed existing saves being able to contain duplicate Tungsten Plate item prototypes.
- Converted legacy Bob/vanilla tungsten plates to Angel's tungsten plate in inventories and train/logistic filters.
- Fixed trains and storehouses getting stuck when visually identical tungsten plates used different internal item names.
- Added full tungsten-family old-save cleanup for duplicate Tungsten Ore, Tungsten Plate and Tungsten Carbide aliases.
- Converted legacy Bob/vanilla tungsten items to the active Angel/Bob canonical tungsten items.
- Retargeted existing train, logistic, inserter, loader and wagon filters away from legacy tungsten aliases.
- Fixed trains and storehouses getting stuck when visually identical tungsten items used different internal item names.
Version: 1.1.20
Date: 10. 07. 2026
Changes:
- Added stronger regression gates for rolling-stock upgrades, dependency recipe loops, planet progression smoke checks, and balance sanity.
- Reorganised internal Lua helpers and runtime systems for maintainability.
- Centralised common prototype, recipe, logging and compatibility helper logic.
- Added script load-order documentation.
- Added early Factorio 2.1 preparation safety helpers without changing the required Factorio version.
- No intended gameplay, balance, progression or prototype changes.
Bugfixes:
- Fixed duplicate Tungsten Ore items appearing with different stack sizes when additional mods expose legacy tungsten ore prototypes.
- Canonicalised raw tungsten ore to Angel/Bob tungsten ore across recipes, refinery outputs, resources and generated planet recipes.
- Added hidden compatibility aliases for legacy tungsten ore item names to prevent old saves and third-party migrations from breaking.
- Retargeted legacy tungsten ore filters on configuration change to prevent Miniloader/filter mismatches.
- Added a material alias audit to detect similar duplicate visible material problems before release.
- Added broader material alias safety checks to detect duplicate visible materials and recipe/resource alias mismatches.
- Added defensive compatibility helpers for safer prototype and recipe handling.
- Hardened runtime surface/entity handling for unusual modded surfaces and future Factorio compatibility.
- Added early Factorio 2.1 preparation diagnostics without changing the required Factorio version.
- Fixed Fulgora Oil Ocean still producing orphaned Heavy Oil in Angel/Bob petrochem setups.
- Fulgora Oil Ocean now outputs Angel/Bob naphtha when available.
- Added a visible Heavy Oil to naphtha bridge recipe for existing saves.
- Fixed existing Fulgora oil pumps potentially retaining Heavy Oil until replaced.
- Added old-save handling for Fulgora oil pumps and a visible Heavy Oil to naphtha conversion bridge.
- Removed the hard dependency on deprecated Muluna Utility Constants.
- Internalised the small Muluna bootstrap constants needed by AngelBob Space Age Rebalance.
- Added a compatibility bridge so existing Muluna constants data is still patched safely if another mod provides it.
Version: 1.1.19
Date: 09. 07. 2026
Bugfixes:
- Fixed Groundwater Pump compatibility with unsupported modded surfaces such as Factorissimo 3 interiors and Planet Castra special areas.
- Unknown or unrecognised surfaces now safely fall back to water instead of producing the internal ab-groundwater-placeholder fluid.
- Added localisation safety for the internal groundwater placeholder fluid.
Version: 1.1.18
Date: 09. 07. 2026
Bugfixes:
- Fixed Muluna low-gravity wooden/basic electronics recipes still using regular copper cable instead of Muluna aluminium cable.
- Added hidden Bob tungsten carbide compatibility aliases to prevent old saves and third-party migrations such as Miniloader Redux from crashing on missing bob-tungsten-carbide.
Version: 1.1.17
Date: 05. 07. 2026
Bugfixes:
- Made the single Ground Water Bore cursor and ghost use a neutral aquifer placeholder while hidden planet entities retain the correct real fluid outputs.
- Fixed Ground Water Bore runtime replacement health copying so placing the bore no longer accesses unsupported LuaEntityPrototype max-health fields.
- Refined Ground Water Bore to remain one visible building while hidden planet-output entities provide themed off-world fluids, with dedicated Angel/Bob-style fluid icons and no space-platform placement.
- Added hidden bob-tungsten-plate compatibility alias to prevent older saves and Miniloader Redux migrations from crashing after the tungsten chain merge.
- Rebalanced Ground Water Bore so off-world use produces planet-themed brines/sludges instead of free clean water.
- Added limited processing routes for planet-themed bore fluids.
- Preserved Nauvis clean groundwater while keeping Muluna, Fulgora and Vulcanus water logistics meaningful.
- Fixed remaining validation blockers by forcing the Muluna Vacuum Furnace to use a visible craftable aluminium plate and tightening global progression checks for equal-rank science and hidden modules.
- Fixed Muluna Vacuum Furnace recipe resolving to hidden/orphan aluminum-plate instead of the active Angel/Bob aluminium plate.
- Fixed Muluna electronic circuit support recipe using copper cable instead of Muluna aluminium cable.
- Fixed Carbonic Asteroid Crushing not appearing in circuit-network recipe selection on space platform crushers.
- Added a lightweight Arig Angel/Bob access audit for petrochem, machines, materials, limited crushed ore support and rocket return.
- Added a limited Arig heavy mineral sand route for small local Angel crushed ore support without adding ore patches or changing Arig's oil/gas identity.
- Completed the final Arig closure pass with Arig-only specialist gas, naphtha and fuel recipes plus landing, resource, machine placement and energy validation logs.
- Fixed Arig petrochem validation to detect real gas-processing routes and only add visible oil/gas technology prerequisites to compression science.
- Added a detailed Arig progression pass covering compression science, oil/gas petrochem identity, rocket return, machines, energy and concise Arig validation logs.
- Fixed global progression audit false positives from hidden/internal producer recipes and parameter recipes.
- Muluna vacuum furnace recipe prefer visible canonical aluminium plate.
- Added a lightweight global progression audit.
- Fixed Muluna vacuum furnace Electric Furnace visuals.
Version: 1.1.16
Date: 02. 07. 2026
Bugfixes:
- Fixed Fulgora silicon wafer recycling so the recycler's wafer recycling recipe now returns silicon powder instead of the auto-generated 25% wafer result.
- Added separate recipe fluid boxes to the Muluna vacuum furnace so steam remains machine fuel while Blast Furnace 2 gas/liquid recipes can still run.
- Aquilo pass 4 created as a balance and identity pass for further Aquilo support.
- Added a unique icon for Aquilo ammoniacal mineral slurry and kept the slurry visually distinct from ammoniacal solution and water.
- Added a final Aquilo Angel/Bob access pass covering lithium, Bob lithium items, batteries, coolant, nitrogen and starter Angel crushed ore washing.
- Fixed Aquilo battery and cold chemistry visibility by detecting Bob's active silver-zinc battery item and logging skipped coolant and liquid nitrogen recipes explicitly.
- Added final planet recipe icon overlays, including a combined Muluna and space-platform badge for recipes intended for both.
- Corrected the Muluna vacuum furnace to run on steam as a Muluna-placeable equivalent of the active Angel/Bob Blast Furnace 2 by copying its crafting categories without generating custom vacuum recipes.
- Simplified the Muluna vacuum furnace to use Electric Furnace visuals while staying steam-powered and copying Blast Furnace 2 crafting categories without custom vacuum recipes.
- Added conditional Aquilo-only production bonuses for lithium-ion battery, silver-zinc battery, coolant, liquid nitrogen and fluoroketone targets when those products exist and are consumed.
- Added final data-stage validation for Gleba bioleached pulp spoilage and kept runtime diagnostics from reporting unavailable spoilage fields as blockers.
- Updated runtime diagnostics for Fulgora gold scrap output and clearer Aquilo lithium-to-lithium-plate reporting.
- Added Aquilo ammonia washing starter support using ice and ammoniacal solution to make starter-grade crushed Angel ores, stone and limited circuit bootstrap helpers.
- Kept Space Age ammonia solid fuel and rocket fuel Aquilo-only using Aquilo surface conditions without restricting non-ammonia rocket fuel routes.
- Preserved Aquilo's vanilla Space Age lithium-brine, ammonia and holmium plate to lithium to lithium-plate chain as the focused lithium plate route.
- Polished lightweight Aquilo identity logs for ammonia fuel, lithium, fluoroketone, cryogenic science and fusion support.
- Reworked Aquilo lithium-processing prerequisites so missing or hidden Bob lithium technologies are never added.
- Kept Aquilo lithium processing safely tied to Aquilo discovery when no valid Angel/Bob lithium prerequisite exists.
- Added a lightweight Aquilo cryogenic progression audit covering ice, ammoniacal solution, ammonia, fluorine, lithium, fluoroketone, cryogenic science and fusion recipes.
- Preserved visible canonical Aquilo lithium, ammonia, fluorine, lithium brine, ammoniacal solution and fluoroketone prototypes after duplicate merging.
- Added final Aquilo summary logging for lithium, fluorine, ammonia, cryogenic science and blockers.
- Restored Aquilo lithium to the vanilla Space Age lithium-brine, ammonia and holmium plate to lithium to lithium-plate chain without alternate progression requirements.
- Restricted Space Age ammonia solid fuel and rocket fuel recipes to Aquilo surface conditions so ammonia fuel stays part of Aquilo's identity.
- Added lightweight Aquilo pass 3 closure logs for cryogenic science, fluoroketone, rocket return and fusion support.
- Matched Gleba bioleached pulp spoilage to bacteria timing so each pulp matures into only its matching crushed Angel ore after 60 seconds.
- Converted AngelBob diagnostics from a startup setting to a runtime-per-user setting.
- Removed heavy audit-only scripts from normal prototype loading so release loads stay fast and quiet.
- Added the /ab-diagnostics command for generating runtime diagnostics from an existing save.
- Added runtime diagnostics coverage for Muluna, Vulcanus, Fulgora, Gleba and Aquilo using control-stage prototype APIs.
- Updated the load summary to report data diagnostics as disabled and runtime diagnostics as available.
Version: 1.1.15
Date: 01. 07. 2026
Bugfixes:
- Changed Fulgora scrap to output the active gold wire.
- Added a Muluna-owned aluminium cable item with an aluminium-tinted cable icon.
- Changed Muluna aluminium cable drawing to use aluminium plate and steam, with no copper cable input.
- Forced the Muluna return electronic circuit recipe to use ab-muluna-aluminium-cable with no copper fallback.
- Added a startup diagnostics setting to keep heavy audit reports disabled during normal release loading.
- Added a lightweight AngelBob Space Age Rebalance load summary log line.
Version: 1.1.14
Date: 29. 06. 2026
Bugfixes:
- Added a Muluna-only electronic circuit return-support recipe using aluminium cable, aluminium plate, carbon and steam.
- Stopped the Muluna rocket-return audit from treating electronic circuits as local before their support recipe exists.
- Changed Muluna return advanced circuits to use normal plastic or resin instead of microcellular plastic.
- Kept microcellular plastic reserved for Muluna low-density and foundation-style structure recipes.
- Lowered silver oxide powder mixing to the highest category supported by Powder Mixer 2 when Bob silver-zinc battery progression unlocks before Powder Mixer 3.
- Restored fast timings for Bob/Angel electronic components, transistors and their Fulgora/recycling variants.
- Added Fulgora electromagnetic plant fallbacks for non-Bob electronic components and transistor recipes.
- Corrected Gleba biological ore mapping for Crotinnium and Bobmonium and expanded late Angel ore fallbacks.
- Expanded Gleba board, wire, solder and mud fallbacks for broader Angel/Bob mod combinations.
- Added a late planet-restricted recipe machine audit to log category, machine and fluid-input blockers.
- Fixed Fulgora resin liquefaction so it uses a single naphtha/fuel-oil fluid input in Angel liquifiers.
- Wired Vulcanus fluid-capacity helpers into Angel chemical, powder and glass alternate recipe creation.
- Normalised Vulcanus non-foundry helper fluids by converting excess utility fluids into extra calcite when machine capacity is exceeded.
- Trimmed helper fluids from Vulcanus foundry casting recipes so foundry routes stay within two input fluids.
- Tightened the planet recipe machine audit so machine compatibility is backed by an actual planet or explicit space-platform condition match.
- Added organic-or-chemistry Biochamber support so fish breeding has a valid organic machine.
- Added a late Space Age machine-category compatibility repair for cryogenics-or-assembling and Muluna telescope categories.
- Updated the planet recipe machine audit to use surface-property default values when planets omit pressure, gravity, oxygen, magnetic field or temperature.
- Updated the planet recipe machine audit to count hidden machines when they are placed by a visible item.
- Added Gleba biological mineral substrate and bioleached pulp icons.
- Changed Gleba Saphirite, Stiratite, Jivolite, Crotinnium, Rubyte and Bobmonium bioleaching to output spoilable pulp that matures into stable crushed ore.
- Added readable Angel crushed ore localised names for fallback internal ore IDs.
- Silenced false Angel ore safety warnings for intentional Gleba bioleaching routes.
- Changed Vulcanus foundry item casting recipes to use water quenching instead of calcite.
- Ensured Gleba bioleached pulp items spoil only into their matching crushed ore and not normal spoilage.
Version: 1.1.13
Date: 28. 06. 2026
Bugfixes:
- Removed oxygen from Muluna crushed alumina and crushed aluminium alumina-refining recipes.
- Increased the steam requirements on those Muluna alumina recipes so they remain single-fluid, steam-assisted assembler recipes.
- Kept both recipes in the fluid-capable assembling category rather than moving them to the Steam Crusher or lunar mineral processing.
Version: 1.1.12
Date: 28. 06. 2026
Bugfixes:
- Fixed the Muluna return titanium plate recipe having no usable crafting machine.
- Kept Muluna return titanium plate in fluid-capable assembling machines with steam as a recipe ingredient.
- Stopped the late lunar residue validation pass from moving Muluna return titanium plate into the Steam Crusher residue-processing category.
Version: 1.1.11
Date: 28. 06. 2026
Bugfixes:
- Reworked the cobalt repair pass to preserve Angel's molten cobalt to sheet coil to cobalt plate progression.
- Stopped cobalt plate repair from forcing sheet-coil recipes into direct molten cobalt recipes.
- Restored cobalt sheet coil as a visible canonical intermediate when it is part of the Angel cobalt chain.
- Repaired cobalt plate, molten cobalt and cobalt sheet coil recipe icons, names, main products and categories.
- Kept cobalt recycling, macerating and legacy Vulcanus compatibility placeholders hidden so they no longer appear as broken cobalt plate recipes.
- Kept the cheap Bob cobalt steel shortcut hidden and disabled.
- Added clearer cobalt plate and cobalt coil validation logs with broken recipe and blocker lists.
Version: 1.1.10
Date: 27. 06. 2026
Bugfixes:
- Restored canonical Angel/Bob cobalt plate visibility in Factoriopedia.
- Restored canonical molten cobalt visibility in Factoriopedia.
- Added a late cobalt plate repair pass that redirects cobalt plate and molten cobalt aliases to the selected canonical prototypes.
- Restored or created a visible molten cobalt to cobalt plate casting route when the upstream route is hidden or missing.
- Restored cobalt sheet coil visibility and repaired the Angel molten cobalt to sheet coil to cobalt plate chain.
- Repaired cobalt plate, molten cobalt and cobalt sheet coil recipe presentation to avoid broken Factoriopedia entries.
- Kept the cheap Bob cobalt steel shortcut hidden and disabled so cobalt plate does not bypass Angel/Bob steel and smelting progression.
- Added final cobalt plate validation logging with canonical plate, molten fluid, producers, consumers and blockers.
Version: 1.1.9
Date: 26. 06. 2026
Features:
- Added the Gleba local bootstrap and agricultural progression pass.
- Added Gleba biological intermediate support for wood, cellulose, nutrients and early Angel/Bob material pressure.
- Added Gleba fruit-processing integration so Gleba remains a biological production planet rather than a generic factory planet.
- Added Gleba bio-ore support for local biological resource progression without turning Gleba into a bulk smelting planet.
- Added Gleba board and early circuit support using Angel/Bob-compatible biological inputs.
- Added Gleba mud, clay and clay-brick support for local bootstrap construction chains.
- Added Gleba Biochamber integration while keeping non-biological factory categories out of the Biochamber.
- Added Gleba rocket-return support and final progression audit logging.
Balancing:
- Preserved Gleba's identity around agriculture, biological processing and agricultural science.
- Kept Vulcanus as the mass-smelting planet, Fulgora as the electronics planet and Muluna as the low-gravity logistics moon.
- Kept Gleba biological routes from bypassing Angel/Bob smelting, electronics and planetary progression.
- Kept Biochamber recipe access focused on biological production rather than full Angel/Bob factory chains.
- Confirmed Gleba start, bio-ore, boards, clay, fruit, Biochamber, metals, science and rocket-return audits pass together.
Bugfixes:
- Removed Compression science pack from Silicon ore processing while keeping Silicon ore processing in its existing Arig progression position.
- Fixed the Arig Silicon ore processing softlock where Compression Science depended on Silicon ore processing but Silicon ore processing cost Compression science packs.
Version: 1.1.8
Date: 25. 06. 2026
Features:
- Added Fulgora primary ore aggregate processing to support Angel's and Bob's ore progression from scrap.
- Added Fulgora catalyst ore aggregate processing for advanced metals including aluminium, silver, titanium, gold, tungsten and platinum.
- Added custom icons for Fulgora primary ore aggregate and Fulgora catalyst ore aggregate.
- Added Fulgora support recipes for silicon wafer recycling, wooden board recovery, resin liquefaction, glass fibre and lubricant production.
- Added Muluna lunar mineral residue processing as a local Angel's and Bob's ore-support route.
- Added Muluna rocket-return support recipes for rocket fuel, low density structures, titanium, titanium pipes, heat shielding and processing units.
- Added final planet-recipe housekeeping so planet-restricted recipes unlock from the relevant planet discovery technology where appropriate.
- Added final validation logs for Fulgora aggregate icons, Muluna rocket return, planet recipe unlocks and firearm magazine progression.
Balancing:
- Rebalanced Fulgora scrap recycling around useful Angel/Bob recovery products instead of high-tier finished components.
- Changed Fulgora scrap progression to support holmium ore, rubber, circuits, gold wire, low density structures and bronze support.
- Kept the Recycler output inventory expansion as an intentional compatibility fix so extended Fulgora scrap result slots can spawn correctly.
- Rebalanced Fulgora long-term autonomy around ore aggregates rather than direct large-scale plate injection.
- Preserved Fulgora as the electronics and recycling planet while avoiding raw scrap outputs for modules, science packs and high-tier finished boards.
- Rebalanced Fulgora Ferric Chloride progression around local aggregate leaching and nitric processing.
- Rebalanced Gleba bootstrap checks around biological materials, wood, cellulose, mud, clay, brick and early Angel/Bob circuit support.
- Preserved Muluna as a low-gravity logistics moon focused on aluminium, alumina, lunar residue, rocket support and platform logistics.
- Rebalanced ALICE propellant rocket fuel with oxygen, alumina and carbon inputs, slower crafting and no productivity.
- Kept Muluna rocket progression focused on local subcomponent support rather than replacing the global rocket-part recipe.
- Kept space platforms limited to survival, travel and provisioning support rather than full Angel/Bob factory production.
- Preserved the standard firearm magazine recipe as one iron plate and one coal.
- Kept a separate low-gravity firearm magazine route using two iron plates and one carbon for Muluna and space platforms.
Version: 1.1.7
Date: 21. 06. 2026
Balancing:
- Consolidated Vulcanus smelting into one strict ingot-to-molten foundry progression.
- Preserved Angel ore processing, pellet, chemical, blast-furnace and ingot progression.
- Restored Angel's nominal molten mixture ratios for iron, aluminium and all available metals and alloys.
- Added strict molten platinum, manganese and chrome routes where their Angel prototypes exist.
- Changed Vulcanus chemical and pre-ingot variants to use their original Angel machine categories with a 25 percent main-product improvement.
- Rebalanced direct foundry casting.
- Completed Fulgora progression closure from scrap, ice, naphtha and lightning through electromagnetic science and local rocket launches.
Bugfixes:
- Removed processed ore, pellet, powder and chemical-intermediate fallbacks from foundry molten recipes.
- Hid vanilla raw-lava molten iron and copper routes that bypass Angel ingot progression.
- Consolidated duplicate molten iron, molten copper and direct casting recipes.
- Preserved Angel tier markers and added Vulcanus overlays to custom recipe icons.
- Kept obsolete Vulcanus recipe and molten tungsten prototypes hidden for existing-save compatibility.
- Added a Fulgora-only sour naphtha separation step feeding Angel's sulfur, sulfur dioxide and sulfuric acid chain.
- Restricted naphtha ocean replacement to Fulgora's shallow and deep oil-ocean tiles.
- Added final recursive Fulgora recipe, technology, machine, surface and resource-route validation.
- Restored the standard firearm magazine to one iron plate and one coal.
- Kept a separate two-iron-and-carbon firearm magazine route for Muluna and space platforms.
- Matched Vulcanus discovery science cost and restored its asteroid-collector prerequisite.
Version: 1.1.6
Date: 21. 06. 2026
Bugfixes:
- Changed targeting to ensure the crusher and scrap recipes produce the same outputs.
- Expanded the Recycler output inventory so all Fulgora scrap results can be produced.
Version: 1.1.5
Date: 21. 06. 2026
Bugfixes:
- Restored the standard firearm magazine recipe using Angel's and Bob's iron plate and carbon.
- Restored the firearm magazine recipe using one iron plate, one coal and one lead plate on every surface.
- Restored holmium ore as a low-probability Fulgora scrap recycling result.
- Removed the incorrect oxygen restriction from low-gravity provisioning recipes.
- Hid redundant low-gravity iron gear and copper wire clones while preserving their standard recipes.
- Stopped resetting unrelated technology effects whenever a player joins a save.
Version: 1.1.4
Date: 20. 06. 2026
Bugfixes:
- Fixed firearm magazines being uncraftable on space platforms.
- Fixed missing localisation for several custom recipes displaying unknown-key names.
- Fixed Angel/Bob compatibility issues affecting Muluna's oxide meteorite to ice to water to Vacuum Boiler steam route.
- Fixed Vacuum Boiler oxygen, carbon dioxide, recipe category and technology unlock conflicts.
Version: 1.1.3
Date: 19. 06. 2026
Balancing:
- Rebalanced Fulgora scrap recycling toward recovered Angel/Bob electronics materials instead of high-tier circuits.
- Added low-probability recovered rubber, electronic circuits and advanced circuits while removing deep board/component outputs from raw scrap.
- Added an early Fulgora-only ice, mud, clay and clay-brick bootstrap using Angel's materials.
- Changed Fulgora shallow and deep oil oceans to provide Angel's and Bob's naphtha.
- Added progression-safe Vulcanus foundry alternates smelting tiers 2 and 3.
- Added molten gold, molten silver and molten glass routes with plate and casting outputs.
- Added Fulgora electromagnetic plant routes for Angel/Bob wires, solder, boards, circuits, processing units and module 4 components.
- Reused recipes already supported by the electromagnetic plant instead of showing redundant Fulgora alternates.
- Improved superconductor and supercapacitor throughput for Fulgora-scale electronics production.
Bugfixes:
- Removed duplicate space firearm magazine routes from player-facing progression; the normal iron plate and coal recipe remains canonical.
- Added a final localisation audit for visible custom recipes and related prototypes.
- Added late verification and compatibility repair for Muluna's oxide-to-ice-to-water Vacuum Boiler steam chain.
- Fixed molten tungsten item icon.
- Completed the cobalt chain by exposing the existing Angel molten cobalt and cobalt plate recipes.
- Added a Vulcanus molten cobalt and cobalt plate foundry route without creating duplicate cobalt products.
- Added a late planet self-sufficiency audit for each planet's distinct identity and mud/water/clay requirements.
- Extended self-sufficiency and science-route auditing to Maraxsis, Hyarion and Paracelsin.
- Expanded Fulgora mud, clay and clay-brick prototype fallbacks for Angel/Bob variants.
- Restored canonical molten tungsten Factoriopedia visibility with validated production and consumption routes.
- Added English locale fallbacks for Angel molten cobalt and cobalt plate.
- Added specialist cobalt plate sinks only to selected endgame batteries, Fulgora electronics, robotics, equipment and power infrastructure.
- Removed the cheap plate-based cobalt steel recipe that bypassed Angel's steel and molten-smelting progression.
- Added recursive ingredient classification for local Muluna routes, low-gravity support routes, standard crafting, deliberate imports and blockers.
- Added machine and recipe-category availability checks without enabling blast furnace, casting, induction, foundry or full metallurgy chains on platforms.
Version: 1.1.2
Date: 17. 06. 2026
Balancing:
- Added Muluna low-gravity logistics rebalance, with doubled non-Muluna rocket part cost, kept Muluna rocket parts at normal cost.
- Reworked Muluna rocket productivity so Muluna has four low-gravity launch throughput levels.
- Kept Vulcanus, Gleba and Fulgora rocket productivity branches to two levels.
- Preserved Muluna as a logistics moon focused on aluminium, platform upgrades, cargo routing and launch support.
- Integrated Muluna crushed aluminium and crushed alumina into Angel/Bob aluminium progression.
- Made Muluna the preferred aluminium production location.
- Added limited low-gravity iron, copper, lead and steel for ammo and repair chains.
- Added surface-restricted low-gravity provisioning support for Angel/Bob ammo and repair chains.
- Space platforms and Muluna can now slowly craft basic Bob's Warfare ammo and repair supplies in existing assembler categories.
- Preserved Angel/Bob metallurgy by limiting platform plate support to slow steam-assisted surface-restricted recipes.
- Added limited carbon-based board support for low-gravity repair-pack/basic-circuit survival, without changing normal Angel/Bob recipes.
Bugfixes:
- Fixed Muluna recipe rewrites so missing ingredients no longer create partial recipes.
- Stopped the base space platform foundation from being rewritten with Muluna logistics materials.
- Removed conflicting space science additions from Muluna bootstrap aluminium technologies.
- Improved Muluna recipe rewrite safety.
- Kept platforms from becoming full factories while adding restricted provisioning support.
- Cleaned up Factoriopedia entries for Muluna.
- Fixed existing-save technology refresh so low-gravity recipes become available after Space Platform or Muluna discovery.
- Added recursive ingredient classification for local Muluna routes, low-gravity support routes, standard crafting, deliberate imports and blockers.
- Added machine and recipe-category availability checks without enabling blast furnace, casting, induction, foundry or full metallurgy chains on platforms.
Version: 1.1.1
Date: 13. 06. 2026
Changes:
- Added stronger regression gates for rolling-stock upgrades, dependency recipe loops, planet progression smoke checks, and balance sanity.
- Changed safety scripts to include molten metals.
Bugfixes:
- Fixed the metallurgic molten copper input.
- Fixed further vanilla molten metal inputs.
Version: 1.1.0
Date: 12. 06. 2026
Features:
- Added Vulcanus volcanic ore extraction using volcanic mineral residue.
- Added volcanic mineral residue as a new Vulcanus intermediate item.
- Added Vulcanus residue processing routes into Angel's crushed ores.
- Added staged Vulcanus ore extraction technologies for basic, advanced and acidic volcanic ore processing.
- Added Vulcanus foundry metal finishing technology.
- Added Vulcanus advanced molten metals technology.
- Added Vulcanus tungsten foundry specialisation technology.
- Added Vulcanus molten metal production routes for Angel/Bob metals using upstream materials, lava and calcite.
- Added foundry casting routes from molten metals into plates, gears, rods, pipes, pipe-to-ground, coils and wires where supported.
- Added Vulcanus tungsten carbide processing so tungsten carbide can be produced before metallurgic science.
- Added support for additional Angel/Bob pipe and pipe-to-ground variants in foundry casting.
Graphics:
- Added a custom volcanic mineral residue icon.
- Added a custom Vulcanus volcanic ore extraction technology icon.
- Added a custom advanced molten metals technology icon.
Changes:
- Added stronger regression gates for rolling-stock upgrades, dependency recipe loops, planet progression smoke checks, and balance sanity.
- Reworked Vulcanus smelting so the foundry now focuses on molten metals rather than replacing Angels/Bobs smelting.
- Moved metal part production into foundry casting routes using molten metals.
- Improved Factoriopedia recipe grouping.
- Kept Vulcanus as an upgrade to Angels/Bobs.
- Changed tungsten progression so tungsten carbide and foundry requirements use the same tungsten carbide item.
- Added automatic technology effect reset on configuration change so existing saves pick up newly added recipe unlocks.
- Added a 1.1 migration for renamed/merged items, recipes, technologies and equipment.
- Marked BobsAngelsSpaceAge as a conflict.
Balancing:
- Limited early Vulcanus ore extraction so it supports bootstrapping without replacing Nauvis mining.
- Kept lava and calcite from directly producing plates, ingots, purified ores or mineral sludge.
- Made Vulcanus stronger as a metallurgic planet while preserving Angel's/Bob's progression.
- Hid old direct Vulcanus plate shortcut recipes in favour of molten metal and foundry casting routes.
- Hid duplicate or obsolete direct casting routes where they conflicted with the new progression.
- Cleaned up Muluna aluminium cable and duplicate low density structure casting interactions.
- Improved Fulgora copper wire selection.
Bugfixes:
- Fixed progression issues where tungsten carbide could be unavailable.
- Fixed duplicate foundry recipe outputs.
- Fixed copper wire recipes appearing as copper cable where copper wire was the actual output.
- Fixed missing localisation for copper-tungsten and zinc pipe foundry recipes.
- Fixed Factoriopedia clutter.
- Fixed several foundry recipe icons, main products, subgroup ordering and display names.
- Fixed tungsten carbide variants appearing as separate products instead of being merged.
- Improved final safety checks for Vulcanus.
Version: 1.0.10
Date: 05. 06. 2026
Bugfixes:
- Fixed enabled Sintering Oven progression incorrectly requiring the disabled tier 3 Sintering Oven.
- Fixed Copper-tungsten plate uncraftable error.
Version: 1.0.9
Date: 02. 06. 2026
Changes:
- Added stronger regression gates for rolling-stock upgrades, dependency recipe loops, planet progression smoke checks, and balance sanity.
- Further migration changes with Angel's and Bob's update.
- Changed map-gen .lua for new starts with updated Angel's and Bob's.
- Migration changes to tungsten and carbon overrides.
Version: 1.0.8
Date: 01. 06. 2026
Changes:
- Added stronger regression gates for rolling-stock upgrades, dependency recipe loops, planet progression smoke checks, and balance sanity.
- Added migrations for all the new Bob's, further fixes / balances to come.
- Removed obsolete Hyarion metallic ore technology unlock references.
Bugfixes:
- Fixed Bob Logistics 2.1 turbo belt compatibility.
- Fixed a technology progression loop involving Vulcanus discovery, metallurgic science, Muluna progression, and space science.
- Fixed tungsten clean-up logic to preserve Angel's and Bob's tungsten items while safely hiding duplicate tungsten variants.
- Fixed validation warnings.
- Fixed a late-game technology cycle involving Vulcanus discovery, space science, and asteroid collector progression.
Version: 1.0.7
Date: 29. 05. 2026
Bugfixes:
- Fixed Factorian fish breeding retaining spoilage, so breeding now produces fresh fish instead of inheriting the input fish spoilage level.
Version: 1.0.6
Date: 27. 05. 2026
Bugfixes:
- Fixed unintended machine progression replacements causing several Angel machine upgrade chains to incorrectly use unrelated machine tiers as ingredients.
Version: 1.0.5
Date: 22. 05. 2026
Changes:
- Added stronger regression gates for rolling-stock upgrades, dependency recipe loops, planet progression smoke checks, and balance sanity.
- Fixed unintended crusher progression interactions between Angel's Refining and Muluna.
- Added Safety script to prevent further conflicts in future.
Version: 1.0.4
Date: 20. 05. 2026
Changes:
- Added stronger regression gates for rolling-stock upgrades, dependency recipe loops, planet progression smoke checks, and balance sanity.
- Added ore safety validation script and fixed incorrect tungsten ore replacements.
Version: 1.0.3
Date: 20. 05. 2026
Changes:
- Added stronger regression gates for rolling-stock upgrades, dependency recipe loops, planet progression smoke checks, and balance sanity.
- Formatting changes in .json file.
- Changelog corrected formatting.
Version: 1.0.2
Date: 20. 05. 2026
Changes:
- Added stronger regression gates for rolling-stock upgrades, dependency recipe loops, planet progression smoke checks, and balance sanity.
- Changed dependencies so only essential mods are required.
Version: 1.0.1
Date: 19. 05. 2026
Graphics:
- Added thumbnail.png for mod portal and in-game display.
Bugfixes:
- Fixed dependency issues.