If you’ve ever played with arcospheres in space exploration, and wanted to play more with them, then this mod is for you.

This is an independent mod that adds 5 different tiers of arcospheres, and changes every recipe to require arcospheres and arcosphere management all throughout the game. Recipes are automatically generated, so if it isn't already compatible with an overhaul mod, it will be soon.

For those who don’t know what arcospheres are, they are a group of fairly valuable intermediates. Each tier of arcosphere has a set of different states it can be in. Every recipes take in 2 arcospheres of certain states, and returns 2 arcospheres of different states, meaning they are never used or destroyed. In order to maintain a steady supply of all different arcosphere states for crafting, you must change their states with folding recipes in arcofolders. Higher tiers of arcospheres have more possible states and more complicated folding recipes, and are used to craft more advanced items. Additionally, more efficient versions of intermediate recipes are added that use higher tiers of arcospheres.

For clarification, EVERY recipe (with a few recipe category exceptions like barreling or smelting) is affected and requires arcosphere management. Science packs, inserters, transport belts, buildings, modded items, you name it.

Features:

• 3 new buildings for folding arcos
• 36 new arcos, used as intermediates/catalysts in every recipe
• Randomized, generative addition of arcos to every single recipe ingredients and products (with category exceptions)
• duplication of numerous recipes for more resource-efficient recipes, using higher tiers of arcos

The Arcos:

1. Arcobeads: Rock, Paper, Scissors
2. Arcoorbs: Fire, Water, Earth, Air
3. Arcoboulders: Lust, Wrath, Pride, Sloth, Greed, Envy, Gluttony
4. Arcoplanets: Earth, Mars, Venus, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, Mercury
5. McArcospheres: Taco Bell, Jimmy John’s, Wendy’s, McDonald’s, Walmart, Tesco, White Castle, KFC, Subway

WIP:

• Compatibility with overhauls that change science packs
• Unique graphics for Arcofabulators and McArcofolders
• Difficulty settings
• Any bugs that may appear when playing (please tell us in discussion)

Compatibilities (wip, more to come):

• Industrial Revolution 3
• Space Exploration
• Krastorio 2

We STRONGLY recommend using some loader mod, as you will need to move a lot of arcos in and out of the arcofolders.

This mod was a collab between me and ArchEzekiel, who did a huge portion of the code and graphics.