Adds excavation explosives that let you dig fluid-filled holes. Fork of Explosive Excavation by GotLag. Retexture by Ingo_Igel.
Mods introducing new content into the game.
Version: 2.0.0
Date: 2026-08-02
Minor Features:
- Added support for including excavated tiles in blueprints and placing them with construction robots.
- Added a startup setting for overriding the excavated tile per surface, including an "any" fallback for other surfaces.
Modding:
- Added a configuration interface that allows other mods to customize excavation tiles, technology prerequisites and costs, and recipe ingredients.
Graphics:
- Added HD graphics provided by Ingo_Igel.
- Renamed blasting charges to excavation explosives and updated their item, recipe, technology, sounds, weight, and crafting requirements.
Changes:
- Reworked surface-specific excavation, with shallow water on Nauvis and Gleba, lava on Vulcanus, shallow oil ocean on Fulgora, and brash ice on Aquilo.
- Updated technology prerequisites, research costs, and recipe ingredients when Space Age is enabled.
- Renamed the mod to Blueberry Excavation and changed its internal name to "bbexcavation" as part of a complete rewrite for Factorio 2.1.
- Migrates existing blasting charges in player and entity inventories and on the ground while preserving stack quality.
- Migrates existing technology research progress and recipe unlocks where possible.
Bugfixes:
- Fixed offshore pumps placed from cross-surface blueprints not recognizing the surface-specific excavated fluid tile until rebuilt.
Version: 1.3.0
Date: 04. 01. 2025
Changes:
- Added support for Space Age
- Blasting charges now produce appropriate fluid tiles on all planets
- Blasting charges no longer damage nearby entities, explosion is only cosmetic
Version: 1.2.0
Date: 30. 12. 2024
Changes:
- Updated to Factorio 2.0
Version: 1.1.8
Date: 26. 11. 2020
Changes:
- Updated to Factorio 1.1
Version: 1.1.7
Date: 24. 01. 2020
Bugfixes:
- Fixed crash when placing tiles in editor mode (thanks JD-Plays)
Version: 1.1.6
Date: 23. 01. 2020
Changes:
- Updated to 0.18
- Crafting recipe now uses cliff explosives