Blueberry Excavation

by q2s2t

Adds excavation explosives that let you dig fluid-filled holes. Fork of Explosive Excavation by GotLag. Retexture by Ingo_Igel.

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Changelog

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