Better Pumpjacks
Better Pumpjacks expands oil extraction with two powerful new pumpjack tiers, configurable balance settings, and dedicated pumpjack-only productivity research.
Upgrade your oil fields from the vanilla pumpjack to Pumpjack MK2 and Pumpjack MK3, then continue improving them through repeatable productivity research without affecting regular mining drills.
Features
- Adds Pumpjack MK2 and Pumpjack MK3
- Faster oil extraction speeds
- Increased module capacity
- Built-in base productivity bonuses
- Upgrade planner support:
Pumpjack -> Pumpjack MK2 -> Pumpjack MK3 - Pumpjack-only productivity research
- Optional productivity research support for vanilla pumpjacks
- Repeatable productivity levels with configurable science costs
- Configurable productivity bonus per research level
- Configurable maximum applied productivity level
- Dashboard showing per-surface fluid/s estimates, pumpjack counts, average yield, and low-output warnings
- Configurable per-fluid warning thresholds with chat notifications
- Surface visibility manager with custom display names
- Remote interface for other mods to read output stats and thresholds
- Custom item, technology, and research icons
- Distinct blue and red pumpjack visuals
- Custom destroyed remnants
- Dynamic item and technology descriptions based on startup settings
- Configurable pollution values
- Configurable energy usage values
- Configurable speed, productivity, and module slots
Compatibility
Designed to work with:
- Factorio 2.0
- Vanilla
- Space Exploration
- Krastorio 2
- Space Age
- Multiplayer
Science requirements automatically adjust depending on the installed overhaul mods.
Space Exploration staged productivity technologies are supported.
Pumpjack Tiers
Pumpjack MK2
A faster and more efficient upgrade for mid-game oil production, with additional module slots and improved productivity.
Default values:
- 1.5x mining speed
- 4 module slots
- +10% base productivity
- 180 kW energy usage
Pumpjack MK3
A powerful late-game pumpjack designed for high-output oil fields, with even greater speed, productivity, and module capacity.
Default values:
- 2x mining speed
- 8 module slots
- +20% base productivity
- 300 kW energy usage
Pumpjack Productivity Research
Better Pumpjacks includes dedicated productivity research that affects Pumpjack MK2 and Pumpjack MK3 by default.
Each completed level increases pumpjack productivity without boosting normal ore-mining drills.
Default values:
- +10% productivity per level
- Maximum applied level: 50
- Research cost formula:
1000 + (L * 1000) - Vanilla pumpjack support: disabled by default
Because this is a custom pumpjack-only system, the bonus does not appear in Factorio's standard bonus list.
Mod Settings
The following values can be adjusted through the startup mod settings menu:
- MK2 mining speed
- MK3 mining speed
- MK2 base productivity
- MK3 base productivity
- MK2 module slots
- MK3 module slots
- MK2 pollution
- MK3 pollution
- MK2 energy usage
- MK3 energy usage
- Productivity research bonus per level
- Maximum productivity level applied to entities
- Whether productivity research affects vanilla pumpjacks
- Productivity research base science cost
- Productivity research per-level science cost
Notes
Changing start-up settings requires restarting the game.
For multiplayer, all players and the server should use the same mod version and startup settings.
Hidden productivity variants are used internally to keep productivity pumpjack-specific. Some planner mods may show these hidden variants if they do not ignore hidden prototypes.
Modules that do not fit after a pumpjack replacement (e.g. due to a settings change reducing module slots) are spilled on the ground rather than deleted.
Built for players who want stronger oil-production progression without replacing the rest of Factorio's mining system.
AI-assisted creation.