Beyond Belts is the rewritten and renamed continuation of AdvancedBeltsSA by Buggi,
which itself was a Space Age fork of Advanced Belts by Warnone.
⚠️ Not a drop-in replacement - see the migration notes below if you're coming from either of those.
About
Adds three new tiers of transport belts past vanilla Turbo:
| Tier | Speed (default) | Crafted on |
|---|---|---|
| Hyper | 90 items/s | Vulcanus (metallurgy) |
| Extreme | 120 items/s | Vulcanus (metallurgy) |
| Ultimate | 150 items/s | Aquilo (cryogenics, zero-g) |
Each tier ships a transport belt, splitter, and underground belt. All speeds (15–180 items/s) and underground-belt reach values are individually configurable in the startup settings.
Recipes use Space Age materials. The Ultimate tier requires cryogenic crafting and zero gravity (Aquilo), uses fluoroketone-cold, and disables productivity bonuses on the fluid output to model a recycled coolant loop.
Optional mod compatibility
- ✅ Vanilla Loaders HD (≥ 2.0.0)
- ✅ AAI Loaders (with optional Sane Loader Balance support)
- ✅ Loaders Modernized (≥ 2.0.0)
- ✅ Deadlock Beltboxes & Loaders
- ✅ Black Rubber Belts - Remastered
- ✅ Lane Balancers (≥ 1.2.2 — adds matching lane splitters for every tier)
Lane splitters / balancers
Vanilla Factorio 2.0 does not expose any visible lane-splitter items. Beyond Belts therefore does not ship its own - but if you install Lane Balancers by Quezler, Beyond Belts automatically registers a matching lane splitter for every tier through that mod's public hook. You get Quezler's recipe scheme (2× output, halved item weight, doubled stack size, splitter-derived texture) and proper next_upgrade chaining for free, with our tier-coloured icons.
Migrating from AdvancedBeltsSA / AdvancedBeltsSA-VL
The v3 line is a full rewrite with a clean prototype namespace (bb- prefix), reworked tier names (Hyper / Extreme / Ultimate), modern integrations, and a tier-driven internal architecture. As a result it is not a drop-in replacement - every belt entity has a new prototype name, so existing belts placed by older versions cannot be migrated automatically.
If you have an existing save:
- Continue playing it on either the original AdvancedBeltsSA by Buggi or my last v2.3.6 release AdvancedBeltsSA-VL (deprecated, kept available for saves only).
- Or switch to Beyond Belts and re-place the belts - uninstall the old mod, install
beyond-belts, and replace each existing belt/splitter/underground with its new-tier equivalent. Items in the inventory will be lost
For new playthroughs, install beyond-belts directly. Add lane-balancers if you want lane splitters for every tier (vanilla's and beyond-belts).
Credits
All credits to Warnone (original Advanced Belts) and Buggi (Space Age fork AdvancedBeltsSA) and contributors.