Biological Machines: Industry


Adds new biological materials and intermediates to basic recipes including steel, circuits, concrete and explosives. To do so it brings several space age mechanics to the Nauvis early game including spoilage, recycling, crushing and agriculture. Also makes significant additions to Gleba including napalm and biodiesel.

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Mining Manufacturing

Changelog

Version: 1.1.0
Date: 20. 2. 2026
  Features:
    - Seawater filtration recipe producing mainly sand/spoilage with trace amounts of stone/iron ore/copper ore/fish
    - Early heating tower setting which moves the heating tower technology after concrete and before nuclear power/Gleba
    - Rails from landfill setting replacing stone in rail recipe with landfill
  Changes:
    - Stone crushing recipe can be crafted by hand
    - Decreased ethanol cost in cracking recipes
    - Added engine units to foundry recipe
    - Replaced stone in foundation recipe with landfill
    - Enabled productivity modules on pyrolysis recipes
    - Moved brick from lava recipe to terrain subcategory in factoriopedia
    - Increased default vulcanus coal generation increase to 3x
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixes potash generation on vulcanus, it wasn't generating at all
Version: 1.0.6
Date: 12. 2. 2026
  Compatibility:
    - Added support for KS Power/Gas Generator/Gas Boiler. When vanilla fluid fuel value/efficiency is set by one of these or another mod, seed oil is set to heavy oil and puff gas is set to petroleum gas
  Changes:
    - Prevent all circuit board recipes from being auto hand crafted as intermediates (circuit board must be hand crafted specifically)
    - Changed default crushing industry byproducts setting to true
      - Added stone byproducts to ore crushing recipes
      - Swapped carbonic crushing coal byproduct for potash and removed metallic crushing crushed iron byproduct
Version: 1.0.5
Date: 9. 2. 2026
  Compatibility:
    - Fixed crash when AAI loaders was in lubricated or graphics only mode
    - Made crushing industry compat optional (enabled by crushing industry override setting)
      - Added support for crushing industries glass and byproducts settings
      - Fixed crash with crushing industry tweaks and/or planet vesta (with default settings) by auto disabling/hiding the crushing industry override setting
      - Fixed crash with k2so (with default settings) by disabling crushing industries k2 compat by default. Either crushing industries k2 compat or BM: Industries crushing industry override must be enabled but not both
  Changes:
    - Iron stick and piston unlocked with steam power
    - Steam power unlocking stone crushing/lime/glass mix/glass smelting moved to early crusher (not loaded if crushing industry override is loaded)
Version: 1.0.4
Date: 7. 2. 2026
  Compatibility:
    - Fixed crash when rocket parts would try to generate recipe for factorissmo surfaces
    - Added detailed compat with crushing industry
  Changes:
    - Added glass to recipes for lab, agricultural tower, solar panels and night vision equipment
    - Removed stone crushing + glass techs, their unlocks were moved to steam power
Version: 1.0.3
Date: 5. 2. 2026
  Compatibility:
    - Added back copper lamp to larger lamps override for compatibility with tenebris prime (fixes crash on load)
    - Moved slag to data-updates for muluna compat (fixes crash on load)
    - Removed foundry concrete recipe from paracelsin concrete prod tech (fixes crash on load)
    - Removed foundry concrete recipe from foliax foundry tech (fixes crash on load)
    - Removed iron gear wheel from splitter when k2so is installed for compat (fixes crash on load)
    - Fixed crash in rocket-parts when third party planet doesn't have its order defined (like Khemia: Age of Alchemy)
  Changes:
    - Changed recipe ingredient amounts for gunpowder and lds
Version: 1.0.2
Date: 3. 2. 2026
  Changes:
    - Added space travel required feature flag
Version: 1.0.1
Date: 28. 1. 2026
  Changes:
    - Replaces thumbnail, replacing text plates with text