Adds a gun that shoots items to build ghosts, upgrade entities, and more! Also features a vacuum mode to mine entities, tiles, and ground items. An alternative to nanobots or other early bot start mods.
Providing the player with new tools or adjusting the game interface, without fundamentally changing gameplay.
Version: 0.1.11 Date: 2025-05-11 Bugfixes: - Fixed incorrect bounding box for entity search function resulting in bias to the bottom right
Version: 0.1.10 Date: 2025-05-02 Bugfixes: - Removed debug print
Version: 0.1.9 Date: 2025-05-02 Bugfixes: - Fixed speed buff applying to every build action - Fixed voiding tile item when replacing placeable tile with another
Version: 0.1.8 Date: 2025-05-02 Changes: - Improved tile placement speed by decreasing cooldown when shooting only tiles
Version: 0.1.7 Date: 2025-04-08 Bugfixes: - Fixed entity search only detecting the corners of bounding boxes - Fixed items not coming out of the barrel of the gun in different rotations - Fixed being able to place cover tiles before foundation tiles causing items to be voided - Fixed cover tiles spawning foundation tile items when placed causing items to be duplicated
Version: 0.1.6 Date: 2025-04-06 Bugfixes: - Fixed crash with inserting fuel into trains
Version: 0.1.5 Date: 2025-04-01 Changes: - Entity search now uses the selection box instead of the collision box for many things, improving the feel of the gun - Slight performance improvements due to the new search function
Version: 0.1.4 Date: 2025-04-01 Bugfixes: - Fixed audio/visual bug with attempting to mine landfil from underneath your feet
Version: 0.1.3 Date: 2025-04-01 Bugfixes: - Fixed crash when mining landfill from underneath your feet - Fixed duplication bug with not having enough items to fulfull an item request
Version: 0.1.2 Date: 2025-03-24 Changes: - Added Iron sticks to the unlock technology to prevent not being able to craft ammo immediately Bugfixes: - Properly localized the ammo category for blueprint ammo - Fixed internal character entity showing in factoriopedia
Version: 0.1.1 Date: 2025-03-24 Changes: - Blueprint shotgun technology now allows ghosts to be created on entity death
Version: 0.1.0 Date: 2025-02-14 Features: - Updated to 2.0 - Added setting to remove wood from the recipe
Version: 0.0.13 Date: 2024-06-13 Bugfixes: - Fixed crash when mining miniloader
Version: 0.0.12 Date: 2024-06-13 Bugfixes: - Fixed crash when surface deleted while items are midair
Version: 0.0.11 Date: 2024-05-14 Bugfixes: - Fixed mining infinity chests attempting to suck the items out of the chest first - Fixed rare crash when mining tiles
Version: 0.0.10 Date: 2024-04-24 Bugfixes: - Fixed crash when running out of ammo while vacuuming entities and items in the same tick
Version: 0.0.9 Date: 2024-04-10 Bugfixes: - Fixed crash with composite entities created by the shotgun
Version: 0.0.8 Date: 2024-03-27 Bugfixes: - Fixed vacuum startup sound playing globally in multiplayer
Version: 0.0.7 Date: 2024-03-22 Bugfixes: - Fixed issue with duplicating modules when inserted into item request proxies
Version: 0.0.6 Date: 2024-03-18 Bugfixes: - Fixed crash with mining multiple entities in the same tick
Version: 0.0.5 Date: 2024-03-16 Bugfixes: - Fixed incorrect collision calculation of curved rails
Version: 0.0.4 Date: 2024-03-16 Bugfixes: - Fixed crash with probability-based entity mining results Changes: - Added setting to disable auto-swap of build and vacuum mode - Added cheat setting to add a bonus to the item capacity and mining speed Balancing: - Reduced cost of initial technology to 50 packs
Version: 0.0.3 Date: 2024-02-29 Bugfixes: - Fixed incorrect mining progress bar size on rotated entities with non-square collision boxes - Fixed cliffs being able to be precisely shot at twice due to sub-tick event ordering
Version: 0.0.2 Date: 2024-02-28 Bugfixes: - Fixed vacuum mode doing only one type of mining at a time - Fixed crash with building ghost curved rails
Version: 0.0.1 Date: 2024-02-28 Features: - Initial Release