Blueprint Shotgun


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.

Utilities
25 days ago
1.1 - 2.0
5.18K
Blueprints

Changelog

Version: 0.2.11
Date: 2025-08-06
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed Ultracube compatibility
Version: 0.2.10
Date: 2025-07-26
  Sounds:
    - Gave the initial vacuum opening sound a slight cooldown when activated
  Compatibility:
    - Removed soft dependency on Light armor
Version: 0.2.9
Date: 2025-07-19
  Bugfixes:
    - Hopefully squashed mode swapping migration bug for good
    - Fixed crash with item request proxies maybe
Version: 0.2.8
Date: 2025-07-02
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed crash in on_configuration_changed
Version: 0.2.7
Date: 2025-07-01
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed mode swapping defaulting to manual when updating from 0.2.4 or below
Version: 0.2.6
Date: 2025-06-30
  Graphics:
    - Added icons to the technology modifers
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed mode swapping always being manual when updating from 0.2.4 or below
Version: 0.2.5
Date: 2025-06-29
  Features:
    - Added support for module removal
    - Added 3-way mode swap setting
Version: 0.2.4
Date: 2025-06-26
  Changes:
    - Moved gun and ammo recipe to the "repair" category
  Optimizations:
    - Simplified item request action logic
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed crash with upgrading underground belt with ghost connection
    - Fixed attempting to shoot modules into entity marked for upgrade with module requests
Version: 0.2.3
Date: 2025-06-01
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed building tiles consuming double items
Version: 0.2.2
Date: 2025-05-31
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed internal temporary inventories not being deleted very occasionally
    - Fixed underground items not spilling if connection became invalid during upgrade
    - Fixed entity search incorrectly being square instead of circular
Version: 0.2.1
Date: 2025-05-31
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed upgrade build sound playing globally
    - Fixed quality ghosts getting built with other quality items
    - Fixed upgrading underground belts always spilling items from the underground part
Version: 0.2.0
Date: 2025-05-30
  Features:
    - Ultracube compatibility
  Balancing:
    - Reduced cost of initial technology to 25
    - Reduced ammo usage of building/mining tiles
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