Changelog

Version: 0.3.3
Date: 2026-09-25
  Compatibility:
    - Tellurium 0.2.1 with Krastorio 2: advanced solar panels use cadmium telluride instead of tellurium metal, as vanilla solar panels do.
    - Space Exploration with Tellurium: night vision equipment needs one cadmium (zinc) telluride detector crystal, like gamma-ray detectors.

Version: 0.3.2
Date: 2026-09-25
  Balancing:
    - Nuclear reactors need 50 neutron absorber assemblies instead of 20.
  Features:
    - Neutron absorber assemblies also go into fusion reactors (Space Age, Krastorio 2) at 50, Krastorio 2's nuclear locomotive at 10, and portable fission reactors and Space Exploration's portable fusion reactor at 5.
    - The absorber assembly unlocks with the research of any of these machines; existing saves get it on load.

Version: 0.3.1
Date: 2026-09-24
  Info:
    - Shorter Mod Portal summary; art credits stay in the changelog and THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt.

Version: 0.3.0
Date: 2026-09-23
  Features:
    - Brass Tacks: zinc purification in a chemical plant recovers cadmium, the richest source (optional; ordinary smelting stays).
    - If Nickel: nickel-cadmium batteries from nickel and cadmium instead of lead, zinc, graphite and acid (optional).
    - Space Exploration with Tellurium: gamma-ray detectors need cadmium zinc telluride crystals.

Version: 0.2.0
Date: 2026-09-23
  Major Features:
    - Initial release.
    - Fume scrubbers capture flue dust into filters; washing them recovers cadmium sponge, smelted into cadmium plates.
    - Scrubbers work faster in polluted chunks (shared among scrubbers in the chunk) and still run at base speed with pollution disabled.
    - Research progression: fume scrubber, electrostatic precipitator (4x4) and impregnated filters that scrub twice as hard.
    - Cadmium-plated hardware: more efficient engine and rail recipes; rocket parts, flying robot frames, roboports, steam turbines, centrifuges, big mining drills and nuclear reactors need plated parts.
  Features:
    - Space Age: Vulcanus neutralises acid with cadmium recovery, Fulgora leaches cadmium from scrap; scrubbers stay on planets with airborne pollution.
    - Krastorio 2: used air purifier filters can be leached for cadmium; with Brass Tacks, an optional zinc enrichment with cadmium recovery.
    - Space Exploration: cargo rocket sections need plated hardware; cadmium items fit the delivery cannon.
    - Tellurium: optional filter washes that also recover a little tellurium residue, and solar panels take cadmium telluride (cadmium plate + tellurium metal) in place of Tellurium's tellurium metal.
  Graphics:
    - Scrubber building by Hurricane046 (Hurricane Graphics, MIT).
    - Filter icons by Byzzee (Better Ecology, MIT), sponge icon by MrSmoothieHuman1 (Periodic Madness, MIT), activated carbon badge by tirisabella, Johanna Spieker and _traum (Sosciencity Graphics, CC BY 4.0).