Changelog

Version: 0.15.1
Date: 2026-11-04
  Bugfixes:
    - reads a belt lane's item where the inserters take from it, not from the first belt piece built

Version: 0.15.0
Date: 2026-10-27
  Features:
    - captures supported belt bends with their pickup geometry
    - exports the container a recycler puts its results into
    - exports the machine a recycler puts its results into, even before its first output
  Bugfixes:
    - keeps filtered inserters into empty output belts when their item is known

Version: 0.14.0
Date: 2026-10-24
  Features:
    - exports the way the belt runs where an inserter drops onto it, so the Clock Generator can tell which of the drops along it comes first
  Bugfixes:
    - exports a belt that has a loader in it, which the Clock Generator refused to import (#363)
    - exports a chest that is empty when you select the build, with the item the inserters into and out of it move (#366)

Version: 0.13.0
Date: 2026-10-23
  Features:
    - marks an inserter that drops onto a belt that side-loads onto another belt downstream, with the tiles to the merge

Version: 0.12.0
Date: 2026-10-23
  Features:
    - exports cars, tanks, cargo wagons and rocket silos as chests, with their slot filters and quality, exported empty
    - exports mining drills that drop into a chest, car, tank, cargo wagon or rocket silo
    - exports each mining drill's own productivity, research and modules together
    - exports each machine's and chest's prototype and quality, shown as icons in a clock's descriptions
    - exports where each entity stands and which way inserters and drills face
  Changes:
    - no longer exports a machine's type: the Clock Generator works it out from the machine
    - the button is Export (was Copy JSON)
  Bugfixes:
    - exports a mining drill that has not mined or dropped yet, such as one just upgraded beside a full container (#316)
    - selects linked belts
    - a mining drill or inserter that drops into something not in the export is listed as left out, instead of exported as dropping into the first machine, belt or chest

Version: 0.11.0
Date: 2026-10-21
  Features:
    - captures pickups over the hood of an underground exit: lane 1 unmirrored, lane 2 mirrored, half-tile reach
    - captures the pickup layout (side, front or over the hood) apart from the reach and the supply; older underground captures need recapture
    - exports each pickup's classification and source, so a pickup the Clock Generator does not support stays marked through saves and imports
    - captures the preferred lane and half-tile reach in front of an underground entrance: lane 2 mirrored, lane 1 otherwise
  Changes:
    - a pickup from a belt tile that another belt side-loads onto is marked unsupported, as a splitter pickup is; earlier versions exported it as an ordinary belt pickup
  Bugfixes:
    - exports each inserter's kind and quality, and its filter mode for a blacklist; filters switched off are no longer exported. Earlier versions made the Clock Generator run every inserter as a legendary stack inserter

Version: 0.10.0
Date: 2026-10-18
  Features:
    - captures the preferred lane and half-tile pickup length in front of an underground exit: lane 2 for a mirrored inserter, lane 1 when flipped

Version: 0.9.1
Date: 2026-10-17
  Features:
    - explains unclassified belt pickups in the copy window and JSON: bends, splitters, inline pickups and unsupported geometry

Version: 0.9.0
Date: 2026-10-17
  Features:
    - exports the exposed pickup length for inserters beside straight belts and underground endpoints, so moving pickup timing can be simulated
    - exports the nearest lane at underground entrances and exits as well as straight belts

Version: 0.8.0
Date: 2026-10-17
  Features:
    - exports the Remove unfiltered items setting of infinity chests, including empty disposal chests
  Bugfixes:
    - infinity chest filters are read from their configured settings instead of their current contents

Version: 0.7.1
Date: 2026-10-16
  Bugfixes:
    - two belts that carry the same items on opposite lanes are exported as two belts, not one. As one, the lanes of the first were listed for both, and the near_lane of an inserter on the other named the wrong item

Version: 0.7.0
Date: 2026-10-14
  Features:
    - the window with the JSON lists each inserter left out of it, with where it stands and why: what it takes from or drops into is not in the JSON, or is something the sidecar has no type for. The window with the selection numbers each inserter by its id in the JSON and marks one left out with -
  Changes:
    - an inserter that takes from an empty belt or chest or from a machine that is not exported, or that drops into a lab, a machine without a recipe or a machine outside the selection, is left out of the JSON. It used to point at machine, belt or chest 1, which is some other entity. The inserters after it are numbered one lower than before
  Bugfixes:
    - selecting an assembling machine without a recipe, or a lab, no longer crashes the game
  Info:
    - the contact and homepage links point at the clock-generator repository

Version: 0.6.0
Date: 2026-10-05
  Features:
    - biochambers are exported with the type "biochamber" and their energy consumption bonus (energy_consumption_bonus, in percent) so the clock generator can work out how many nutrients they burn
    - the version of the mod is exported as sidecar_version so the clock generator can ask for an update when it is older than the version that exports a setting it can use
    - an inserter that picks up from a straight piece of belt is exported with the lane nearest to it (near_lane on its source: 1 for the left lane in the direction the belt runs, 2 for the right one), which is the lane it takes from first when its machine takes the items of both
  Bugfixes:
    - belt pieces joined to each other, through undergrounds and splitters as well, are exported as one belt, with lanes read from all of its pieces. A lane that had run dry under one inserter used to split a belt in two, and an inserter over an empty piece was put on the first belt
    - inserters are exported with only the filters set on the inserter. Filters were guessed from the source machine's recipe or the source belt's lanes, which listed items the sink does not accept and made the config invalid; the clock generator works out what an inserter moves itself

Version: 0.3.0
Date: 2026-06-23
  Changes:
    - Updated compatibility to Factorio 2.0 or 2.1

Version: 0.2.0
Date: 2026-02-17
  Features:
    - ability to extract info from a biochamber