Combat Reconfigured

v1.0.0 is the initial public release. It provides focused startup settings for the existing guns and turrets in Factorio 2.1, with optional Space Age support. Validated with Factorio 2.1.24. English and Simplified Chinese setting names and explanations are included.

The public interface has 63 settings in base game / 87 with Space Age across 15 / 20 weapon configuration groups. Most weapons have four controls: maximum range, shot interval, damage coefficient and the appropriate resource cost. The gun turret has exactly these four. Space Age-only controls are absent without the expansion.

Install and configure

Copy combat-reconfigured_1.0.0.zip into Factorio's user-data mods directory. On macOS this is normally ~/Library/Application Support/factorio/mods. Keep only one installed copy of Combat Reconfigured, including any experimental copy. Enable it, then use Settings → Mod settings → Startup and restart when prompted. The game may offer to synchronize startup settings with a save; check the resulting values after synchronization.

Defaults leave every vanilla prototype unchanged. Changed values are base values, applied through the native prototypes. Research, quality and ammunition effects continue to work. There is no runtime script, per-tick scan, new entity, recipe or technology.

Supported weapons and defaults

Range is in tiles; interval is in ticks (60 ticks = 1 second). Damage is the weapon's native coefficient. Resource costs are per shot; ammo values are coefficients, fluid values are units, and energy values below are shown in MJ for readability. The settings screen takes energy in J, where 1 MJ = 1,000,000 J.

Special controls include shared artillery turret/wagon rotation speed, a shared artillery shell damage radius, artillery manual range (default 560), Tesla chain jumps (turret 10, handheld 12) and the shared railgun ammunition line length (50). Railgun turrets expose both ammunition and electrical cost. All artillery controls affect turret and wagon together, including one shared cannon rotation setting. Shared shell damage radius defaults to 4 tiles. The shared cannon rotation input defaults to 21.6 degrees/second (0.001 turns/tick).

Grenades, capsules, land mines, combat robots, equipment, armor, walls and general vehicle properties have no public controls. Health, regeneration, resistances, repair, general rotation controls (except artillery), preparation timing, alerts, targeting scores, effect physics and visual controls are outside the public interface. Their original behavior remains enabled.

Input limits

The settings screen enforces inclusive bounds and shows them in each description. Limits apply to base inputs, before native bonuses.

Unchanged blind spots give these ordinary range floors: flamethrower turret 7, rocket turret 16, railgun turret 4.5, handheld/tank flamethrower 4, tank cannon 6, all remaining ordinary weapons 1 tile. Single-round consumers are rockets, cannon shells, artillery shells and railgun ammunition. Native per-shot debits are capped at magazine size; an ammo coefficient above 1 would not reliably spend multiple single-round items per shot, so it is not offered.

Range, firing frequency and chain effects can increase CPU/memory use. These bounds reduce extreme inputs; they are not a measured large-factory performance guarantee. A 256-tile circle is about 202 times the area of an 18-tile circle. Native quality/research/ammo bonuses can take effective range above an input ceiling and can reduce effective intervals below one tick. Numerous fast-firing turrets can still be expensive. Increase range, rate and jumps gradually when testing an existing factory.

Meaning and interaction of settings

1. Startup values replace the corresponding base values. They are not multipliers on every vanilla number. A damage coefficient of 1 is not neutral for the laser turret (default 2) or combat shotgun (default 1.5). A smaller interval means faster fire; 6 ticks gives a base 10 shots/s, while 60 ticks gives 1 shot/s. Actual rates also depend on power, ammo, turning, preparation and native reloading.
2. Native bonuses apply afterward. Weapon damage coefficients combine with native ammo/actions, research and relevant quality effects; target resistances still apply. No fixed final damage or global override is imposed. A zero damage coefficient does not disable firing or native non-damage effects. Native ammo range/cooldown modifiers remain; ammo range modifiers do not extend artillery in this engine.
3. Local settings stay local. Gun/turret settings do not rewrite shared projectile, beam, stream or ammo damage. A turret range increase extends an insufficient embedded beam limit and explicit preparation radius only on that turret. Increasing an electrical shot cost expands only that turret's energy buffer when necessary, preserving vanilla headroom. Input power, idle drain and flow limits stay unchanged; sustained fire can become power-limited.
4. Artillery is explicitly shared. Both turret and wagon use the configured automatic range, interval, damage and ammo cost. Manual range is an independent absolute base input; changing automatic range alone keeps the base manual input at 560. The mod derives both entities' native manual-range ratio. Manual range may be below automatic range. Native research/quality continue to modify the resulting behavior. The turret and wagon share one cannon rotation control in degrees/second (1-360, default 21.6); it does not change shot intervals, post-shot turning delay, parking or wagon travel. The shared shell radius (0.5-32, default 4 tiles) changes both physical and explosion damage coverage for both entities. It is a radius, not diameter. Visual effects, map reveal and damage per target remain unchanged. Radius 32 covers 64 times the area of vanilla radius 4, potentially affecting more entities and increasing CPU work and native collateral damage.
5. Railguns have two distance limits. Each railgun has its own targeting range; the explicit shared ammunition line-length setting affects both handheld and turret railguns. To engage at 70 tiles, set the relevant targeting range and shared line length to at least 70. Quality range alone does not rewrite that line length. The line can also hit entities along its path according to native rules.
6. Resources use native accounting. Ammo 1 generally means one round, not an entire magazine; 0.5 means reduced expenditure, including one single-round item per two shots. Ammo 0 still needs compatible ammunition loaded. Fluid cost is per shot, not per second; native fuel checks and oil damage bonuses remain. Energy cost is J/shot, not idle watts; zero shot cost does not remove idle drain. Shot costs do not create supplies or change loading requirements.
7. Spidertron uses one shared group. Range, interval, damage coefficient and ammo coefficient each apply to all four native launchers. Interval is per launcher and ammo cost is per shot, not a combined total for the vehicle. Other rocket weapons remain independent.
8. Tesla chains remain separate. Each Tesla setting edits only its own chain's maximum jumps. Native jump reach, branching and quality-dependent forking remain, so this value is not a guaranteed total number of unique targets.

There are no global enable switches, category overrides or hidden experimental fallbacks. Unchanged settings do not write optional native fields. Third-party mod compatibility is outside the supported scope.

Experimental research

The experimental edition provides the full research parameter set, generator and tests. See its parameter inventory and validation notes for details. It is unpublished research and is excluded from this installation ZIP.

Both editions use the internal mod name combat-reconfigured. Install only one edition in a mods directory; remove the other edition and duplicate copies before switching. They are independent alternatives, not add-ons. Research settings are not automatically migrated to the public settings, so review startup values when switching editions.

Validation and packaging

See the validation notes for checks and their limits. No build commands or additional dependencies are required. Run the following from the mod/ source directory (or prefix script paths with mod/ from the repository root):

python3 tests/run.py
python3 scripts/package.py --output /path/to/combat-reconfigured_1.0.0.zip

The test runner accepts --factorio, --data and --keep /new/directory. Packaging uses an explicit allowlist. prototypes/weapons.lua defines public inputs; settings.lua registers them; data-final-fixes.lua applies changed values only. Only changelog.txt is maintained.

Official references

Validated against the installed official data and matching 2.1.24 API: attack parameters, ammo types, artillery turrets, and Tesla chains, artillery wagons, and area triggers.

The MIT license is included with this edition. See the project overview for both editions.