Changelog

Version: 7.0.7
Date: 29. 07. 2026
  Changes:
    - Added Foundry crafting support for compact loader and beltbox recipes when Space Age is enabled.
    - Replaced the existing vanilla stacked-item icons with new 64px mipmapped artwork.
    - Added stacked variants for additional Space Age resources and components, including calcite, carbon, holmium ore, holmium plate, ice, lithium, lithium plate, quantum processors, scrap, spoilage, tungsten carbide and tungsten plate.
    - Added safe stacking support for bioflux, jelly, jellynuts, nutrients, raw fish, yumako and yumako mash.
    - Stacking and unstacking spoilable items now preserves their freshness.
    - Stacked spoilable items retain the original spoil time and produce the exact equivalent quantity when fully spoiled.
  Bugfixes:
    - Prevented automatic unstacking from resetting item freshness or quality.
    - Prevented unsafe spoilable stacks from being created when their spoil result cannot be represented exactly, avoiding possible item loss or duplication.
    - Fixed generated stacked items falling back to Factorio's default item weight, which allowed excessively large rocket shipments.
    - Stacked-item rocket capacity now correctly scales with the number of items represented by each stack.
  Credits:
    - Thanks to yswb for contributing Foundry crafting support and compatibility handling for games without Space Age.
    - Thanks to Supershadow30 for creating the new stacked-item artwork, testing the 7.0.7 build, confirming freshness preservation and reporting the rocket-capacity issue.

Version: 7.0.6
Date: 27. 07. 2026
  Changes:
    - Reworked stacked fuel handling for improved reliability and mod compatibility.
    - Added full support for fuels that produce burnt-result items, even when the fuel and its burnt result use different stack sizes.
    - Improved compatibility with mods that add or modify custom fuel items.
    - Stacking is now safely disabled for fuels whose conversion depends on spoilage or planet-specific recipe conditions, as these cannot currently be represented reliably.
    - Added frozen graphics support for beltboxes and compact loaders in freezing environments.
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed incorrect burnt-result quantities when stacked fuels were consumed.
    - Fixed stacked fuel properties not always staying synchronized with changes made by other mods.
    - Added additional validation to prevent unsafe or ambiguous stacked-fuel conversions, eliminating potential item loss or duplication.
    - Thanks to hunter_beij for reporting that stacked coal could bypass coal ash generation in Py Coal Processing.

Version: 7.0.5
Date: 27. 07. 2026
  Bugfixes:
    - Preserved exact burnt-result quantities when stacked fuels are burned.
    - Added deterministic residue bundles for fuels whose stack density differs from their burnt result.
    - Disabled unsafe stacked-fuel behavior when an exact residue conversion cannot be proven.

Version: 7.0.4
Date: 11. 07. 2026
  Bugfixes:
    - Replaced removed Factorio 1.x inventory defines with the Factorio 2.1 crafter input and output inventories.
    - Fixed a non-recoverable crash when placing compact loaders next to entities without a chest inventory.
    - Updated auto-unstack inventory scanning to avoid passing missing inventory indexes to LuaEntity::get_inventory.
    - Restored a safety check for stacked items whose base item prototype no longer exists.

Version: 7.0.3
Date: 09. 07. 2026
  Changes:
    - Changed the internal mod name to deadlock-beltboxes-loaders-continued for Mod Portal publishing.
    - Bumped the continued release version to 7.0.3.
    - Updated mod metadata, title, homepage and base dependency for Factorio 2.1.
    - Added expanded README documentation with project history, original authors, maintainer status and API reference.
  Bugfixes:
    - Updated loader and beltbox recipe prototypes to use the Factorio 2.1 categories field.
    - Added safe category fallback logic for Factorio 2.1 recipes that no longer expose recipe.category.
    - Fixed Space Age startup by using a valid crafting category for express and turbo loader/beltbox recipes.
    - Retained compatibility conversion for older recipe category fields used by bridge mods.

Version: 2.7.0
Date: 09. 07. 2026
  Changes:
    - Initial community-maintained continuation release for Factorio 2.1.
    - Updated mod metadata, title, homepage and base dependency for Factorio 2.1.
    - Added README documentation for the continued project and maintainer status.
  Bugfixes:
    - Updated loader and beltbox recipe prototypes to use the Factorio 2.1 categories field.
    - Retained compatibility conversion for older recipe category fields used by bridge mods.

Version: 2.6.0
Date: 06. 01. 2025
  Changes:
    - Corrected the recipe for T4 loaders/beltboxes to use T3 instead of T2
    - Allow T3/T4 loaders/beltboxes to be made in foundaries when Space Age is present, matching the belts of that tier

Version: 2.5.0
Date: 23. 10. 2024
  Changes:
    - Updated for Factorio 2.0
    - Added compatibility with Space Age, a 4th tier of loaders/beltboxes will be added if Space Age is active
    - Turbo loaders/beltboxes are currently only localized in English, PRs with translations are welcome!
    - Removed the 'low' graphics as `hr_version` as the low/high split has been removed from the game

Version: 2.4.2
Date: 09. 05. 2021
  Changes:
    - Remove old compatibility workarounds from build event code, and add an event filter to improve performance.

Version: 2.4.1
Date: 13. 01. 2021
  Changes:
    - Remove check for whether loaders are from this mod for snapping to improve compatibility with other mods. Reminder: snapping options can be disabled in settings if desired.

Version: 2.4.0
Date: 24. 11. 2020
  Changes:
    - Updated for Factorio 1.1.0, courtesy of billbo99

Version: 2.3.7
Date: 31. 10. 2020
  Bugfixes:
    - Fix multiplication of fuel value for items with non-whole-number values, courtesy of billbo99

Version: 2.3.6
Date: 26. 07. 2020
  Bugfixes:
    - Use icons property instead of icon when both are present and fix bad size assumption, courtesy of kirazy on GitHub

Version: 2.3.5
Date: 11. 04. 2020
  Bugfixes:
    - Fix potential desync due to unneeded global variables

Version: 2.3.4
Date: 22. 03. 2020
  Changes:
    - Thanks to shelaf for adding a Japanese translation

Version: 2.3.3
Date: 07. 03. 2020
  Bugfixes:
    - Fix upgrade planner properties for new entity type

Version: 2.3.2
Date: 01. 03. 2020
  Changes:
    - Allow stacking of rail items, thanks to billbo99

Version: 2.3.1
Date: 17. 02. 2020
  Bugfixes:
    - Fix a crash when a base item for a stacked item is deleted

Version: 2.3.0
Date: 25. 01. 2020
  Changes:
    - Support 0.18 thanks to billbo99
    - Loaders changed to use type = "loader-1x1"