Early Stack Size


Standalone logistics expansion with early belt stacking, Industrial Containers, two-lane filtering Industrial Loaders and configurable storage and resource stack sizes. Works in Base mode and Space Age mode for Space Age owners.

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2.0 - 2.1
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Logistics Logistic network Storage

Changelog

Version: 1.0.6
Date: 2026-10-25
  Compatibility:
    - Target Factorio 2.1.23 and later 2.1 releases, with Base and optional Space Age support.
    - Update portable storage tanks to the Factorio 2.1 fluid API while preserving saved tags, fluid amounts, temperatures and quality.
  Bugfixes:
    - Fix the existing vanilla logistic chest capacity setting and container source references to use the actual Factorio chest names.
  Features:
    - Add the seven 4x4 industrial container variants, preserving research gates and unlocking only researched recipes in existing saves.
    - Use the approved The Cave container and loader graphics, including corrected container scales and loader side views.
  Balancing:
    - Set industrial container capacity ranges/defaults to 100-200/200, 400-800/800, 900-1600/1600 and 1800-3000/3000 for 1x1, 2x2, 4x4 and 6x6.
    - Set the standard 1x1 recipe to 40 steel plates and the new 4x4 recipe to two standard 2x2 containers plus 80 steel plates, with 10-second crafting time.
    - Apply the selected ammunition, rocket, gear, wall, fuel, seed and ice stack sizes.
  Info:
    - Preserve the existing belt-stacking progression to 20 through 18 capacity researches, independent lane filters, portable tank weight and existing prototype IDs.
Version: 1.0.5
Date: 2026-09-04
  Balancing:
    - Set portable filled storage tanks to 50 kg, limiting rocket cargo to 20 tanks.
  Bugfixes:
    - Restored tagged fluid contents when a portable tank is built by a space platform.
    - Preserved fluid contents when a space platform mines a non-empty storage tank.
    - Recovered orphaned placement proxies from older saves as empty vanilla storage tanks.
Version: 1.0.4
Date: 2026-09-04
  Balancing:
    - Set every portable filled storage tank to 25 kg, limiting rocket cargo to 40 tanks regardless of fluid type or fill level.
    - Left the vanilla empty storage tank weight and rocket capacity unchanged.
Version: 1.0.3
Date: 2026-09-04
  Features:
    - Added portable filled vanilla storage tanks.
    - Preserved exact fluid amount, temperature, capacity and quality.
    - Added player and construction-robot support with rollback on invalid placement.
  Compatibility:
    - Preserved Industrial Loader build handling through a shared event dispatcher.
    - Prevented use alongside the standalone Portable Storage Tanks test mod.
Version: 1.0.2
Date: 2026-08-30
  Changes:
    - Added a separate item filter for each Industrial Loader belt lane.
    - Updated inserter and belt capacity research costs and research times.
Version: 1.0.1
Date: 2026-08-29
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed loading Early Stack Size in Base mode while the Space Age mod is disabled.
Version: 1.0.0
Date: 2026-08-29
  Features:
    - Added independent belt stacking from stack size 2 to 20.
    - Added Industrial Containers with the original research progression.
    - Added Industrial Loaders for every available belt tier.
    - Added seven chest capacity settings.
    - Added eleven selected item stack size settings from 50 to 400.
    - Set Iron Plate, Copper Plate, Steel Plate and Stone Brick stack size to 200.