Changelog

Version: 1.0.1
Date: 2026-11-05
  Info:
    - Release for Factorio 2.1.

Version: 1.0.0
Date: 2026-11-05
  Features:
    - Atmospheric distillation in the vanilla oil refinery: crude oil and steam into wild naphtha, middle distillate and heavy oil. Replaces the advanced oil processing recipe (startup setting).
    - Naphtha stabilization into naphtha and sour gas, middle distillate splitting into kerosene and gas oil; both cuts can also be reformed or hydrotreated straight into light oil.
    - Oil side: catalytic reforming or steam cracking of naphtha, hydrotreating of kerosene and gas oil, rocket fuel from kerosene, solid fuel from gas oil, diesel (Krastorio 2 fuel) from gas oil.
    - Simple gas handling with advanced oil processing: liquid redox sweetening of sour gas with iron, steam reforming of sweet gas into hydrogen.
    - Gas processing research: amine gas treating, Claus process for sulfur or wet sulfuric acid process, cryogenic separation into methane and natural gas liquids, fractionation or steam cracking of the liquids, steam methane reforming into hydrogen.
    - Fuel gases (methane, sweet gas, raw natural gas, LNG) burn in Krastorio 2's gas power station and Alternative Steam's boilers.
    - No new buildings: everything runs in the oil refinery, chemical plant, pumpjack and mining drill.
    - Residue upgrading: vacuum distillation of heavy oil into vacuum gas oil and vacuum residue, lubricant from vacuum gas oil, asphalt concrete from vacuum residue, hydrocracking of heavy oil and fluid catalytic cracking over a consumable zeolite catalyst (made from AluminiumX's alumina, sand and sodium hydroxide in a chemical plant), delayed coking into gas oil, sour gas and coke (Krastorio 2's coke).
    - Advanced chemical tech card, built like Krastorio 2's tech cards from blank cards, zeolite, plastic and methane; every research after it takes it.
    - Research from three science packs up to all the planets' packs: the further down the chain, the dearer and the more kinds of pack; ingredients from other mods add their technology as a prerequisite when needed.
    - Natural gas fields: on Nauvis and Gleba (recoloured lithium brine vent). Mined by pumpjacks into raw natural gas; wellhead separation into sour gas, condensate and water.
    - Methane hydrate ore: on its own ice islands on Aquilo, one of them next to the starting island; mined with steam. It falls apart into ice after five minutes, and the research waits for Aquilo. Hydrate dissociation into methane and water.
    - Polyethylene: plastic from natural gas liquids and steam, 3 bars per second without coal, in its own research; Space Age's plastic productivity research applies to it.
    - Liquefied natural gas: methane liquefaction in the cryogenic plant and regasification; one unit of LNG holds three of methane.
    - Thruster fuel from LNG on space platforms, in the cryogenic plant, in its own research after the thruster.
    - Methane pyrolysis: methane, raw natural gas or LNG into hydrogen and carbon; raw gas also gives sulfur.
    - Methalox rocket fuel from LNG and Krastorio 2's oxygen.
    - Methanol synthesis from methane into Krastorio 2's biomethanol.
    - Ammonia from methane and Krastorio 2's nitrogen, a quarter more ammonia than steam methane reforming and K2's synthesis one after the other.
    - Refining productivity: endless research, +10% productivity per level for atmospheric distillation, vacuum distillation, hydrocracking, FCC and delayed coking.
    - Anoxia's natural gas vents give raw natural gas when both mods are installed.
    - Every new item and fluid has at least two uses.
    - Requires Space Age, Krastorio 2 Spaced Out and AluminiumX; uses K2's hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, ammonia, biomethanol, coke and fuel.
  Graphics:
    - The tech card is recoloured from Krastorio 2's chemical tech card (LGPLv3, graphics/LICENSE-tech-card.txt).
    - Own icons for methane hydrate and the zeolite catalyst, rendered in Blender in the style of the vanilla ore icons.
    - Methane shows its molecule, like Krastorio 2's fluids; gas mixtures keep the steam cloud.