Magic Science Chest: Improved


A free passive-provider chest that supplies science packs after your force has produced enough of each pack.

Content
11 days ago
2.0 - 2.1
54
Storage Cheats

Changelog

Version: 1.0.2
Date: 2026-10-23
  Bugfixes:
    - Remove obsolete prototype/style fields reported unused by Factorio 2.1.
    - Restore legacy disabled refill through disabled_by_script instead of the read-only active property.
Version: 1.0.1
Date: 2026-10-23
  Compatibility:
    - Declare Factorio 2.1 compatibility.
Version: 1.0.0
Date: 2026-10-14
  Features:
    - Independent fork of Magic Science Chest 2.0.2 by Dreaden, titled Magic Science Chest: Improved.
    - Retain original continuous native refill, one-stack science buffers and five-second unlock checks.
  Optimizations:
    - Compare chest filters directly and update only chests of affected forces.
    - Share production calculations between GUI windows on the same force and skip unchanged captions.
    - Skip production-statistics reads when the unlock threshold is zero.
  Bugfixes:
    - Refresh science caches and GUI rows when science pack keys change.
    - Rediscover existing chests when replacing the original mod.
    - Restore native refill for chests saved by earlier batched fork releases.
  Info:
    - Compared with original 2.0.2 on a Factorio 2.0.77 endgame save with 2,509 science chests and 5,011 biolabs.
    - Both completed research-productivity level 49 after 2,306 ticks from 64.68% progress and consumed 2,771,479 combined science packs over 3,000 ticks, including idle time after completion.
    - Controlled research pause/restart throughput also matched; overall update timings overlapped across runs.