An updated fork of Magic Science Chest by Dreaden. Automatically supplies unlocked science packs, with fixes for chest updates and the information window. Keeps the original refill behavior. Compatible with existing Magic Science Chest saves.
Mods introducing new content into the game.
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.