Fluid Smelting with Pyroflux

This mod enhances the smelting process in the Space Exploration mod by introducing new recipes that allow you to smelt common plates and items directly into their molten fluid forms using Pyroflux.

Key Features

• New Smelting Recipes: Adds recipes for converting a variety of items, including iron plates, copper plates, steel plates, and gears, into their molten fluid counterparts.
• Consistent Recipe Design: The core recipe requires 10 items of the same type and a variable amount of se-pyroflux to produce a specific amount of molten fluid.

• Special Case Handling: Includes a unique recipe for se-iridium-plate that smelts it into a single se-iridium-ingot instead of a fluid, maintaining game balance.

• Technology Integration: All new recipes are automatically unlocked upon researching their corresponding Space Exploration technologies, ensuring seamless progression.

How It Works

The mod utilizes a clean, modular code structure to define and register the new recipes and their unlock effects. A main helper function, add_smelting_recipe, orchestrates the creation of a recipe definition and its unlock effect in a single, readable call. This ensures consistency and makes the code easy to maintain and expand.

Dependencies

• Space Exploration: This mod is built specifically to work with the Space Exploration mod and requires it to function correctly, as it uses items and technologies from that mod.

Installation

To install, simply place the mod's folder (containing info.json, data.lua, and other files) into your Factorio mods directory.