Productivity for intermediates, science packs, final products, spoilage rate, and modded recipes. Bonuses for player stats, robot specs, weapon speed, stack size, cargo landing pads, and more... Override game limits on productivity, efficiency, speed, quality, and recycling. Settings to disable, limit, and rebalance each added research. Designed for vanilla, Space Age, and overhaul mods.
Small changes concerning balance, gameplay, or graphics.
Version: 3.2.2
Date: 2026-07-27
Bugfixes:
- Ordered MIR after Pyanodons Post-processing so sanitation runs against Py's final rebuilt technology tree.
- Fixed casting-mk02 referencing the removed casting-gear recipe after Pyanodons finalization.
- Restored valid researched planet discoveries damaged by MIR 3.2.0 or 3.2.1.
- Kept the upgrade repair narrow; unrelated technology effects are not reset.
Version: 3.2.1
Date: 2026-07-26
Bugfixes:
- Preserved unlock-space-location effects for concrete planet prototypes.
- Restored discovered Space Age and modded planets, starmap connections, and platform travel.
- Continued pruning only genuinely missing space-location targets.
- Kept force-wide technology-effect resetting disabled.
Version: 3.2.0
Date: 2026-07-25
Changes:
- Completed all 50 Factorio-supported locales and added source-hash-bound generation and regression checks.
- Added persistent content-addressed verification evidence with stable per-test and per-scenario identities.
- Split exact release-archive identity from gameplay, runtime, migration, settings, balance, and dependency domains.
- Added separate locale and asset domains so packaging-only changes do not invalidate unrelated gameplay evidence.
- Reused trusted passing evidence only when every declared effective input has the same fingerprint.
- Added explicit REUSE, WAIT, RUN, and INVALID planning with matching-worker adoption and non-cancelling concurrency.
- Added isolated Factorio scenario workers and one aggregate verification gate for pull requests and release qualification.
- Added target-specific verification profiles so Factorio 2.0 backports recalculate their own fingerprints.
- Added canonical schema-4 plans, structured test results, immutable attempt capsules, trust classes, and strict JSON schemas.
- Enforced protected F0 through F4 release layers and made candidate sealing invoke the canonical aggregate gate.
- Bound mod archives, the Factorio installation, verifier, policy, and producer trust to evidence reuse.
- Added iterative pre-emission SCC analysis that rejects cyclic technology operations.
- Replaced foreign technology cloning with an allowlisted builder and moved stream mutation into emission.
- Added bounded compiler telemetry and indexed science-pack recipe discovery.
- Retained the portable target-capability guard that emits mod-data only on Factorio lines that support it.
- Preserved stable settings, generated technology IDs, migrations, and runtime-state namespaces from MIR 3.1.9.
- Kept additional automatic recipe-family generation disabled by default.
- Added steel plate productivity: base games receive one MIR chain, while Space Age keeps and extends its native owner.
- Preserved every MIR 3.1.9 technology while moving design and lifecycle handling behind common contracts.
- Removed redundant transient technology-catalog materialization while retaining one validated authoritative final catalog.
- Reduced final catalog construction cost with trusted copy-on-write diagnostic designs and gate-only qualification snapshots.
- Generated the packaged effective stream-default table directly from the canonical Lua defaults.
- Enabled every established technology toggle by default, including spoilage preservation and inserter capacity bonus.
- Kept factory-disruptive technology classification independent of default enablement.
- Sorted risky technologies first and appended automatic localized tooltip warnings.
- Added +2% ice-platform and +1% space-platform-foundation productivity to Landfill productivity.
- Added default-on +10% Nutrients productivity for exact forward Space Age nutrient recipes.
- Added default-on +10% Capture bot rocket productivity for its exact Space Age recipe.
- Proved pentapod egg remains in Breeding productivity with a seed-safe +10% effect.
- Supports Factorio, Recycler, and Space Age 2.1.8 or newer; release qualification continues on newer 2.1 builds.
Bugfixes:
- Requalified the exact realized technology graph after safe competing-technology replacement and prerequisite rewiring.
- Fixed competing productivity preparation when a recognized overhaul owner is eligible for MIR replacement.
- Ordered MIR after Krastorio 2 and K2SO final science/lab rewrites so generated research no longer collapses to red science.
- Ordered MIR after Space Exploration so its final Krastorio recipe removals happen before productivity compilation.
- Pruned impossible known recipe targets from generated and external technology effects before final safety assertions.
- Added regressions for removed K2/SE recipes, dangling unlock effects, and retained valid effects.
- Sanitized missing quality and entity targets and distinguished item grants by quality.
- Retained valid planet unlocks when resolving abstract space-location effect targets.
- Preserved unrelated force recipe state during MIR configuration changes without globally reapplying technology effects.
- Replaced recursive researchability traversal and prevented fatal safety assertions from suppressing diagnostic flushing.
- Corrected four stable stream manifest policies to match native-owner binding for their Space Age families.
- Preserved exact singleton CompatibilityPack candidate seeds instead of incorrectly classifying every seed as ambiguous.
- Corrected packaged documentation for the enabled agricultural-growth, cargo-landing-pad-count, and character-reach defaults.
Version: 2.4.9
Date: 2026-07-20
Bugfixes:
- Stopped Factorio 2.0 packages from emitting unsupported mod-data prototypes.
- Removed an unnecessary global technology-effect reset during configuration changes, preserving unrelated mod state.
- Removed dangling unlock-quality and turret-attack effects and invalid optional give-item quality targets.
- Distinguished give-item effects for the same item at different quality levels.
- Prevented Space Exploration's removed Krastorio copper-cable recipe from remaining in technology effects.
- Kept copper, iron, and steel productivity from claiming scrap-input recovery recipes.
Changes:
- Completed all 50 Factorio-supported locales and added source-hash-bound generation and regression checks.
- Added persistent content-addressed verification evidence with stable per-test and per-scenario identities.
- Split exact release-archive identity from gameplay, runtime, migration, settings, balance, and dependency domains.
- Added separate locale and asset domains so packaging-only changes do not invalidate unrelated gameplay evidence.
- Reused trusted passing evidence only when every declared effective input has the same fingerprint.
- Added explicit REUSE, WAIT, RUN, and INVALID planning with matching-worker adoption and non-cancelling concurrency.
- Added isolated Factorio scenario workers and one aggregate verification gate for release qualification.
- Recalculated verification fingerprints from the Factorio 2.0 package, binary, dependency contract, and scenarios.
- Made exact candidate equivalence, paired runtime performance, and package-focused manual review seal inputs.
- Preserved stable settings, generated technology IDs, migrations, and runtime-state namespaces from MIR 2.4.5.
- Added steel productivity for standard steel-plate recipes and adopted Space Age's native productivity owner.
Version: 3.1.9
Date: 2026-07-14
Bugfixes:
- Kept generated research loadable when mods disable automation science technology but leave its recipe initially available.
- Skipped finite anchors and prerequisite chains that transitively depend on disabled technologies.
- Made the standard settings configure recognized existing Space Age infinite productivity owners.
- Applied cost base and growth together as the displayed cost model when either value is customized.
- Preserved final native or modded owner values when settings stay at their defaults.
- Preserved current native-owner research level, selection, and fractional progress across cost changes.
- Left external owners untouched when their MIR stream is disabled.
- Rejected explicit cost changes for unrecognized external formulas instead of guessing.
- Retained safe fallback generation and transactional owner updates.
Version: 3.1.5
Date: 2026-07-13
Changes:
- Returned portable compiler-plan and settings-override improvements from historical Factorio support work.
- Improved configuration-change reliability across supported Factorio lines.
- Standardized generated research formulas on compact syntax accepted across historical and current Factorio parsers.
- Improved compatibility across maintained and archive targets from Factorio 2.0 through 0.13.
- Replaced the automatic compiler preset with separate action and research-creation controls.
- Added an independent reviewed-data requirement and outcome-first tooltips.
- Added a generic schema-2 automatic compiler policy contract for future registered family modules.
- Added a sorted data-only CompilerProvider registry for extending recipe-family discovery and planning.
- Added canonical setting descriptors and exact Conservative, Safe, Expansive, and Custom policy expansions.
- Added stable automatic-compiler and provider diagnostic codes.
- Kept experimental assembler and lab family technologies out of reviewed-data creation.
- Preserved explicit broad opt-in testing for experimental automatic family technologies.
- Standardized automatic-recipe dropdown labels, tooltip structure, capitalization, and locale parity.
- Preserved old automatic compiler profiles through a hidden legacy-policy bridge.
- Hid unreviewed automatic-family tuning settings while preserving broad opt-in testing and profile compatibility.
- Hid Space Age-only technology settings when the DLC is inactive while retaining their registered values.
Bugfixes:
- Preserved the 3.1.2 iterative prerequisite-cycle repair and strict generated-graph safety checks.
- Published compiled generation plans only after authoritative safety checks complete.
- Added exact 3.1.2-to-3.1.5 upgrade coverage for legacy automatic-compiler settings and saved runtime state.
Version: 3.1.2
Date: 2026-07-13
Bugfixes:
- Fixed a startup crash when Muluna and Astroponics formed a mutual prerequisite path through space science.
- Removed only Astroponics' redundant space-science prerequisite when both named mods create that exact cycle.
- Kept missing, disabled, and MIR-created technology prerequisite failures strict.
- Made deep technology graph checks iterative so very large modpacks cannot exhaust the Lua call stack.
Version: 3.1.1
Date: 2026-07-13
Bugfixes:
- Fixed a startup crash when one multi-output recipe matched more than one generated productivity research stream.
- Made overlapping recipe effects choose one stable owner while preserving every non-overlapping effect.
- Preferred compatible existing productivity research when it already owns an overlapping recipe effect.
- Kept a final duplicate-effect safety check after overlapping ownership is resolved.
- Added regression coverage for Space Age Galore's coal-crushing recipe shape and related ownership cases.
Version: 3.1.0
Date: 2026-07-13
Changes:
- Added automatic structural coverage for loaders, belts, drills, inserters, furnaces, machines, labs, and modules.
- Added structural coverage for solar generation and power storage equipment.
- Added conservative automatic modes ranging from reporting only through opt-in generic family generation.
- Preserved existing technology names, setting names, defaults, profiles, and saved-game state.
- Added whole-plan safety checks before any generated technology or adopted effect is applied.
- Prevented compatibility-pack data from overriding hard productivity, recycling, probability, catalyst, and owner safety facts.
- Made exact-pack mode generate only families authorized by an exact-version compatibility record with named evidence.
- Added reviewed exact candidate seeding for recipes outside generic structural discovery without adding technology IDs.
- Unified stream, adoption, and base-extension operations in one fingerprinted compilation plan with full output-value parity.
- Preserved recipe variants, fluids, probabilities, catalysts, surfaces, and productivity exclusions during discovery.
- Rejected recycling, self-return, catalyst, voiding, transmutation, ambiguous-owner, and unsafe multi-output loops.
- Preferred an exact existing productivity owner instead of creating duplicate infinite research.
- Added complete recipe accounting with stable reasons for covered, external, safe-skip, unsafe, and unresolved recipes.
- Added positive target capabilities so unsupported effects, settings, and prototype shapes fail closed.
- Made generated outputs and archive construction deterministic.
- Made every runtime scenario test one exact archive, with setup reuse, focused selection, and bounded parallel workers.
- Renamed Automatic Research Coverage options and added detailed setting and per-option tooltips.
- Improved science-pack, lab, prerequisite, and technology reachability decisions.
- Added independent compatibility load coverage for AAI, BZ, Bob, Krastorio, and Krastorio Spaced Out.
- Kept complex chemistry, recovery, recycling, catalysts, and byproduct loops conservative unless explicitly proven safe.
- Preserved non-default settings, research levels, saved state, and scripted effects when upgrading from 3.0.5.
Version: 3.0.5
Date: 2026-07-12
Compatibility:
- Kept the canonical MIR 3 compiler, generated technology IDs, and existing default behavior stable.
- Fixed generated research that could inherit an unavailable tutorial technology from an already-enabled science recipe.
- Kept disabled or cyclic technology prerequisites out of generated research while preserving legitimate progression gates.
- Rejected self-locked, cyclic, or non-researchable science recipe unlocks.
- Skipped generated streams whose required technologies are disabled or unreachable instead of emitting a fatal graph edge.
- Made science recipe unlock selection deterministic when multiple reachable technologies provide the same recipe.
- Made rocket and cannon overlap cleanup use semantic effect identity and positive emitted coverage for new configurations.
- Preserved finite vanilla weapon speed bonuses and existing stored overlap-mode choices.
- Limited weapon overlap cleanup to MIR-generated continuations and required external owners to use obtainable science.
- Rejected external research owners that use unrecognized science ingredients.
- Kept incineration sink recipes out of breeding productivity research so later recipe removal cannot leave invalid effects.
- Made opt-in productivity scoping derive its unrestricted threshold from the inverse effective recycler return.
- Kept recycling-category recipe productivity caps outside both the global production cap and scoped-cap passes.
- Made the scope checkbox inert at or below the inverse threshold, including cap-matched boundaries.
- Defined engine-unchanged recycling as a conservative 25% threshold baseline without changing recycler returns.
- Added a recycler-return dropdown with unchanged, cap-matched, and fixed choices from 20% down to 0.1%.
- Hid the redundant fixed 25% recycler row while retaining legacy profile compatibility for that enum.
- Cap-matched recycling uses total output: +400% gives 20% returns and +1000% about 9.09%, never above vanilla 25%.
- Added a separate negative speed-floor dropdown down to -99.99% while keeping the positive speed cap independent.
- Expanded the numeric dropdown ladders from quarter-scale values through high-end megabase and modpack values.
- Gave every dropdown an explicit unchanged/bypass option while retaining all existing enum IDs.
- Allowed portable profiles to use validated custom decimal percentages beyond the curated dropdown steps.
- Added an engine-unchanged lab policy that bypasses MIR reachability, reduction, and skip intervention.
- Made module productivity discover recipes through final module prototype tiers, including tier 4 and later modded modules.
- Cooperated with Finite Productivity Technologies 0.1.1's hidden load-after dependency for final cap conversion.
- Added opt-in unrestricted module permissions across existing recipe, machine, and beacon slots.
- Added per-generated-technology effect-per-level controls while preserving canonical mixed-tier ratios.
- Fixed a settings-stage circular import that prevented 3.0.5 from loading.
- Made effect controls display each technology's primary base-tier value while preserving later-tier ratios.
- Kept scripted effect controls scaling multiplier deltas instead of full multipliers.
- Made competing technology replacement transactional.
- Rewired dependent prerequisites only after MIR emitted graph-safe coverage.
- Isolated unrestricted module-permission arrays per prototype and gave the pass its own target capability.
- Made scripted effect tooltips display the selected per-level value.
- Preserved retained non-default base effect settings during upgrades instead of failing on an incomplete scaling descriptor.
Changes:
- Centralized target capabilities so the mod and developer tools consume the same Factorio-line profile.
- Made the runtime persistence backend an explicit target choice: storage on Factorio 2.x and global on older lines.
- Added final generated-technology checks for enabled prerequisites, cycles, science production, labs, and reachability.
- Separated reduced target setting visibility from modern settings profile encoding behavior.
- Added durable grouped developer-run summaries with passed, failed, skipped, and incomplete outcomes.
- Bound release evidence to exact source, target-profile, required-group, package-content, and runtime-summary fingerprints.
- Allowed exact external rocket or cannon speed owners when the existing competition preference keeps external research.
- Added classifier-boundary, late recipe-removal, and exact Planet Crucible plus Rigor Module regression gates.
- Consolidated generated setting registration through the canonical catalog and aligned controls with generated effects.
- Kept visible recycling processes such as scrap recycling outside MIR's generated-recycler balance pass.
- Added recycler combination coverage for unchanged, fixed, and cap-matched modes and independent recipe caps.
- Corrected recycling safety indexing for Factorio 2.1 independent and shared product probabilities.
- Added a complete 3.0.5 inventory for all 477 dropdown, checkbox, numeric, and profile-import settings.
Version: 2.4.5
Date: 2026-07-14
Bugfixes:
- Prevented generated research from inheriting a disabled Automation science technology.
- Kept initially available science recipes usable when their former unlock technology is disabled.
- Skipped finite anchors and prerequisite chains that transitively depend on disabled technologies.
- Made the standard settings configure recognized existing Space Age infinite productivity owners.
- Applied cost base and growth together as one displayed cost model when either value is customized.
- Preserved current native-owner research level, selection, and fractional progress across cost changes and 2.4.0 upgrades.
- Preserved native or modded owner defaults, left disabled streams untouched, and safely rejected unknown cost formulas.
- Kept native-owner adoption transactional and retained safe generated-stream fallback.
Changes:
- Rebuilt 2.4.5 as the complete Factorio 2.0 projection of the sealed 3.1.9 portable behavior set.
- Declared explicit science-pack inputs for the opt-in experimental assembler and lab research families.
Version: 2.4.1
Date: 2026-07-14
Internal:
- Retained as the qualified superseded candidate that was renumbered and requalified as 2.4.5.
Bugfixes:
- Prevented generated research from inheriting a disabled Automation science technology.
- Kept initially available science recipes usable when their former unlock technology is disabled.
- Skipped finite anchors and prerequisite chains that transitively depend on disabled technologies.
- Made the standard settings configure recognized existing Space Age infinite productivity owners.
- Applied cost base and growth together as one displayed cost model when either value is customized.
- Preserved current native-owner research level, selection, and fractional progress across cost changes and 2.4.0 upgrades.
- Preserved native or modded owner defaults, left disabled streams untouched, and rejected unknown formulas safely.
- Kept native-owner adoption transactional and retained safe generated-stream fallback.
Changes:
- Rebuilt 2.4.1 as the complete Factorio 2.0 projection of the sealed 3.1.9 portable behavior set.
- Declared explicit science-pack inputs for the opt-in experimental assembler and lab research families.
Version: 2.4.0
Date: 2026-07-14
Changes:
- Ported the released 3.1.5 automatic compiler contracts to the maintained Factorio 2.0 line.
- Preserved 2.3.5 technology IDs, setting IDs, runtime namespaces, and save-compatible behavior.
- Added RecipeFactV2, shared relationship indexes, schema-2 family rules, compatibility packs, and coverage accounting.
- Applied Factorio 2.0 target-declared stream, effect, setting, recipe-shape, and emitter cuts.
- Retained whole-plan safety checks, deterministic results, and exact-owner protections from the modern source.
- Fixed the Muluna and Astroponics cycle by removing only Astroponics' circular Space Science prerequisite.
- Switched prerequisite checks to an iterative graph walk so deep modded technology trees remain safe.
- Replaced the automatic compiler preset with separate action and research-creation controls.
- Added an independent reviewed-data requirement and outcome-first tooltips.
- Added a generic schema-2 automatic compiler policy contract for future registered family modules.
- Added a sorted data-only CompilerProvider registry for extending recipe-family discovery and planning.
- Added canonical setting descriptors and exact Conservative, Safe, Expansive, and Custom policy expansions.
- Added stable automatic-compiler and provider diagnostic codes.
- Kept experimental assembler and lab family technologies out of reviewed-data creation.
- Preserved explicit broad opt-in testing for experimental automatic family technologies.
- Standardized automatic-recipe dropdown labels, tooltip structure, capitalization, and locale parity.
- Preserved old automatic compiler profiles through a hidden legacy-policy bridge.
- Added content-addressed assurance plans, evidence capsules, exact candidate seals, and promotion-only verification.
- Added one change-aware verification command and an aggregate fast CI plan artifact.
- Made processing unit, plastic, low density structure, and rocket fuel owner research use existing stream settings.
Bugfixes:
- Preserved iterative prerequisite-cycle repair and strict generated-graph safety checks.
- Published compiled generation plans only after authoritative safety checks complete.
- Preserved the exact 2.3.5-to-2.4.0 settings and saved-runtime upgrade contract.
- Preserved final native or modded owner balance under defaults and when its MIR stream is disabled.
- Rejected unsafe cost overrides for unrecognized external formulas instead of guessing their semantics.
- Applied recognized owner cost, time, level, and relevant effect changes as one fingerprint-checked transaction.
Version: 2.3.5
Date: 2026-07-11
Compatibility:
- Ported the MIR 3.0.5 compatibility hardening source to Factorio 2.0.
- Kept Factorio 2.0 metadata, dependencies, runtime storage, settings profiles, and supported Space Age surfaces.
- Kept Factorio 2.1-only cargo bay range and landing pad count modifiers out of this target.
- Fixed science unlock inference, disabled prerequisites, science self-locks, and unreachable required technologies.
- Kept incineration sinks out of breeding productivity across the dependent late-removal lifecycle.
- Limited weapon overlap cleanup to MIR-generated continuations with semantic, positive replacement coverage.
- Made competing technology replacement transactional and graph-safe.
- Rewired dependent prerequisites only after MIR emitted complete replacement coverage.
- Isolated unrestricted module-permission arrays per prototype.
- Made scripted effect tooltips display the selected per-level value.
- Preserved retained non-default base effect settings during upgrades instead of failing on an incomplete scaling descriptor.
Changes:
- Reused canonical target profiles, grouped run summaries, and exact stale-package checks.
- Added Factorio 2.0 safeguards for generated prerequisites, recipe targets, and weapon overlap ownership.
- Added the default-off above-300% self-recycling cap scope and unrestricted module-permission settings.
- Added per-generated-technology effect-per-level controls that preserve mixed-tier ratios for MIR-emitted effects.
Version: 1.9.5
Date: 2026-07-05
Compatibility:
- Backported the tested More Infinite Research 2.1.0 source snapshot to Factorio 2.0.
- Updated legacy metadata to target Factorio 2.0 with `base >= 2.0`.
- Kept Quality hidden and optional, and kept Space Age optional without a Factorio 2.1 dependency floor.
- Removed Factorio 2.1-only cargo logistics technology modifiers from legacy.
- Kept compatible 2.1.0 recipe-productivity ownership safeguards.
- Kept compatible vanilla productivity-family adoption and fluid-output productivity streams.
Internal:
- Fixed local audits so official built-ins include required official dependencies such as Recycler for Quality.
- Tightened load-failure grouping to classify Factorio error excerpts instead of MIR audit-row text.
Version: 1.9.4
Date: 2026-07-15
Changes:
- Reconstructed the Factorio 1.1 release from the qualified 3.1.9 development anchor.
- Retained the stable reduced stream set and legacy science-pack discovery path.
- Added source-lock, deterministic-package, exact-binary, and upgrade evidence gates.
Version: 1.8.2
Date: 2026-07-15
Changes:
- Reconstructed the Factorio 1.0 release from the qualified 3.1.9 development anchor.
- Retained the stable reduced stream set and legacy science-pack discovery path.
- Added source-lock, deterministic-package, exact-binary, and upgrade evidence gates.
Version: 1.7.1
Date: 2026-07-15
Bugfixes:
- Added strict generated-technology prerequisite graph checks to the Factorio 0.17 line.
- Replaced recursive graph traversal with a deterministic iterative walk for deep technology trees.
- Preserved rejection of missing, disabled, and cyclic prerequisite paths without importing newer game features.
- Omitted recipe-productivity settings that Factorio 0.17 cannot apply instead of exposing inert controls.
Version: 1.6.0
Date: 2026-07-15
Features:
- Ported the reduced native-infinite compiler and graph-safety guard to Factorio 0.16.
- Added the target-era science-pack map and target-supported direct-effect continuations.
Changes:
- Kept Factorio 0.17+, 1.x, 2.x, DLC-only behavior, and unsupported settings out of this package.
Version: 1.5.0
Date: 2026-07-15
Features:
- Ported the old-science native-infinite compiler and iterative graph-safety guard to Factorio 0.15.
Changes:
- Kept target-era science, compact count formulas, exact effect allowlists, and supported settings only.
Version: 1.4.0
Date: 2026-07-15
Features:
- Reconstructed a finite continuation edition for Factorio 0.14 and its alien-science era.
- Preserved iterative generated-technology graph checks without unsupported infinite prototype fields.
Changes:
- Replaced native infinite formulas with target-supported fixed research counts and exact effect allowlists.
Version: 1.3.0
Date: 2026-07-15
Features:
- Reconstructed a finite continuation edition for Factorio 0.13 and its alien-science era.
- Retained generated-technology prerequisite safety on the earliest supported archive line.
Changes:
- Limited technology fields, effects, science, locale, settings, and packaging to binary-proven surfaces.
Version: 0.12.0
Date: 2026-07-16
Bugfixes:
- Added the required Factorio 0.12 compatibility version to package metadata.
- Rebuilt, requalified, and republished the exact deterministic archive.
Features:
- Added a deterministic finite museum reconstruction for Factorio 0.12.35.
- Added six target-proven research families and loaded config.lua customization.
Changes:
- Kept native-infinite fields, recipe productivity, mining productivity, modern settings, and scripts absent.
Version: 0.11.0
Date: 2026-07-16
Bugfixes:
- Added the required Factorio 0.11 compatibility version to package metadata.
- Rebuilt, requalified, and republished the exact deterministic archive.
Features:
- Added a deterministic finite museum reconstruction for Factorio 0.11.22.
- Added five target-proven research families and loaded config.lua customization.
Changes:
- Kept native-infinite fields and every unsupported modern surface absent.
Version: 0.10.0
Date: 2026-07-16
Bugfixes:
- Added the required Factorio 0.10 compatibility version to package metadata.
- Rebuilt, requalified, and republished the exact deterministic archive.
Features:
- Added a deterministic finite museum reconstruction for Factorio 0.10.12.
- Added five target-proven research families and loaded config.lua customization.
Changes:
- Kept native-infinite fields and every unsupported modern surface absent.
Version: 0.9.0
Date: 2026-07-16
Bugfixes:
- Added the required Factorio 0.9 compatibility version to package metadata.
- Rebuilt, requalified, and republished the exact deterministic archive.
Features:
- Added a deterministic finite museum reconstruction for Factorio 0.9.8.
- Added five target-proven research families and loaded config.lua customization.
Changes:
- Kept native-infinite fields and every unsupported modern surface absent.
Version: 0.8.0
Date: 2026-07-16
Bugfixes:
- Added the required Factorio 0.8 compatibility version to package metadata.
- Rebuilt, requalified, and republished the exact deterministic archive.
Features:
- Added a deterministic extracted-directory museum reconstruction for Factorio 0.8.8.
- Added five target-proven research families and loaded config.lua customization.
Changes:
- Recorded extraction as the supported deployment route and kept unsupported modern surfaces absent.
Version: 0.7.0
Date: 2026-07-16
Bugfixes:
- Added the required Factorio 0.7 compatibility version to package metadata.
- Rebuilt, requalified, and republished the exact deterministic archive.
Features:
- Added a deterministic extracted-directory museum reconstruction for Factorio 0.7.5.
- Added five target-proven research families and loaded config.lua customization.
Changes:
- Recorded extraction as the supported deployment route and kept unsupported modern surfaces absent.
Version: 0.6.0
Date: 2026-07-16
Bugfixes:
- Added the required Factorio 0.6 compatibility version to package metadata.
- Rebuilt, requalified, and republished the exact deterministic archive.
Features:
- Added a deterministic extracted-directory museum reconstruction for Factorio 0.6.4.
- Added three target-proven finite research families and loaded config.lua customization.
Changes:
- Used only target-proven science, effects, locale syntax, package structure, and deployment behavior.
Version: 1.7.0
Date: 2026-07-10
Compatibility:
- Ported the first reduced native-infinite edition to Factorio 0.17 from the 1.8.x old-line lessons.
- Included current dev portable fixes without restoring 2.x-only surfaces.
- Retargeted package metadata to Factorio 0.17 with `base >= 0.17`.
- Kept modern non-Space-Age science pack names for the target line.
- Kept only target-probed direct-effect infinite researches and base technology continuations.
- Kept recipe productivity, Space Age, Quality, Recycler, Elevated Rails, and cargo logistics out of 0.17.
- Kept spoilage and agriculture out of 0.17.
- Kept prototype cap settings, pipeline extent settings, settings profiles, and newer technology badge overlays out of 0.17.
Changes:
- Reused the older-line `global` runtime state adapter.
- Reused target-era technology art without newer badge overlays or unsupported native modifier icon metadata.
- Added Factorio 0.17 metadata, settings visibility, and reduced-line runtime support.
- Anchored dedicated rocket, cannon, flamethrower, and electric shooting speed research to target-era unlocks.
- Kept MIR's generated weapon shooting speed continuation from duplicating rocket and cannon-shell speed ownership by default.
- Stopped enabled science-pack recipes from inheriting disabled tutorial technology prerequisites.
- Kept generated infinite research available after normal prerequisite completion and unlock-all commands.
- Documented 1.7.0 as the first old-line native-infinite edition and the next ring after 1.8.x.
Version: 1.8.1
Date: 2026-07-10
Compatibility:
- Ported the maintained Factorio 1.0 line from the 1.9.3 reduced source posture plus proven 1.8.0 bridge lessons.
- Retargeted package metadata to Factorio 1.0 with `base >= 1.0`.
- Kept supported direct-effect infinite researches and base technology continuations.
- Kept recipe productivity, Space Age, Quality, Recycler, Elevated Rails, cargo logistics, spoilage, and agriculture out of 1.0.
- Kept prototype cap settings, pipeline extent settings, settings profiles, and newer technology badge overlays out of 1.0.
- Preserved the old-line runtime state adapter so Factorio 1.0 uses `global` instead of the Factorio 2.x `storage` table.
Changes:
- Removed 2.x DLC dependencies and newer science-pack names from generated direct-effect and base-extension defaults.
- Reused the 1.8.0 target-era icon policy: generated direct-effect technologies use base technology art only.
- Kept unsupported native modifier icon metadata out of generated old-line direct-effect technologies.
- Carried the older `laser-turret-speed` base technology chain adapter into the maintained 1.0 line.
- Added a Factorio 1.0 runtime check that rejects unavailable newer badge paths and synthetic old-line badge overlays.
- Extended the Factorio 1.0 runtime check to reject unsupported native modifier icon metadata.
- Retargeted branch-local support mod metadata to Factorio 1.0 for the reduced-line release gate.
- Documented 1.8.1 as a maintained Factorio 1.0 compatibility port, not a metadata bump of the 0.18 bridge package.
- Documented that 1.8.1 is not a feature-parity backport of the modern line.
Version: 1.9.3
Date: 2026-07-10
Compatibility:
- Ported the MIR 3 compatibility compiler architecture to Factorio 1.1 as a reduced compatibility port.
- Synthesized the 3.0.0 source anchor with portable lessons from the 2.3.0 Factorio 2.0 port.
- Retargeted package metadata to Factorio 1.1 with a base-only dependency floor.
- Removed Factorio 2.x DLC dependency surfaces from the 1.1 package target.
- Removed Space Age, Quality, Recycler, Elevated Rails, cargo logistics, spoilage, and agriculture streams.
- Removed recipe-productivity streams from the 1.1 target because Factorio 1.1.110 rejects the modifier type.
- Kept only target-supported direct-effect and base-extension research candidates for the first 1.1 release line.
- Added a target-line adapter for unsupported streams, direct effects, prototype caps, repairs, and runtime handlers.
- Disabled unsupported 2.x behavior before it can emit 1.1-invalid prototypes.
- Replaced direct runtime persistence access with a state adapter for global on Factorio 1.1 and storage on Factorio 2.x.
- Used stock high-resolution target-era technology constant badges on Factorio 1.1.
Changes:
- Removed unsupported 2.x startup settings from the 1.1 settings catalog and settings profile surface.
- Hid settings-profile import and export on Factorio 1.1 because the target API lacks the MIRSET1 string codec.
- Ensured Factorio 1.1 direct-effect technologies use stock tile badges without copied newer graphics.
- Retargeted branch-local support mod metadata to Factorio 1.1.
- Made release tooling target-aware for 1.1 metadata, dependency floors, and cargo modifiers.
- Updated settings visibility checks for the reduced 1.1 settings surface.
- Documented the release as a compatibility port, not a feature-parity backport of the Factorio 2.x releases.
Version: 1.8.0
Date: 2026-07-10
Compatibility:
- Ported the reduced MIR 3 compatibility compiler architecture to Factorio 0.18 as the bridge/archive package for 1.0.
- Synthesized the 3.0.0 source anchor with portable 2.3.0 and 1.9.3 backport lessons.
- Retargeted package metadata to Factorio 0.18 with `base >= 0.18`.
- Kept the reduced direct-effect and base-extension surface, with recipe productivity and Factorio 2.x DLC surfaces disabled.
- Removed unavailable 1.1 technology constant badge overlays from the 0.18 bridge.
- Used target-era base technology art only instead of packaging or simulating newer Factorio graphics.
Changes:
- Updated Research productivity icon selection to prefer stock military science technology art.
- Extended metadata, settings visibility, and reduced-line runtime checks for the Factorio 0.18 bridge target.
- Removed unavailable newer badge paths and synthetic badge overlays from the 0.18 bridge.
- Added explicit target-era names and descriptions to generated vanilla continuations to avoid unresolved locale keys.
- Added old-line modifier descriptions for character, lab, inventory, and robot direct-effect tooltips.
- Removed unsupported native modifier icon metadata after Factorio 1.0 ignored those fields.
- Character, range, and weapon speed technologies use target-era main textures and localized text instead of fake badges.
- Documented 1.8.0 as a bridge/archive compatibility port, not a feature-parity backport of 1.1, 2.0, or 2.1.
Version: 2.3.0
Date: 2026-07-09
Compatibility:
- Ported the MIR 3 compatibility compiler architecture to the Factorio 2.0 release line.
- Retargeted package metadata to Factorio 2.0 with `base >= 2.0`.
- Kept Quality hidden and optional, and kept Space Age optional without a Factorio 2.1 dependency floor.
- Removed Factorio 2.1-only cargo bay unloading distance research from the Factorio 2.0 package.
- Removed Factorio 2.1-only cargo landing pad count research from the Factorio 2.0 package.
- Kept generated technology IDs stable for streams that remain available on the Factorio 2.0 line.
- Kept exact ATAN loader-schema repairs scoped to Factorio 2.1+ so Factorio 2.0 keeps its native fields.
- Fixed ATAN Ash 2.2.1 with Space Age on Factorio 2.0 by keeping foundation crafting in `crafting-with-fluid`.
- Kept Factorio 2.0 science-pack handling on the older tool prototype model during compatibility checks.
- Classified reviewed Factorio 2.0 local zip issues that reproduce without MIR as external local-library issues.
Changes:
- Backported the canonical settings catalog, deterministic MIRSET1 profiles, strict import checks, and compact export.
- Backported prototype cap dropdowns for recipe productivity, energy-use, pollution, speed, and quality caps.
- Backported signed high-to-low prototype cap labels, including +300% productivity and -80% savings defaults.
- Split energy-use and pollution cap settings because efficiency effects can reduce both.
- Added the default-off Compatibility setting for the opt-in positive power floor on explicit 0W active energy use.
- Kept Factorio 2.0 cargo logistics exclusions while preserving the shared settings and profile code.
Checks:
- Package metadata and base dependency floors now match the Factorio 2.0 line.
- The Factorio 2.0 package no longer contains 2.1-only cargo direct-effect modifier strings.
- Runtime and local mod-library checks target the matching Factorio 2.0 binary and mod library.
- Factorio 2.0 runtime checks passed across base, Space Age, science-pack, lab, ATAN, AAI, and drill scenarios.
- Factorio 2.0 runtime checks passed for prototype limits and settings profile round trips.
- Targeted local zip checks passed for AAI, Big Mining Drill, Equipment Gantry, Fluid Must Flow, Jetpack, and robots.
- The local Factorio 2.0 BZ suite passed with zero grouped failures.
- The full Factorio 2.0 local zip sweep covered 314 roots with zero MIR-owned unexpected failure groups.
Version: 3.0.0
Date: 2026-07-08
Compatibility:
- Reworked MIR around the MIR 3 compatibility compiler for Factorio 2.1 while preserving generated technology IDs.
- No new migration is required for the architecture move; the shipped 2.0.5 and 2.1.0 migrations remain included.
- Space Age remains optional; Quality, Recycler, and Elevated Rails remain optional or hidden optional dependencies.
- Generated research is gated by active recipes, items, fluids, technologies, ammo categories, labs, and science packs.
- Unsafe or unavailable candidates are skipped or reported instead of forced into invalid mod sets.
- Compatibility overlays remain declarative: selectors, claims, denials, and policy data only; no prototype mutation.
- Air Scrubbing support is limited to clean-filter recipe families; scrubbing and recovery recipes stay excluded.
- ATAN Ash support is limited to ash separation; landfill, brick, nutrient, foundation, tile, and recovery sinks stay excluded.
- Added exact Factorio 2.1 loader-schema repairs for atan-ash 2.2.1 and atan-nuclear-science 0.3.3.
- ATAN repairs normalize known category and probability fields only, without changing ingredients, unlocks, science, or balance.
- AAI loaders route through belt productivity, and big mining drills route through mining productivity.
- ATAN Nuclear Science routes through science-pack productivity.
- Fluid Must Flow, Robot Attrition, Jetpack, Equipment Gantry, AAI Containers, and AAI Industry stay scoped.
- Public compatibility claims remain narrow and evidence-backed; this is not a full overhaul-support claim.
- Generated output stayed stable against recorded 2.2 comparison lanes.
Changes:
- Made MIR 3.0.0 an architecture/compiler release rather than a broad new gameplay-content wave.
- Moved active implementation under prototypes/mir and made the Factorio root lifecycle files thin stage wrappers.
- The prototypes/streams directory remains declarative stream data.
- MIR planner, policy, emit, and report modules now handle generation behavior.
- Made data-final-fixes ordering explicit so exact compatibility repairs run before prototype limit passes and MIR planning.
- Moved scripted technology runtime handlers under prototypes/mir/runtime.
- Added a canonical settings catalog for registration, effective reads, profile export/import, docs, and tests.
- Added deterministic MIRSET1 settings profiles with full export by default and optional compact export.
- Settings profile imports now ignore unknown IDs, wrong types, invalid choices, and out-of-range numbers.
- Added visible Main, Compatibility, Limits, Advanced, and Diagnostics prefixes to global startup settings.
- Generated technology settings now use technology-name-first labels and stable attention buckets.
- MIR-owned official technology settings stay visible across base and Space Age.
- Hidden unavailable settings keep readable IDs and do not force values.
- Added startup dropdowns for recipe productivity, energy-use, pollution, speed, and quality prototype caps.
- Prototype cap dropdowns leave engine defaults unchanged unless explicitly changed.
- Prototype cap dropdowns use signed labels and high-to-low numeric order with unchanged defaults in numeric position.
- Recipe productivity default labels show +300%; energy and pollution savings defaults show -80%.
- Split energy-use and pollution cap settings because efficiency effects can reduce both.
- Added a default-off Compatibility setting that changes explicit 0W active energy_usage prototypes to 1W only when enabled.
- Shortened rocket/cannon speed cleanup text to "Only if dedicated tech exists".
- Enabled breeding, agricultural growth speed, cargo bay range/count, and character reach by default.
- Inserter capacity bonus remains disabled because larger hand sizes can affect circuits and engine optimization assumptions.
- Updated README, user docs, maintainer docs, reference docs, release notes, Mod Portal copy, and result summaries.
Internal:
- Added and updated .mir manifests for branch policy, module boundaries, streams, claims, docs, settings, and capabilities.
- Added generated stream manifest coverage and required every emitted stable stream to have a manifest row.
- Added DecisionRecord and StreamSpec records plus a compatibility claim registry.
- Added Factorio data.raw and mods adapters so prototype reads and settings-stage mod checks stay behind boundaries.
- Added focused MIR modules for indexing, planning, policy, emission, reporting, overlays, exact repairs, settings, and runtime.
- Added load-check coverage for hidden settings, prototype limits, settings profile round trips, and accepted legacy imports.
- Profile round-trip coverage checks defaults, hidden provider settings, unknown IDs, wrong types, and invalid choices.
- Added or extended architecture, docs, settings visibility, policy, claim, changelog, package, and runtime checks.
- Added local mod library catalog checks and legacy inventory reporting tools.
- Fixed compatibility-audit staging so local load-test mod copies exclude repo-only development and ignored output paths.
- Fixed release archive packaging so the shipped zip opens cleanly from the mods folder.
- Added release evidence docs for the MIR 3 summary, checklist, migration guide, local library gate, and risk register.
- Package hygiene rejects docs, sample mods, scripts, tests, .mir, .codex, .github, build output, and dist output.
- Package hygiene rejects AGENTS.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, and the root work ledger.
Removed:
- Removed old shipped paths for prototypes/compat/air-scrubbing.lua, prototypes/tech-gen.lua, and max-level-control.lua.
- Removed the old generated-stream manifest location in favor of the MIR manifest path.
- Removed shipped control-folder runtime module paths; runtime handlers now live under prototypes/mir/runtime.
- Removed broad root-helper ownership for defaults, config, diagnostics, settings, pipeline extent, utilities, and cleanup.
- Removed broad root-helper ownership for effect safety and weapon speed.
- Removed direct Air Scrubbing and ATAN Ash behavior scripts; declarative overlays now feed policy and diagnostics.
- Removed old-path imports that pointed at compat, lib, legacy, planner, control-folder, and broad root-helper modules.
- Removed direct prototype mutation responsibility from compatibility policy overlays.
Checks:
- Legacy inventory passed with zero old shipped shim paths, old imports, root helper files, and control-folder runtime Lua.
- Legacy inventory passed with zero direct prototype access outside allowed layers and zero streams without manifest rows.
- Static checks passed docs governance, MIR manifests, architecture boundaries, settings visibility, policy, and claims.
- Static checks passed changelog syntax, package hygiene, and git whitespace checks.
- Runtime load checks passed on the target Factorio 2.1 binary in packaged zip, base-only, and Space Age modes.
- Prototype limit checks passed in base-only and Space Age modes, including split energy/pollution caps and opt-in power floor.
- Settings profile round-trip checks passed for deterministic encoding, compact export, hidden settings, and unknown IDs.
- Settings profile round-trip checks passed for wrong types, invalid choices, and accepted legacy import values.
- Local isolation confirmed atan-ash 2.2.1 and atan-nuclear-science 0.3.3 fail without MIR and load with MIR.
- Local isolation confirmed Air Scrubbing and all tested ATAN zips load together with MIR after exact schema repair.
- Selected local zip checks passed for advertised and recently repaired compatibility targets.
- The targeted release gate passed using the recorded local Factorio 2.1 mod library scenario set.
- The final package contains 119 entries and zero forbidden repository-only paths.
- Portal-backed full-catalog checks were not run in the release environment because FACTORIO_TOKEN was not set.
- Full release evidence is recorded in the 3.0.0 checklist, release notes, result summary, and targeted gate artifacts.
Version: 1.9.2
Date: 2026-07-07
Compatibility:
- Backported the tested More Infinite Research 2.2.0 source snapshot to Factorio 2.0.
- Legacy metadata targets Factorio 2.0 with `base >= 2.0`.
- Kept Quality hidden and optional, and kept Space Age optional without a Factorio 2.1 dependency floor.
- Removed Factorio 2.1-only cargo logistics technology modifiers from legacy.
- Added compatible Air Scrubbing clean-filter productivity support.
- Added compatible ATAN Ash separation productivity support.
- Added compatible AAI-style loader, big mining drill, and ATAN-style nuclear science support.
- Added progression-aware official and modded science-pack ingredient policies.
Internal:
- Backported typed prototype facts, capability diagnostics, loop-risk reports, and lab-matrix reports.
- Backported generated-stream manifests, compatibility claim data, and report diff tooling.
Version: 2.2.0
Date: 2026-07-07
Compatibility:
- Added a typed prototype fact registry for recipes, technologies, machines, labs, owners, and rule surfaces.
- Added compiler decision rows for generated technologies, rejected loop risks, and observed rule surfaces.
- Added loop-risk reports for recycling, cleaning, voiding, barrel/container, transmutation, and self-return recipes.
- Added lab-matrix reports so each generated technology can be checked against labs that accept its science set.
- Added useful-level estimates to recipe productivity cap reports.
- Added Air Scrubbing clean-filter productivity for exact pollution and spore filter crafting recipes.
- Kept Air Scrubbing scrubbing, cleaning, recovery, and environmental-removal recipes diagnostic-only.
- Added ATAN Ash separation productivity for the exact ash separation recipe.
- Kept ATAN Ash landfill, brick, nutrient, foundation, tile, and recovery-style ash sinks outside MIR streams.
- Added AAI-style loader recipe coverage to transport belt productivity.
- Added Big Mining Drill coverage through mining drill productivity.
- Added ATAN-style Nuclear Science coverage through science-pack productivity.
- Added compatibility coverage for Fluid Must Flow, Robot Attrition, Jetpack, and Equipment Gantry.
- Added compatibility coverage for AAI Containers and AAI Industry.
- Added capability diagnostics for entity-backed loader crafting recipes.
- Added capability diagnostics for entity-backed mining-drill crafting recipes.
- Added native modifier ownership diagnostics for selected lab, mining, logistics, and robot modifiers.
- Added negative capability coverage for loop risks, hidden recipes, cap-zero recipes, and loader/drill structural decoys.
Internal:
- Kept the new compiler path report-only so broad unknown mod behavior remains observed before it is emitted.
- Added compatibility safeguards for AAI-style loaders, standalone big mining drills, and ATAN-style nuclear science packs.
- Added progression-aware science-pack ingredient policies for official and modded science-pack chains.
- Extended compatibility observation output with compiler, decision, capability, loop-risk, rule-surface, and lab-matrix rows.
- Added schema helpers, a resolver contract, capability policy, and compatibility claims.
- Added generated-stream manifest linting and planner report diff tooling.
Version: 2.1.5
Date: 2026-07-05
Compatibility:
- Added known-competitor profiles for exact recipe-productivity overlaps found in the local idea-mod audit.
- Skipped MIR lab productivity when a matching infinite native laboratory-productivity owner is active.
- Skipped MIR worker robot battery when Better Bot Battery-style infinite native robot battery owner is active.
- Added diagnostics-only compatibility planner rows for active audit roles and deliberate non-actions.
- Added recipe productivity cap diagnostics for non-default recipe maximum productivity values.
Internal:
- Fixed local audits so official built-ins include required official dependencies such as Recycler for Quality.
- Fixed offline dependency closure for Factorio `~` dependencies such as Mini Machines' shared settings mod.
- Kept generated local scenarios rooted in configured root zips instead of dependency-only library zips.
- Allowed generated and baseline local audit scenarios with no root mods.
- Shortened audit user-data paths to avoid Windows path-length false negatives.
- Added optional hardlink and symlink staging for local compatibility audit mod zips.
- Added reviewed expected-failure rules for external 2.1 local-library stress failures.
- Added downloaded dependency-cache support to local 2.1 audit profiles.
- Tightened load-failure grouping to classify Factorio error excerpts instead of MIR audit-row text.
- Made mir.ps1 profile-driven for release, overnight, and local-audit commands with simple path overrides.
- Added compatibility observation artifacts and a report command for planner and recipe-cap diagnostics.
- Added PowerShell script checks for parsing, duplicate parameters, ignored outputs, and secret-output guards.
- Added Factorio 2.0 and 2.1 run profiles for release gates, overnight sweeps, and local audits.
- Made compatibility audits select Factorio line, local scenario defaults, and available official built-ins.
- Added a docs-only release check command for release-note and documentation refreshes after a clean full gate.
- Trimmed release archives so extra repository files are not shipped in the mod zip.
Version: 1.9.1
Date: 2026-07-05
Compatibility:
- Backported the tested More Infinite Research 2.1.0 source snapshot to Factorio 2.0.
- Kept Quality hidden and optional, and kept Space Age optional without a Factorio 2.1 dependency floor.
- Removed Factorio 2.1-only cargo logistics technology modifiers from legacy.
- Kept compatible 2.1.0 recipe-productivity ownership safeguards.
- Kept compatible vanilla productivity-family adoption and fluid-output productivity streams.
Internal:
- Fixed local audits so official built-ins include required official dependencies such as Recycler for Quality.
- Tightened load-failure grouping to classify Factorio error excerpts.
Version: 2.1.0
Date: 2026-07-03
Features:
- Added fluid productivity research for oil processing, cracking, lubricant, sulfuric acid, acid neutralization, and thrusters.
- Added Space Age material productivity research for landfill, artificial soil, molten metals, carbon, ice, and bacteria.
- Added lithium-from-brine productivity coverage to Lithium Productivity.
- Rail Productivity now covers Elevated Rails supports and ramps when Elevated Rails is active.
- Split Stone Product Productivity into Landfill, Artificial Soil, and Molten Metals research lines.
- Updated Space Age science-pack requirements for fluid, agriculture, bacteria, breeding, and shooting-speed research.
- Updated cargo logistics technology icons to better match their Space Age unlocks.
- Added an opt-in pipeline extent startup multiplier; default 100% leaves prototypes unchanged.
Compatibility:
- Vanilla Space Age productivity technologies can adopt safe residual recipes from compatible planet-style mods.
- Existing saves refresh technology effects when adopted vanilla-family recipe signatures change.
- Known competing productivity technologies are replaced only when MIR fully matches their recipes and effect values.
- Unknown external recipe-productivity owners make MIR suppress matching effects instead of duplicating ownership.
- Elevated Rails and Quality remain hidden load-order dependencies without separate visible requirements.
Migration:
- Retired Stone Product Productivity progress migrates into Landfill Productivity.
- Artificial Soil Productivity and Molten Metals Productivity start as new separate research lines.
Version: 1.9.0
Date: 2026-07-02
Compatibility:
- Published the Factorio 2.0 legacy backport from the tested More Infinite Research 2.0.5 source snapshot.
- Legacy metadata targets Factorio 2.0 with `base >= 2.0`.
- Quality remains a hidden optional dependency, and Quality module recipes can still be discovered when active.
- Removed Factorio 2.1-only cargo logistics research from legacy.
Version: 2.0.5
Date: 2026-07-01
Features:
- Expanded Electric Shooting Speed to cover base electric weapons and Space Age Tesla weapons.
- Mining Drill Productivity now covers Omega Drill-style and broader modded mining-drill recipes.
- Kept Spoilage Preservation disabled and enabled Agricultural Growth Speed for newly planted tower crops.
- Agricultural Growth Speed affects newly planted tower crops and does not rescan existing crops.
- Combined Character Logistic Trash Slot bonuses into Character Inventory Slot research.
- Renamed Heavy Ammunition Productivity to Cannon Shell Productivity and broadened shell/ammo coverage.
- Added base-game Research Productivity using the native laboratory productivity modifier.
- Refreshed generated technology icons, effect badges, settings labels, and localized descriptions.
- Added diagnostic overlap reporting for generated direct-effect technologies.
Compatibility:
- Improved generated weapon-speed ownership so vanilla finite rocket, cannon, and tank bonuses stay intact.
- Improved recipe-productivity ownership detection so MIR does not duplicate other infinite productivity techs.
- Space Age keeps vanilla productivity ownership for processing units, low-density structures, plastic, and rocket fuel.
- Quality module productivity recipes can be discovered when Quality is active without a visible dependency.
Migration:
- Existing trash-slot progress now moves into the combined Character Inventory Slot technology.
- No other existing generated technology IDs were renamed.
Version: 2.0.0
Date: 2026-06-30
Features:
- Updated More Infinite Research for Factorio 2.1.
- Added Space Age cargo logistics research for unloading distance and optional landing pad count.
- Added lab-compatible science-pack selection for generated technologies.
- Added flexible science-pack policies for configured, space, promethium, official, and active lab packs.
- Added startup diagnostics for generated and skipped streams, recipe matches, and base extensions.
- Added Factorio 2.1 recipe-category support and late data-final-fixes generation.
- Added layered icons, effect badges, localized descriptions, and normal effect text for generated research.
- Added startup settings for optional vanilla weapon shooting speed cleanup.
Generator changes:
- Improved science-pack inheritance, prerequisites, max-level, availability, and continuation checks.
- Improved recipe matching for hidden, recycling, lab-input, biochamber, and modded science-pack recipes.
- Improved base-technology extension generation so vanilla and other-mod technologies remain unchanged.
- Added compatibility profile support for stream items, patterns, exclusions, and groups.
Compatibility:
- Raised the base dependency to Factorio 2.1.8 or newer.
- Added optional official DLC ordering floors for Elevated Rails, Recycler, Quality, and Space Age.
- Added cleanup for compatible competing base extensions and recipe-productivity technologies.
- Added Better Robots Extended compatibility for competing worker robot storage research.
- Added a startup setting to prefer MIR over selected competing infinite technologies.
- Added opportunistic compatibility for several popular productivity and recipe mods.
- Improved optional Space Age behavior, including Space Age installs without Quality.
Locale:
- Replaced placeholder text in German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Simplified Chinese.
- Updated Russian localization coverage and terminology to match current English locale keys.
- Updated in-game descriptions for productivity, direct-effect, and Space Age cargo logistics research.
- Moved Spanish localization to Factorio's supported es-ES locale code.
- Removed empty placeholder locale folders so only complete locale packs are shipped.
Migration:
- No existing prototype IDs were renamed. No migration is required.
Version: 1.2.9
Date: 2025-10-30
Changes:
- Enabled Character Logistic Trash Slot research by default.
- Disabled Character Reach research by default.
- Character Reach research no longer grants item pickup distance.
- Character Reach research still grants reach, build distance, resource reach, and item drop distance.
- Increased the default Inserter Capacity extension curve.
- The optional Inserter Capacity infinite continuation is now more expensive.
Version: 1.2.5
Date: 2025-10-29
Features:
- Added direct-effect infinite research for character mining speed, crafting speed, walking speed, reach, and build distance.
- Added direct-effect infinite research for character logistic trash slots.
- Added per-stream research time startup settings.
- Added max-level startup settings for generated base-tech extensions.
- Added support for stream-provided custom icons and icon tinting.
Changes:
- Character Inventory Slot research now uses explicit utility, military, and agricultural science packs.
- Character Logistic Trash Slot research was introduced disabled by default.
- Base-tech extension research time settings now allow 0 to reuse the configured default.
Version: 1.2.0
Date: 2025-10-28
Features:
- Added infinite extensions for braking force, research speed, worker robot storage, inserter capacity, and weapon speed.
- Added startup settings for enabling and tuning base-tech extensions.
- Added direct-effect rocket, cannon-shell, flamethrower, and electric weapon shooting speed research.
- Added max-level enforcement for generated infinite stream technologies.
- Added vanilla weapon shooting speed adjustment support.
- Dedicated generated speed researches can own selected vanilla weapon speed bonuses.
Changes:
- Added default cost and science-pack profiles for each generated base-tech extension.
- Added dedicated locale keys and setting descriptions for base-tech extension settings.
- Corrected the promethium science pack spelling in English locale text.
Version: 1.1.5
Date: 2025-10-27
Features:
- Added per-stream base cost, growth factor, and max-level defaults and startup settings.
- Added English locale support for mod name, mod description, technology names, and setting text.
- Added locale files for German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, and Simplified Chinese.
- Added direct-effect Character Inventory Slot and Worker Robot Battery research.
- Added broad productivity coverage for science packs, infrastructure, weapons, intermediates, and Space Age materials.
- Added grouped productivity streams for modules, belts, inserters, bullets, and rockets.
Changes:
- Added item prototype lookup for modules and science packs when selecting icons and matching outputs.
- Added recipe exclusions for common unwanted scrap and asteroid byproducts.
- Added Quality module coverage to Module Productivity.
- Refined belt tiers to cover turbo and hyper transport belt families.
- Rail Productivity now avoids unrelated rail-like outputs.
- Added a startup gate setting for holding generated technologies behind space or promethium science.
Version: 1.1.0
Date: 2025-10-25
Features:
- Added support for hiding generated productivity research when Space Age provides the vanilla equivalent.
- Added direct-effect technology generation support for non-productivity infinite bonuses.
- Added early Character Inventory Slot and Worker Robot Battery infinite research.
- Added early Science Pack, Wall, Grenade, Rail, Electric Energy, Concrete, Furnace, and Drill productivity.
Changes:
- Expanded item lookup for generated icons and recipe matching.
- Item lookup can use ammo, capsules, modules, and science pack prototypes where appropriate.
- Added Space Age-aware science-pack selection with optional promethium or space-science gating.
Version: 1.0.0
Date: 2025-10-25
Features:
- Initial public release for Factorio 2.0 with optional Space Age support.
- Added generated infinite recipe productivity technologies for many intermediate items and resources.
- Generated productivity technologies cover resources not covered by vanilla productivity research.
- Added per-technology startup enable switches for every generated research stream.
- Added automatic recipe scanning for covered outputs and generation of matching productivity effects.
- Added conflict trimming so recipes already covered by existing productivity technologies are skipped.
- Added Space Age-aware science-pack selection and prerequisites for generated technologies.
- Added a default infinite research cost curve of `8000 * 2^(L-1)` with 60-second research units.
Initial research coverage:
- Added productivity streams for vanilla intermediates, infrastructure, ammunition, and science packs.
- Added Space Age and overhaul-oriented productivity streams for advanced materials.
- Added grouped productivity streams for modules, belts, inserters, bullets, and rockets.
- Grouped productivity streams use lower per-level gains for higher-tier items inside those groups.
Notes:
- The technologies are intentionally infinite, but Factorio's recipe productivity cap still applies.
- The mod was created to make megabasing easier on lower-end hardware.
- The mod still preserves Factorio's normal production and logistics constraints.