Changelog

Version: 0.2.4
Date: 2026-11-03
  Features:
    - Add independent Faster Start setting, enabled by default, for new and existing players once each.
    - Supply a 6x6 simple modular armour, 250 kW reactor, personal roboport, two batteries, 30% exoskeleton and 50 self-powered construction robots. No night vision.
  Bugfixes:
    - Save undelivered kit items when inventory space is insufficient and retry only the remaining items.
    - Preserve equipped armour, equipment quality and completed delivery across reconnects, respawns and save/load.
  Compatibility:
    - Keep existing Faster Start items when the setting is disabled; pause outstanding delivery until re-enabled.
    - Use More Setting-specific prototype and storage names. No dependency on The Cave or standalone FasterStart.
    - Leave Chest Filtering unchanged; Filter Assistant is not included in this release.

Version: 0.2.3
Date: 2026-11-03
  Features:
    - Add configurable production status indicators and local floating damage numbers.
    - Add ten stages of character reach, running speed and hand-crafting research.
    - Add a mining drill resource-filter selection tool and ALT-mode filter icons.
    - Add Resource Eraser with disabled, administrators-only and all-players access modes. Disabled by default.
    - Add configurable FuelGlow.
    - Add Chemical Rocket and Incendiary Rocket ammunition, unlocked by Explosive Rocketry.
  Changes:
    - Remove vanilla night-vision equipment, its item, recipe and research, including existing instances in saves.
  Bugfixes:
    - Avoid a native crash when clearing local flying text; existing damage numbers now expire naturally.
    - Correct compact damage formatting for values such as 100K.
    - Preserve mining drill health, inventories, fluids, quality and circuit connections when changing its resource filter.
    - Apply base-drill AutoDeconstruct blacklists to filtered variants.
  Compatibility:
    - Keep filtered drills loadable when the feature is disabled and restore registered drills to their ordinary form where possible.
    - Preserve existing More Setting settings and integrate the new research and recipes with its cost settings.

Version: 0.2.2
Date: 2026-11-03
  Features:
    - Add configurable Squeak Through collision adjustments.
    - Add gun turret autoload on placement, Ctrl+R reload and a toolbar shortcut.
    - Add nearby ammunition counts in ALT mode with a per-player toggle.
    - Add a Backspace corpse cleaner, toolbar shortcut and per-player radius setting.
    - Integrate AutoDeconstruct 1.1.2 with its optional chest, beacon, belt, tile and pipe handling settings.
  Bugfixes:
    - Preserve remaining bullets and quality when transferring partially used magazines.
    - Recheck exhausted miners before executing queued deconstruction orders.
  Compatibility:
    - Preserve selected-inserter Ctrl+R behaviour and the 0.2.1 lighting fix.
    - Keep AutoDeconstruct saved state isolated; defer to the standalone mod when installed.

Version: 0.2.1
Date: 2026-11-03
  Bugfixes:
    - Reapply fixed lighting after player arrival and check it once per second, preventing the freeplay crash-site sequence from overriding Lighting Mode.
    - Restore the intended solar output and automatic lamp activation when Permanent Night or Pitch Black is selected.
    - Preserve the natural day/night cycle in Normal mode and leave interior surfaces and space platforms outside lighting control.

Version: 0.2.0
Date: 2026-11-03
  Features:
    - Add configurable inserters and four research stages, with safe repeated selection.
    - Allow engine unit hand crafting while keeping assembler crafting available.
    - Add four portable energy accumulators, four electric furnace variants and Superheating.
    - Add vanilla-item starter packs, extended productivity, chest filters and Minimal Wire.
    - Add Lighting Mode, night-only Darkness Infestation, inventory repair and research difficulty.
    - Add mixed native resource patches, Lamp Post, Lamp Pole and two electric poles.
  Changes:
    - Include feature settings and descriptions for disabling features in existing saves.
    - Keep native map generation responsible for patch size, shape and quantities.
    - Basic Big Pole is no longer fuel. Ore Blood is not included.
  Compatibility:
    - Factorio 2.1.24 or later, with optional Quality, Recycler and Space Age support.