Changelog

Version: 0.1.8
Date: 2026-05-23
  Features:
    - Added a short portal transition effect with zoom-in, teleport flash, and zoom restoration.
  Bugfixes:
    - Portal transition state now cleans itself up if a player dies, disconnects, or if either portal is removed mid-transition.
    - Manual zoom changes during the transition are detected so the mod stops forcing zoom instead of restoring to a stale value.

Version: 0.1.7
Date: 2026-05-23
  Changes:
    - Increased the portal footprint and trigger radius to a 3x3 magic-circle platform.
    - Portal teleport checks now run every tick so fast players are much less likely to pass through undetected.
    - Replaced the temporary chest portal sprite with a custom magic-circle placeholder.

Version: 0.1.6
Date: 2026-05-23
  Changes:
    - Replaced fixed portal teleport cooldown with enter/exit tracking.
    - Players can re-trigger a portal immediately after leaving and re-entering its radius.

Version: 0.1.5
Date: 2026-05-23
  Changes:
    - Portals no longer collide with players, so players can walk across them during teleport cooldown.
    - Portal teleportation now preserves the player's relative offset from the source portal at the destination portal.

Version: 0.1.4
Date: 2026-05-23
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed portal overlay cleanup crash on the second portal placement in Factorio 2.0.

Version: 0.1.3
Date: 2026-05-23
  Features:
    - Added Portal technology after Basic Magic Understanding.
    - Added Portal item, entity, and recipe.
    - Added portal channel GUI and two-portal channel pairing logic.
    - Players walking into one paired portal are teleported near the other paired portal, including across surfaces.
  Changes:
    - Paired and unpaired portals now get different colored runtime overlays.

Version: 0.1.2
Date: 2026-05-23
  Features:
    - Added Arcane Tome as a lab input item.
    - Added M.O.E. recipe: 1 Book to a 1% chance for 1 Arcane Tome in 0.1 seconds.
    - Added Basic Magic Understanding technology using Arcane Tomes.
  Changes:
    - Paper Machine now uses directional graphics so rotation previews match placement.
    - Paper Machine temporary sprite now shows five linked machine segments.
    - Paper Machine crafting speed changed to 1.

Version: 0.1.1
Date: 2026-05-23
  Features:
    - Added Pulp.
    - Added Paper Machine, a 1x5 papermaking assembler.
    - Added Wood to Pulp and Pulp to Paper recipes for the Paper Machine.
  Changes:
    - Printer now uses normal recipe selection instead of a fixed recipe.
    - Printer now has 4 module slots and allows speed, productivity, quality, consumption, and pollution effects.
    - Book recipe craft time changed from 500 seconds to 50 seconds.
    - Book, Pulp, and Paper recipes now allow productivity.
    - Paper icon tint is now brighter to distinguish it from iron plates.

Version: 0.1.0
Date: 2026-05-23
  Features:
    - Added Printer, a 3x3 dedicated assembling-machine-like entity.
    - Added Paper and Book items.
    - Added a Printer-only recipe that turns 500 Paper into 1 Book in 500 seconds.