Planet Beacon


Adds a 4x4 Planet Beacon that covers the whole planet. Consumes 50MW. Have two module slots with 0.5 Efficiency. Only one can be placed per planet. Crafted exclusively in Electromagnetic Plant.

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Changelog

Version: 2.0.0
Date: 2026-07-07
  Features:
    - The Planet Beacon now covers every machine class that can receive beacon
      effects, including modded machines (which must use one of these classes):
      assembling-machine, furnace, mining-drill, lab, rocket-silo, and
      agricultural-tower (which gained module/effect support in Factorio 2.1).
    - Machines without module slots (e.g. stone furnaces, burner mining drills)
      now also receive relay coverage, since beacon effects do not require
      module slots.
    - Full Quality support:
      - Hidden relay beacons are now created at the same quality as the Planet
        Beacon, and are recreated automatically if the Planet Beacon's quality
        changes.
      - Distribution effectivity now scales with quality (+0.2 per quality
        level, same rate as vanilla beacons): normal 0.5 up to legendary 1.5,
        applied planet-wide through the relays.
      - Module slots now scale with quality on both the Planet Beacon and its
        relays (+1/+2/+3/+5 for uncommon/rare/epic/legendary), and relay slot
        counts always match so every module is mirrored.
  Changes:
    - Ported to Factorio 2.1 (requires TarawindBeacons2 >= 2.0.0).
    - Recipe now uses RecipePrototype::categories (array); the `category` field was
      removed in Factorio 2.1.
    - Recipe is now craftable in both assembling machines and the Electromagnetic
      plant (categories "crafting" + "electromagnetics"), matching the original
      design intent. The old "electronics" category was removed in 2.1.
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed a crash when a robot builds a second Planet Beacon on a surface
      (spill_item_stack has taken a table of parameters since Factorio 2.0).
    - Added missing on_space_platform_mined_entity handler so relays update
      immediately when machines are removed on space platforms.
    - Refunding a duplicate Planet Beacon (one-per-surface rule) now returns an
      item of the correct quality instead of a normal-quality one.
Version: 1.1.11
  Changes:
    - Factorio 2.0 version.