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.
Mods introducing new content into the game.
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.