Pollution Smoke

by NOiZE

Adds visible smoke to pollution-generating machines, scaled by their actual pollution output. Machines with chimneys emit smoke from their chimney positions; others emit smoke randomly across their footprint.

Tweaks
3 days ago
2.0
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Environment Manufacturing
Owner:
NOiZE
Source:
N/A
Homepage:
N/A
License:
MIT
Created:
5 days ago
Latest Version:
0.5.3 (3 days ago)
Factorio version:
2.0
Downloaded by:
150 users

Pollution Smoke

Adds visible smoke emitters to your machines, scaled to their actual pollution output. The more polluting your factory is, the more it shows.

Pairs beautifully with Pollution: Impactful Smog, which adds a factory-wide smog cloud based on chunk pollution levels. That mod gives you the atmosphere; this one shows you exactly which machines are responsible for it. Together they make pollution feel genuinely impactful.

Features

  • Smoke intensity scales across 10 tiers based on real-time emissions per minute
  • Fully module-aware — total consumption and pollution effects are sampled live, so any combination of modules and beacons is reflected automatically
  • Accurately reflects partial utilization (a foundry running 70% of the time shows 70% smoke)
  • Chimney smoke for machines with defined chimney positions; body smoke for everything else
  • Setting to show chimney smoke, body smoke, or both
  • LOD system: only machines near connected players are updated, keeping UPS impact minimal
  • Works with modded machines of any type and size — chimney smoke positions for modded machines can be requested on the mod portal

Commands

Command Description
/ps-probe Detailed diagnostics for the selected machine
/ps-debug Overview of all tracked machines and emitter counts
/ps-reload Force a full rescan of all surfaces
/ps-coords [dx dy] Test chimney smoke position offsets