Pressure Barrel - Efficient Space Fluid Transport

by zhe-yan

Adds a high-pressure barrel with 5000 fluid capacity, plus fluoroplastic intermediate. All fluids auto-generate fill/empty recipes. One technology, one recipe, one new item — no vanilla changes.

Tweaks
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Fluids Storage

Changelog

Version: 0.2.0
Date: 2026-10-10
  Compatibility:
    - Barreling Group (barreling-group2): all high-pressure barrel items and both barrel recipe types are moved into its Barreling group and subgroup, and the vanilla empty barrel plus its recipe are filed there as well so the group is self-contained.
    - The compatibility layer only runs when that group actually exists; without the mod nothing is touched and the vanilla barrel subgroups are kept.
    - The dependency stays optional, so the mod works with or without Barreling Group.
  Features:
    - Every fluid now gets a high-pressure barrel automatically: one item, one fill recipe and one empty recipe, 5000 units per 2 second cycle.
    - Filled barrel icons are generated per fluid from the barrel art plus the vanilla barrel masks tinted to that fluid's flow colour, with a small fluid badge in the corner.
    - All generated recipes are unlocked by the High Pressure Fluid Handling technology, so fluids added by other mods need no extra patch.
  Changes:
    - Fluid amounts in barrel transfers are marked ignored_by_stats, so moving 5000 units no longer distorts production statistics.
    - Fill and empty recipes are hidden from manual crafting and are machine-only.
    - Filled barrels point at the empty high-pressure barrel in Factoriopedia.
    - One cycle is 2 s for 5000 units: 10x the fluid throughput of a vanilla barrel and 100x per item.
Version: 0.1.0
Date: 2026-10-09
  Features:
    - First version: the high-pressure barrel with 5000 fluid capacity, the fluoroplastic intermediate, and one technology that unlocks the barrel and its filling recipes.