Concentrated Solar (Configurable)


Adds solar power towers heated by heliostat mirrors as a new form of heat generation. Extended from Cheese's Concentrated Solar, to allow important numbers to be configurable.

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Changelog

Version: 0.5.1
Date: 2025.07.19
  Changes:
    - [Credit: PirateSeal] French translation
  Bugfixes:
    - [Assist: TheOldOne] Better support for SA - respect (second) surface power multiplier field
Version: 0.5.0
Date: 2024.12.28
  Changes:
    - [Credit: snouz] Redone icons / tech icons / achievement / thumbnail
    - [Credit: snouz] Slightly edited some entities
    - [Credit: snouz] Fixed turret tower displaying behind object on ground
    - [Credit: snouz] Fixed some shadow positions
  Bugfixes:
    - [Credit: ACCount12] Fixed mirrors not initializing when build on space platforms
Version: 0.4.4
Date: 2024.12.26
  Bugfixes:
    - Attempt to fix yet more inconsistencies with entity deletion.
    - Added radius visualisation to solar laser tower (oversight).
Version: 0.4.3
Date: 2024.12.21
  Changes:
    - [Credit: ZarSasha] Heliostat Mirror: Added a custom explosion effect, along with standard 
      impact visuals and sound effects. Also increased space above tooltip image (won't work for ghosts).
    - Quality support for towers only - power generated scales the same with mirrors, but reflects quality-ified increased amount.
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed divide by zero causing crash on zero sunlight surfaces.
Version: 0.4.2
Date: 2024.12.14
  Minor Features:
    - Support for Warp Drive Machine (can place heliostat mirrors on blue tiles)
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed class of bugs related to deleted entities not being removed in database - all entities 
      should now be correctly removed on deletion, no matter the source.
Version: 0.4.1
Date: 2024.10.22
  Bugfixes:
    - Fix crash when inserting tiny amount of fluid into tower
Version: 0.4.0
Date: 2024.10.10
  Features:
    - Support for Factorio 2.0
    - Reworked damage and effects of laser tower.
Version: 0.3.4
Date: 2024.09.22
  Changes:
    - Fix bots rotating the tower crashing mod
    - [Credit: TheKingJo] Introduced remote interface for towers and max_mirrors per surface
Version: 0.3.3
Date: 2023.11.28
  Changes:
    - Major boost to laser tower range.
    - Removed dependency on nuclear power - research now also contains all required heat related equipment.
    - Respect surface.solar_power_multiplier, both when calculating mirror contribution to a tower, and in 
      the maximum mirrors readout in GUI (and when placing a new tower).
Version: 0.3.2
Date: 2023.04.08
  Changes:
    - Fixed GUI crash with SE map.
Version: 0.3.1
Date: 2023.04.03
  Changes:
    - More resilient global tables, with migration.
    - Fixed crash a surface was deleted that contained towers and mirrors.
    - Updated GUI to clarify heat rather then electric power.
Version: 0.3.0
Date: 2023.04.02
  Major Features:
    - Custom GUI for interacting with towers.
  Features:
    - Beam graphics can now be disabled. Must be done server-wide, as beams are rendered as game entities.
    - Tower energy production can now be customized.
    - Removed old debug settings. 
    - K2 power multiplier instead of hard set 110MW.
  Info:
    - 1000 downloads (thanks!)
Version: 0.2.2
Date: 2023.01.29
  Major Features:
    - K2+SE Compatibility.
    - K2 towers produce 110MW of heat.
    - Research requires K2 advanced solar panels, or SE space science.
    - SE Towers can be placed in space.
Version: 0.2.1
Date: 2023.01.29
  Minor Features:
    - Added bounds indicator when tower in cursor.
    - Tweaked bounds colour.
    - Mirrors and towers use AAI ingredients when present.
    - Tweaked wording of mirrors to be in reference to solar intensity increase instead of power.
Version: 0.2.0
Date: 2023.01.16
  Major Features:
    - Added bounds indicator for placing towers and mirrors.
  Minor Features:
    - Reworked how highlight boxes are managed.
    - Increased tower range to 35 to accommodate for previous slightly incorrect calculation.
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed inconsistencies in tower range.
Version: 0.1.5
Date: 2023.01.14
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed nth tick next issue.
    - Increased stack size of mirrors to 50.
Version: 0.1.0
Date: 2023.01.3
  Changes:
    - Initial version.