Changelog

Version: 2.1.2
Date: 2026.10.26
  Changes:
    - Added optional support for Krastorio 2 Spaced Out.
    - Used current Krastorio 2 glass and lithium chloride ingredients, requiring lithium processing before concentrated solar research.

Version: 2.1.1
Date: 2026.10.26
  Changes:
    - Added optional Nullius compatibility with adapted recipes, research, and late-game solar laser towers.
    - Kept solar output configurable under Nullius, retaining its 100 MW default.

Version: 2.1.0
Date: 2026.10.24
  Changes:
    - Updated to Factorio 2.1, requiring base 2.1.22 or newer.
    - Renamed the mod to Concentrated Solar (Fork) for 2.1.
    - Made both solar tower types translucent and unselectable in Hide tall entities mode.
    - Included native space platform sunlight while parked and travelling.
    - Registered cloned towers and mirrors, including Space Exploration ship destinations.
    - Retained all mirrors in capture range when sunlight changes; rebuilt existing links on upgrade.
    - Raised the minimum maximum-temperature setting to 15 C to match the reactor heat buffer.
  Bugfixes:
    - Updated the power tower's fluid temperature limit and GUI fluid access for Factorio 2.1.
    - Corrected current-power units and daylight estimates on frozen and always-day surfaces.
    - Corrected average heat estimates for saturated fields, quality, and the minimum input temperature.
    - Matched heat bars and mirror-capacity counts to the fluid ceiling, tower quality, and frozen daylight.
    - Used actual fluid consumption in power estimates and clarified available heat with tooltips.
    - Displayed a no-sunlight label instead of infinity in the mirror-count caption.
    - Fixed orphan mirror registration without a player and directed warnings to the building player.
    - Fixed reciprocal-link checks, alternate-tower reassignment, and repeated entity registration.
    - Fixed missing-storage recovery and destruction notifications after cloned source removal.

Version: 0.6.1
  Features:
    - Made the maximum solar tower temperature configurable.
    - Made the temperature contributed by heliostat mirrors configurable.
    - Made the mirror collection radius for solar towers configurable.

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.