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.
Mods introducing new content into the game.
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.