Reusable methane rocket silos for Factorio 2.1 Space Age. Pipe rocket-grade methane into the silo, launch, and recover the rocket by cargo pod. Includes a 9x9 single-rocket silo, a 15x15 heavy silo with Muluna, three methane routes (coal / wood / nutrients), per-planet fuel scaling, and scrapping/refurbishment. Recommended with Muluna. 为《异星工厂》2.1 太空时代加入可回收甲烷火箭发射井:管道灌注火箭级甲烷,发射后由空投舱回收火箭。包含 9x9 单发井、Muluna 15x15 重型井、煤气化/木材气化/营养剂三条甲烷产线、逐星球燃料缩放,以及翻新与报废拆解。推荐搭配 Muluna。
Mods introducing new content into the game.
Version: 1.0.0
Date: 2026-11-09
Release:
- Removed the experimental AdvancedRocketSilos compatibility entirely.
- Muluna is now listed as a recommended companion mod.
- Rocket-methane icon: the rocket layer is smaller and moved to the
bottom-right, leaving the liquid icon itself unobstructed.
- Scrapped refurbishment no longer shows a "refurbishment failed" text.
- Added a generated cover image and a bilingual (English / Chinese)
mod description.
Version: 0.3.0
Date: 2026-11-09
Features:
- AdvancedRocketSilos compatibility: a reusable Advanced Rocket Silo using
the ARS 40 advanced-rocket-part chain. One reusable advanced rocket, 3x
lift, one craft producing 40 advanced-rocket-construction, returns one
used advanced rocket.
- Cerys cryogenic compression is now a 10x batch: 1670 Cerys methane ->
10 rocket-grade methane in the same 5 seconds (still 167:1 heat-equal).
Notes:
- Interplanetary Rocket Silo compatibility is not included yet.
Version: 0.2.1
Date: 2026-11-09
Changes:
- Rocket-grade methane is now 835 kJ/unit; 6,000 units = 5,010 MJ.
- Nutrient methane recipe now outputs 110 methane (same heat input as
40 wood), matching the wood/coal routes.
- Refurbishment recipe now lists 90% reusable rocket + 10% scrapped rocket;
a script corrects the independent rolls (both -> keep rocket, neither ->
insert scrapped) and never spills scrap on the ground.
- Renamed display names: reusable rocket, used reusable rocket, scrapped
reusable rocket. Internal IDs unchanged for save compatibility.
- New rocket-methane icon combining the petroleum-gas icon and rocket-part.
- Planet refuel recipes are hidden from the character crafting menu.
Version: 0.2.0
Date: 2026-11-09
Features:
- Rocket-grade methane: 833 kJ/unit, 6,000 units = 5,000 MJ on Nauvis.
- Three methane routes, each gated by its own technology:
coal gasification (coal-liquefaction), wood gasification (K2 advanced
chemistry, or oil-processing without K2), nutrient route (bioflux).
- All methane routes require oxygen only when K2 or Muluna is loaded.
- Cerys methane stays at 5 kJ; a 167:1 cryogenic-plant conversion produces
rocket-grade methane at equal heat value.
- Rebalanced methane production to be slightly heat-positive (+10~11%).
- Silo fluid buffers are 1.2x the highest recipe (3x + 20% for the heavy silo).
- Heavy silo returns all three boosters in one cargo pod.
Fixes:
- Added locale keys for both silo items/entities.
- Replaced the custom surface property with gravity + pressure conditions.
- Refurbishment tooltip shows only the ready booster; scrap is scripted.
- Replaced the removed flying-text entity with rendering.draw_text.
- Split the silo into 1T (9x9) and 5T (15x15 Muluna) variants.
- Fuel ports are now on the south side, third tile in from each edge.
- Heavy silo completes with one craft consuming 3 boosters.
Version: 0.1.1
Date: 2026-11-09
Fixes:
- Added locale keys for both silo items/entities (fixes item-name unknown key).
- Replaced the custom surface property with gravity + pressure conditions,
fixing the surface-property unknown-key text in recipe tooltips.
- Refurbishment tooltip now shows only the ready booster; the scrap roll is
done in script, so it is exactly the configured chance.
- Fixed the launch crash caused by the removed flying-text entity; now uses
rendering.draw_text.
- Split the silo into 1T (9x9, base art) and 5T (15x15, Muluna art) variants.
- Moved both fuel ports to the south side, third tile in from each edge.
- Fluid box volume is now 2x the highest single-booster recipe for the 1T
silo, and 3x + 20% for the 5T silo, instead of a flat 250k.
- The 5T silo now completes with one craft consuming 3 boosters and producing
3 rocket parts, instead of requiring three crafts.
Version: 0.1.0
Date: 2026-11-09
Features:
- Reusable methane rocket silo with a direct methane pipe connection.
- Per-planet refuel recipes using a custom surface property (exact planet matching).
- Ready / used / scrapped booster items, refurbishment with configurable scrap chance.
- Scrapped boosters can be dismantled back into low density structures and processing units.
- Methane from wood (vanilla), K2 oxygen variant, and Gleba bioflux recipe.
- Booster return by cargo pod to the planet's cargo landing pad.
- Optional Muluna big silo prototype for the whole reusable silo.
- Startup settings for fuel exponent, scrap chance and return delay.
Notes:
- The rocket silo prototype exposes only one fluid box at runtime, so v0.1
injects methane only. K2 oxygen canisters are planned for 0.2.