Robot Battery Swap


Robots carry a swappable battery pack: on a roboport charging spot they trade the empty pack for a charged one from the logistic network and fly off at once. No new buildings.

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7 days ago
0.17 - 2.1
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Logistic network Power

Changelog

Version: 1.0.4
Date: 2026-10-30
  Info:
    - Release for Factorio 2.1.
Version: 1.0.3
Date: 2026-10-30
  Info:
    - Release for Factorio 2.0.
Version: 1.0.2
Date: 2026-10-30
  Info:
    - Release for Factorio 1.1.
Version: 1.0.1
Date: 2026-10-30
  Info:
    - Release for Factorio 1.0.
Version: 1.0.0
Date: 2026-10-30
  Features:
    - Robot battery packs in up to three tiers: standard, high capacity (Krastorio 2 lithium-sulfur batteries, or plain batteries without it) and supercapacitor (Space Age).
    - Each pack has its control circuits: 5 electronic circuits for the standard pack, 5 advanced circuits for high capacity, 5 processing units for supercapacitor.
    - Robots are built with an empty battery pack; high capacity and supercapacitor robots hold two and four times as much.
    - A robot on a roboport charging spot swaps its pack for a charged one from the logistic network and leaves at once, which lets a roboport serve two to three times as many robots.
    - Personal roboports in armor, vehicles and spidertrons swap packs too, from their owner's main inventory or trunk.
    - Empty packs are charged in assembling machines, using about as much energy as they hold.
    - Recipes that move a robot to a bigger battery pack and give the old pack back.
    - A research branch of its own: Robot battery swap (after the first robot research) starts the swapping, then High capacity and Supercapacitor robot batteries.
  Info:
    - Release for Factorio 0.17.