Changelog

Version: 2.9.2
Date: 2025-12-15
  Bug fixes:
    - Fixed "Can't place equipment ghost directly" error when deploying vehicles with equipment
    - Equipment selection now filters out ghost equipment prototypes
    - Added safeguards to strip ghost suffixes from equipment names during deployment

Version: 2.9.1
Date: 2025-12-14
  Features:
    - Enhanced deployment logic to handle player surface transitions and ensure proper vehicle deployment from orbit.
    - Script created vehicles are now correct added to the built table

Version: 2.9.0
Date: 2025-12-12
  Features:
    - Same-surface deployment support
      - Vehicles can now be deployed to the same surface they're launched from
      - Uses surface-switching workaround to handle cargo pod limitations
    - Full quality system support
      - Vehicles, equipment, ammo, and all extras now preserve and display quality levels
      - Quality overlays shown in GUI for vehicles and items
      - Quality-aware item selection and deployment
    - Space Exploration compatibility improvements (in preparation)
      - Automatic planet association for SE surfaces (40 planets created for cargo pod support)
      - Cargo bay registration and management system
      - Zone-based deployment validation
    - Mod compatibility
      - TMFG
  Technical Improvements:
    - Cargo bay tracking system for better surface management
    - Stale deployment cleanup system (prevents memory leaks)
    - Render mode change handling for better GUI persistence
    - Surface change event handling
    - Cargo pod finished ascending event handler for same-surface deployments

Version: 2.8.0
Date: 2025-06-24
  Bug fixes:
    - stack icon no longer reliant on factory planner

Version: 2.7.0
Date: 2025-06-24
  Bug fixes:
    - Orbital deployment corrected to be unlocked with space-platforms

Version: 2.6.0
Date: 2025-05-13
  Bug fixes:
    - Dynamically creates quality icons from modded icons (kind of)

Version: 2.5.0
Date: 2025-05-12
  Bug fixes:
    - Dynamically creates item icons from modded icons

Version: 2.4.0
Date: 2025-05-09
  Features:
    - Expanded Deploy with Extras Capabilites
      - Deploy the vehicle with ammo, fuel, or utilities such as Constructon Robots and Repair Packs
      - Support for to dynamically add custom sprites for other mods
  GUI Updates
    - Cleaner Deploy with Extras GUI
      - Utitlies, Ammo, and Fuel have their own dedicated tabs
      - Slider with working counts
      - A button to quickly add a full stack
      - Added a back to deployment menu

Version: 2.3.0
Date: 2025-04-26
  Features:
    - Changed orbital delivery technology unlock from Spidertron to Space Platform
    - Early experimental deploy with supplies

Version: 2.2.0
Date: 2025-04-21
  Features:
    - Now seamlessly compatible with modded vehicles
    - Now deploy any vehicle, no longer limited to Spider vehicles
    - Vehicles that require fuel are deployed with a small amount of carbon. (carbon is free in space so it makes sense)
  Planned Features:
    - Deploy supplies with the vehicles
    - Tidier GUI

Version: 2.1.0
Date: 2025-04-20
  Bugfixes:
    - Crash fixed when dropping onto a surface before any tiles have generated

Version: 2.0.0
Date: 2025-04-17
  Features:
    - Initial release
    - Complete rewrite for Factorio 2.0 Space Age

Version: 0.1.5
Date: 2024-09-17
  Features:
    - Bug fixes and recipe tuning

Version: 0.1.4
Date: 2024-09-16
  Features:
    - Spidertons are launched and deployed with an animation succesfylly 90% of the time

Version: 0.1.3
Date: 2024-09-14
  Features:
    - other methods

Version: 0.1.2
Date: 2024-09-13
  Features:
    - saves entity details on launch and deploy by using a dummy inventory in space

Version: 0.1.1
Date: 2024-09-13
  Features:
    - saves entity details on launch and deploy

Version: 0.1.0
Date: 2024-09-12
  Inititial release:
    - New entities and items
    - Create a spider silo and scale down
    - Handle launch, orbital storage, gui, and deployment