Sulfur Ore Restoration (Bob's)


Restores the mineable Bob's sulfur ore that bobores 2.1.2 removed. It spawns on new Nauvis chunks and is back-filled onto already-explored ones

Tweaks
4 days ago
2.0
10
Mining
Owner:
Xxx_LargoLargo_xxX
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N/A
Homepage:
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License:
MIT
Created:
4 days ago
Latest Version:
1.0.2 (4 days ago)
Factorio version:
2.0
Downloaded by:
10 users

What it does

bobores 2.1.2 removed the mineable sulfur ore entirely. Bob aligned with Space Age, where sulfur is a chemical product (water + petroleum-gas → sulfur) rather than something you mine — so the ore prototype is gone and the migration wiped every sulfur patch off existing maps.

This mod brings the ore back:

  • Re-adds the bob-sulfur resource with the authentic pre-2.1.2 values (yellow tint, mines straight to vanilla sulfur, base_density = 8, no starting-area placement).
  • Wires it into Nauvis map generation, so it shows up under Resources in the map-gen GUI (and in resource-frequency mods) and actually spawns on new chunks.
  • Back-fills your existing save. A one-time on_init script regenerates the ore over every already-generated Nauvis chunk, so sulfur appears on the map you have already explored — not only on new territory.

Safe by design

  • Adds exactly two prototypes: the bob-sulfur resource and its autoplace control.
  • The back-fill is scoped to "bob-sulfur" only — no other ore is moved, re-rolled, or deleted.
  • Wired to on_init only, so it runs once and never re-rolls your sulfur on later mod updates.

Notes

  • Sulfur spawns away from spawn (has_starting_area_placement = false).
  • Only sulfur was fully removed by bobores; tungsten still exists — bob just stopped placing it on Nauvis because vanilla Space Age puts it on Vulcanus, so it doesn't need restoring.
  • The ore graphic is drawn from boblibrary (a dependency), tinted like the original. Nothing of Bob's is redistributed.

Credits

Unofficial add-on for Bob's Mods (bobingabout). Ore values are taken from Bob's Mods; requires boblibrary. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Bob's Mods author.

Dependencies: base ≥ 2.0, boblibrary; loads after bobores if present.