A large train foundry that assembles complete trains from Smart Train Combinator models: pick a train shape, choose its resource, and the finished train fuels up and drives off onto your rail network on its own. Requires Smart Train Combinator.
Mods introducing new content into the game.
Version: 0.1.0
Date: 2026-07-25
Info:
- First release. A large train foundry that builds complete trains from Smart Train Combinator
models — a companion to Train Foundry (the blueprint version). Requires Smart Train Combinator.
Features:
- The foundry lists the distinct train shapes exposed by the Smart Train Combinator combinators
on the surface (kind, wagon type, wagon count, storage variant). Pick a shape, choose its
resource, and the train is assembled and sent off onto your network on its own, with a matching
schedule — a loading stop plus refuel, stop and unload interrupts — and a train group encoding
the shape. No blueprint needed. Handles solid and fluid trains, any wagon count, and the
storage variant; the station names match the combinator's own naming convention so the
interrupts line up. Group and interrupt names carry the foundry icon and are colour-coded
(white refuel, orange stop, red unload).
- Generic fuelling: the foundry fills every locomotive with the best unlocked compatible fuel
available in the buffer, and production only starts once one such fuel is present in a full
load. The refuel interrupt lists every fuel the locomotive can burn (trigger at 10% of full)
and refills to fuel_full. A solar (burner-less) locomotive needs no fuel and gets no refuel
interrupt. The "In progress" panel shows a fuel row (one slot per accepted fuel), and the
circuit "read requests" mode requests a full load of every candidate fuel so at least one is
delivered.
- The resource picker is restricted to the model's type (item or fluid). Component and fuel
slots show the item name on hover and open Factoriopedia on click.
- Internal stock feeds the builds; feed it by hand or with inserters. Circuit connector broadcasts
the stock or the missing components. Optional right-side (east) exit, chainable extensions for
longer trains, and a "clear stuck train" button (destroys + refunds a train that cannot leave).
- Shortcut-bar button (and CTRL+ALT+F) opens the foundry's window from anywhere. One foundry per
planet. Coexists with Train Foundry (the blueprint version) — one of each per surface.
- Vanilla, Space Age and Nullius compatible.