Train Foundry for Smart Train Combinator


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.

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7 days ago
2.0 - 2.1
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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.