Upgrade Requires Previous Tier

by Kryzeth

Modifies several early-game recipes to require the previous tier when they otherwise didn't, with settings for each of the following: electric/steel/stone furnace, electric/burner miner, electric/burner inserter, and steel/iron/wooden chest. Additional compatibility with Gotlag's Electric Stone/Steel Furnace and Muluna's Steam Steel/Stone Furnace.

Tweaks
3 days ago
2.0
34
Manufacturing
Owner:
Kryzeth
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Homepage:
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License:
Kryzeth Mod License (Based on CC BY-NC 4.0)
Created:
3 days ago
Latest Version:
1.0.0 (3 days ago)
Factorio version:
2.0
Downloaded by:
34 users

Features

Inspired by mods such as Iron Chest Requires Wooden Chest and Steel Chest Requires Iron Chest, using no code from either mod.

Makes the following recipe changes, dependent on enabled settings:

  • Steel Furnace: 6 steel, 10 brick -> 1 stone furnace, 6 steel, 6 brick
  • Electric Furnace: 10 steel, 10 brick, and 5 red circuits -> 1 steel furnace, 4 steel plate, 5 red circuits
  • Electric Miner: 10 iron, 5 gears, 3 green circuits -> 1 burner miner, 7 iron plate, 2 gears, 3 green circuits
  • Iron Chest: 8 iron -> 1 wooden chest, 4 iron plates
  • Steel Chest: 8 steel -> 1 iron chest, 4 steel plates

Mod Compatibility

If either of the following mods are enabled, and the relevant setting is enabled, then adds the following recipe changes:

  • Gotlag's Electric Furnaces:
    • Electric Steel Furnace: 1 steel furnace, 5 iron, 5 green circuits -> 1 steel furnace, 1 electric stone furnace, 4 iron, 4 green circuits
  • Muluna:
    • Steam Steel Furnace: 1 steel furnace, 4 pipe -> 1 steel furnace, 1 steam stone furnace

Addendum

Some of the numbers here probably don't make sense. If there are any thoughts regarding tweaking the recipe numbers, please feel free to post them in the discussion section.

Not ideal to enable this on an existing playthrough, since the new inserter recipe affects green science, and the new electric furnace recipe affects purple science.

If playing with Workshop Science, then the new steel furnace recipe will affect the new orange science as well.

The new iron/steel chest recipe (when both are enabled) will also affect any other recipes that require the steel chest (such as logistic chests) by tying them to wood as a raw ingredient. Recommend to keep only one setting enabled, unless playing with a mod that allows for easier wood farming/production.

This mod was made primarily for fun, to give some new use to those old burner/wooden items. Might make some crafts take longer, due to the additional intermediary steps.