Changelog



Version: 0.4.1
Date: 2024-04-28
  Info:
    - Small continuation of the metallurgy update.
    - Changed Auto Barrel to a mandatory dependency.
    - Added Unified Molecule Library as a mandatory dependency.
  Balancing:
    - Lowered the efficiency of steam engines to 60% and steam turbines to 80%.
    - Increased the throughput of steam turbines to 90 units of steam per second.
    - Fixed the energy source efficiency of fluid boilers to 100%.
    - Increased the throughput of fluid boilers to 90 units of steam per second.
    - Increased the throughput of electric boilers to 120 units of steam per second.
  Graphics:
    - Reordered the subgroups.
    - Added fire furnace graphics.
    - Added arc furnace graphics.
    - Changed the sulfur icon to octasulfur molecule while keeping the old one to show outside of inventories.
    - Changed icons for the following items and fluids: ammonia, aromatics, calcium-carbonate, calcium-hydroxide, calcium-oxide, carbon-dioxide, dichlorine, dihydrogen, dinitrogen, dinitrogen-tetroxide, dinitrotoluene, dioxygen, disulfuric-acid, ethylene-glycol, ethylene-oxide, ferrocene, hydrogen-chlorine, hydrogen-sulfide, mononitrotoluene, nitric-acid, nitric-oxide, nitrogen-dioxide, olefins, pure-water, sodium-carbonate, sodium-chloride, sodium-hydroxide, styrene, sulfur-dioxide, sulfuric-acid, sulfur-trioxide, trichlorosilane and trinitrotoluene.
    - Changed icons for some of the recipes related to these previously mentioned items and fluids.
    - Added copper ore item and recipe icons.
    - Added blister copper item and recipe icons.
    - Removed icons from copper ore item.
    - Changed icons for the iron smelting, direct reduced iron, alternate direct reduced iron and electrolytic iron recipes.
  Changes:
    - Added a new high temperature assembling machine to take care of some metallurgy recipes.
    - Changed the energy source of the fire furnace entity to a burner one.
    - Metallurgy recipes now show in which machine they can be made in.
    - Added fire furnace recipe:
      stone-brick + fire-brick => fire-furnace-item
    - Added arc furnace recipe:
      stone-brick + fire-brick => arc-furnace-item
    - Disabled the vanilla recipe for stone furnace, steel furnace and electric furnace.
    - Added steel gear item.
    - Added steel gear machining recipe:
      steel-ingot => steel-gear + steel-scrap
    - Added steel gear casting recipe:
      molten-steel => steel-gear + steel-scrap
    - Added iron ore concentrate item.
    - Changed iron smelting recipe:
      iron-ore-concentrate + coke + calcium-carbonate => pig-iron + slag
    - Changed direct reduced iron recipe:
      iron-ore-concentrate + clean-fuel-gas => sponge-iron + slag
    - Changed alternate direct reduced iron recipe:
      iron-ore-concentrate + coal => sponge-iron + slag
    - Changed electrolytic iron recipe:
      iron-ore-concentrate + stone + calcium-oxide => pure-iron-powder + dioxygen

Version: 0.4.0
Date: 2023-06-22
  Info:
    - The "Metallurgy Update".
    - Lots of new additions to the mod including its first script.
    - Restructured the mod directory entirely and the data.lua and EN locale files are now auto-generated.
    - Added more categories in each changelog entry for easier reading.
  Features:
    - Made all fluid handling entities getting damaged if they contain a fluid hotter than 1000°C.
    - Added high temperature pipe entity for handling very hot fluids that regular pipes can't handle anymore.
    - Added a mod setting to enable or disable the fluid heat damage computation at any time.
    - Replaced the existing base game furnaces with only a burner furnace and an electric arc furnace.
    - Added fuel gas wells in the map generation.
    - Added pure water wells in the map generation.
    - Added salt water wells in the map generation, requiring pure water for mining operation.
  Balancing:
    - Simplified the ferrocene usage in the polyethylene recipe.
    - Removed calcium carbonate from water and salt water distillation processes as the concentrations are supposed to be very low anyway.
  Graphics:
    - All of the item and fluid icons still in 32px resolution have been remade to 64px resolution.
    - Most of the recipe icons have been remade from 64px to 128px resolution.
    - Added new icons to differentiate raw petroleum fractions from the clean ones.
    - Added different icons for ferrocene, sodium chloride, all nitrated toluenes, calcium oxide and calcium carbonate depending on whether the item is seen in an inventory or on a belt.
    - Added multiple different icons for the coke item when on a belt.
    - Added an icon for the salt water fluid.
    - Added an icon for the smoke fluid.
    - Fixed the silicon smelting recipe to use the silicon icon instead of the silicon ingot icon.
    - Fixed the nitrogen production recipe to use the prototype name instead of the product name.
  Changes:
    - Added silica fire brick item.
    - Added high temperature pipe item.
    - Added fire brick recipe:
      stone + calcium-hydroxide => fire-brick
    - Added high temperature pipe recipe:
      steel-pipe + fire-brick => ht-pipe
    - Added pig iron item.
    - Added sponge iron item.
    - Added slag item.
    - Added steel ingot item.
    - Added pure iron powder item.
    - Added molten steel fluid with no barrel recipe.
    - Added iron smelting recipe:
      iron-ore + coke + calcium-carbonate => pig-iron + slag
    - Added scrapless steelmaking recipe:
      pig-iron + dioxygen => steel-ingot + slag
    - Added basic oxygen steelmaking recipe:
      pig-iron + steel-scrap + calcium-oxide + dioxygen => steel-ingot + slag
    - Added direct reduced iron recipe:
      iron-ore + clean-fuel-gas => sponge-iron + slag
    - Added alternate direct reduced iron recipe:
      iron-ore + coal => sponge-iron + slag
    - Added continuous casting scrapless steelmaking recipe:
      pig-iron + dioxygen => molten-steel + slag
    - Added continuous casting basic oxygen steelmaking recipe:
      pig-iron + steel-scrap + calcium-oxide + dioxygen => molten-steel + slag
    - Added electric arc steelmaking recipe:
      pig-iron + steel-scrap => steel-ingot
    - Added direct reduced steelmaking recipe:
      sponge-iron + steel-scrap => steel-ingot
    - Added continuous casting electric arc steelmaking recipe:
      pig-iron + steel-scrap => molten-steel
    - Added continuous casting direct reduced steelmaking recipe:
      sponge-iron + steel-scrap => molten-steel
    - Added electrolytic iron recipe:
      iron-ore + stone + calcium-oxide => pure-iron-powder + dioxygen
    - Added steel ingot melting recipe:
      steel-ingot => molten-steel
    - Added steel ingot casting recipe:
      molten-steel => steel-ingot
    - Added copper ore concentrate item.
    - Added blister copper item.
    - Added copper anode item.
    - Added used copper anode item.
    - Added steel cathode item.
    - Added plated steel cathode item.
    - Added cathode copper item.
    - Added copper ingot item.
    - Added molten copper fluid with no barrel recipe.
    - Added copper ore refining recipe:
      copper-ore => copper-ore-concentrate + landfill
    - Added copper conversion recipe:
      copper-ore-concentrate + dioxygen => blister-copper + slag + sulfur-dioxide
    - Added copper anode recipe:
      blister-copper + clean-fuel-gas => copper-anode + slag
    - Added copper scrap recycling recipe:
      copper-scrap + blister-copper + clean-fuel-gas => copper-anode + slag
    - Added steel cathode recipe:
      steel-plate => steel-cathode
    - Added copper electrorefining recipe:
      copper-anode + steel-cathode => copper-anode-used + steel-cathode-plated
    - Added used copper anode recycling recipe:
      copper-anode-used + blister-copper + clean-fuel-gas => copper-anode + slag
    - Added steel cathode stripping recipe:
      steel-cathode-plated => cathode-copper + steel-cathode
    - Added steel cathode recycling recipe:
      steel-cathode => steel-scrap
    - Added copper ingot recipe:
      cathode-copper => copper-ingot
    - Added molten copper recipe:
      cathode-copper => molten-copper
    - Added copper ingot melting recipe:
      copper-ingot => molten-copper
    - Added copper ingot casting recipe:
      molten-copper => copper-ingot
    - Added steel plate item.
    - Added steel pipe item.
    - Added steel rod item.
    - Added steel wire item.
    - Added steel scrap item.
    - Added steel plate rolling recipe:
      steel-ingot => steel-plate
    - Added steel pipe recipe:
      steel-plate + clean-fuel-gas => steel-pipe
    - Added steel pipe casting recipe:
      molten-steel => steel-pipe + steel-scrap
    - Added steel rod rolling recipe:
      steel-ingot => steel-rod
    - Added steel wire rolling recipe:
      steel-rod => steel-wire
    - Added copper plate item.
    - Added copper pipe item.
    - Added copper rod item.
    - Added copper wire item.
    - Added copper scrap item.
    - Added copper plate rolling recipe:
      copper-ingot => copper-plate
    - Added copper pipe recipe:
      copper-plate + clean-fuel-gas => copper-pipe
    - Added copper pipe casting recipe:
      molten-copper => copper-pipe + copper-scrap
    - Added copper rod rolling recipe:
      copper-ingot => copper-rod
    - Added copper wire rolling recipe:
      copper-rod => copper-wire
    - Added alternate cement recipe:
      cement-clinker + slag => cement
    - Added hydrogen sulfide recipe:
      raw-sulfur + dihydrogen => hydrogen-sulfide
    - Changed ferrocene recipe:
      pure-iron-powder + aromatics => ferrocene
    - Fixed recipe prototype name "contact-process" into "claus-process".
    - Fixed recipe prototype name "sulfuric-acid-recipe2" into "contact-process".
  Locale:
    - Added the EN locale.

Version: 0.3.4
Date: 2022-07-18
  Info:
    - Minor update.
  Balancing:
    - Added probability to some fluid catalysts in the making of dinitrotoluene, trinitrotoluene, ethylene glycol and in the caustic wash of kerozene.
    - Changed the hydrogen sulfide combustion recipe to not boil water anymore:
      hydrogen-sulfide + dioxygen => sulfur-dioxide
  Changes:
    - Modified recipe name "dinitrogen-tetroxide-recipe" to "nitrogen-oxide-cooling".

Version: 0.3.3
Date: 2022-07-03
  Info:
    - Minor changes and refactoring.
  Balancing:
    - Modified the boilers recipes.
  Graphics:
    - Modified some fluid prototypes to be displayed as a gas for the ones needing to.
    - Modified recipes to display their prototype name instead of the prototype name of the item or fluid they produce.
  Changes:
    - Renamed the boilers items and recipe names to be easier to differentiate.
    - Renamed the smoke boiling recipe category.
    - Set the smoke boiler recipe subgroup.
    - Placed all item subgroups into their own prototype file.
    - Renamed the mod's item group.
    - Removed unused clean heavy gas oil fluid.
    - Modified fluid name "HVGO" to "heavy-gas-oil".

Version: 0.3.2
Date: 2022-06-30
  Info:
    - Last part of the carbonate-focused changes.
  Changes:
    - Added cement clinker item.
    - Added cement item.
    - Added cement clinker recipe:
      calcium-carbonate + stone + sulfur-trioxide => cement-clinker
    - Added cement recipe:
      cement-clinker => cement
    - Disabled the vanilla concrete recipe.
    - Added an alternate concrete recipe:
      cement + water + stone => concrete
    - Disabled the vanilla rail recipe.
    - Added an alternate rail recipe:
      stone + iron-stick + cement => rail
    - Added the sodium carbothermal reduction recipe:
      sodium-carbonate => sodium
    - Added the Castner process recipe:
      sodium-hydroxide => sodium

Version: 0.3.1
Date: 2022-06-29
  Info:
    - New stuff added following on the previous update.
  Features:
    - Added a smoke boiler entity that acts just like a regular boiler to the exception that it also outputs smoke during operation.
  Changes:
    - Added smoke fluid.
    - Added an alternate sodium carbonate recipe:
      sodium-hydroxide + smoke => sodium-carbonate

Version: 0.3.0
Date: 2022-05-26
  Info:
    - The "Carbonate Update".
    - Added a new prototype file for organic chemistry.
    - Added recipes and fluids related to calcium and sodium carbonates.
    - Modified part of the water processing.
    - Added a recipe subgroup dedicated to nitrochemistry.
  Balancing:
    - Changed water distillation recipe:
      water => pure-water + calcium-carbonate + sodium-chloride
    - Changed boiler fluid input from water to pure water.
  Graphics:
    - Updated icons to 64px for explosives, polyethylene and rocket propellant items and recipes.
    - Updated icons for the fluid boiler and the electric boiler.
  Changes:
    - Added carbon dioxide fluid.
    - Added carbon dioxide as a byproduct of the methane steam reforming recipe.
    - Added sodium carbonate fluid.
    - Added calcium oxide item.
    - Added calcium hydroxide fluid.
    - Added calcium carbonate solution fluid.
    - Added calcium carbonate item.
    - Added salt water fluid.
    - Added salt water distillation recipe:
      salt-water => pure-water + calcium-carbonate + sodium-chloride
    - Added water reverse osmosis recipe:
      water => pure-water + salt-water
    - Added calcium carbonate froth flotation purification recipe:
      stone + pure-water => calcium-carbonate-solution
    - Added calcium hydroxide recipe:
      calcium-oxide + pure-water => calcium-hydroxide
    - Added calcium carbonate recipe:
      calcium-hydroxide + carbon-dioxide => calcium-carbonate-solution
    - Added calcium carbonate drying recipe:
      calcium-carbonate-solution => calcium-carbonate
    - Added calcium oxide recipe:
      calcium-carbonate => calcium-oxide + carbon-dioxide
    - Added sodium carbonate recipe:
      sodium-hydroxide + carbon-dioxide => sodium-carbonate
    - Added causticization recipe:
      calcium-hydroxide + sodium-carbonate => calcium-carbonate + sodium-hydroxide
    - Modified fluid name "vacuum-residuum" to "vacuum-residue".
    - Modified fluid name "caustic-soda" to "sodium-hydroxide".

Version: 0.2.1
Date: 2022-05-05
  Info:
    - Minor update.
  Graphics:
    - Added an icon for the nitric oxide fluid.
    - Added an icon for the dinitrogen tetroxide fluid.
    - Added an icon for the dinitrogen tetroxide recipe.

Version: 0.2.0
Date: 2022-05-04
  Info:
    - Small rework of the nitrochemistry to make the Ostwald process more accurate.
    - Changed the rocket fuel recipe to make it a bit less straightforward.
  Balancing:
    - Changed the ammonia combustion recipe:
      ammonia + dioxygen => nitric-oxide + steam
    - Changed the nitric acid recipe:
      nitrogen-dioxide + pure-water => nitric-oxide + nitric-acid
    - Changed rocket fuel recipe to use dinitrogen tetroxide:
      clean-kerosene + dinitrogen-tetroxide => rocket-propellant
  Changes:
    - Added nitric oxide fluid.
    - Added the dinitrogen tetroxide fluid.
    - Added nitric oxide oxidation recipe:
      nitric-oxide + dioxygen => nitrogen-dioxide
    - Added the dinitrogen tetroxide recipe:
      nitrogen-dioxide => dinitrogen-tetroxide
    - Added methane steam reforming recipe:
      clean-fuel-gas + steam => dihydrogen
    - Added steam condensation recipe:
      steam => pure-water

Version: 0.1.0
Date: 2022-05-03
  Info:
    - Initial release.