Space Age Unofficial Changes

This Unofficial Change of Space Age improves the flow of the game and adds new mechanics to enhance progression and enjoyment while still keeping the challenge around.

1. New Dehydrating, Rehydrating, Freezing and Thawing Mechanics

Certain items can now be dehydrated or frozen to remove spoilage timers.

• Nutrients Do Not Spoil

Dehydration System

• Process: Put certain spoilable items into a furnace (dehydration takes time)
• Benefit: Removes spoilage timer
• Rehydration: Dehydrated items must be rehydrated in a Chemical Plant or Biochamber with a recipe to be used normaly.
• Upscaling: Enables Gleba optimization for science and materials without recyclers

• Usage: Agricultural Science → Furnace (with or without Quality Mods) → Chemical Plant or Biochamber (with or without Quality Mods) → Furnace (with or without Quality Mods), etc.

• Note 1: Tie the dehydration with how you make spoilage items so that a dehydrated item gets to lets say zero or below a certain number you can start farming again with agricultural towers and or processing back into what you want to meet what you want, without having to have potential build up of spoilage on belts because it all stopped because the machines dumped a little too much spoilage mixed in with items you cant burn like bioflux. This game play severely limits high throughput because you always at every turn have to make sure you don't make too much or too little to meet demand. This forces the player to only produce how much the developer wants not what the player wants. Think of it as on demand dehydration then later on demand rehydration to use. In the base game you would have to setup on demand spoilage to nutrients or burning which was beyond annoying to deal with and some could even say its antithetical to factorio's gameplay since space age came out. With this new dehydration and freezing you can store alot of items, you do need down the production chain while eliminating the stoppage of gleba production just by having more dehydrated or frozen items above the amount you are actually using.

• Note 2: Be careful of limiting the input per machine so that you can easily deal with the 1or2 spoilage that comes out by burning it or making nutrients from them when it all stops then restarts, before they get sent on there way.

Items that can be dehydrated:
- Jellynut
- Jelly
- Yumako
- Yumako Mash
- BioFlux
- Fish
- Agricultural Science Pack

Dehydration Research

• Unlocks After: Agricultural Science Pack research
• Research Cost:
• Automation Science Pack ×1
• Logistic Science Pack ×1
• Military Science Pack ×1
• Chemical Science Pack ×1
• Space Science Pack ×1
• Agricultural Science Pack ×1
• ×2000 Science

Dehydration Recipes

• Dehydrate Yumako

• 1 Yumako → Furnace → 1 Yumako dehydrated

• Dehydrate Yumako Mash

• 1 Yumako Mash → Furnace → 1 Yumako Mash dehydrated

• Dehydrate Jellynut

• 1 Jellynut → Furnace → 1 Jellynut dehydrated

• Dehydrate Jelly

• 1 Jelly → Furnace → 1 Jelly dehydrated

• Dehydrate BioFlux

• 1 BioFlux → Furnace → 1 BioFlux dehydrated

• Dehydrate Fish

• 1 Raw Fish → Furnace → 1 Fish dehydrated

• Dehydrate Agricultural Science Pack

• 1 Agricultural Science Pack → Furnace → 1 Agricultural Science Pack dehydrated

Rehydration Recipes

All rehydration recipes require: 1 [Item] dehydrated, 1 Nutrients, 5 Water
- Rehydrate Yumako
- Rehydrate Yumako Mash
- Rehydrate Jellynut
- Rehydrate Jelly
- Rehydrate BioFlux
- Rehydrate Fish
- Rehydrate Agricultural Science Pack

Freezing System

• Process: Put items into a cryogenic plant with specific recipes
• Benefit: Removes spoilage timer when frozen
• Thawing: Frozen items can be turned back to base form using a furnace

Freezing Research

• Research Cost:
• Automation Science Pack ×1
• Logistic Science Pack ×1
• Military Science Pack ×1
• Chemical Science Pack ×1
• Space Science Pack ×1
• Agricultural Science Pack ×1
• Cryogenic Science Pack ×1
• ×6000 Science

Freezing & Thawing Recipes

• Freeze Pentapod Egg

• 1 Pentapod Egg, 10 Nutrients, 1 Fluoroketone (Cold)

• Freeze Biter Egg

• 1 Biter Egg, 10 Nutrients, 1 Fluoroketone (Cold)

• Thaw Pentapod Egg

• 1 Frozen Pentapod Egg → Furnace → 1 Pentapod Egg

• Thaw Biter Egg

• 1 Frozen Biter Egg → Furnace → 1 Biter Egg

2. Changed Foundation Recipe and Research

• New Recipe: 100 Stone, 10 Carbon, 8 Tungsten Plate
• Unlocks After: Metallurgic Science Pack is researched
• Research Cost:
• Automation Science Pack ×1
• Logistic Science Pack ×1
• Military Science Pack ×1
• Chemical Science Pack ×1
• Production Science Pack ×1
• Utility Science Pack ×1
• Space Science Pack ×1
• Metallurgic Science Pack ×1
• ×5000 Science

3. Changed Ice Melting Recipe Result

• New Output: 1 Ice = 100 Water

4. Changed Promethium Science Recipe

• New Recipe: 25 Promethium Asteroid Chunks, 1 Quantum Processor, 3 Fluoroketone (Hot)

5. Changed Production Science Recipe

• New Recipe: 10 Concrete, 1 Productivity Module, 1 Speed Module

6. Allow Base Game Chests in Space

• Base game chests can now be placed and used on space platforms

7. Quality Cargo Wagon and Quality Fluid Wagon Scaling

• Quality variants now properly scale with base game quality size scaling

8. Barrel Stack Sizes Increased

• New Stack Size: 100

9. Nutrients Do Not Spoil

• Nutrients no longer have a spoilage timer

10. Changed ice platform crafting time

• Ice platforms now take 1 second to craft instead of 30 seconds

11. Changed silo module slot count

• Silos now have 10 module slots instead of 4

12. Changed speed quality penalty

• Quality no longer gets penalized for speeding up crafting with speed modules

13. Beacon quality now gives bigger radius depending on quality type

• Beacon radius +1 for Uncommon beacon
• Beacon radius +2 for Rare beacon
• Beacon radius +3 for Epic beacon
• Beacon radius +4 for Legendary beacon