xyrc's K2SO Enhancements

by xyrc

Laundry list of tweaks, fixes, and overall enhancements to Krastorio 2 Spaced Out for compatability with other mods, consistency changes, and balancing. Adds sprited galvanization tech cards to Paracelsin. Patches vehicles added by other mods to work with K2's equipment system. Patches can be toggled in settings.

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Changelog

Version: 0.2.6
Date: 01-06-2026
  Minor Features:
    - (Paracelsin) Offshore pump added to mechanical plant as a consistency change
  Changes:
    - Moshine removed as required dependency
  Bugfixes:
    - No longer crashes on load with Outer Rim installed
      - Proper compat not added yet, but unlikely to break anything
    - (Paracelsin) Fixed electrochemical plant not having the "organic-or-chemistry" crafting categories added to it
Version: 0.2.5
Date: 01-06-2026
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed crashed on load with some settings enabled
Version: 0.2.4
Date: 01-06-2026
  Minor Features:
    - (Paracelsin) New setting: Mechanical Plant can now run more recipes
      - Default on
      - Includes inserters from other mods, superior belts, crushers, thrusters, and asteroid collectors, steam turbine and related, and more
    - (Secretas) Gold heat pipe recipe changed when Secretas polish is enabled
      - Now an "upgrade" recipe and requires a regular heat pipe in its recipe
      - Requires zinc solder if Paracelsin is installed
  Changes:
    - Tweaks to settings
    - (Paracelsin) Advanced chemical plant research required for Paracelsin discovery when rebalance chemical plant upgrades is enabled
  Bugfixes:
    - (Paracelsin) Electrochemical plant now inherents adv. chem plant's recipes when rebalance chemical plant upgrades is enabled
Version: 0.2.3
Date: 01-04-2026
  Minor Features:
    - Add more support for Secretas
      - Tech prerequsites are in the correct order instead of all being grouped in front of Secretas discovery
      - Module 4's require the respective Module 3 tech
      - A few recipes changed to be less random and integrate K2 and Paracelsin materials
      - Gold heat pipe technology doesn't need red, green, or blue cards anymore
      - Disabled research pack productivity as it is somewhat of a bloat tech
Version: 0.2.2
Date: 01-04-2026
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed crash when processing unit alt recipes were enabled and Cerys was not enabled
    - Fixed Paracelsin processing unit from nitric acid recipe giving one instead of two processing units
Version: 0.2.1
Date: 01-04-2026
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed Muluna not being installed causing crash on load (again)
  Features:
    - (Secretas) Added sprited auric tech card and auric research data, replacing the golden science pack
Version: 0.2.0
Date: 01-04-2026
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed Muluna not being installed causing crash on load
    - Fixed Science tab not being installed causing crash on load
  Balancing:
    - The "solar panel from silicon cell" recipe requires less aluminum plates to make it more appealing on Moshine
    - Buff Space Age's tesla weapons in order to fit the power creep of K2
    - Turret range 30 > 40, attack speed 2.0s > 1.67s, constant power draw 1.0MW > 500kW
    - Gun range 24 > 32, attack speed 1.0s > 0.75s, shots/mag 10 > 20
    - *(Default off) K2's Advanced Tank locked behind science from Vulcanus, Gleba, & Fulgora to encourage usage of combat spidertrons
  Major Features:
    - *(Default off) Beginning after the first four vanilla planets, technology costs begin to increase significantly, highly recommended to be enabled!
      - This is to support usage of K2, Space Age, and other mods lategame tools and to balance out powerful lab upgrades
      - The scaling values can be reduced in mod settings, down to 50%
  Features:
    - (Maraxsis) Hydro plant can run fuel refinery recipes
    - *(Default off) Spidertron recipe requires raw fish again
  Gui:
    - Ordered settings, added color coded recommendations, made easier to read
Version: 0.1.0
Date: 01-03-2026
  Features:
    - Initial release