#QoL mod suggestions
humble kettle
Potential QoL Mods List:
Todo List
Actual Craft Times Remade
Afraid Of The Dark (enforced personal lights + more)
Auto Research
Automatic Train Fuel Stop
Automatic Train Station Names
Belt Reverser
Belt Tracer
Bob's Adjustable Inserters mod
Bottleneck Lite
Bulk Rail Loader
Change Map Settings
ChunkyChunks - Configurable Geodesic Grid
Circuit Checker
Color-Coded Planners
Companion Drones
Construction Planner Continued
Copy Paste Modules
Creep Cleaner
Cursor Enhancements
Custom Map Colors
Enhanced Map Colors
Even Distribution
Factory Search
Flow Control
Fluid Permutation
Fluid Wagon Color Mask
FNEI
Game Speed Controls
Ghost Scanner
HandyHands - Automatic Handcrafting
Helmod: Assistant for planning your factory
Hourly Autosaves
Inbuilt Lighting
Inserter Troughput
Kruise Kontrol
Landfill Everything
Lightorio
Logistic Network Channel
Logistic Request Hinter
Logistic Request Manager (continued)
Long and Far Reach
Max Rate Calculator
Milestones
Mining patch planner
Module inserter
Mouse-over Construction
MouseoverDeconstruct
Orphan Finder
Picker Atheneum
Picker Belt Tools
Picker Blueprint
Picker Dollies
Picker Extended
Picker Inventory Tools
Picker Pipe Tools
Picker Vehicles
Pipe Visualizer
Placeables: Quickly show items in your inventory that you can build with
Power Grid Comb
Production Potential statistics GUI
Production Statistics Monitor HUD
Quality of Life research
Rail Signal Planner
Rate Calculator
Research Counter
Research Progress Frame (1.1)
Resource Highlighter (Dark's Version)
Resource Map Label Marker
Robot Recall
Robot Replacer
Schall Circuit Scaling
Schall Entity Inspector
Schall Lamp Contrast
Schall Railway Controller
Schall Virtual Signal
Shortcuts for 1.1
Show Coal Rocks
Solar Calculator
Squeak Through
Train Log
Train Signal Visualizer
Train Trails
Tree Collision
Tree Eraser
VehicleSnap
YARM - Resource Monitor
tulip coyote
Great list, going to reference it in the future. My suggestions are vehicle snap and copy assembler pipe direction, both very minor gameplay changes.
past ibexBOT
rotund gazelle
Even more QoL suggestions:
[Aesthetics]
BiusArt Lab graphics Cleaned Concrete Declutter Hall of Fame Noxy's Fading No Bots Please No Nuke Scorch Ore Eraser Rebuild Crash Site Vil's Clear nightvision
[Circuits]
Copy Paste Recipe Signals Paste Signals Remote Constant Combinator so_as_red_and_green Thicker Power Wires Wire Box Tool
[Construction]
Armor Reach Automatic Underground Pipe Connector Chest Auto Sort Cursed Filter Mining Drill Deep Pockets Ghost In Hand (Kuxynator's Enhanced Edition) Kux Blueprint Extensions Landfill plus Logistics Requests Sorted Nukes Destroy Cliffs SpillProof Tapeline
[Combat]
Auto Deploy Combat Robots Automatic Discharge Defense Fireproof Bots Fireproof Trains Followers+ Inventory Repair Landmine Gridlock Repair From Vehicle
[Interface & Map Settings]
Alert Toggler Delete Empty Chunks No Power Icons Oil Patch Organizer Schall Circuit Group Schall Transport Group Screenshot Toolkit StartAlt Quickbar Templates Quick Map Tag
[Roboports]
Cursed Multi tasking Construction Robots v1.1 Faster Roboport Charging Roboport Radar Robot Recall, fixed
[Transportation]
Auto Manual Mode Better Train Behavior Default Train Conditions Do Robots Build Automatic Trains? Faster Train Limits Multiple Unit Train Control Pavement Drive Assist Continued Spidertron Bob Speed Temporary Stations X Train Mode Switcher Train Schedule Helper
urban valve
Mods I like and weren't mentioned above:
Note: Copy all the text in this channel and paste it in Notepad++ to use the search feature. Saved me so much time and I'm 100% sure I didn't repeat any mods that you've already mentioned.
Add small features
Editor Extensions
Fluid Level Indicator - 90%, 20%
Fluid Must Flow - Massive pipes, infinite throughput
Kontraptions
Long Range Radar Balanced
Mini Miner - 1x1
Mini Trains
Recursive Blueprints
Rivens Train Speed Signs - Speed limiters
Thrower inserter
Aesthetics
Clearwater - No green goo
Realistic Ores - Changes their color
Circuits
Circuit Condition Lamp
Combinator Stack Button
Extended Speaker
fCPU
Fix small inconveniences
Armor Spill Prevention
Better cliff hitboxes
Blueprint Cloner - Change stuff in blueprints, matured in 2.0
Custom Cursor Split - Alt + right click to split a stack by a custom amount
Fill4Me - Automatically places fuel in vehicles
Filter Chests
Gizmos Car Keys - Find your car
Train Automation Tool - Bulk-select and toggle manual/automatic mode
UPS Friendly Radar - Doesn't scan far away
Water consumes pollution
Water Poles - Place them on water
Information and UI
Capsule warning - Cannot reach text
Connection Indicators - Color-coded triangles of fluid and inserter connections
Damage Numbers
GUI Toggle
Informatron
Simple Notepad
little ledge
My recommended quality of life mods
- VehicleSnap - Helps driving.
- RecipeBook - Tells you what an item is used for and how to make it. RecipeBook is a newer design, and has the awesome feature of alt-click on most things.
- FactoryPlanner - Helps designing production chains. Quite complex to understand at start, but well worth it. Factory Planner is the newer and cleaner design.
- TaskList - Handle tasks. Task List is the newer style, has subtasks and player/force options.
- Module Inserter Simplified - Allows to insert modules with bots after buildings are already built.
- RateCalculator - Select buildings in the world, and it will show their max input/output rates and how balanced they are with one another.
- QuickItemSearch - Find items in inventory, ghosts, or logistic networks. Setting temp logistic requests.
- PipeVisualizer - Highlights pipes of different fluids!
- TapeLine - Calculate distances and design spaces
- Bullet Trails - Nice trails for your bullets
- Factory Search - Find stuff in your base! Buildings, items in chests, etc.
- Remote Configuration - Lets you remotely reconfigure certain buildings (rather than copy-paste).
- Belt Visualizer - Like pipe visualizer, but for belts. Also shows splits and sideloads.
- Cursor Enhancements - Recall last built, automatic ghosts, scroll subgroups.
- Filter Helper - Suggests filters for inserters, splitters, chests, wagons, etc according to neighboring items.
- Connection Indicators - Shows colorful indicators on fluid connections, inserters, and miners to highlight misaligned or blocked connections. Shameless plug, written by me.
Useful QoL mods I haven’t used much yet
- Power grid comb - Clean power poles!
- Bottleneck Lite (or Bottleneck) - Shows if buildings are working
- Train Groups - Groups trains so you can change schedules at once.
terse jetty
List updated for 2.0
covert bane
For Factorio 1.1, my recommendations are in #modded-chat message
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covert bane
For Factorio 2.0, I'm still experimenting, and I'm hoping mod makers port some of the older mods, but here are a few interim mod recommendations.
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/CircuitNetworkItemsStackTo50 Circuit Network Items Stack to 50. Reverts one of the most annoying changes from Factorio 1.1 to 2, which is that they changed the stack size of power switch and speaker to 10.
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/RealisticDecorationCleanup Realistic Decoration Cleanup. No more grass on concrete. Removes decoratives under any tile or building that you or your bots build.
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/EditorExtensions Editor Extensions. Better cheat tools than what vanilla has for your sandbox experiments.
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/blueprint-sandboxes Blueprint sandboxes. Lets you do sandbox style tests without having to load a separate savefile.
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/BlueprintTools Blueprint Tools. Modify blueprints to add tiles under buildings. Less useful because Factorio 2 makes it easier to build landfill automatically, but if you like to have hazard concrete around your rails and ordinary concrete elsewhere for aesthetics then it's very useful.
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/FilterChests Filter Chests. Lets you set filter on inventory slots of chests just like cargo wagons work in vanilla. This is often more convenient than setting filters on inserters. It would be even more convenient if there was an easy way to set all filters of the chest to the same. Factorio 2 makes this easier than Factorio 1 vanilla because you can mouse drag a filter over all slots, but Factorio 1 had mods for that.
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https://mods.factorio.com/mod/WideChests Merging Chests. Create variable size chests, including long ones to load/unload trains or make a balancer (with priorities if you wish) easily. Mod settings let you customize what sizes are possible. During gameplay you create the large chests with a tool that unifies multiple chests placed next to each other, or blueprint an existing large chest.
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/aai-containers AAI Containers & Warehouses. Square-shaped large chests. Aren't as convenient as Merging Chests, but they look good.
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/aai-loaders AAI Loaders. New building to move a full belt of items into a chest or crafter or backwards. Operation costs a small amount of lubricant for balance.
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/underground-pipe-pack Advanced Fluid Handling. Custom underground belts. Useful both to transfer fluids long distance or to build more convenient factory builds involving fluids. Improved since Factorio 1 because the underground mini pump now has tiers. Still doesn't support hand-building over ghosts sadly.
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/rec-blue-plus Recursive Blueprints+. Automatically issue ghost construction or destruction commands using the circuit network.
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/First_One_Is_Free First One's Free. This is somewhat cheaty. One slot per item type doesn't take up place in your personal inventory. Useful with mods that add a lot of new different item types.
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/InventoryResearch Inventory Research. More tool belt research to increase personal inventory.
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https://mods.factorio.com/mod/passive-power-combinators Passive Power Combinators. Combinators and speakers don't need electricity.
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/aai-signal-transmission AAI Signal Transmission. Send circuit signals remotely, even to/from space platforms, for a large power cost. Multiple frequencies that don't interfere with each other, unlike vanilla radars.
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/aai-programmable-vehicles AAI Programmable Vehicles. Automatically drive, load, unload road vehicles without needing player attention. There are a bunch of other AAI mods that add new road vehicles for both combat and utility.
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/informatron Informatron. Lets other mods add documentation entries accessible in-game. Apparently easier than using the vanilla tips and tricks for mod authors. Used by some AAI mods at least.
dim ore
My current QoL and utility mods for 2.0 Space Age:
Tidy Menus - Sorts unsorted menu items
Platforms do not request full stacks of buildings - Extra items get sent back and the resources used are refunded
Customizable Quality Names - Rename qualities to whatever makes the most sense to you (I use Normal/Fair/Good/Excellent/Ideal)
Enable When - Changes "enable/disable" text to "enable when"
Filter Helper - Context aware quick select for inserter filters
Auto-Switch Techs - Reorders queued technologies if no science is available for the current tech
Copy Paste Modules - Modules can be copied between machines with shift-right-click and shift-click
Crafting Queue Enhancements - Queue new handcrafts to the front of the list, and related features
Auto Deconstruct - Drills without any resources left automatically get marked for deconstruction
Auto Manual Mode - Using movement controls in a train will automatically set it to manual mode
Automatic Underground Pipe Connectors - Automatically places connecting pipes
Quality Upgrade Planner - Bulk quality adjustment
Preserve Products Produced - Preserves "products finished" when upgrading
Quickbar Templates - Lets you import/export quickbars
Inventory Templates - Lets you import/export inventory slot filters
Force Inventory Insert - Allows shift-click and control-click to move items into restricted item slots
Bottleneck Lite - Shows green/yellow/red indicators for buildings to help make problems visible at a glance
Milestones - Shows you when various "firsts" were achieved
Factory Planner - Calculates total inputs/outputs for recipes
Blueprint Sandboxes - Separate surface with editor-like permissions for making/testing blueprints
Handy Hands Refactored - Automatically handcrafts items based on logistic requests
Rocks heal over time just like trees - Annoying health bars disappear eventually
Inventory Repair - Automatically uses repair packs to repair items within your inventory
Filter Chests - Chests can be filtered with middle-click like cargo wagons or your inventory
Auto-lamp - Places lamp ghosts in the selected area
Subtle Lighting and Brighter Lamps - More natural lighting with gradual falloff of brightness levels (these are best used together)
Will add more as I continue my playthrough...
CTRL + click modules into ghost as character - Lets you set requests in person the same as you would via remote view
Change recipe quality without re-selecting recipe - Use alt+scroll on crafting machines to change recipe quality
Agricultural tower placement helper - Indicates where special soils are needed when holding an agricultural tower
Notice me senpai - Indicates where mineral patches are when holding a mining drill
Ammo turrets have at least two ammo slots - Helps prevent warnings when using multiple ammo types/qualities
Visible Planets - Shows the planet in the background when in orbit
Diversitree - Tweaks planted trees to look more natural
Ultimate Research Queue - Queue any number of technologies and auto-queue prerequisites
Underground Indicators, Fixed - Shows max distance and paths for underground belts
Gradual Nuke Destruction - Damaged terrain spreads out from the point of impact
Mouse-over Construction - Eliminates the need to pipette ghosted entities before placing them
Belt Visualizer - Highlights connected belts
Pipe Visualizer - Highlights connected pipes
stark lion
I don't think these have been mentiined:
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/flip-dots
Pixel displays with better contrast than lamps.
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/UPSFriendlyNixieTubeDisplay?from=search
Compact number displays
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/show-missing-bottles-for-current-research
Shows missing research packs from labs for the current research next to the research progress bar.
vital brook
from the top pin, I would recommend updating Picker Dollies (1.1) to Even Pickier Dolloes (2.0) since the latter is the main compatible one, and mod portal search struggles to find.
RSO is not a QOL mod.
I’d add Mouseover Construction Circuit Visualizer, and blueprint sandboxes