Mod Name: Py-AI Smart Speed Modules
Description: Unleash the power of AI-driven optimization with this comprehensive mod, designed to revolutionize how you fine-tune production, logistics, and biological systems in Factorio. Featuring a vast array of specialized modules, customizable multipliers, and tiered upgrades, it empowers you to balance speed, productivity, and energy usage with unparalleled precision—whether you’re scaling an industrial megafactory or optimizing a sustainable farm.
🔑 Core Highlights
- AI-Powered Modules for Every System
- Speed Modules: Boost machine/process speed by a configurable multiplier (via py-ai-speed-module), with energy consumption scaling proportionally (consumption = speed/5). A test version (py_ai_speed-l_module) offers half the speed boost for balanced early-game use.
- Productivity Modules: Increase output yields via py-ai-productivity-module, but with trade-offs—speed decreases (speed = -productivity/2) and energy use rises (consumption = productivity).
- Creature/Plant-Specific Variants: Over 40 specialized modules (e.g., Tree AI Speed Module, Vrauks AI Speed Module, Seaweed AI Speed Module) tailored to enhance biological production, from crops to wildlife.
- Progressive Tiers (MK02–MK04)
Scale performance as your factory grows: each tier amplifies effects to handle late-game demands, ensuring your optimization keeps pace with expanding production lines.
- Dedicated Crafting Hub: AI Plugin Combiner
A compact (1x1 collision box) assembling machine (375kW power, 2 module slots) that crafts all AI modules. Unlocked via the "Py-AI Smart Speed Module" technology, it requires minimal materials (5 steel plates, 10 iron plates, 5 iron gears) and uses advanced components like brains, duralumin, and tinned cables for module recipes.
🎛️ Unmatched Customization
Tweak every aspect of your factory via mod settings to match your playstyle:
- Production Tuning: Adjust inserter speed (inserter_speed), mining animal/logistics efficiency (py-module), and slaughterhouse rates.
- Biological Optimization: Use py-ai-speed-zw for farm/ranch-specific speed boosts; cautiously adjust py-ai-speed-cn for productivity (note: excessive use may flood your factory with byproducts).
- Equipment Upgrades: Add module slots to botanical nurseries, geothermal plants, monium drills, and fluid drills for targeted enhancements.
- Logistics Overhaul: Speed up trains (locomotive_g), eliminate pipe collisions (pipe_no), disable night cycles (day), or expand fluid tank capacity (py-tank).
- Robot Control: Modify robot speed, energy consumption (per tick and movement), and payload size to streamline logistics.
🔬 Technology & Integration
- Unlocking: Research "Py-AI Smart Speed Module" (prerequisite: "Electronics") with 500 automation science packs over 60 seconds. This unlocks the combiner, base modules, and all creature/plant-specific variants.
- Compatibility: Seamlessly works with vanilla systems and mods like Space Age (with heating energy support for advanced setups).
Whether you’re chasing Ultimate efficiency (peak efficiency) in a sprawling factory or refining a self-sustaining farm, Py-AI Smart Speed Modules put control in your hands. Fine-tune, experiment, and dominate every production challenge!
