> Beyond Belts is the rewritten and renamed continuation of AdvancedBeltsSA by Buggi,
> which itself was a Space Age fork of Advanced Belts by Warnone.
> ⚠️ Not a drop-in replacement - see the migration notes below if you're coming from either of those.
About
Adds three new tiers of transport belts past vanilla Turbo:
| Tier | Speed (default) | Crafted on |
|---|---|---|
| Hyper | 90 items/s | Vulcanus (metallurgy) |
| Extreme | 120 items/s | Vulcanus (metallurgy) |
| Ultimate | 150 items/s | Aquilo (cryogenics, zero-g) |
Each tier ships a transport belt, splitter, and underground belt. All speeds (15–180 items/s) and underground-belt reach values are individually configurable in the startup settings.
Recipes use Space Age materials. The Ultimate tier requires cryogenic crafting and zero gravity (Aquilo), uses fluoroketone-cold, and disables productivity bonuses on the fluid output to model a recycled coolant loop.
Highly configurable. Every tier can be individually enabled or disabled, recoloured ("Tier color"), renamed (custom name prefix in the player's language), and tuned for belt speed (15–180 items/s) and underground reach (3–1024 tiles). All controls live in the standard startup settings.
Optional mod compatibility
- ✅ Vanilla Loaders HD (≥ 2.0.0)
- ✅ AAI Loaders (with optional "Recycle cryogenic fluid in loader recipes" setting)
- ✅ Loaders Modernized (≥ 2.0.0)
- ✅ Deadlock Beltboxes & Loaders
- ✅ Black Rubber Belts - Remastered
- ✅ Lane Balancers (≥ 1.2.2 — adds matching lane splitters for every tier)
- ✅ Krastorio2 spaced-out (see Krastorio2 spaced-out compatibility below)
Krastorio2 spaced-out compatibility
When Krastorio2 spaced-out is installed, Beyond Belts auto-enables K2SO compat (startup setting bb-k2so-compat) and routes the tier chain through K2SO's superior belt: turbo → kr-superior → Hyper → Extreme → Ultimate. Speed defaults shift up to Hyper 120/s, Extreme 150/s, Ultimate 180/s, the first BB recipe consumes kr-superior-* instead of turbo-*, and sort order moves BB items behind kr-superior.
If K2SO's kr-loaders setting is also on, three matching K2SO-style loaders are added — kr-bb-hyper-loader (120/s), kr-bb-extreme-loader (150/s) and kr-bb-ultimate-loader (180/s) — extending K2SO's loader chain. They reuse K2SO's own loader sprite at runtime with a tier-colour tint, so no K2SO art is bundled. Ultimate is a cryogenic recipe with fluoroketone-hot return. Unlock is via the existing BB technologies, no new tech.
Tweak the startup settings for full coherence. With K2SO loaded, the default Ultimate tier colour (purple) clashes with K2SO's superior belt. Pick your own tier colours via the "Tier color" settings to taste, and adjust speeds/underground-reach per tier if the K2SO defaults don't fit your run.
Lane splitters / balancers
Vanilla Factorio 2.0 does not expose any visible lane-splitter items. Beyond Belts therefore does not ship its own - but if you install Lane Balancers by Quezler, Beyond Belts automatically registers a matching lane splitter for every tier through that mod's public hook. You get Quezler's recipe scheme (2× output, halved item weight, doubled stack size, splitter-derived texture) and proper next_upgrade chaining for free, with our tier-coloured icons.
Migrating from AdvancedBeltsSA / AdvancedBeltsSA-VL
The v3 line is a full rewrite with a clean prototype namespace (bb- prefix), reworked tier names (Hyper / Extreme / Ultimate), modern integrations, and a tier-driven internal architecture. As a result it is not a drop-in replacement - every belt entity has a new prototype name, so existing belts placed by older versions cannot be migrated automatically.
If you have an existing save:
- Continue playing it on either the original AdvancedBeltsSA by Buggi or my last v2.3.6 release AdvancedBeltsSA-VL (deprecated, kept available for saves only).
- Or switch to Beyond Belts and re-place the belts - uninstall the old mod, install beyond-belts, and replace each existing belt/splitter/underground with its new-tier equivalent. Items in the inventory will be lost
For new playthroughs, install beyond-belts directly. Add lane-balancers if you want lane splitters for every tier (vanilla's and beyond-belts).
Credits
All credits to Warnone (original Advanced Belts) and Buggi (Space Age fork AdvancedBeltsSA) and contributors.
