A small addon patch for Pollution Solutions, focused on making pollution collectors behave more reliably in Factorio 2.0 / Space Age saves.
This mod does not replace Pollution Solutions. It keeps the original mod loaded and adds a lightweight refresh and fallback layer around its collectors.
Features
- Refreshes existing Pollution Solutions collectors after loading a save or changing relevant settings.
- Helps collectors re-register correctly on Space Age surfaces such as Vulcanus.
- Supports player-built, robot-built, script-built, revived, mined, destroyed, and space-platform-built collectors.
- Adds an optional cached supplemental collector logic that can scale collection strength based on planet-specific atmosphere/pressure multipliers from Space Age.
- Includes a rebuild-refresh mode that recreates collectors while preserving fluid contents, force, direction, quality, and health where possible.
- Adds batch processing so large saves can refresh collectors gradually instead of all at once.
- Supplemental collection is staggered, capped per collector, and processed over time to reduce UPS spikes.
- Supports centre, cross, and 3x3 pollution sampling modes for different accuracy/performance trade-offs.
- Includes English locale for all runtime settings.
- Compatible as an addon patch rather than a replacement fork, so the original Pollution Solutions systems remain intact.
Recommended default setup
For most Space Age saves, start with:
- Refresh collectors after load: On
- Collector refresh method: Rebuild collectors
- Refresh newly built collectors: On
- Supplemental collector logic: On
- Supplemental sample mode: Center only
If you only want the original Pollution Solutions collector behaviour and do not want any 'Space Age atmosphere/pressure multiplier so collection strength can scale more naturally by surface', disable Supplemental collector logic.
If you have a very large megabase, reduce the refresh batch size or supplemental collectors per tick to spread the work over more ticks.
Compatibility notes
This patch is intended to be safe to add to an existing save using Pollution Solutions. It is mainly useful when collectors appear to stop working, fail to wake up after loading, or behave inconsistently across Space Age surfaces.
