Upgrade your starter items instead of destroying them.

Description:

• Adds alternate recipes to upgrade base items to higher tier items
• Keeps the original recipes intact
• Mod support for bob's and angel's
• Migration supported (you can add it to an existing save)
  

Upgrade List:

• Vanilla
• Wooden chest → Iron chest → Steel chest
• Small electric pole → Medium electric pole upgrade
• Stone furnace → Steel furnace → Electric Furnace
• Burner mining drill → Electric mining drill
• Burner inserter → Inserter
• Pistol → Submachine gun
• Light armor → Heavy armor → Modular armor → Power armor → Power armor MK2
• Mods
• Stone wall → Re-inforced concrete wall
• Gate → Re-inforced concrete gate
• Locomotive → "Crawler" construction train locomotive
• Cargo wagon → "Crawler" construction train wagon
  

Inspiration:

• "Justderping" a user from Arumba's community wanted to be able to upgrade walls and this sparked the idea
• I used a similar mod (link below) and didn't like that it replaced the original recipes
• https://mods.factorio.com/mods/serithwing/EveryUpgrade
  

Miscellaneous

• A big shout out to "Nexela" from Arumba's community for all his help