Wood Gasification updated

Factorio: Wood Gasification

Too much wood? Not enough oil? Turn surplus wood into petroleum gas, solid fuel and crude oil instead of letting it pile up.

Wood Gasification gives excess wood a useful place in your factory. What starts as a simple way to dispose of unwanted logs grows into a complete alternative petrochemical production chain.

From wood to oil

The first processing stage uses pyrolysis to turn wood into petroleum gas, wood tar and charcoal. The gas is ready to use, the tar can be converted into solid fuel or cracked into oil products, and the charcoal serves as both a better fuel and a useful feedstock for later processing.

Further research unlocks more efficient ways to process wood and wood tar. Finally, synthesis gas can be produced from tar, charcoal or solid fuel and used to turn wood tar into crude oil. This makes wood a useful supplement to an oil industry—or an alternative starting point when convenient oil fields are hard to find.

Modern or classic processing

The modern production chain is enabled by default and gradually expands from basic pyrolysis to advanced synthesis-gas processing.

Players who prefer the original Wood Gasification recipes can enable Use legacy wood processing in the startup settings. Legacy mode restores the old recipes and research progression while hiding the modern chain. Both recipe sets remain in the mod so existing machines and save games keep working when the setting is changed.

Greenhouse

The optional greenhouse provides a renewable source of wood and can be disabled when another mod already fills that role. Its production speed can be adjusted in the startup settings, and it can be connected to the circuit network for automatic control.

With Space Age, the greenhouse uses tree seeds for wood production and can also grow Yumako and Jellynut. Seed drops and whether the greenhouse should require Gleba can be configured separately.

Mod compatibility

Wood Gasification can reuse synthesis gas and carbon supplied by other mods instead of creating isolated duplicates. When compatible carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide fluids exist, they become useful byproducts of the corresponding processes.

Angel's Petrochemical Processing receives dedicated integration: synthesis-gas recipes use suitable steam crackers, gas refineries and separators, with normal chemical plants remaining available as a fallback when those machines do not exist.

Languages

English, Dutch, German, Russian, French, Polish, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese locale files are included.

Credits

This mod continues the discontinued Wood Gas mod with the original author's permission. Artwork contributed by snouz remains included alongside newer wood-processing artwork.