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Automated Crushers

by Malidictus · for Factorio

Adds three new Crusher variants which can select their recipes automatically. No more need to filter asteroid chunk belts.

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2 mo agoLast updated
MITLicense
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About Automated Crushers

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Adds three new Crusher variants which can select their recipes automatically. No more need to filter asteroid chunk belts.

This mod adds three new Crusher variants using the "furnace" prototype. This allows them to auto-select their own recipes, meaning that you can feed a single line of all three Asteroid chunk types and the machine s will process whatever they can grab. No more building the same exact crusher stack three times, although you now have to juggle multiple Crusher types, instead. Here are the specifics:

  • Crusher: Vanilla Space Age Crusher, still an "assembling-machine" prototype with manually selectable recipes. It's there if you like it, and because auto-replacing it was too much hassle.
  • Crusher Rockbreaker: A variant of the Crusher which can only do Asteroid Crushing recipes. It's researched from a new Technology on Fulgora just after Electromagnetic science and costs 10 Holmium Plate instead of Steel Plate to build.
  • Crusher Grinder: A variant of the Crusher which can only do Advanced Asteroid Crushing recipes. It's attached to Vanilla Advanced Asteroid Processing and costs 10 Carbon Fibre instead of Steel Plate to build.
  • Crusher Reprocessor: A variant of the Crusher which can only do Asteroid Reprocessing recipes. It's attached to the Vanilla Advanced Asteroid Processing tech and costs 10 Tungsten Plate instead of Steel Plate to build.

All graphics use Hue/Saturation shifted versions of the Vanilla Crusher, while the Automated Asteroid Crushing tech uses a recoloured sprite from the infinite Asteroid Crushing Productivity research. Did my best to make them look natural, rather than just flat-tinted.

Mod Compatibility

The mod determines which crushing recipes go into which categories based on the following criteria:

  • Only recipes with a single item ingredient are considered. Only their single ingredient is considered an "Asteroid Chunk".
  • A recipe with two or fewer results, with at most one being an Asteroid Chunk goes into the Crusher Rockbreaker.
  • A recipe with more than two results, with at most one being an Asteroid Chunk goes into the Crusher Grinder.
  • A recipe with more than two results, with more than one being an Asteroid Chunk goes into the Crusher Reprocessor.
  • Anything else remains unassigned to any of the Automated Crushers.

Highlights

From source data

Footprint

Rated a light load on a server.

License

Published under MIT.

Last update

Its author last shipped an update 2 mo ago.

Automated Crushers on Nxeon

From our catalogue
One-click install
Supported on Nxeon Factorio servers. We download it from Factorio Mod Portal, place it, and restart the server.
Server side
Required on the server
Server load
light
Smallest plan we suggest
Factorio — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
Latest build
1.1.0, released 2026-08-23

Recent builds

BuildReleasedGame versionsLoaders
1.1.02026-08-232.1n/a
1.0.42026-02-012.0n/a
1.0.32025-11-122.0n/a
1.0.22025-08-222.0n/a
1.0.12025-05-022.0n/a
1.0.02025-05-022.0n/a

Dependencies

Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.

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What kind of mod it is

From the catalog
Listed on Factorio Mod Portal as “Mods”

Weapons, items & crafting

New weapons, gear, items and the recipes to make them.

Runs on your server

From source side support

Factorio Mod Portal lists Automated Crushers as required on the server. Check its Factorio Mod Portal page to see whether players need it too.

Compatibility

Game
Factorio
Runs on
Serverrequired on the server

Verified at the source

  • ✓Factorio Mod PortalOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-08Open ↗
  • ✓AuthorMalidictus, as published on Factorio Mod Portal
  • ✓LicenseMITFree

Automated Crushers, answered

Generated from the mod’s own source data.

Do my players need to install Automated Crushers?

Factorio Mod Portal lists Automated Crushers as required on the server. Check its Factorio Mod Portal page to see whether players need it too.

Is it free?

Yes. Automated Crushers is free to download from Factorio Mod Portal. Its license is MIT.

How do I add it to my Nxeon server?

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