About Demolisher Scales
From Factorio Mod PortalDemolishers drop scales, used to craft big miners. Combine with a demolisher breeding mod and start farming demolishers.
When demolishers die, they will now drop scales composed of an incredibly hard bio-metallic polymer, which is used to craft big mining drills.
You can use this alongside Demolisher Agriculture, Demolisher Eggs, or Biochemistry so you can breed demolishers.
This mod also automatically marks the corpse boulders of dead demolishers for deconstruction. This is useful for automated farming of demolishers. There is a setting to disable it.
Each big miner needs 1 demolisher scale. Small demolishers give ~10 scales, medium ones give ~20, big ones give ~80, and behemoth ones give ~400 if Behemoth Enemies is installed. There is a setting to increase or decrease these numbers.
Sprite is AI-generated by Midjourney.
_Note: I haven't actually tried to build a demolisher farm yet, but it should be possible. Let me know if you have tried and succeeded or failed. Good luck!_ One problem is that a demolisher farm will probably give you frequent alerts for "building destroyed" unless you turn off those alerts completely. There's no way to turn off alerts in a specific area, and the modding API doesn't give any easy way to do that. (If you're a modder you could try making a mod that creates "no-alert zones" around lights shining pure green. You would probably need to spoof/replace the built-in entity-destroyed alerts similar to what I did in my other mod here.)
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Built for Factorio 2.0.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
License
Published under MIT.
Demolisher Scales 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
- 1.2.2, released 2025-05-31
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.2.2 | 2025-05-31 | 2.0 | n/a |
| 1.2.1 | 2025-01-06 | 2.0 | n/a |
| 1.2.0 | 2024-12-03 | 2.0 | n/a |
| 1.1.0 | 2024-12-03 | 2.0 | n/a |
| 1.0.0 | 2024-12-03 | 2.0 | n/a |
Dependencies
- Required: [reserved]
- Optional: Behemoth Enemies Mod
- Optional: Biochemistry
- Optional: Demolisher Eggs
- Optional: Demolisher Agriculture
Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.
Run Demolisher Scales on a Factorio server
Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogGameplay & overhauls
New mechanics, content and overhauls that change how the game plays.
Runs on your server
From source side supportFactorio Mod Portal lists Demolisher Scales 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
- Game versions
- 2.0
Verified at the source
- ✓Factorio Mod PortalOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-09Open ↗
- ✓AuthorStephenB, as published on Factorio Mod Portal
- ✓LicenseMITFree
