Kilroy's Advanced Radars

Looking for better ways to scan the map?

This mod adds 2 new buildings: The "Over The Horizon" Radar and the "High Frequency" Radar. You can unlock them with Military and Chemical Science.

The Over The Horizon Radar is a specialized radar for mapping and exploration, providing very small active coverage but a massive sector scanning boost. The High Frequency Radar is instead an improved active scanner that will keep a large amount of chunks visible. It provides minimal sector scanning, but has vastly increased active range compared to both Roboports and Vanilla Radars.

This mod is Data-Stage only - There is no added impact on UPS. However, HF radars keep a lot of chunks loaded. Use responsibly.

FAQ

Is this mod compatible with other mods?

I tried it in my megamodded SA run and it's worked wonders.

Do you have any impact on calculation?

I don't have any runtime calculations, everything is done via vanilla functionalities. However, chunk loading and generation is not lightweight, so beware possible performance issues. Radars are heavily optimized internally, but area scales quadratically so...

Can i use assets/source code?

Sure - The assets are recolors of vanilla entities and are subject to Wube's Content Policy. All other resources, code included, are under MIT. Technically they're under WTFPL, but it's not accepted by Factorio's Website