About Rainbow Beacon Overhaul
From Factorio Mod PortalBeacon overhaul!
These beacons are designed to encourage more build variety!
Look at the machine speed bonuses in the next video:
There's a menu inside each rainbow beacon which lets you choose a transmission color. All colors deliver the effect of one module.
Warmer color beacons transmit over small areas, but use less modules and less electricity. Colder color beacons can transmit over a wide area (up to 131x131), but they require more modules and more electricity to work.
The coldest beacon is purple and the warmest is red.
Machines can only have one beacon of each color affecting them. When they are affected by 2 beacons of the same color, the effects of said color are cancelled!
Despite the giant areas, these beacons should be fairly balanced, as they are fairly big and don't provide that much of a boost (only equivalent to 2 vanilla beacons). I wanted to make their placement a bit puzzly and to encourage building variety :P
This mod is a fork of nattanang which forked Kane.Nexus with sprinkles of pY inspiration.
Highlights
From source dataFootprint
Rated a light load on a server.
License
Published under Unlicense.
Last update
Its author last shipped an update 3 mo ago.
Rainbow Beacon Overhaul 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
- 1.0.8, released 2026-07-28
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.8 | 2026-07-28 | 2.1 | n/a |
| 1.0.7 | 2026-07-28 | 2.1 | n/a |
| 1.0.6 | 2026-07-10 | 2.1 | n/a |
| 1.0.5 | 2026-07-10 | 2.1 | n/a |
| 1.0.4 | 2026-07-10 | 2.1 | n/a |
| 1.0.3 | 2026-07-04 | 2.1 | n/a |
Dependencies
- Optional: Pyanodons Post Processing
Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.
Run Rainbow Beacon Overhaul 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 Rainbow Beacon Overhaul 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 ↗
- ✓AuthorKabury, as published on Factorio Mod Portal
- ✓LicenseUnlicenseFree

