Upgrade planner

The upgrade planner is a tool for the mass updating of entities to alternative items of the same size and type. It can be used both on buildings that have already been placed and also to modify the contents of a blueprint. Its most common use is the replacing of earlier game entities with later, better items. For example to replace transport belts with fast transport belts and later with express transport belts. In addition it is also able to convert belts to underground belts and pipes to underground pipes, as well as being able to swap several other categories of items. Using an upgrade planner in the game world is similar to the operation of a deconstruction planner and a blueprint, in that the player selects a rectangular area in which the upgrade planner will function and this results in orders being queued for construction robots.

Basic operation

Getting an upgrade planner

A blank planner can be obtained by:

• Clicking the green upgrade planner icon on the shortcut bar (available once construction robotics has been researched in at least one game.)
• Opening the blueprint library and clicking New Upgrade planner.

Using the planner in the game world

With a planner held in the hand, the player can drag it over entities in the game world to mark them for upgrade in exactly the same way that they might drag a blueprint or deconstruction planner.

Using the planner to update a blueprint

• The blueprint to be upgraded must reside in an inventory - it is not currently possible to apply an upgrade planner to a blueprint in the blueprint library.
• With a planner in the hand, open the edit window for a blueprint by clicking Right mouse button on it.
• Click Left mouse button the planner on the grey upgrade planner slot, visible in the top right corner of the blueprint.
• The entities in the blueprint will immediately update. If a filtered planner is used, only those entities in the filter will change. An unfiltered planner will update everything.
• The update is immediate and irreversible.

Filtering the planner

In order to specify specific rules for the planner to follow, it is

Items that can be altered

The upgrade planner can operate on the items listed below. A planner can swap any item in each category to any other item in that same category. For example a transport belt can be changed to a fast or express transport belt and also to any kind of underground, but not to a splitter or a chest.

Belts and undergrounds

• Transport belt
• Fast transport belt
• Express transport belt
• Underground belt
• Fast underground belt
• Express underground belt

Splitters

• Splitter
• Fast splitter
• Express splitter

Inserters

• Burner inserter
• Inserter
• Fast inserter
• Filter inserter
• Stack inserter
• Stack filter inserter

Pipes

• Pipe
• Underground pipe

Chests

• Wooden chest
• Iron chest
• Steel chest
• Active provider chest
• Passive provider chest
• Storage chest
• Buffer chest
• Requester chest

Power poles

• Small electric pole
• Medium electric pole

Boilers/Turbines

• Boiler
• Steam turbine

Furnaces

• Stone furnace
• Steel furnace

Assembling machines

• Assembling machine 1
• Assembling machine 2
• Assembling machine 3

Modules

• Speed module
• Speed module 2
• Speed module 3
• Productivity module
• Productivity module 2
• Productivity module 3
• Efficiency module
• Efficiency module 2
• Efficiency module 3

Walls/Gates =

• Wall
• Gate

History

• 0.17.0:
  • Introduced

See also

• Construction robot