Power & Machines

This page covers patching stats on buildables that already exist. That includes power consumption, manufacturing speed, generator output, extraction rate, pipeline throughput, and storage capacity, all through a plain type: cdo document. This is the far more common thing to want.

If you’re instead looking to add a genuinely new building/buildable descriptor class to the build menu, that’s a different mechanism. Type: building covers generation. This page never generates anything: it only patches CDOs.

Buildable CDOs expose factory tuning: mPowerConsumption, mPowerConsumptionExponent, mManufacturingSpeed, significance/overclock settings, mDisplayName, mDescription.

ℹ️ Verify property names against your game version. The buildable examples on this page use real FactoryGame properties, but game updates occasionally rename or move them. If a target: path or path: doesn’t resolve, nothing breaks. The load report tells you exactly which patch failed (/kdf report, see Getting Started → Troubleshooting). Confirm the effect in-game after every patch.

Combining an exact target with a subclass-wide target in one document

A single cdo document can mix a precise, single-building target: with a native base-class target: that fans out via applyToSubclasses: true. Below, the Mk.1 Smelter gets its own power draw and speed tweaks by exact class path. A second patch entry reaches every resource node and deposit through their shared native base class AFGResourceNode, doubling the extraction multiplier for miners across the board, vanilla and modded alike, in one pass:

type: cdo
patches:
  - target: /Game/FactoryGame/Buildable/Factory/SmelterMk1/Build_SmelterMk1.Build_SmelterMk1_C
    properties:
      - path: mPowerConsumption
        op: multiply
        value: 0.75
      - path: mManufacturingSpeed
        op: multiply
        value: 1.25
  # Double the extraction yield of every resource node/deposit via the native base class:
  - target: /Script/FactoryGame.FGResourceNode
    applyToSubclasses: true # FGResourceDeposit derives from FGResourceNode too
    properties:
      - path: mExtractMultiplier
        op: multiply
        value: 2

Power generator output

All fuel-burning generators (coal, fuel, biomass burner) derive from AFGBuildableGeneratorFuel. The produced megawatts live on the generator base as mPowerProduction:

type: cdo
patches:
  - target: /Script/FactoryGame.FGBuildableGeneratorFuel
    applyToSubclasses: true # coal, fuel, biomass, modded fuel generators
    properties:
      - path: mPowerProduction
        op: multiply
        value: 2 # double output; fuel burn rate scales with it

Target a single generator class (e.g. Build_GeneratorCoal.Build_GeneratorCoal_C) instead when you don’t want the subclass blast radius. See Targeting.

Extractor cycle speed

mExtractCycleTime is the seconds per extraction cycle. This property lives on the miner buildable itself, not the resource node. Halving it doubles the output rate:

type: cdo
patches:
  - target: /Game/FactoryGame/Buildable/Factory/MinerMk1/Build_MinerMk1.Build_MinerMk1_C
    properties:
      - path: mExtractCycleTime
        op: multiply
        value: 0.5

Pipeline flow limit

Every pipeline mark derives from AFGBuildablePipeline. mFlowLimit is the throughput cap in m³/s (Mk.1 = 300 m³/min = 5 m³/s):

type: cdo
patches:
  - target: /Script/FactoryGame.FGBuildablePipeline
    applyToSubclasses: true # Mk.1 + Mk.2 + modded pipes
    properties:
      - path: mFlowLimit
        op: multiply
        value: 2

Power storage capacity

Power Storage buildables cap how many megawatt-hours they can bank before topping out. mPowerStoreCapacity is that ceiling. This patch omits op: entirely, so it defaults to a plain set overwrite rather than a relative scale:

type: cdo
patches:
  - target: /Game/FactoryGame/Buildable/Factory/PowerStorage/Build_PowerStorageMk1.Build_PowerStorageMk1_C
    properties:
      - path: mPowerStoreCapacity
        value: 200 # MWh (vanilla: 100)

Drone station logistics

AFGBuildableDroneStation is an ordinary buildable, so its per-trip cargo/fuel tuning is a plain cdo patch like anything else:

type: cdo
patches:
  - target: /Game/FactoryGame/Buildable/Factory/DroneStation/Build_DroneStation.Build_DroneStation_C
    properties:
      - path: mTransferSpeed
        op: multiply
        value: 2 # faster cargo load/unload
      - path: mStackTransferSize
        value: 4 # items moved per transfer tick
      - path: mTripPowerPerMeterCost
        op: multiply
        value: 0.5 # cheaper long-haul routes

Runtime actor patches (values that saves/archetypes would override)

CDO edits only affect newly built actors when the value is serialised into the save. Placed buildings keep their saved values. applyToSpawnedActors re-applies the ops to every instance the moment it spawns:

type: cdo
patches:
  - target: /Game/FactoryGame/Buildable/Factory/StorageContainerMk1/Build_StorageContainerMk1.Build_StorageContainerMk1_C
    applyToSpawnedActors: true # re-applied to every instance the moment it spawns
    applyToSubclasses: false # exact class only
    properties:
      - path: mInventorySizeX
        value: 12
      - path: mInventorySizeY
        value: 8

All targeting modifiers are documented in Targeting. Belt speed, also a buildable patch but balance-flavored, lives in Balancing. To generate a brand-new building/buildable descriptor class instead of patching an existing one, see Type: building.