Factorio: How to Use Vanilla Loaders 2022

Go to your Factorio directory and navigate to the prototypes folder:

Factorio\data\base\prototypes

You will need to edit up to 3 files:

• item.lua
• recipe.lua
• technology.lua

You can open them with any editor.

Use Ctrl + F to look for “loader”.
Delete the first loader entry, we don’t need two of them.

In the next step, remove the

flags = {"hidden"}

on all 3 loaders (loader, fast-loader and express-loader).

Modified entries:

Look for “loader” and remove

hidden = true

on all 3 loaders.

Modified entries:

When you don’t want them to need any research or don’t want to start a new game, use

enabled = true

otherwise save and close recipe.lua and go on to the last part.

You can add the loaders to any technology you like. I will use logistics 1-3 to get them.
Looking for the “underground-belt” is the best way to find the logistics technology.
Add this between the entries for the underground-belt and the splitter:

      {
        type = "unlock-recipe",
        recipe = "loader"
      },

Use the same method to add the fast- and express-loaders.

Modified entries:

By Masaru