Stackable Mining Drills

Stackable Mining Drills on Your Factorio Server

Stackable Mining Drills by RockPaperKatana makes every electric mining drill stack its output directly onto the belt instead of dropping items slot by slot. Built for vanilla+ runs already using stack inserters, it tightens up throughput and belt space in large-scale mining setups. Note that the expansion needs to be purchased for the mod to work, though it doesn't need to be active in your save.

Setup on your rented server is standard: drop the zip into the mods/ folder and flip it on in mod-list.json. Since our servers sync mods to clients automatically on connect, every player in your group gets the upgrade the moment they join — no manual file sharing required.

Tip: Make sure your factory blueprints already lean on stack inserters, otherwise the gain won't fully show.

Plan the rollout and operation

Stackable Mining Drills changes throughput at the very start of the mining chain. Test drills, belt compression, splitters, and unloading together instead of checking only the visible stack size. Existing blueprints may become under- or overbuilt once the mod is active. Begin with one outpost and compare consumption and output before copying the pattern across every ore field in a live multiplayer world.

For rollout, copy the save, mod-list.json, mod-settings.dat, and current mods directory. Enable the new zip on a server copy first and let Factorio validate dependencies and version ranges during boot. Connect at least two clients, use the core feature, save under a new name, and load that save again. Watch the server log, UPS, and synchronization in a realistic factory rather than only on an empty map. For updates, record the game, mod, and dependency versions together and change one package per test run. Content or recipe mods can leave saved entities and production chains behind, so do not remove them directly from the live world. On a copy, replace recipes, filters, and buildings before deleting the file. The original save then remains a reliable rollback. Also document the tested mod order so teammates and later maintenance windows always begin from the same reproducible combination.