Chapter 27 ‐ Kruise Kontrol

About Kruise Kontrol

Kruise Kontrol (note that the spelling begins with two “K”s) is a mod by Factorio developer Klonan. It allows the player to tell the character to do things automatically, such as walking to a specific point or doing pre-planned construction tasks. A customized version of this mod has been integrated into Factorio Access as a dependency.

How it works

Kruise Kontrol is activated by selecting a target point and pressing CONTROL + ALT + RIGHT BRACKET. The action taken will depend on what is located at the target location:

• If the tile is empty, then the engineer will walk or drive their current vehicle to it.
• If the tile contains a rock or an ore or a tree, then the engineer will begin collecting the respective resources upon arriving to the tile.
• If the tile contains a building ghost, then the engineer will begin to fill in the ghosts in the area using the building items in the inventory. In some cases the engineer will also use gather raw materials from nearby belts and craft the required buildings that are not already available in the inventory.
• If the tile contains a building marked for deconstruction, then the engineer will mine and collect all such buildings in the area.
• If the tile contains an enemy unit or structure, then the engineer will use the weapons they have to fight the enemies with reasonable sophistication.

For the selected action, Kruise Kontrol will keep going until it runs out of things to do or until you press the cancel button ENTER to stop it.

While it is working, Kruise Kontrol will periodically report its current status so that the player will have some context about what the character is up to.

While walking to a specific location, the Kruise Kontrol engineer will usually mine the trees and rocks that get in the way. They will do the same for walls if there are no gates, but they will turn around and replace a wall they they mined after passing through.

Queuing actions

If you activate Kruise Kontrol on multiple points in order, it will work to do the related actions one after the other. However, to keep the behavior simple, you may also prefer to manually cancel the current action before instructing a new one.

Factorio Access customizations

The Factorio Access version of Kruise Kontrol has the same user side description as the original mod, but it has modifications under the hood such as bugfixes by EliteHunter and interfacing features by AHicks. These changes allow for the smooth integration and operation of the mod.