How to use the vanilla loaders without any Mods
 
 

Let’s get it done

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.
 
 

item.lua

 
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:
 
 

 
 

recipe.lua

 
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.
 
 

technology.lua

 
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:
 
 

 
 

Enjoy the loaders 🙂

 
 

 
 
Here we come to an end for Factorio Activate Vanilla Loaders hope you enjoy it. If you think we forget something to include or we should make an update to the post let us know via comment, and we will fix it asap! Thanks and have a great day!