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I was working with my mod that uses recipes to create an order of all the items in the game. When printing the results, I noticed some items that I did not expect to find. I am aware of what loaders are, but have never seen the electrical-energy-interface before. The version of factorio I was running was not modded (apart from my own). Only items that are in a recipe, either as an ingredient or a product would show up. Why aren't these recipes hidden (I filtered all hidden recipes out) and why don't they show up in the game?

Loaders:

electrical-energy-interface:


I know the list is incomplete as it is also supposed to have fluids in it, but only has steam.

electrical-energy-interface is used in the trains tutorial so that inserters can be given power while abstracting away the details of what the power is. Not sure if it is used anywhere else in Vanilla.

So why does the electrical-energy-interface have a recipe?

They don't show up because they are not enabled. Same as all other recipes that are enabled by research (except you can't research them).

accumulators are derrived from electrical-energy-interface

d3x0r wrote:accumulators are derrived from electrical-energy-interface

No. The accumulators were part of the game before the interface was.