Zone Analyzer

Select an area of your factory and instantly see, resource by resource, how much is produced inside it, how much is needed, and whether the supply actually keeps up.

Why this mod exists

You just finished a new industrial area and you want to know whether you are feeding it enough water. Or a district has been running at half speed for a while and you cannot tell which of the ten things it eats is the one holding it back. Draw a box around it and you get the answer: what that patch of your base makes, what it needs, and what has to come in from somewhere else.

How to use

• Press F9, or click the toolbar button, to pick up the tool.
• Drag a box over any part of your base.
• A panel opens with one line per resource.

What you get

• One compact line per resource: a coverage bar, then what the area makes, what it needs, and the net, lined up in columns.
• Click any line to unfold the detail: both speeds, how much has to come in from outside, and the warnings that apply to it.
• One switch for the whole panel: full speed, straight from the recipes, or what your buildings actually manage right now.
• Which buildings are truly starved of a resource, based on the time they spend waiting for it.
• Electricity drawn and produced side by side, so you can tell whether an area powers itself.
• Mechanical power in MW, comparing what your turbines make against what your generators need.

Beyond factories

Settlement service modules are counted, water included, from what they actually took in and gave out last month. Hospitals, housing and food modules are left out on purpose: their needs belong to the settlement as a whole, so no zone figure would be honest.

Ore and waste sorting plants are read the same way, from what they really sorted last month, because no recipe can tell you what a truckload of mixed ore will yield.

Maintenance parts go into one pool shared by your whole base, so they can never balance inside an area. The line shows what the area produces, and what the whole base needs is spelled out when you open it.

Pick what counts

Every type of building in the selection is listed as a tile. Click one to leave it out and the balance updates at once, which makes it easy to read a single part of a dense factory.

Honest numbers

An information button explains where each figure comes from. Buildings the mod cannot measure are named rather than quietly dropped, and anything that is a capacity rather than a measurement is labelled as such.

Speaks your language

English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese (BR), Dutch, Polish, Czech, Russian and Ukrainian.

Planned

Settlements are not counted yet. They draw water and food through a system of their own, separate from machine recipes, so covering them properly needs its own work. That is the next thing on the list.

If a number looks wrong

Some buildings are easier to read than others, and a few are left out entirely because the game keeps no usable figure for them. If something does not match what you see in your own base, tell me in the comments. I would rather fix it than have you second-guess the panel.

This mod only reads the game state and shows a panel. It stores nothing in your save file and can be added or removed at any time.

About the filesystem warning

The mod reads one thing: its own translations folder, to load the language file matching your game. It writes nothing to disk. Window position and width are stored through the game's own settings, not in files.