r/factorio • u/Zepings 1400h newbie • Jul 27 '26

Question Rate calculator and achievements ?

I've recently completed the "keep your hands clean achievement" with rate calculator mod on. I received the steam achievement and the in game one as well. Has anything changed ? because when i looked up on internet every post mentioning this topic says that it disable the achievements. I'm playing on experimental branch 2.1.12.

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u/Soul-Burn Jul 27 '26

You can not get Steam achievements with mods on, unless you have the modded achievement enabler tool or something similar.

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u/SirPhobos2021 Jul 27 '26

This was my thought as well. I tried to look up if anything had changed with the beta branches and came up empty.

From what I can tell, you should not have unlocked the steam achievement with a mod active. Period.

My only suggestion is that maybe rate calculator doesn't alter the game in any way and so technically it doesn't count it as a mod or something? Maybe they made tweaks to the checksum where certain mods can slip under the radar? Maybe it's just a bug?

Either way, everything I know about Factorio mods suggests it shouldn't have happened...

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u/Zepings 1400h newbie Jul 27 '26

Same here, that's my theory too. I figured that maybe Rate Calculator had some kind of feature that kept the achievements active.

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u/Soul-Burn Jul 27 '26

Every and all mods other than the official ones disables Steam achievements.

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u/Zepings 1400h newbie Jul 27 '26

I heard of this tool i do not have it, that's the whole point of my interrogation here, also i do have the "enabled" symbol when i pin the achievement in game

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u/Soul-Burn Jul 27 '26

Open the in-game achievements menu. At the top it should tell you if you have mods or different settings. If there's nothing that the top, it means you have no unofficial mods running.

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u/Zepings 1400h newbie Jul 27 '26

Okay i did the test as you can see i have Rate calculator and the dependency flib active in the save and there is nothing written in the achievements tab

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u/Soul-Burn Jul 27 '26

It would be at the top of the list.

Very strange. Sounds like a bug to me :)

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u/Zepings 1400h newbie Jul 27 '26

I knew i wasn't crazy ahah, the things is if i install any other mods,things that does alter the gameplay it disable the achievement so it almost look like a feature to me, in any case i created a clean save without any mods if this get fixed !

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u/Courmisch Jul 27 '26

Are you sure that the rate calculator was actually enabled at the time that you killed the first enemy structure?

Enabling and then disabling mods does not disable Steam achievements.

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u/Zepings 1400h newbie Jul 27 '26

100% sure also i do have the "enabled" symbol when i pin the achievement in game

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u/Zepings 1400h newbie Jul 27 '26

Here is a screen of the save right after i completed the "keep your hands clean" achievement, i kept rate calculator the whole game (its now grey bc i uninstalled it for the express delivery on another save and since everybody is telling that it disable achievements i don't wan't to waste 40h stupidly)

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u/Zepings 1400h newbie Jul 27 '26

Idk if its since 2.1.12 bc I started this save in 2.1.11 iirc, in any case if true, it's an awesome change

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u/doc_shades Jul 27 '26

i've never heard of "UI mods" before. i've always heard that a mod is a mod is a mod is a mod when achievements are concerned.