Disable Factorio recycler on vanilla server

scripts/disable-recycler.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -euo pipefail
+
+mod_list=${1:-/factorio/mods/mod-list.json}
+mkdir -p "$(dirname "$mod_list")"
+
+if [[ ! -s "$mod_list" ]]; then
+  printf '{"mods":[{"name":"base","enabled":true}]}\n' > "$mod_list"
+fi
+
+tmp_file="${mod_list}.tmp"
+jq '
+  if (.mods | map(.name) | index("recycler")) then
+    .mods |= map(if .name == "recycler" then .enabled = false else . end)
+  else
+    .mods += [{"name":"recycler","enabled":false}]
+  end
+' "$mod_list" > "$tmp_file"
+mv "$tmp_file" "$mod_list"

scripts/start.sh

@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ cp /settings/server-settings.json /factorio/config/server-settings.json
 cp /settings/server-adminlist.json /factorio/config/server-adminlist.json
 cp /credentials/rcon-password /factorio/config/rconpw
 chmod 600 /factorio/config/rconpw
+# Recycler is shipped with Factorio 2.1 and is auto-enabled if omitted from
+# mod-list.json. This vanilla server does not use the Space Age expansion.
+/scripts/disable-recycler.sh /factorio/mods/mod-list.json
 # Upstream uses bash xtrace, which would otherwise log the RCON password.
 exec 3>/dev/null
 export BASH_XTRACEFD=3