Let’s get some mod discussion going. Finally launched my first rocket early this year and have discovered the wonderful world of mods.
Personally, I’ve been playing a lot of seablock. For me, it is the best mod for doing it in small chunks. The lack of biters, the fact that I need to place landfill to start up a new area, it makes everything feel very intentional, I guess you could say. Versus normal factorio where expansion is the default.
Also have small SE and py saves going. SE only have the first few sciences and py only have basic power, so haven’t really explored deep at all into those.
IR3 is pretty fun, art is done amazingly too
Seablock is also interesting
I’ve done a few Angels/Bobs runs in the past. While the added complexity of Angel’s Petrochem provides a lot of complexity, it doesn’t really add a lot of challenge. It’s mostly just a chore.
My favourite for my last 2 playthroughs has been Krastorio 2 + Rampant, really focus a lot more on defense and fighting your way to resources.
SE and py scare me, don’t think i’ll ever touch those lmao.
I got about 100 hours into Space exploration. Its not bad, but it can feel quite tedious at times.
Right now I’m doing a bobs and angels playthrough, but without angels refining. I just dont like the “one ore makes two different metals/resources” kind of thing. makes it difficult to balance stuff.
Yeah I really enjoyed SE for a while, but I gave up towards the end game once it stopped introducing new mechanics and started just making you do the same things in different combinations. I really liked the Arcospheres though, I thought they were a really clever and novel challenge. Overall I would say it’s worth the time to experience all the interesting new mechanics, but I don’t think I’m missing out from stopping before I beat it
I never even got to arcospheres, I gave up at the sheer tedium of automating the space sciences. A shame, because I love the new smelting stuff and interplanetary rockets and stuff. But the space science stuff was just painful.
Just yesterday I started a playthrough of Warptorio 2. I don’t know if I will actually ever finish it. But it is a very fun idea. I am used to the more complex and very slow mods. Nullius, Bobs+Angels, Krastorio, Space Exploration. And often play without Biters. But Warptorio is… at least for me… like a ride on a near nuclear missile. Constant time pressure, constant pressure from heavy Biter aggression, scrambling to get a few materials before you have to abandon the place again and warp. But also not wanting to warp as much as the timer you need to wait increases with every warp. The slow increase of “space that warps together with you” is so satisfying. Finally having a iron smeltery in your warp-space, and a mining-patch you can just plot down outside and that will auto-warp with you.
I don’t know how the balancing works out in the long run. Will the increasing warp-timer be a hurdle I can not overcome, or will it get “easy” at some point? I don’t know jet, but I might find out as it is very fun at the moment.
