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The original was posted on /r/factorio by /u/LEMO2000 on 2026-08-04 21:08:50+00:00.

I fucking *love* factorio. My biggest problem with it is that I reach the end of the game too quickly, have these huge plans to scale up my factory to mega base levels, but then once I unlock everything my motivation to do so plummets and I never end up expanding to the levels I wanted. I went in completely blind to space age on purpose. I unlocked all the planets, made shitty starter bases on them to unlock all the tech, then made what was supposed to be the middle level of base for fulgora, Vulcanus, gleba, and aquillo, but then when I went to get promethium I just… won the game. I was honestly shocked, the description of the shattered planet made it seem like you would unlock multiple things there. I thought there was a hidden trigger tech or something, but after beating the game I looked it up, and nope, it’s only for science productivity. I simply don’t have the motivation to increase SPM for the same repeatable techs, but I REALLY want to keep playing.

Is there a mod pack that forces you to expand to big base levels on all planets? And critically, includes new big rewards for doing so? Something akin to space exploration, where you continually unlock new techs and have to continually scale up production. I feel like with space age you can just make very shitty bases on every planet other than nauvis and you get everything you need to beat the game.

Adding multipliers to the science wouldn’t do it for me. It doesn’t have to be exactly this, but the idea I have in my head is a mod pack where you have to scale up production on every planet, then you go to a new planet that has a new resource. This resource would be combined with every other planet’s unique resource to unlock a new tier of powerful tech, and the ratio of resources needed to research or fuel or do whatever you need to do for these new techs would be like 1000 to 1. So if promethium is that resource, you need 1000 bioflux, a thousand tungsten plates, a thousand holmium plates, and a thousand lithium plates combined with one promethium to get something.

Those numbers are placeholders, I’m just demonstrating the idea. I want to be *forced* to go hard on every planet to unlock new tech, because I just don’t have the motivation to make myself do it for the repeatable techs. I need a reward at the end of the journey. I wish I didn’t, but the reality is that I do. Anybody have any mod recommendations that would do what I’m looking for?