Why Pacifist?

This mod is for those who want to enjoy a game without biters and a tech tree without useless military research options.
It also strives to remove references to killing and weapons as much as possible, so you might consider it for a kid-friendly playthrough.

Space Age DLC

Due to the nature of Space Age, some weaponry has to remain as well as spawners on Gleba and Nauvis. However, care has been taken to rename everything and restrict it to the necessary uses:
- Gun turrets etc. are now called "asteroid defense" and are only buildable on space platforms
- Ammunition and rockets are unlocked with the respective defense technology
- Damage and speed bonus research is only available after the respective defense technology
- Pentapod and biter eggs and everything related to them have been renamed to themes that do not imply the existence of hostile organisms
If you are looking for a more lightweight approach to play a peaceful round of Space Age without useless technologies, have a look at the Hide Unused Military Technologies mod.

Factorio 1.1

• Pacifist 0.6.x works with Factorio 1.1 and a longer list of overhaul mods. I won't work on new features for that version, but if you find bugs with mods that should be compatible, please send them my way.

Pacifist: Remove all the things!

Pacifist removes all weapons, ammo, turrets, and defense equipment as well as their technologies, even military science packs are gone.

Biters are removed. If you load the mod into an existing game or don't disable them during game creation, they will be removed for you. Abracadabra.
Pollution is off in map generation settings by default, but if you happen to add the mod to a save with pollution turned on, it will stay on.
Pollution generated (or removed) by entities and modules is disabled by default, but you can turn it on in the option to get your green water and shriveled trees back.

Vehicles are still here but without guns. Removing the tank entirely is an option, but by default it is left in the game so you can still use it to plow down the real enemy - trees.
After all, there are no more grenades available for the task. Tank and spidertron technologies no longer use military science.

Power armor stays, for the precious personal roboports and exoskeletons.
They can now be researched without military science packs, the technology tree has been adapted correspondingly.
Laser and discharge defenses are removed. Removal of energy shields is optional.

Walls and gates are removed by default (unless you are using a compatible mod that absolutely requires them), but there is a startup setting to leave them in.

Compatibility with other mods

Note: compatibility with other mods is work in progress.
I'll be grateful if you have suggestions or want to report an incompatible mod.
You can do so either in the discussions on the mod portal or by submitting an issue in GitHub.
When you do a modded playthrough with Pacifist, I'd also be happy to hear if it worked well, and which mods you used.

It is in the nature of this mod to remove a part of the game that other mods may consider vital.
Mods that rely on military items or biters being present, be it vanilla items or their own, may break while loading, while creating a new game, or even later in the game, unless I put in the work to make them compatible.

I do my best to ensure the game does not crash when combining Pacifist with other mods, but each test means I have to at least install the mod, restart Factorio, and start a new game.
All that does not mean that mods that don't crash won't behave strangely or be playable at all.
Mods that need more thorough investigation and more complex adaptations are those that change science packs and all of the larger overhaul mods.

Apart from that, purely military mods that fail to load are marked incompatible and I won't fix those issues unless they are part of popular mod packs.

Please let me know when you'd like to use Pacifist with an overhaul mod that is not on this list or marked as not tested! I'll prioritize compatibility to mods where I know they will actually be used. The mods marked as compatible in the list at the end of this page is tested more or less thoroughly every time a new version of Pacifist is released.

Users of this mod also downloaded...

There are some mods that go well with the theme of this one (i.e. they help to let you focus on the building and research). Among those are:

• Explosive Termites (adds very effective "grenades" to the game that destroy trees in a large area)
• Throwable Capture Bot (throw your "Bio probes" instead of using a launcher that suspiciously looks like a rocket launcher...)

HELP WANTED!

One big target for Pacifist is large overhaul mods. Playing and testing all of them is impossible for me as long as days have only 24 hours.
I also have no experience to speak of with graphics design, so the occasional image adjustment is a challenge I tend to postpone indefinitely.
Help in any form is much appreciated:

How you can help

• Constructive feedback: Knowing that people use the mod and care about it gives me motivation.
• Bug reports: When you experience crashes, Factorio not loading, or things wrongly being removed or kept in the game by Pacifist, drop me a line.
• Compatibility notes: If you play a save with Pacifist, even without problems, consider sending me the list of mods that worked.
  That can be a handwritten list, your mod-list.json (in your Factorio mods directory), or your save game.
• Testing: Check how Pacifist does together with other mods, especially overhaul mods and ones that add tools that are used like weapons (like grappling gun, nanobots, etc.), but also purely military mods.
• Graphics: There is a number of graphics related issues that I'd love to get some help with over at Github.
• Patches: Many compatibility issues can be solved with smaller non-intrusive configration patches. I'll be happy to chat with you if you're interested.

How to get in touch

• Start a thread in the mod portal discussions section.
• Create an issue at Github.
• Look me up in the Factorio Discord and send me a DM. (No friend requests out of the blue, please, I ignore those as there are too many scammers)

Compatibility List

The below list in non-exhaustive. Mods that don't add or change anything of interest for Pacifist are not listed and should just work.
That includes purely military mods.
Please let me know of any other mods that you'd like to see in the list.
❌ = incompatible.
❓ = test needed.
✅ = superficially tested. No crashes on load, no important items missing as far as a quick peek after game start can reveal. Sufficient for most smaller mods.
✨ = polished. If needed, manual adjustements to prototypes and names etc have been made to make the experience consistent and non-violent.
🎮 = playtested. Some mods (usually more complex mod packs) have scripted surprises that are only revealed by actually playing them with Pacifist.