SmoothStart

Skip the slowest part of a new freeplay game. You start wearing a light suit with everything already fitted, and 10 fast robots in your inventory.

The kit

• SmoothStart Armor: a small 2x2 grid that takes only the four modules below. While you wear it, you mine and craft faster by hand, and your reach is doubled.
• Arc Reactor: 200 kW, enough to run the whole suit.
• Boots of Speed: +50% movement speed.
• Miniroboport: lets construction robots work from your inventory, within 15 tiles.
• Nightvision Goggles: see clearly in the dark.
• 10 SmoothBots: construction robots four times as fast as the regular kind (you can change that in the settings). They never need charging. Worker robot speed research doesn't change them.

The modules fit only this armor, and nothing else fits in it. None of it can be crafted, so when you outgrow the suit, the kit stays behind.

Settings

Startup settings, under Mod settings:

• Start with 10 burner mining drills (on by default)
• Start with 100 iron plates (off by default)
• Start with 100 copper plates (off by default)
• Start with 50 coal and Start with 4 stone furnaces (on by default)
• Start with 2 gun turrets and 20 firearm magazines (off by default)
• Start with 40 cliff explosives (off by default), for clearing a few cliffs early on. You still need the research to make more.
• Start with Automation researched (off by default; also researches what it depends on)
• Boots of Speed quickness: 0 to 100%, default 50%. 0 effectively turns the boots off.
• SmoothBot speed: 2, 4, 6, 8 or 10 times a construction robot's, default 4.
• Hand mining bonus: 0 to 200%, default 100%, while you wear the armor.
• Hand crafting bonus: 0 to 200%, default 50%, while you wear the armor.
• Double reach (on by default), while you wear the armor.

• Reveal a larger starting map (off by default), with a radius of 200 to 1000 tiles, default 400 (200 is the normal game). This generates more of the map up front, including any biter nests in that area.

• Remove crash site wreckage once it's looted (on by default). During the first 5 minutes, wreckage disappears as soon as it's empty. After that, whatever is left stays until you mine it by hand.

• Squeeze through tight gaps (on by default). Trims the hit boxes of buildings and trees so you stop getting stuck on pipes, chests and trees. Walls stay solid. The idea comes from Squeak Through 2 by _CodeGreen; if you run a Squeak Through mod, it does this job instead, with its own settings.

Good to know

• You get the kit in freeplay, once per player. Adding the mod to an existing freeplay save gives existing players the kit too.
• Can't run alongside FasterStart, since both hand out a starter suit.
• Works with or without Space Age.