Recent Changes

• Added compatibility for Industrial Revolution 3

Introduction

Do you wish you could produce enough ammo to stave off a sea of biters from the very start of the game? Does transitioning from starter base to midgame base to endgame base take the wind out of your sails? Would you like a way to play Factorio without needing to engage with it so deeply?

This mod is an iteration of (and entirely inspired by) the "cheaper items" mods as seen in Cheap Mode, Super-Cheap Mode, and Hyper-Cheap Mode.

This mod preserves zero game balance. The sheer scale of cost reduction is not immediately obvious - at a 2x multiplier getting to a rocket launch costs roughly 1/1000th the amount of resources. At 3x this becomes ~1/60,000th. At 4x it becomes one-millionth (1/1,050,000).

Your in-game progress becomes limited simply by how fast you can build your factory. You may very well complete a vanilla game in 6 hours or less without really thinking about it.

Overview

This mod reduces item costs by crafting them in batches (5 by default) while only using the ingredients needed to craft 1 of that item. The advantage of this method over reducing input quantities is greater consistency of discounts, at the cost of being less intuitive.

Mod settings are provided to customize your experience - I recommend keeping the time and output multipliers equal. Lowering the time multiplier will increase the output rate of all recipes. Personal equipment, weapons and buildings will not be multiplied.

Infinite resource loops are an unfortunate but common result of this mod. Mods listed as an optional dependency should be free of such loops. If you are playing another mod and find a resource loop in it, I would love to be informed in the discussion page so that I can add compatibility!

For a different flavor of discounts, consider checking out my other mod Free Buildings!

For a more subtle and gradual flavor of discounts, consider checking out Increase Base Productivity