Brave New MTS

You never touch the world. The robots do.

A Factorio 2.0 mod that turns Multi-Team Support into a remote-only, character-free overseer game. Your character is parked in a cell and never sets foot on the team surface — you build an entire factory through a construction-robot network, one blueprint at a time.

Built on mts-v1, not on MTS internals. Inspired by Brave New OARC, but implemented purely against MTS's public remote interface — this mod never patches or forks MTS. The same extension points are open to everyone; anyone can build a similar (or better) experience the same way.

Note on tooling: This mod is developed with AI coding assistants alongside human review and in-game testing. Bug reports, feature requests, and contributions are welcome from everyone. There's a human on the other side — please keep it kind.

✨ Features

👁️ You're the overseer

🪑 Parked character — When you spawn into a team, your character is teleported into your team's walled cell in the landing pen and locked there. You play entirely through remote view of your team surface.
👥 Teams share a cell — Teammates stand together in the same numbered cell; cells are arranged in a tidy numerically-sorted ring around the pen.
🚫 No roaming, no peeking — Because the body never lands on the team surface, you can't walk it around to expose the map. Everything you do happens through the camera and the bot network.
🏅 No god mode, no cheat mode — The save is never flagged as cheated, so achievements stay intact.

🧱 Blueprints in, factory out

🛰️ Self-running starter base — Each team's spawn is seeded with power (solar + accumulators + substations) and a large roboport stocked with construction and logistic robots. Accumulators and roboport energy are pre-charged so the network is alive the moment you arrive.
📐 You draw, bots build — Expand by stamping blueprints. The construction network does the rest; there is no other way to place an entity.
🤖 Tunable bot count — Startup-global settings (bnm-construction-robots / bnm-logistic-robots, default 50 each) control how many robots each new base is seeded with.

🛑 No hand-work

✋ Handcrafting, hand-mining (ore, rocks, trees), and manual ctrl-click transfer to/from chests are all blocked via a permission group — humans can't shortcut the economy. Inserters, machines, and bots move everything.

🏰 The base is permanent

🔒 Non-minable by default — The whole starter base is locked down so a stray click can't dismantle your lifeline.
🆔 Self-contained roboport — A custom, uncraftable bnm-roboport (Google-red tinted) anchors every base. It can't be built, copied, or duplicated — the only ones that exist are the ones this mod places.
💀 Lose the roboport, lose the game — If biters destroy your bnm-roboport, your team is eliminated and disbanded. It is the heart of the base.
🔓 "I know what I am doing" — A Brave New MTS tab in the MTS team-settings panel gives the team leader a one-time button to make the rest of the base minable (the roboport always stays). For players who want to relocate or rebuild on their own terms.

🪐 Every team surface

A starter base is placed on each team surface a team reaches, including additional planets under Space Age. (An Aquilo variant with extra solar is planned.)

⚙️ Requirements

Multi-Team Support — required; the foundation this mod is built on.
Space Age — optional; enables per-planet starter bases.

No roboport mod is needed — the starter roboport is a self-contained, uncraftable entity provided by this mod itself.

🔌 How it integrates

Brave New MTS is a pure consumer of MTS's public mts-v1 interface:

Detects team surfaces via get_surface_owner and seeds the starter base on arrival.
Registers its own settings tab through MTS's generic register_team_tab API — the same hook any mod can use to add a tab to the team-settings panel.
Calls disband_team to eliminate a team when its roboport dies.

If you want to extend the MTS team panel from your own mod, this repo is a working example of the tab-registration contract.

📄 License

GNU GPL v3