Start underground. The Nauvis surface is hostile and normal surface construction is forbidden; dig out cave space, use shafts, and build your factory below.
Large total conversion mods.
Transportation of the player, be it vehicles or teleporters.
New ways to deal with enemies, be it attack or defense.
Map generation and terrain modification.
New Ores and resources as well as machines.
More than just chests.
i broke the starting surface acces shaft and now can't place it back down because im not on the surface
fixed
fixed how? I ran into the same issue and can't place it back down.
nvm, I still was on Factorio 2.0 and the ingame modportal served me 0.8 as "newest" version of the mod.
Switching to 2.1 and updating mods fixed the issue.