Start with a light armor with a pre-filled equipment grid and 50 construction robots, which are also cheap and craftable from the start. Power source adapts to your mods: Pyanodons' gasoline generators, BurnerGenerator, or plain solar panels. Adds a 4x6 equipment grid to light and heavy armor (vanilla only, Py has its own).
Providing the player with new tools or adjusting the game interface, without fundamentally changing gameplay.