Early Foundations: Fulgora Exclusive

Unlock and build short-pile foundations on Fulgora without metallurgic science or a visit to Vulcanus. This fork supports Fulgora-first factories, including Any Planet Start runs that need more building space before travelling to other planets.

Factorio 2.1 | Space Age required | Version 1.0.1

What changes

Short-pile foundation research no longer consumes metallurgic science. It still unlocks after electromagnetic science and costs 500 research units at 20 seconds each, using automation, logistic, chemical, space and electromagnetic science packs.

Crafting costs remain 4 steel plates, 8 low-density structures and 10 refined concrete, with a 20-second crafting time. Foundations retain placement on both shallow oil-ocean variants on Fulgora and the original supported water and wetland tiles. Deep oil oceans and lava remain excluded.

Short-pile foundations are listed before advanced foundations in item menus. Item and tile entries share matching artwork based on the actual foundation surface.

Installation and existing saves

Disable Early Foundations before enabling this fork. The two mods are mutually exclusive. Existing item, recipe, technology and tile identifiers are retained when switching.

Any Planet Start is optional. This fork also works with normal Space Age progression; it changes foundation research rather than the selected starting planet.

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Verified checks cover research, recipes, placement rules and save loading on Factorio 2.1.24.

Credits and license

Based on Early Foundations by Chesapeake / moth.monster. Original commit history is preserved, with the Fulgora research change on top. Maintained by johnmart19 / FactorioMods.

The inventory and research icons match the foundation's actual appearance on Fulgora. In-game terrain textures are unchanged.

Code is distributed under the original WTF+GFY license. Original icon credits and details for the current artwork are included in ATTRIBUTION.md.