catering science packs have infiltrated most of my tech tree, including that unrelated to your mod, can we limit this to just your mod stuff?

It makes sense that we need enough food to enable new technologies.

yea, i have enough mods and science to deal with, i dont need another. character doesnt even eat.

I might add a setting later.

recommendation: stick to your own tech tree as a alternative path and leave vanilla alone. if people want to use your advanced tech, they can make the science, in all honesty i just use the fruits by themself to sell with black market, makes alot of money.

some examples, the factorio and conquer, and void craft mods add their own science packs but stick with their own tech trees so the game doesnt get impossible to play, and or adds alternative ways tech for doing vanilla things.

yeah, I'm organizing the tech tree.

character doesnt even eat.

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/foodtorio
If you get the Foodtorio mod, not only can you eat, you must eat. It introduces a hunger and nutrition element, requiring this mod as a dependency. And to me, it just makes sense. You're supposed to be a human, not a robot, that crash landed on an alien planet, stuck for days as you design and produce a way to get off the planet. Why wouldn't you need to create a farm and eat food to survive? Of course it's all optional since this is a game and everybody has a different opinion of what they consider "fun", but I wanted to bring it to your attention in case it's something you are interested in.

I just installed this mod but it seems the catering science pack is not required for anything in the tech tree? It seems there is no benefit now to actually buid a farm factory. Didn't see a setting or similar?

I saw that it now is in the tech tree when space science pack is also needed. I am completely confused how to create the science packs, though. The factoriopedia doesn't really show that. I assume with a restaurant?