This mod is the spiritual successor to Gridtorio: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/gridtorio

The questbook in this mod will guide you through most of what's new and different about this mod in contrast to vanilla gameplay.

You can play the game with this mod almost completely vanilla, with the one exception being that land is not as free as it normally is.

This mod introduces an economy and item-valuing system that was designed to be as balanced as possible for quality-based cross-planet trading. Each hex you claim contains procedurally generated trades which provide you an alternative way to approach solving your problems.

This mod introduces a leveling system for all items in the game. Leveling up an item affects its value in trading and gives a number of unique bonuses specific to that item. Getting to the final rank on every item in the game may be challenging.

This mod introduces a questing system, as mentioned earlier. Complete quests to receive interesting rewards that help you build bigger factories and claim more land!

This mod buffs teslaguns and destroyer bots, and it adds a new combat robot and spidertron, as well as two new ammunition types. Why so much military? Go conquer the challenging dungeons and plunder their valuable loot!

This mod adds another tier to quality, modules, transport belts, belt capacity, chemical fuels, and recipes for spaceship fuel. It also adds an endgame Nauvis resource to be used in various processes post-Aquilo such as very efficient spaceship fuel and modules. There are new technologies for these things, and the new recipes give more uses for the less popular machines like cryogenic plants and biochambers.

Allows setting two options for a deathworld-like experience if the mod is not challenging/fun enough.

Space is unaffected by the world generation; only planets are divided up into hexes.

This mod is extra fun in multiplayer! Join https://discord.gg/huJY7QK6UG to discuss the mod.

Huge thanks to my play testers and critics to help shape this mod into what it is now.