Industrial Worlds

Separate industrial overhauls. Separate planets. One Space Age game.

Industrial Worlds brings multiple major Factorio overhaul ecosystems together in a single Space Age universe without forcing them to share the same starting planet, resources, technologies or production progression.

Build entirely different industrial civilizations across dedicated planets while keeping Nauvis and the standard Space Age planets focused on their original progression.

Version 0.0.14 introduces the experimental original Nullius 2.1.3 integration through Nullius Core, including the original landing wrecks, salvage, technology identities, recipes, machinery and early research systems.

PUBLIC BETA — EXPERIMENTAL RELEASE

This release is available for community testing. Some advanced progression, cross-world interactions and endgame systems have not yet completed full gameplay validation. Back up existing saves before installing or updating.

The Industrial Worlds

Nauvis — Standard Factorio & Space Age

Nauvis remains the familiar Factorio starting planet with standard Space Age progression.

Industrial Worlds protects important vanilla recipes, machines, technologies, resources and production systems from global changes introduced by supported overhaul mods.

The goal is to preserve standard gameplay while allowing other industrial systems to exist elsewhere.

Features include:

Standard automation, logistics, electronics and metallurgy
Vanilla science and research progression
Standard oil processing, equipment and power generation
Normal Space Age planetary progression
Protection against foreign overhaul resources and enemy ecosystems
Separation of planet-specific technology and production milestones

Overhaul resources and research are assigned to their intended worlds rather than automatically replacing Nauvis.

Angelus — Angel's & Bob's Mods

Angelus provides a dedicated industrial world for the supported Angel's and Bob's overhaul ecosystem.

Develop complex industrial production chains using the original overhaul machinery, materials and science systems.

Features include:

Angel's ore deposits, crushing, sorting and refining
Advanced smelting, metallurgy and alloy production
Petrochemistry and chemical manufacturing
Bioprocessing and biological production
Bob's metals, electronics, equipment and machinery
Dedicated science packs, laboratories and research progression
Bob's enemy ecology
Planet-specific starting resources and equipment
First-arrival burner ore crusher and early production routes
Surface-aware production and technology milestones

Angelus maintains its own progression rather than merging its entire technology tree into Nauvis.

Activation requires the supported complete Angel/Bob gameplay suite.

Pyanodons — The pY Industrial World

The Pyanodons planet hosts the supported pY industrial overhaul ecosystem.

Construct large, interconnected production chains using specialized machinery, extensive resource processing and increasingly advanced technologies.

Features include:

pY minerals, ores and specialized resource deposits
Complex industrial chemistry and refining
Dedicated manufacturing and machine categories
Advanced materials and energy systems
pY science packs, laboratories and technologies
Planet-specific production restrictions and progression
Local machinery, materials and thermodynamic systems
First-arrival mining drill and furnace
Early steam-power, automation-science and electronics milestones

Industrial Worlds separates Pyanodons progression from Nauvis and Angelus while preserving the supported original pY gameplay systems.

Activation requires the complete supported pY suite and a compatible Space Age integration, such as pyspaceage.

Nullia — Original Nullius Integration

Major update in 0.0.14

Nullia is an experimental dedicated planet integrating the original Nullius 2.1.3 source through the required Nullius Core companion mod.

Unlike the earlier partial Nullia foundation, this integration uses the original Nullius source systems, recipes, technology identities, equipment, graphics and mission infrastructure.

Experience the beginning of the Nullius industrial and terraforming campaign as an android on a lifeless world.

Original landing scenario

Nullia includes:

The original spaceship wreck and 13 scattered wreck components
Original recoverable equipment and salvage inventories
Starting machinery and industrial supplies
Original landing deployment tracking
Protected mission and objective state within Nullius Core
Checks against duplicate landing wrecks

The original landing system has passed in-game acceptance testing, including all 14 wreck entities and their checked salvage quantities.

Original Nullius industry

The integration includes the source Nullius production systems:

Iron ore, bauxite, sandstone and limestone resources
Geothermal resources and barren starting environments
Early iron processing and metallurgy
Water filtration and treatment
Electrolysis and chemical processing
Specialized industrial machines and assemblers
Original recipe categories and intermediate materials
Original research technologies and science packs
Android and industrial support systems
Advanced manufacturing and chemistry infrastructure

All 3,534 original Nullius recipe identities and 553 original technology identities have been detected in the latest acceptance tests.

Research and progression

Nullia retains original Nullius research identities and initial research locks.

The original geology, iron-processing and climatology progression contracts are included, along with the source-specific technology and recipe unlocks.

The integration is intended to retain the original Nullius progression rather than replace it with simplified Industrial Worlds recipes.

Terraforming and original objectives

The original Nullius source systems include industrial terraforming, atmospheric development, ecology and a 13-objective victory campaign.

Important: Full end-to-end terraforming, orbital mission progression and completion of all 13 original objectives have not yet been certified under Industrial Worlds.

These systems remain part of the public beta testing scope.

Terrain and world generation

Nullia uses the original Nullius-compatible Alien Biomes terrain categories, climate expressions, rocks, decorations and resource controls.

Verified systems include:

138/138 expected eligible terrain categories
31/31 original Alien Biomes rock identities
86/86 original decorative identities
Original landing and starting-area resource generation
Barren starting environment without ordinary trees
Dedicated Nullius geology isolated from other worlds

Pixel-exact terrain parity with a standalone original Nullius game has not yet been certified.

Nullia is experimental and can be disabled through iw-enable-nullia-foundation. Nullius Core remains a required installed dependency for Industrial Worlds 0.0.14.

World Isolation and Compatibility

Industrial Worlds uses dedicated planetary boundaries to separate overhaul production systems.

Where necessary, world-specific prototype identities and integration adapters prevent incompatible overhaul systems from overwriting each other.

Isolation includes:

Dedicated planetary resource generation
World-specific industrial machinery and recipes
Independent technology and science progression
Local crafting and manufacturing milestones
Research prerequisite compatibility checks
Protection against foreign resource generation
Separation of environmental and enemy systems
Planet-specific progression ownership

Items may still move between planets using supported Factorio transport systems.

Isolation primarily controls where industrial systems and progression belong; it does not prohibit all interplanetary transport.

Complete cross-world and multiplayer compatibility testing remains ongoing.

Installation and Requirements

Required:

Factorio 2.1.22 or newer
Space Age 2.1.22 or newer
Forgeworks Core 0.3.8 or newer
Industrial Worlds Compatibility Bootstrap (0-industrial-worlds-compat) 0.0.5 or newer
Nullius Core (nullius-core) 2.1.3 or newer
Nullius Core's required graphics and gameplay dependencies

Nullius Core is mandatory for Industrial Worlds 0.0.14 even if the Nullia planet is disabled.

The original standalone nullius mod must not be installed alongside Nullius Core.

Angelus and Pyanodons activate only when their respective supported overhaul suites are installed.

Consult the Mod Portal Dependencies tab for the full mandatory and optional dependency list, minimum versions and incompatible mods.

Startup settings

iw-enable-angelus-world — Enable Angelus with its supported overhaul suite
iw-enable-pyanodons-world — Enable the Pyanodons planet
iw-enable-nullia-foundation — Enable experimental Nullia integration

Any Planet Start

Industrial Worlds supports Angelus and Pyanodons starting options through compatible versions of Any Planet Start when their supported overhaul suites are active.

Nullia is not yet certified as a fully supported alternate starting planet.

What's New in 0.0.14

Major Changes

Replaced the earlier partial Nullia foundation with direct original Nullius 2.1.3 source integration through Nullius Core.
Added the original 14-piece Nullius spaceship landing scenario.
Preserved original landing salvage inventories and equipment.
Integrated original Nullius technology, recipe, machine and terrain systems.
Added read-only communication between Industrial Worlds and Nullius Core for landing and mission status.
Improved isolation between Nullius mission handling and other planets.
Retained original early research triggers and source recipe unlocks.

Fixes and Improvements

Corrected cross-mod landing-status detection.
Corrected mission initialization status reporting.
Improved original terrain and resource-generation validation.
Updated production-statistics inspection for Factorio 2.x.
Added original machine-category and research-laboratory compatibility checks.
Added early research unlock consistency validation.
Improved release testing and diagnostic reporting.

Automated Acceptance Testing

The public beta includes an expanded, read-only All-in-One diagnostic system.

It checks landing integrity, resources, terrain, recipe availability, technology compatibility, machine activity, production evidence, mission status and selected cross-world conditions.

The tests explicitly distinguish passing checks from failures and unverified gameplay.

Public Beta Testing

This is not yet a fully validated stable release.

The latest native RC2 acceptance report recorded:

9 passed release checks
0 confirmed failures
14 pending checks

The remaining public testing areas include:

Early industrial production and working machinery
Original research progression and science production
Complete manufacturing and resource reachability
Cargo-pod launch and mission initialization
Interplanetary and multiplayer compatibility
Existing-save upgrades and persistence
Original terrain distribution comparison
Terraforming and ecology progression
All 13 original Nullius victory objectives

These are incomplete validation areas, not necessarily confirmed gameplay defects.

Run the All-in-One Diagnostic

On a copied or disposable save, stand on Nullia, open the Factorio console and enter:

/iw-nullia-release-test

The command generates a consolidated release report and detailed diagnostics in Factorio's script-output directory.

Main report:

industrial-worlds-nullia-release-gate.txt

The command does not grant equipment, complete research, simulate a campaign or reset your original mission progress.

Existing Saves

Back up your saves before upgrading.

Industrial Worlds 0.0.14 changes Nullia's underlying integration substantially compared with 0.0.13.

Existing Angelus, Pyanodons and Nauvis progression is intended to remain preserved,