🏭 Multi-Team Support
Same start. Different finish.
A Factorio 2.0 mod for cooperative and competitive multiplayer where each team races on their own copy of the world. Research independently, compare progress, watch your rivals, form alliances — all from one server.
💬 Community
Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/4Q4ebXtg5h
✨ Features
Teams
- 🧑🚀 Numbered team pool — Forces pre-created as
team-1throughteam-N(configurable via startup setting, default 20). Team names are display-only and can be renamed via/mts-renameor the Teams panel. - 👥 Multi-player teams — Buddy join lets multiple players share a team. Leader can kick and accept join requests; any member can leave.
- 🎨 Force colors — Always derived from the current team leader's player color.
- 🤝 Friendship — Two-sided requests between teams; mutual friendship shares chart and grants friend-view spectation.
🌌 Space Age Integration (auto-detected)
- 🪐 Per-team planet variants — When Space Age is active, each team gets their own full solar system (Nauvis/Vulcanus/Gleba/Fulgora/Aquilo variants). No more collisions on shared planets.
- 🛸 Per-team space connections — Vanilla topology mirrored for each team so rocket launches and space platforms work per-team.
- 🔒 Base planets locked — Team forces only see/reach their own variants. Discovery techs unlock the team's variant, not the base.
- 📦 Falls back to surface-cloning when Space Age isn't installed — same experience, just no orbits.
🏆 Records & Announcements
- 🥇 Tech records — First team to research any tech gets an announcement. Subsequent faster researches (measured from each team's clock) broadcast new speed records.
- 📈 Milestone engine — Configurable production thresholds per category (science packs, landfill, space platform tiles). Edit
milestones/config.luato add more. Dynamic item discovery handles any mod combo. - ⏱️ Team clock — Starts when the first member spawns; never resets. Makes speed comparisons fair regardless of when a team joined.
🖥️ GUI Panels (top-left toolbar)
- 🗂️ Teams — Card per team with members (★ leader, online/offline, 🤝 friendship, 📡 Follow Cam per player) and surfaces (👁 Spectate).
- 📡 Follow Cam — Grid of live mini-cameras tracking individual players across planets. Click the 🔍 on any cell to expand into full spectator view; Esc returns with the grid intact.
- 🔬 Research — Tech icon grid ordered by research time. Click any team for a 1-on-1 diff.
- 📊 Production Stats — Per-team item production comparison.
- 🛠️ Admin Panel — Runtime feature flags, starter items editor, and team size limit. Toolbar button is admin-only.
- 👋 Welcome / Discord — Mod intro + Discord invite with scannable QR code.
🛬 Landing Pen
- New players wait in a shared pre-game lobby until ready to spawn.
- "Start a new team" or "Request to join" an existing team — other actions disable while a join request is pending.
- Request flow announces to all team members (only the leader can accept).
- Withdraw a request at any time with the Cancel button.
⚡ Commands
/mts-teams— List all teams with leader and member counts, colored by team color./mts-players— List all players and their surfaces with GPS pings./mts-leave— Leave your team (confirmation dialog explains consequences)./mts-kick <player>— Kick a player from your team (leader only, with confirmation)./mts-rename <name>— Rename your team (leader only, 32 char limit, no duplicates).
⚙️ Compatibility
- Requires Factorio 2.0 (
base >= 2.0) - Space Age — optional; auto-detected and enables per-team planets + space connections when present
- Compatible with Platformer and VoidBlock
- dangOreus — optional; when loaded, dangOreus's ore-flooding behavior (all modes: pie, random, voronoi, perlin, spiral) is applied to each team's nauvis surface instead of just the shared default. The default nauvis is disabled for dangOreus since no team plays there.
- Factorio supports up to 64 forces (20 teams + built-ins leaves plenty of headroom)