New Beginnings

A Space Age overhaul focused on a smoother start and quality-of-life tweaks to
mid- and late-game systems. Requires Space Age.

Starting loadout

• Begin with Modular Armor pre-fitted with a fission reactor, toolbelt, and
  personal roboport MK2.
• Larger small equipment grid (6×5) so your gear actually fits.
• Configurable stack of starting construction robots (default 25).

Quality, simplified

• Quality Module 2 research now unlocks Epic and Legendary quality
  directly — no separate epic/legendary quality techs to chase.

Better recycling

• Recycler Return Multiplier startup setting — vanilla returns 25% per item;
  default 2× gives ~50%, up to 4× for ~100%. Applies to every recycling recipe.
• Buffed scrap recycling: doubled Low Density Structure and Holmium Ore
  chances, plus a rare Uranium Concentrate drop (with Schall Uranium Processing).

Fulgoran terrain building

• New Fulgoran Rock and Fulgoran Paving placement items that work just
  like landfill, letting you build out Fulgoran dust/dunes/sand/rock/paving, the
  shallow oil ocean, and foundation tiles.
• Unlocked by discovering Fulgora, and craftable only on a magnetic-field world
  (Fulgora). Sorted right next to landfill.
• Landfill Stack Size startup setting (default 1000) also applies to the
  Fulgoran placers.

Rebalanced tech

• Cheaper, reworked Atomic Bomb technology and recipe.
• Re-allows quality modules on crushers for asteroid reprocessing (undoing a
  2.1 base-game restriction).
• Reworked uranium processing chain when Schall Uranium Processing is present.
• Asteroid collector circuit wire reach increased to 15.

Settings

• Starting Robot Count
• Recycler Return Multiplier
• Landfill Stack Size

Updated for Factorio 2.1. Space Age required.