Pirate Ship

Be the captain of a pirate ship, plundering resources and besting your enemies. Collect resources and fuel the ship in order to survive as many leagues as possible. The captain performs actions such as steering the boat, while other crewmates assist. Doubloons can be spent at various markets throughout the game.

This mod was designed for public multiplayer. It makes design decisions which are puzzling except in that light. This includes a fairly complex sprawl of levels, challenges, systems and quests that overlap.

The player has a somewhat limited time on each island to complete quests and return materials to the ship. The exception is the first island – a relaxing garden – with an infinite timer. At low player counts (especially in singleplayer) the game progression and timers are slowed down, ensuring there is ample time for most activities. Between islands, you can take an indefinite break.

Notes

• Pirate Ship is (was) the most complex 'scenario' on the mod portal. Since it was designed as a scenario, this mod works entirely at runtime. There are no new or modified assets or prototypes, the only items are those you have in vanilla Factorio.
  • Since v1.8.0 this mod is no longer literally a scenario, and is loaded from 'New Game' like normal. Pre-existing 'scenario' saves are not compatible with v1.8.0 onwards. Non-Pirate Ship saves are never compatible.
• Pirate Ship was created without knowledge of Space Exploration (or Space Age!) so any similarities are accidental.

Credits

• Original code and gameplay by thesixthroc.
• Additional features like the cave island, randomized loot quests, upgraded biters and more by Piratux.
• Multiplayer tooling by Gerkiz, Mew and other collaborators at getcomfy.eu.
• The awesome thumbnail is by snouz.