Pyanodons Alien Life
Pyanodons Alien Life is a mod for Factorio adding factory farming for massive hordes of alien species. Develop massive fields of plants to feed the factory and use genetic engineering to enhance every species. Do you have what it takes to finish this marathon modpack?
Features
- 1000s of uniquely spirited items & fluids. Dozens of fully animated entities & structures for both high resolution and low resolution.
- Custom biological logistics systems designed to complement trains, bots, and belts.
- Choose your own adventure with the Technological Upgrade and Research Device.
- In-game wiki with detailed descriptions of scripted mechanics.
- Renewable production methods for every minable resource.
- Community-made translations for over a dozen languages.
- Extends and compliments the rest of the pY mods.
- 100% multiplayer compatibility.
- More than 5000 new recipes.
- Unlimited fun?
Pyanodons Alien Life is not currently compatible with any other major overhaul mod. Use at your own risk.
Farming
Unlock and process dozens of plant species for their unique products. Use the plants to feed large alien animal species.
Use expensive gene editing to obtain the first seedlings, then grow that single crop into a thriving ecosystem.
Later on, use smart farming to automate every step of the process.
Ranching
Harvest animal species from every corner of the world. Put all those crops to good use by feeding millions of livestock.
Build massive slaughterhouses to process those adult aminals into their more useful body parts.
Pharmaceutics
Invest into expensive drugs for every possible pharmaceutical use-case.
Manipulate existing creatures into new forms never intended by nature.
Progress through 4 tiers of alien samples; a biological analogue to circuit boards.
Biological logistics systems
It turns out that some of these creatures are more useful alive than dead.
Pyanodons Alien Life adds several new logistics options designed to complement trains, belts, and bots.
- Caravans. Huge lumbering creatures that can slowly move items across any distance. They love eating brains.
- Aerial caravans. It's like a normal caravan, but it flies!
- Oculas. Creepy floating eyeball creatures who can support personal logistics requests from anywhere on the map.
- Gobachov. A biological alternative to the logistic robot that specializes in high-throughput fluid transportation. All machines on the biofluid network must be directly connected with special pipes.
- Vonixes. Giant arthropod worm creatures that can move items through underground channels.
Technological upgrade and research device
Every machine in pyAL has an associated upgrade path. Choose one path from a selection of three upgrades in order to permanently alter the mechanics of that machine. Grants new recipes, recipe upgrades, module bonuses, and more.
Recommended 3rd party mods
- Not Enough Parameters to allow parameterized blueprints to work properly in Pyanodons.
- Enable all Feature Flags to unlock 2.0 features in Pyanodons such as elevated rails and stacking belts.
- Ratio calculator such as Factory Planner, Helmod, or YAFC
- Use of Resource Spawner Overhaul (RSO) is NOT recommended.
It will cause certain resources such as geothermal vents to be extremely common.
Instead try the in-game Pyanodon preset from the world generation menu.
Community resources
Credits
- Pyanodon - 3D Graphics, Sound design, Mod founder
- Kingarthur - Realistic recipes, Data-stage programming, Scripted mechanics
- Notnotmelon - pY codex, Scripted mechanics, T.U.R.D.
- Mootykins - Maintenance, Worldgen preset
- ShadowGlass - Tech tree, Recipe balancing, Tooling
- Quintuple - Menu simulations
- Archezekiel - 3D Graphics