Second Dawn (beta)


BETA — A Factorio overhaul inspired by Dr. Stone: from clay and fire to a Moon rocket before petrification waves return. Made with AI, directed and playtested by a human. Base 2.0; no Space Age. Languages: English, Russian, Polish, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese (BR), Chinese, Japanese, Ukrainian — more on request. Known issues: balance, animations and art in general — feedback or GitHub pull requests are very welcome.

Overhaul
a month ago
2.0
60
Transportation Logistics Combat Environment Mining Manufacturing

Changelog

Version: 0.1.10
Date: 2026-09-30
  Locale:
    - Polish translation, contributed by a player. Thank you!
    - Polskie tłumaczenie od gracza. Dziękujemy!
    - Machine translations: German, French, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese (Simplified), Japanese,
      Ukrainian. Corrections are welcome; other languages on request.
    - Машинные переводы на немецкий, французский, испанский, португальский, китайский, японский, украинский.
  Info:
    - Source code link (GitHub) on the mod page; known rough edges (balance, animations, art) listed.
    - Ссылка на исходники (GitHub); в описании перечислены известные проблемы: баланс, анимации, графика.
  Bugfixes:
    - The campfire description no longer mentions roasting meat (removed in 0.1.8).
    - The bullet ammo category is no longer called "Musket balls" (the musket was removed in 0.1.8).
Version: 0.1.9
Date: 2026-09-27
  Info:
    - The mod and portal descriptions again mention Dr. Stone inspiration and AI-assisted development.
    - Описания мода и портала снова говорят о вдохновении Dr. Stone и разработке с помощью ИИ.
Version: 0.1.8
Date: 2026-09-27
  Info:
    - Shorter, clearer bilingual mod and portal descriptions. The portal page updates with each release.
    - Более короткие и ясные описания на двух языках; страница портала обновляется при каждом релизе.
  Balancing:
    - Simplified oil processing and the firearm progression; radio is available in epoch 3.
    - Упрощены нефть и путь огнестрела; радар перенесён в эпоху 3.
    - Removed unneeded systems: paper cartridges, fuel briquettes, ship brakes, cooked meat, fertilizer,
      animal farms and capture nets. Meat now heals 60 directly; animals still provide hides and bones.
    - Убраны бумажные патроны, брикеты, тормоза кораблей, готовка мяса, удобрения, фермы и ловчие сети.
      Мясо сразу лечит 60, животные по-прежнему дают шкуры и кости.
Version: 0.1.7
Date: 2026-09-26
  Graphics:
    - Clay, shells, saltpeter, tin, tungsten and sulfur ore patches redrawn.
    - Wolf den, boar wallow and their ruins, the note, the ruined wall and the emitter redrawn.
Version: 0.1.6
Date: 2026-09-25
  Graphics:
    - Pictures for the remaining 44 technologies; all items redrawn in a style closer to the game's.
    - All buildings of the first three epochs redrawn: campfire, scholar's hut, kiln, workbench, woodlot,
      garden, fermentation vat, still, brazier, revival chambers, millstone, bloomery, glassworks, diggers,
      crossbow turrets, pens, bear den, lab, radiator, cooler, plantation, palisade.
    - Campfire and brazier burn with the game's own animated flames; the recipe icon no longer hides the fire.
    - Wolves, boars and bears, the emitter, tin, tungsten and sulfur ores: temporary pictures until proper ones.
Version: 0.1.5
Date: 2026-09-25
  Graphics:
    - New icons for 77 items and pictures for 38 technologies. More to come.
  Locale:
    - The mod's name and description in Russian in the mod manager.
Version: 0.1.4
Date: 2026-09-25
  Info:
    - First public beta on the mod portal. The whole scenario is playable; balance is still moving.
  Balancing:
    - Too much wood after 0.1.3: charcoal takes 3 wood again, the kiln uses 90 kW again, the woodlot grows
      2 wood into 12 again. Lever arms stay fuel-free.
  Features:
    - Repair kit (2 wood, rope, stone) from the start. Roast meat in the campfire from the start too.
    - The mod has its picture: a hand turned to stone.
  Changes:
    - Plant fiber can be made on the workbench too, not only by hand: rope can be automated.
    - Predators raid more often (40% of nights, two packs; dangerous: 70%, three packs), go on into the
      base after the first building, and leave after 4 minutes.
    - The first diary entry tells how to heal and repair.
    - Wooden underground chutes and splitters have their own epoch 1 research after Levers and chutes.
    - Much less text: shorter hints, diary and descriptions.
  Bugfixes:
    - Wooden underground chutes and splitters couldn't be placed onto a chute; all chutes now replace and
      upgrade each other like vanilla belts (wooden -> roller -> fast).
    - Raiding packs turned back after the first building.
    - The fermentation vat came with Garden but had nothing to make until Tanning. It now comes with Tanning.
Version: 0.1.3
Date: 2026-09-25
  Balancing:
    - Lever arms work on a counterweight and need no fuel.
    - Charcoal: 2 wood instead of 3. The kiln uses 60 kW instead of 90 kW. The woodlot grows 2 wood into 17
      instead of 12.
    - Spirit is distilled straight from fruit (8 fruit + jug); mash is gone. The fermentation vat now only
      tans leather.
  Features:
    - Wooden underground chute (4 tiles) and wooden splitter, with Levers and chutes in epoch 1.
  Info:
    - Mash jugs left in old saves disappear.
Version: 0.1.2
Date: 2026-09-25
  Balancing:
    - Plant fiber burns as kindling (1 MJ, half of wood) in anything that burns wood. Trees drop 1 fiber
      instead of 2.
  Bugfixes:
    - You can walk between buildings of the mod placed side by side (kiln, workbench, garden, woodlot,
      vat, alembic, millstone, bloomery, glassworks, brazier, radiator, cooler, campfire).
    - Technologies with a number in the name (Logistics II, Ship brakes, Laboratory glassware...) showed
      "Unknown key".
Version: 0.1.1
Date: 2026-09-25
  Gui:
    - Everything sorted into tabs like vanilla: logistics, production, intermediate products and combat
      (weapons, ammo, turrets, clothing and food are there now), plus new Fleet, Research and Awakening tabs.
Version: 0.1.0
Date: 2026-09-25
  Info:
    - First release. Made with AI: code, balance, texts and tests by Claude (Anthropic) in Claude Code,
      pictures by ChatGPT, directed and playtested by a human.
  Features:
    - Five epochs from stone to the Moon: clay tablets, glass flasks, mechanisms, reactive, sea charts and
      instrument boards as science. The vanilla tech tree, starting items and biters are gone.
    - Petrification waves: the first after 2 hours, then more and more often. One revival chamber per team
      makes a sealed charge (I–V) that wakes everyone at once. A green flash and stone on the screen edges
      while petrified. Defeat if a wave finds the team still stone; victory on the Moon.
    - A start without chores: a digger, a bow and stone arrows with no research, faster hands, cheap clay
      tablets, a woodlot that grows wood, a "Next step" hint and a diary.
    - Wild animals in packs with leaders: territory, a leash, short night raids, and they leave a dead
      player's body. Respawn with a bow and arrows.
    - Weapons from the bow to sulfur gunpowder, turrets, sharper arrowheads I–III.
    - Climate belts, continents over a deep ocean, landfill and deep landfill, ships on waterways.
    - Ruins with notes: hints, alternative recipes, caches.
    - Factoriopedia shows only what exists in the game; every technology says what its research takes.
  Graphics:
    - Own icons, ships, campfire with animated flames, scholar's desk and lairs; the rest is recoloured
      vanilla for now.