Selene: Lunar Exploitation

Travel to Selene, Nauvis's primary satellite, and expand the factory with new technologies, resources, buildings, equipment and more. Revolutionise your use of solar and laser power using lunar science packs, upgrade your factories with the electrolytic crucible building, and conquer the airless environment of Nauvis's closest neighbour.

This mod adds a new moon, and emphasises building on and expanding vanilla gameplay. Available for 2.1 and 2.0.

The moon

Explore the crater-marred surface of the moon, its bright highlands and dark basaltic maria.
Exploit new ores by mining the lunar surface, and grow the factory in a new environment.
Expand your logistics networks to export breathable air to the surface, then use that air to power robots.
Export the fruits of your labours back with cheap rocket launches to transform your factories on other worlds.
Enjoy a custom ambient soundtrack by As Seas Exhale.

New resources

Anorthite on the highlands, ilmenite on the maria, and lunar ice ore in the shaded crater fields.
Refine them into aluminium, titanium, silicon, glass and oxygen.
Extract helium-3 from lunar ice for fusion power cells.

The electrolytic crucible

A new machine assembled from lunar resources, the electrolytic crucible melts substances down into their molten form by consuming heat, then separates them with powerful currents. If you can supply these machines with the electricity and heat they need, they'll boost your output across your space platforms.

Solar mirrors and collectors

Gather solar energy more efficiently than ever before, reflecting its rays using solar mirrors onto central solar collectors. Then harness the heat to power heat exchangers or crucibles directly. Master the technology by assembling swarms of reflector satellites to permanently upgrade the solar potential of whole planets.

OXYGEN LEVELS: CRITICAL

The engineer will need a supply of air to breathe in this hostile environment, so remember to ship over air barrels until you can secure a supply of oxygen on this new frontier. Likewise, research will be needed to enable robots to fly in near-vacuum conditions - new briefings explain the mechanics.

Export lunar technology to other planets

Preserve freshness with aluminium cans, then recycle the aluminium back into new cans.
Laser turret MK2 and personal laser defence MK2 offer more efficient ways to handle asteroids and biters.
Massive electric poles for long-distance power across Fulgora's oil oceans.
Plus new chests, concretes and more.

Compatibility

Requires Space Age.
Optional DiscoScience support.
Other mods can mark their own surfaces as airless, add items to canning, set mirror reflections and tyre tracks for their surfaces, and give their planets a rocket-part refund. See the integration guide in the mod's files.

Credits, Licencing & Disclosures

Music by As Seas Exhale - check it out on Bandcamp
Centrifuge recipe-tint graphics and code adapted from Stecker's Centrifuge Tint System by Stecker, MIT licence
Solar mirror and collector models are the work of Rowa, licenced CC BY 4.0, retextured & rendered to sprites.
Electrolytic crucible sprites by Hurricane046, licenced CC BY 4.0, with pipework modifications
Massive electric pole sprites are derived from a third-party asset licensed under the Fab Standard License. Not covered by this mod’s licence; may not be extracted or reused outside Selene.
AI was used to generate a small number of icons, as well as part of the code review process once the mod was nearing completion.

Tips

My mods are free, but if something of mine has added a few hours to your playthrough, a tip at https://buymeacoffee.com/brettlessr is very much appreciated and it lets me spend more time on this and commission more things from artists to make future projects even better.