The Spice Rack

The Spice Rack is intended to spice up the vanilla game by changing some well chosen details. Most changes can be disabled individually.

The Spice Rack - Lazy Assemblers

Crafting limitations for lower tier assemblers (and optional character) to make progression more meaningful

Settings:

Crafting Limitation

• disabled - off
• assembler only (default) - Lower tiers of assemblers are not able to craft several midgame and advanced recipes
• assembler and character - Additionally, the character can't handcraft several midgame and advanced recipes (a subset of recipes from assembler only

Lazy bastard marathon (disabled by default)

The first player receives some intermediate products (gears, copper wires) on map start to have a chance to achieve lazy bastard with marathon settings.

Classic lazy bastard (disabled by default)

Lazy Bastard gets more challenging. First assembler 2 and oil refineries have to be crafted by hand. Oil refineries can only be crafted in assembler 3.
Factorio 0.16 behaved that way and it challenges to not waste the free handcrafts
(Does nothing if "Crafting Limitation" is disabled)