A mod that adds a new research to the game alongside with new items and recipes.

Tested primarily in vanilla (some stuff is altered in "Space age" dlc)
May not be balanced.

Content summary :

New research/technology

• Player crafting speed
  • 3 tiers of upgrades, each triggered upon mining specific ores
• Player mining speed
  • 3 tiers of upgrades, each triggered upon crafting specific items
• Combat related bonuses (Advanced military tactics)
  • 3 tiers of researchable upgrades to boost damage, speed and character health alongside with running speed.
• Research pack productivity
  • Adds productivity bonus to science pack production.
• Casting productivity
  • Adds productivity bonus to ore smelting.
• Inventory management
  • Toolbelt 2.0
• Robot battery upgrades
  • The robots now have increased battery capacity.
• Gun turret upgrades
  • Increases the damage output of gun turrets.
• Laser turret upgrades
  • Increases the damage output of laser turrets.
• Railgun prototype + damage + speed research
  • Unlocks powerful weapon
• Green circuit productivity
  • You get green circuits, you get green circuits, everybody get's green circuits!
• Red circuit productivity
  • Adds productivity bonus to red circuits.
• Blue circuit productivity
  • Adds productivity bonus to processing units.
• Lab productivity
  • Labs now make more research per research.
• Beacon distribution
  • Beacons now have higher distribution power.
• Explosive bullets
  • Unlocks explosive bullets.
• Advanced solar panel research
  • Unlocks advanced solar panel.
• Sniper rifle + damage + speed research
  • Unlock sniper rifle and it's upgrades.
• Wood liquefaction
  • Unlocks wood liquefaction
• Improved repair pack
  • Unlocks better repair pack.
• Battle enhancers.
  • Unlocks FDA approved drugs.
• Permanent health boost
  • Craft certain amount of health shots to increase your health.
• Permanent health boost
  • Craft certain amount of speed shots to increase your running speed.
• Heavy oil to gas
  • Unlocks recipe that allows you to go from heavy oil straight to petroleum gas (no need for light oil)
• Concrete wall research
  • Unlocks the ability to construct walls that even the Behemoths will not pass (hopefully).
• Fish breeding
  • Unlocks the recipe to duplicate fish.
• Utility armor
  • Unlocks utility armor.
• Ore washing
  • Unlocks a lot of recipes, that allow you to wash ores and maybe gain some more in return.
• Tree growin'
  • Plant trees and reduce pollution in your factory!
  • At the cost of time ofc.
• Inserter capacity bonus
  • Now you don't need... well loaders are still good (not included).
• Total production
  • disabled by default
  • 3 new tiers of existing modules
  • 2 new assembling machines
  • 2 new electric furnaces
  • 2 new chemical plants
  • 2 new oil refineries
• Robot role reassignment
  • Change from logistic to construction bot or vice versa!
• Robots by robots
  • Adds the ability to produce robots by using robots!
  • Any other output should be immediately checked...
• Transdimensional chest
  • Now your fresh agriculture science packs from Gleba won't spoil!
• Steam power generation upgrade
  • MK 2 steam engine and boiler.

Alien tech

Readds the alien artifact to the game, but unlike in older versions of factorio, this content is not mandatory => side content you can ignore without fear of losing powerful buildings.
Adds only tech related upgrades. Those upgrades also take long time but in compensation for this, the number of science packs is reduced and it scales linear.

• Alien artifact discovery
  • Empty research, but lore!
• Alien analysis
  • Even more lore!
• Alien science pack
  • Unlocks the alien science pack
• Alien mining productivity
  • Gives productivity to mining drills.
• Alien damage increase
  • Increased damage of our weapons.
• Alien gun speed increase
  • Faster shooting speed of our weapons.
• Alien lab productivity
  • Bonus productivity
• Alien lab speed
  • Faster research
• Alien robot battery
  • Increases the battery capacity of robots.
• Alien robot speed
  • Faster robots.
• Alien circuit productivity
  • Productivity of all 3 circuit types.

New items

• Alien artifact
  • Used in alien science pack.
  • Biter + spitter nests drop it.
• Alien science pack
  • Used in labs to research alien related technologies.
• Railgun darts
  • Ammo for the Railgun
• Railgun prototype
  • A GUN with penetrative power and high damage.
  • Slow fire rate.
• Explosive bullets
  • Creates a small explosion upon hitting a target (damages nearby entities => good against groups of enemies).
• Advanced solar panel
  • A solar panel that works during the day and night.
  • Produces more energy in the long run.
  • Has an equipment variant
• Sniper rifle
  • Dispatch the biters at range you are more comfortable with.
• Sniper ammo
  • Ammo for the sniper rifle.
• Improved repair pack
  • Better in every way.
• Epinefrin
  • Gotta go fast
  • for a while.
• Health stick
  • Gives you health and regeneration.
  • 2 recipe types
• Poison stick
  • Give you more speed at the cost of your health.
• Concrete wall
  • Better than standard issue wall.
• Refined concrete wall
  • Better than concrete wall.
• Utility armor
  • More inventory space
  • Worse at surviving the biter horde.
• Washed ores (iron, coal, stone, copper, uranium)
  • A smidge faster to smelt
  • 4MJ -> 6MJ for coal
  • Have a chance to get some extra ones.
• Tree processor
  • Makes wood and tree seeds.
• Fertilizer
  • Used in alternative recipe in tree processor.
  • Eat at your own risk.
• Tree seed
  • Plant trees in your factory.
  • Change type in mod settings (restart required)
• 3 new speed, efficiency and productivity modules
  • disabled by default
• 2 new assembling machines
  • disabled by default
• 2 new electric furnaces
  • disabled by default
• 2 new chemical plants
  • disabled by default
• 2 new oil refineries
  • disabled by default
• Steam power generation upgrade
  • Boiler mk 2
  • Steam engine mk 2

Mod settings

• Tree type
  • Choose what type of tree will grow when placing tree seeds.
• Enable alien research
  • Enable/disable alien research tree.
  • You can set the amount of alien artifacts nests drop.
• Enable tree processing
  • Enable/disable tree processing technology and its items.
• Enable ore washing
  • Enable/disable ore washing technology.
• Enable FDA approved drugs
  • Enable/disable epinefrin + health stick + poison stick
• Enable Railgun prototype
  • For people who play "Space Age" or for those who don't want it in the game.
• Additional casting bonuses
  • Productivity bonus for (almost) everything that foundry can make. Space Age only (I hope).
• Enable total production
  • Enables late game items, to produce unholy amount of resources.
• Absurd inserter capacity bonus
  • More than green belt
  • good with "total production"
• Enable module productivity
  • currently not really implemented
  • just code
  • awaiting further premise

Achievements

• Extra dopamine

Languages

• Supported languages
  • en
  • cs

Media

• Video showcase
  • Showcases some features, that you can expect in this mod
  • Youtube video

Notes

• If you find a bug, something not working/crashing the game, you can create a new thread in "Discussion" tab. Alternatively you can ping me on official factorio discord server (you can reach me there faster).