True HD Base
True HD Base is a large HD texture pack for Factorio 2.0, focused on making the base game look sharper, cleaner, and more detailed while still keeping the normal Factorio feel.
This is a visual-only texture pack.
There are no gameplay changes, no recipe changes, no balance changes, and no entity stat changes.
The goal is simple:
Make Factorio look cleaner, punchier, and more modern without making it feel like a different game.
Important Download Note
This is a big HD texture pack, so the download size is much larger than a normal Factorio mod.
Because of Mod Portal upload limits, True HD Base is split into multiple parts.
Please install and enable all required parts:
- True HD Base - Part 1
- True HD Base - Part 2
Part 2 depends on Part 1, so make sure both are installed for the full texture pack to work correctly.
What This Mod Does
True HD Base replaces a large amount of base-game texture work with sharper HD versions.
The textures have been rebuilt, cleaned up, corrected, and kept at the proper in-game scale so they should not look oversized or out of place.
The aim is not to redesign Factorio.
The aim is to make the existing Factorio style look:
- sharper
- cleaner
- punchier
- more detailed
- more alive
- better on modern monitors
What Was Changed
- HD base-game texture replacements
- Extra polish pass over the textures
- Resized and corrected back to proper in-game scale
- More colour and contrast pop
- Cleaner RGB/detail pass
- Clean alpha handling to help avoid fuzzy edges
- Extra sharpening and texture cleanup
- Lossless PNG optimisation pass
- Vanilla-style look, just sharper and more detailed
Includes
True HD Base includes HD texture replacements for parts of the base game such as:
- terrain textures
- resource and ore textures
- tree and nature textures
- character-related textures
- base-game visual assets
- selected entity and environment textures
- core visual replacements used by the texture pack
This pack is built to improve the look of the base game while staying close to the original art direction.
Does This Change Gameplay?
No.
True HD Base does not change:
- recipes
- technologies
- balance
- crafting
- machines
- enemies
- item stats
- entity stats
- progression
- gameplay logic
It is purely a visual texture pack.
Gameplay stays exactly the same — it just looks better.
VRAM / Performance
This mod uses HD textures, so it will use more VRAM than vanilla Factorio.
Most modern gaming PCs should be fine, but lower-end systems or PCs with low VRAM may notice:
- longer startup/loading times
- higher VRAM usage
- higher memory usage
- slower texture loading on older systems
If you are already close to your VRAM limit in Factorio, this pack may push usage higher.
For the best experience, use a GPU with a decent amount of VRAM and keep Factorio’s graphics settings reasonable for your system.
Version Notes
Version 1.0.1
- Rebuilt the pack into clean Part 1 and Part 2 releases
- Fixed missing texture reference issues
- Cleaned the texture replacement setup
- Added proper release files
- Added credits, licence, changelog, and description files
- Kept PNG files visually untouched from the prepared texture pack
- Kept the pack split under Mod Portal size limits
Development Notes
This kind of texture rebuild takes time, especially when working through large parts of the base game and keeping everything at the correct in-game scale.
More rebuilds, polish passes, and other texture packs may come later.
If you like the look of this pack, keep an eye out for future updates.
Please Support the Original
If you enjoy this mod, please also check out Factorio HD Age: Base Game - Base by Ingo_Igel.
That mod does a huge amount of the heavy lifting for HD Factorio texture replacement. True HD Base is built from that foundation, with my own extra cleanup, colour, contrast, sharpening, and polish pass added on top.
If you want a great HD texture pack with a lighter setup, go try Factorio HD Age first.
True HD Base is more for players who want to push Factorio’s visuals even further and do not mind using more VRAM for a sharper, punchier look.
Support
True HD Base takes a lot of time to rebuild, test, optimise, and keep updated.
The mod is completely free and will stay free.
Credits / Licence
Based on Factorio HD Age: Base Game - Base by Ingo_Igel.
Special thanks to Zangeti for TextureBase, which helped inspire the texture replacement workflow used by Factorio HD Age.
Extra texture tweaks, cleanup, colour pop, sharpening, texture polish, packaging, and True HD Base work by Squishy1870.
This is a modified texture pack based on a GNU GPLv3 project, so this mod is also released under GNU GPLv3.
Original projects:
Source:
Summary
True HD Base is a cleaner and punchier HD texture pass for Factorio 2.0.
It keeps the vanilla Factorio style, but makes the game look sharper, cleaner, and more detailed on modern screens.
No gameplay changes.
No balance changes.
No recipe changes.
Just Factorio, looking better.