MegaStart

MegaStart is a Factorio mod to speed up the early game exponentially and skip the initial grind. Intended for advanced players. Fully customizable by editing the control.lua file

Here's what's included by default:

Self:

• Power Armor Mk2 w/ fully loaded grid.
• Red belts, 1 car mk3 and commonly needed early building items.

Spidertron Mk3s:

• All-Rounder Spidertron Mk3: Intended for walking around and doings things. Has ammo, bots and frequently needed building material.
• (2x) Military Spidertron Mk3 : Intended to clear early nests. Bots, ammo, repair packs.
• Construction Spidertron Mk3: Intended for early game building. Filled with miners, steel furnaces, belts, assembling machines and so on.

All Spidertrons come with power, shields, batteries, 6 roboport mk2s, bots and a remote.

Customizability:

1. Download the mod
2. Go to %AppData%, then Roaming\Factorio\mods
3. Extract the mod (megastart_x.x.x.zip) to a folder
4. Delete the original zip
5. Edit control.lua - You can find shortnames on Data.raw
6. Restart Factorio and start a new game

Inspired by the original faster-start mod [https://mods.factorio.com/mod/faster-start]

Notes:

• All spidertrons spawn in the same place. Get in and move to see the next one.
• All spidertrons have the same color.

Known Bugs:

• Self inventory is limited on mod initalization. If you want more things or different things, change the spidertron's inventory.
• If downloading from github, remain the zip "megastart_0.0.1.zip"

Spidertrons:

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