A Spiritual Successor to NARMod - a reimagined Factorio Experience
This is an Alpha version of HARDmod. Future versions may be significantly different, and savegame compatibility is not guaranteed.
HARDmod is a Factorio mod which creates a complete experience for advanced players. For those players who have fully experienced vanilla Factorio and are craving increased challenge and complexity in building and crafting their own industrial revolution, HARDmod delivers that challenge. HARDmod is complex. HARDmod is not for everyone. HARDmod is HARD.
HARDmod primarily makes changes to the construction and crafting aspects of the game. Hand crafting is almost entirely disabled! This drives a push towards automation almost immediately, although the starting game is far slower than vanilla. Chemical production is a major factor in the mid game, and metallurgy is a key focus for the mod, with a variety of real metals and ores to smelt. Prospecting will be important, given the rarity of ores - trains WILL be essential to collect useful ores from distant mines. In the late game, the large scale macro focus Factorio lends itself to will be familiar, with a few differences players of Bob's mods will be used to. Modules are used to improve factories on the macro scale, with the player aiming to complete the rocket to space, completing the game! As with all playthroughs though, it isnt about the destination... its about how you get there!
HARDmod is based on NARMod by Damien Reave. HARDmod has limited compatibility with other mods, aside from those it is dependent on. In general, large scale overhaul mods are unsupported and will not work well. Small scale mods which only change a small part of the game, may work, but are unsupported unless specifically stated otherwise.
HARDmod requires the following mods installed to work correctly:
- Treefarm
- Bob's Library
- Bob's Minerals, Chemicals and Elements
- Bob's Modules
Bob's Library must be enabled in the game UI for HARDmod to function correctly. Bob's MCI and Modules mods must be disabled in the game UI for HARDmod to function correctly, but the mod folders must still be present! This is to avoid distributing unlicensed content of those mods, specifically certain graphics which are not included with HARDmod that are originally part of Bob's mods.
HARDmod is created by Bill 'Blu3wolf' Teale as a successor to NARMod by damienreave. All content of HARDmod, unless otherwise indicated, is Copyright (C) 2016 Bill 'Blu3wolf' Teale.
Certain graphics contained in HARDmod were originally published in Factorio by Wube. These graphics are Copyright (C) 2012 Wube Software, and are used IAW the EULA.
Certain graphics and designs contained in HARDmod were originally published in F-mod. These graphics and designs are Copyright (C) 2013 Ficolas, and are used under the CC-BY-NC license.
Certain graphics and designs contained in HARDmod were originally published in NARMod. These graphics and designs are Copyright (C) 2015 Damien Reave, and are used under the CC-BY-NC license.
Certain icons for electronic circuit boards contained in HARDmod were published to the Factorio forums by Chreutz. These icons are Copyright (C) 2016 Chreutz and are used under the CC-BY-NC license.
Some placeholder graphics for intermediate parts contained in HARDmod alpha versions were originally published in DyTech. These placeholder graphics are Copyright (C) 2014 Dysoch, and will be removed before the full release. Their use here is unlicensed, and does not imply permission for use has been granted.
All other content is Copyright (C) 2016 Bill 'Blu3wolf' Teale.
This mod is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This mod is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.