Space exploration, what is needed?

[durid1]

I've seen a lot of posts about launching spaceships gameplay for Factorio, but I'm not sure what I need to do to enable this mode. Install certain Mods? Complete a whole game? Start with a certain game mode?

[Pi-C]

Start the game, click on the "Mods" button in the main menu, switch to the "lnstall" tab, and search for Space exploration. This will pull in some other mods that are required by the main mod.

As far as I know, the part of going into space is quite late in the game, after you've launched your first rocket. But I've never played it myself (just loaded SE to debug problems with my mods), so if you have any more specific questions, you'd better ask others!

[Kyralessa]

You might have a look here to see a list of official mods as well as unofficial-but-recommended ones:

https://spaceexploration.miraheze.org/w ... ended_Mods

Some of them you may need to play around with to understand how they work. Auto Trash, for example, I find invaluable for switching logistics requests based on task or planetary context, but it takes a bit of experimentation to get the hang of it.

[Stringweasel]

Easiest might be to install the official mod pack, but just installing the Space Exploration mod itself is also perfectly fine.

As far as I know, the part of going into space is quite late in the game

It's earlier than that, I think it's now after blue science that you can go to space using a Cargo Rocket. Spaceships will then require some space technologies researched though.

Or maybe if you explore a little you might find an abandoned spaceship to use