Golden Age: Skybound

Golden Age: Skybound

Build the sky into your factory.

Fly a personal shuttle and grow it into an autonomous aviation network of Docks, Airports, cargo drones, Skyways, modular carriers, and explainable industrial zones. Standalone with optional Golden Age integration.

Golden Age: Skybound is a Factorio 2.0 logistics and autonomous-expansion mod built around visible aircraft, regional freight, mobile carrier networks, and player-directed industrial development.

Begin with a worn Survey Shuttle. Repair it, fly it across the real map, and turn scattered landing sites into a continent-spanning aviation network.

Begin with personal flight

The Worn Survey Shuttle gives the engineer an early personal aircraft and a reason to establish the first aerial infrastructure.

Progress through:

• Survey Shuttle repair and flight
• Shuttle Docks
• Landing Beacons
• Engine and navigation upgrades
• Remote shuttle summoning and return commands

Aircraft remain visually present while moving through the world.

Build local and regional freight

Medium Drones handle local heavy logistics. Large Cargo Drones connect distant production sites through scheduled regional routes.

Use:

• Cargo Hangars
• Provider and Requester Caches
• Flight Beacons
• Airports
• Capacity-limited Skyways
• Train-like freight schedules
• Regional route and performance overlays

Commission Mega Drones and modular carriers

Late-game aircraft become mobile logistics platforms rather than simple cargo vehicles.

Construct and configure:

• Mega Freight Drones
• Modular Mega Drone chassis
• Carrier engine clusters
• Field roboports
• Cargo modules
• Repair workshops
• Navigation cores
• Deployable mobile construction networks

Design autonomous industrial zones

Use the Build Zone Designator to mark a purpose instead of manually placing every machine.

Available zone roles include:

• Mining
• Defense
• Smelting
• Transport

Skybound surveys the area, generates an explainable plan, lists required materials, constructs the project through drones, and commissions the finished zone. The system exposes errors and blockers rather than silently hiding them.

Command one connected fleet

The Fleet Console brings aircraft, routes, Airports, carriers, freight, construction plans, industrial zones, alerts, and performance information into one coordinated interface.

Contextual guidance teaches one relevant action at a time and can be set to:

• Full
• Contextual
• Minimal
• Off

Standalone or Golden Age integrated

Skybound is fully playable without another Golden Age mod.

When a compatible Golden Age installation is present, optional integrations add:

• Royal Aviation Standing
• Grand Exchange aviation contracts
• Bounded Treasury procurement
• Quartermaster aviation templates
• Gemstone-powered Gilded Avionics

Ordinary Skybound progression is never locked behind Golden Age.

Compatibility

• Factorio 2.0
• Base game supported
• Space Age optional
• Golden Age optional
• Existing saves supported through bounded migrations
• Multiplayer architecture included; broader public-beta soak feedback is welcome

Public beta status

Version 0.22.7 is the first public-beta package. Core progression, original art, guidance, package structure, static validation, and compatibility architecture are included.

The mod remains below 1.0.0 while the published release checklist collects broader live migration, benchmark, GUI-scale, Golden Age integration, and dedicated multiplayer acceptance evidence.

#Warning: Expect some bugs and errors so please report them back to me with at least a screenshot of the error window if found.