About Ships Of Fools
From Factorio Mod PortalSpace Age overhaul built around cargo ships, alternative energy systems and agriculture
State: In development, playable, expect changes
General changes:
Planet progression
Lignumis -> Pelagos -> Gleba
and then you have a choice
- Cerys -> Nauvis
- Vulcanus -> Arig
- Fulgora
after that
Aquilo -> Vesta -> Shattered Planet (here is end game screen)
Assembling machine progression
I think that "electric assembling machine but faster" is boring as hell. Instead of this assembling machine progression will require different source of power on each step, challanging you a bit every time you want to upgrade your production. Currently planned assembling machine progression looks like this:
- Burner Assembling Machine
- Steam Assembling Machine
- Electric Assembling Machine
- Diesel Assembling Machine
- Nuclear Assembling Machine
- Fusion Assembling Machine (WIP)
Mining drill progression
Similar to assembling machies every drill require different source of power so progression looks like this:
- Burner mining drill
- Diesel mining drill
- Big mining drill
Portable powering progression
To make it more interesting portable fission and fusion generators now require fuel cells to power up but they are more powerfull than before:
- Basic portable generator
- Portable solar panel
- Portable diesel generator
- Portable fission reactor
- Poratable fusion reactor
Science lab progression
- Burner lab
- lab
- biolab
- fusion lab
Quality
- all qualities are unlocked with quality module 1
- quality modules can't be used on recyclers
- quality modules can't be used on asteroid crushers
Nuclear power
To unlock nuclear technologies you need nuclear science pack which is planetary science pack of Nauvis. Nauvis is locked behind Cerys. Idea behind it is that if engineer figured out how to make spidertrons by looking on pentapods on gleba, he figured out how to build nuclear reactors by spending time with Cerys ancient technologies.
Fulgora
Looks like we finally know where are fulgorans went. Their civilization was ruined by machines they created
Holmium is no longer to be found in scrap. You need oil rig in order to mine it from spoiled trenches of fulgora
Vulcanus
By vanilla vulcanus is too easy. I made it harder in a few ways. You now have to farm Carbonuts to get carbon which will be then synthesised into coal. Foundry is now burner, and tungsten mining require lube
Highlights
From source dataFootprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Last update
Its author last shipped an update 2 mo ago.
Ships Of Fools on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Supported on Nxeon Factorio servers. We download it from Factorio Mod Portal, place it, and restart the server.
- Server side
- Required on the server
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Factorio — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 0.17.0, released 2026-08-23
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.17.0 | 2026-08-23 | 2.0 | n/a |
| 0.16.0 | 2026-08-04 | 2.0 | n/a |
| 0.15.1 | 2026-06-10 | 2.0 | n/a |
| 0.15.0 | 2026-05-01 | 2.0 | n/a |
| 0.14.0 | 2026-04-01 | 2.0 | n/a |
| 0.13.0 | 2026-03-28 | 2.0 | n/a |
Dependencies
- Required: [reserved]
- Required: quality (factorio_portal, not in our catalogue)
- Required: Planet Pelagos
- Required: Lignumis
- Required: Lignumis Tweaks: Delaying Inevitable
- Required: Any Planet Start
- Required: Boompuff Agriculture
- Required: Water Spitters
- Required: Depths of Nauvis
- Required: Spoiled Trenches Of Fulgora
- Required: Aquilo Trenches
- Required: Planet Vesta
- Required: Sand Seas of Arig
- Required: colorful_biochamber
- Required: Carbonut Agriculture
- Required: Nuclear Science Pack
- Required: TFMG Platform Docking
- Required: Visible Planets in Space
- Required: Fishing Dock
- Required: Fusion Machines
- Required: Fulgoran enemies
- Required: Burner Foundry
- Required: Tungsten Mining Require Lube
- Required: True Ending Is Shattered Planet
- Required: Multi-Surface Promethium Plate Recipe
Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.
Run Ships Of Fools on a Factorio server
Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogVehicles & ships
Cars, boats, aircraft, ships and other things to drive or fly.
Runs on your server
From source side supportFactorio Mod Portal lists Ships Of Fools as required on the server. Check its Factorio Mod Portal page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Factorio
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
Verified at the source
- ✓Factorio Mod PortalOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-08Open ↗
- ✓AuthorTalandar99, as published on Factorio Mod Portal
- ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree
