About Wave Defense Unlimited
From Factorio Mod PortalWave defense with infinite scaling and lots of settings. Tower defense! Available in freeplay mode and as scenario.
Sorry but i can't update my mods anymore. Most of my mods have a very unrestrictive license so feel free to take over...
Now you can play the wave defense scenario ad infinitum!
I added seperate biters that will scale infinitely.
The ammo tweak in this mod also uses seperate items, so nothing here will interfere with your vanilla game.
There are a lot of customization options that will allow you to find your own difficulty level.
Playing with your friends is recommended, but there is a "solo" mode with more starting items (~3x) and faster crafting.
The default scaling is designed to be very challenging and will (should?) kill you at some point. (i'm still carefully testing the default settings, when i'm done i will update them (FEEDBACK PLEASE?))
Every 20 rounds you have to buy a satellite for 400.000+ points or the waves will come continuously.
_____ When you're struggling: [SPOILER]
- Make a blueprint of your base and try to build the most important factory complexes first
- Build a defense in your base until you have enough items to build the outer defenses
- Make flamethrower towers - they may be much weaker than in the vanilla scenario but can still do good damage with enough research (maybe i nerfed them too much, so FEEDBACK PLEASE?)
- Try to research attackspeed as late as possible and save up ammo
- When you are supposed to launch a rocket, you can try to keep defending as long as possible to earn extra money (but save your game before... the difficulty is rising faster the longer you wait)
FEEDBACK PLEASE: post your settings, how far you made it, and what your strategy was
_____ Credits:
- Factorio Team for making the original wave defense scenario
- AbertPC for supporting and motivating me to make a freeplay mode and multiplayer-testing it for bugs and balancing
_____ If you have a really old scenario save game (0.16.10 or older), you need to update it: replace the control.lua in your wave defense savegame with one from the scenario folders.
My mods: Combat:
- Turret Shields
- Laser Tanks
- Laser Rifle
- Railgun Revival
- Shield FX
- Desert Eagle
- Wave Defense Unlimited
- Blood & Gore
- Universal Turret
- DotA
- Glowing Laser Beams
- RPG Items
- Spell Pack
Basing:
- Realistic Reactors
- Realistic Reactors - Utilities
- Overloaded Trains
- Resource Spawning Ingame
- Transformers
- Speaker Signals Expansion
- Solar Panel Equipment
- 0.16 Graphics
- Unlushed Trees
- Bleached Trees
- Copy&Paste for 0.16
- Lua Combinator 2
- Lua Combinator 3
- Fire Department
- Robot Tree Farm
- Modder's Science Pack
- Assembling Machine Equipment
- Bottled Science
- Heat Glow
- Market
- Market - AutoBuy
- Wind Turbines
- Vehicle Physics
Highlights
From source dataFootprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Last update
Its author last shipped an update 6 yr ago.
Wave Defense Unlimited 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
- 0.18.30, released 2020-05-28
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.18.30 | 2020-05-28 | 0.18 | n/a |
| 0.18.29 | 2020-05-24 | 0.18 | n/a |
| 0.18.28 | 2020-05-23 | 0.18 | n/a |
| 0.18.27 | 2020-05-15 | 0.18 | n/a |
| 0.18.26 | 2020-05-03 | 0.18 | n/a |
| 0.17.26 | 2020-05-03 | 0.17 | n/a |
Run Wave Defense Unlimited 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 catalogMaps & scenarios
Custom maps, arenas and scenarios to play on.
Runs on your server
From source side supportFactorio Mod Portal lists Wave Defense Unlimited 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 2026-10-09Open ↗
- ✓AuthorOwnlyMe, as published on Factorio Mod Portal
- ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree

