About Early Drones
From ficsit.appYou start the game with the Drone Station / Drone unlocked and cheaper.
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Early Drones
Why wait for the late game to take to the skies? Unlock drone technology immediately with rebalanced stations and drones designed for early-tier factory logistics.
Highly efficient for early grids
No Batteries required!
📦 Faster Expansion
Drone Stations and Drones are significantly cheaper to craft, allowing you to bridge distant outposts before you've even laid your first long-distance belt.
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Built for Satisfactory >=491125.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Dependencies
Needs 1 other project installed alongside it.
Early Drones on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Supported on Nxeon Satisfactory servers. We download it from ficsit.app, place it, and restart the server.
- Server side
- Required on the server
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Satisfactory — 8 GB (8 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 1.0.2, released 2026-06-07
Run Early Drones on a Satisfactory 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 supportficsit.app lists Early Drones as required on the server. Check its ficsit.app page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Satisfactory
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- >=491125
- Requires
- 1 other project installed alongside it.
Verified at the source
- ✓ficsit.appOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-15Open ↗
- ✓AuthorAndre Aquila, as published on ficsit.app
- ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree
