… I saw a notice somewhere that Space Age has different game play than the base game in the early stages of the game, so they recommended that new players start by buying the Space Age key as well. I think you're probably referring to a sentence in this blog post: https://factorio.com/blog/post/fac...

"It seems to me—please correct me if I'm wrong—that if you have an active Factorio base game, you must remove the Factorio basic.app before installing the space age add-on to avoid the name conflict you encountered. Is that correct?" Basically, yes. However, I should clarify some details....

Hi. I'm a fellow Mac player who doesn't use Steam. This leaves me uncertain: should I have both app bundles in my Mac's Applications folder? Should I just have the factorio Space Age app bundle installed? You don't need both applications; you can use only the Space Age bundle. The Space Age bundle ...

Probably better to install steam and disable/enable the expansion DLC when you want to play one or the other. Though, you never really need to turn off the DLC, since the space age mods can be simply disabled. If there's anything I'm missing, please point it out in a friendly way. Thank you for rea...

Space Age work like a Mod. So you only need to Install the Space-Age Pack and when you want to Play the Basic Game Just disable the Space Age Mod under Mods and you can Play without Space Age This does not really address my question. Are you considering macOS, not Windows, and a direct install of t...

Did you rename one of the .dmg Container in order being able to install… No. And the name of the .dmg container seems independent of the app bundle contained inside. The names which conflict are the names of the app bundles inside the two .dmg containers. … or did you remove the basic game and drag...

Here is what I have experienced so far. I drag-copied the factorio.app from the factorio-space-age_mac_2.0.15.dmg archive into my Applications folder as-is, and I drag-copied the Factorio.app from the factorio_mac_2.0.15.dmg archive into my Applications folder with the modified name "Factorio b...

I am a new Factorio purchaser on a macOS machine. I want to be able to play the basic Factorio game, and then move on to the Factorio: Space Age expansion. The installation steps are not clear to me. In particular, the 2.0.15 stable version installer archive named factorio_mac_2.0.15.dmg encourages ...