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Next iteration of my Factorio skyblock idea, why not to take "sky block" literally?

What if you started the game on a space platform? It would be located somewhere in the asteroid belt and your only mineral source would be what you have caught from space dust bombarding your settlement, refined and processed. In order to expand your factory you'd have to construct actual platform for it. Steam energy wouldn't be an option anymore (you can't have that much water), you have to use only solars instead. From the very beginning of the game, yeah, but it could be day all the time (it's space!). Becouse there are no aliens floating in space (are they? ) and there has to be some danger, I'd make buildings degrade over time and to protect them you either have to repair them (I would assume you've got robots also from the beginning) or place protective shields that would repel projectiles for energy. Of course space dust collection wouldn't work under those shields for it not to be that easy

It's of course pointed at more advanced players that chewed through normal game.

More ideas could be incorporated such like:

• deattaching parts of platform and floating them around
• space monsters!
• capturing hydrogen along with minerals -> fusion plants -> getting carbon from fusion
• energy/resources needed to keep your platform together or random parts will disintegrate - cost don't have to be linear to limit the size of the factory naturally

Pros

• Endgame I'd totally like
• Incorporates fresh feel into the game at some point
• Could be also standalone mode for richer gameplay without too much effort
• Utilises existing(?) awesome space platform graphics

Cons

• Takes time to code and Wube doesn't have unlimited manpower
• It might turn out not very different from normal play or too hard if not balanced properly
• No trains unless we maybye make them cross space and incorporate some other space platforms with goodies you can connect too somehow

What do you think?

That is more or less promised to come after the rocket has launched. You found that pic in the FFF https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-74 , there is it explained...?

I see that suggestion as a suggestion for a mod. Should I move it to the mod-suggestions?

I tried to provocate a discussion about endgame. Yeah. I've found the picture in this FFF but devs stated later that they don't really know what they wanna do and kind of abandon those space platform thing. Maybye move to "general discussion" instead of suggestions?

Yeah, you could do a mod from that too.

Please read this thread viewtopic.php?f=5&t=18764
Especially slpwnd's answer viewtopic.php?f=5&t=18764&p=125228#p125228

Thanls, that clears things out, I haven't read it before. Now that I know this is not gonna happen as a game part any time soon, I find your suggestion to move it to the "mod suggestions" very appealing - would you do that for me?

Moved from suggestions to mod requests on author demand.

I intended to do a mode like that for some time now, just after I'm done with my subsurface mod !

(Yes I love to play with surfaces, so what ?)

I would obviously use some stuff of my current mod, (like the expanding part )

This sounds really cool! Could be made as a mod to start in space after the end game is implemented