Acclaimed automation sim Factorio is exploring space for its first expansion

A little over three years after acclaimed construction and automation sim Factorio left its lengthy early access with a 1.0 release, developer Wube Software has shared details of its first expansion, Space Age, which will be picking up right where the base game stops.

Factorio, for the uninitiated, casts players as impromptu space industrialists, tasking them with building increasingly elaborate contraptions in a ceaseless grasp for ever-more efficient automation. The ultimate goal is to build a rocket ship enabling you to escape the planet you’ve crash-landed on, which is the point where Space Age kicks in.

In a post revealing first concrete details of Factorio’s expansion, Wube explained Space Age continues the journey after those rockets have launched, taking players out among the stars where they can “discover new worlds with unique challenges, exploit their novel resources for advanced technological gains, and manage [their] fleet of interplanetary space platforms.”

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