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Factorio has a defined ending which is launching the rocket. Many people play to that point and then stop. It doesn't take that long to get there though as long as you don't get too distracted with efficiency.

The endless part is that launching the rocket is a necessary step for acquiring the endgame science pack, which unlocks the handful of endless research tracks. From that point on the entire game is focused on improving efficiency.

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Many people feel that launching the rocket is just the end of the tutorial. I think this is the same crowd that installs power armor/roboport starting mods and sneers at Satisfactory because it doesn't have bots. There is a split here into the group that plays mostly vanilla and goes for extreme scale and the group that plays fuck you tech tree mods like bobangel, krastorio, or pyanodon if you really have a lot of time.

Now that Earendel was hired for the official expansion, I imagine a lot of concepts from their mods are going to be considered for addition to what will be “vanilla” after the DLC launch.

Space Exploration mod was a huge change, and I hope the core dev team can temper some of the crazier aspects.

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