The highly anticipatedFactorio: Space Ageexpansionis finally here, adding four new planets to the factory building sim and a ton of other features. But after purchasing the expansion, actually accessing and enabling it can be a bit confusing if you don’t know how to access theFactorio: Space Ageexpansion.
How to enableFactorio: Space Age
Once you’ve purchased theFactorio: Space Ageexpansion, you might be a bit puzzled after downloading the DLC only to see the vanillaFactorioload screen on launch. to access and enable theFactorio: Space Ageexpansion, you actually need to enable it via Mods through theFactoriomain menu. Despite being its own expansion, developer Wube Software has opted to load the DLC via its built-in modding system.
In order to enable theFactorio: Space Ageexpansion, make sure you’ve purchased and downloaded the DLC, then launchFactorioas normal. From the main menu, hit the Mods button, located second from the bottom. From the Manage tab, make sure you enable the following three mods:
Interestingly enough, Elevated Rails and Quality are two new features added inFactorio: Space Age, which are dependencies for the actual Space Age mod and expansion to work. That’s because some planets require the two new features. However, you can actually enable both of the mods without enabling the Space Age expansion itself, meaning you can add Elevated Rails and Quality to baseFactorio, which is pretty interesting.
Some of your mods may have been already updated by their respective developer to work with the expansion, but a majority of them will not be. Over the next few weeks more mods will be updated to work with the newFactorio: Space Ageexpansion, so be sure to check back and see when they are working.
Now that you’ve enabled the properFactorio: Space Ageexpansion mods, hit Apply andFactoriowill automatically reload your game. Once it’s completed, you should see the newFactorio: Space Ageload screen which means the expansion has been enabled and is ready to play! Now there’s only one thing left to say: THE FACTORY MUST GROW!
