The 10 best mods for Factorio

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As a factory management sandbox game that’s all about logistics, production, conveyor belts, and bug attacks, Factorio stands out as one of the most successful games in the genre. The game released in 2016 was a deep and expansive simulation and is still going from strength to strength, proving to be ground ripe for the modding community to modify and expand. With not too many challenges or scenarios for the most rabid players and expert factory managers, the game’s Free Build mode can quickly become stale and that’s where the huge library of mods for Factorio can come into play to spice things up.

As is usually the case with many modded games, some mods require one or more “Framework” or “Library” mods to work. These mods are essential to enable their connected mods and help them work properly, and in most cases to work at all. Therefore, we feel obligated to mention these important mods here without filling our list with different variations of each of them as they would make for a fairly bland Top 10.

Some of the mods that fall into this category are Bob’s Functions Library, Factorio Library, and Informatron, to name a few. Mods that require one or more Framework mods will usually mention or link them in their descriptions and installation instructions.

Starting off our list is a fairly small and simple mod whose utility cannot be understated. Playing the vanilla game, you must have gotten stuck dozens of times between buildings and modules, or wanted to find a quicker path without having to go around an arbitrary bend, even though there clearly should be enough room for you to pass. Well no more, thanks to this simple mod. It’s a quintessential quality of life mod that feels