🌐Planet Rubia

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Rubia

You find yourself on a planet with perpetual hurricane-force winds that have erroded all life. It is a hostile junkyard where the elements constantly hurl large masses of garbage at anything that dares peek above the ground. But on this planet, there is something living under the debris--something microscopic. It doesn't just survive the barrage, but feasts on it! Will you master the art of biorecycling and become the king of the crapheap? Or will the winds blow you back to Nauvis?

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Rubia as viewed with the Small Space Age mod.

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Features

• Unique Wind Mechanics:
• New wind mechanics completely change base-building. Belts and inserters cannot move items against the permanent eastward flow of Rubia's hurricane-force winds. Everything about Rubia is designed to push you to make unique wind-proof designs that you will not find anywhere else in factorio.
• Trashsteroids will bombard your base. Plunder them with new machines to gain access to Rubia's most precious resource.
• Wind power, building materials, and voiding are free to let you focus on the above.
• Research on Rubia uses a new mechanic of shooting items into the wind instead of labs.
• Rubia's crafting chains are themed around recycling junk with bacteria using the new Biorecycling Plant. Recyclers are banned on Rubia to make way for recipes that can't exist on other planets for balance reasons. Rubia does NOT play like Fulgora.
• Custom music, cutscene, and lore. Animated tutorials and menu simulations.
• Rewards are balanced for normal Space Age. Rewards include: 10 items/buildings (including special inserters and trains), 3 infinite technologies, 4+ character upgrades, 5 alternate recipes (beyond Rubia's core recipes), uniquely-coded machine upgrade technologies, bonus landing pad, and more.
• Installing other mod planets or overhauls cause additional technologies/content to appear.
• Rubia's postgame provides fully developed challenges and rewards.

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Rubia is for you If:

• You want factory-assembling challenges/puzzles that focus on how you can place belts/inserters to accomplish a goal.
• You want to make a customizable base where you can use creative combinations of recipes to rig up different supply chains/setups.
• You want to add more content to a Space Age playthrough (even if it already started) with a planet that feels and plays totally differently.
• You want an Ultracube-style humorous vibe, but with a fraction of the wit.

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Notes

• Can be added to existing Space Age saves at any time.
• Rubia science being added to infinite research productivity research can be toggled.
• Despite the junk theme, Rubia does NOT play like Fulgora.
• Rubia is compatible with a broad range of mods (overhauls, planets, adjustable inserters, etc).
• Rubia has special cameo technologies that appear when certain other planet mods are installed (a-z): Arig, Cerys, Corrundum, Cubium, Jahtra, Janus, Lignumis/Wooden Universe, Maraxsis, Moshine, Muluna, Paracelsin, Rabbasca, Secretas&Frozeta, Shattered Planet, Tiber. Vanilla planets are included.
• For upgrading to Rubia's trains, see this companion mod.
• Rubia has full ButtPlug.io integration powered by Intiface and CuButt's native-connector (instructions here). Linux-only 😔.

LaurencePlays' Overview

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Credits

Special thanks to everyone who helped, or from whom I got assets or code:

• Thanks for help with modding questions: thesixthroc, CodeGreen, Powerscooter, exfret, Frontrider, allison, Saf, justarandomgeek, PennyJim, boskid, bilka, Therenas, Osmo
• Rubia planet sprite made in collaboration with nullevoy in Blender.
• raiguard, Krastor, and Linver: Krastorio2 assets are borrowed and derrived from their work. Link
• Lesbian Mami, lord thy god: Code used from BPlib to patch (temporarily?) an issue with super force building. Link
• ZarSasha: Wind turbine forked. Link