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Mike’s FTL mods

These are the mods I use with FTL. I made some of them, but not others.

I prefer vanilla gameplay, without any balance changes. Unless stated otherwise, none of these mods change the gameplay.

You will need Slipstream Mod Manager to install mods. None of these mods require the Hyperspace modding API.

Quality of life

The Fleet Pursuit and Easier Mini Beam mods are technically not 100% pure quality of life. See their individual pages for explanation.

• Enhanced fleet pursuit: shows future fleet progress, including when it’s delayed
• Better crew defaults: better initial crew placement (some still need moving)
• Better info + smaller tooltips: shows more detailed info, and optionally smaller tooltips
• Minimal drone tooltips: minimises drone tooltips at the cost of removing drone descriptions
• Easier Mini Beam: lengthens player Mini Beam by 2 pixels, for easier 4-room swipes

Cheatengine is not a mod, it’s an external program. It can be used to speed up the game or assign skills instantly.
It is widely accepted for win streaking purposes, but there are discussions about potential misuse.

• Cheatengine setup guide: I recommend watching this. Getting CE working can be tricky without help.
• Cheatengine homepage
• Cheatengine table for FTL crew skills

Graphics and music

If you install both of the first two mods here, make sure to load Pretty Shields after Graphical Fixes.
Pretty Shields technically changes gameplay due to slight differences in shield position. See the link for details.

• Mike’s graphical fixes: various fixes of small graphical errors
• Pretty shields: gives a 3D effect to both player and enemy shields, and improves positioning
• Mike’s background mod: much more visually lush backgrounds
• Mike’s music mod: incorporates Ben Prunty’s unofficial extended FTL album, plus one more track
• Beam colour changes: small changes to give individual beams a touch more character
• Swarm missile sound: just gives a distinct “whoosh” sound for the weapon
• Hide banner ad: removes the Into the Breach advert from the game menu
• Hull 1 graphic: makes Hull Laser 1 look slightly different from Hull Laser 2

Silly stuff

• Nope mod: just replaces “Resist” with “Nope”. Thanks Scott
• Cloning pop sound: clones POP out the vat. Made by Snorlaxxo, I think. Thanks Farb
• Distraction Boys: when only the Boys can keep you satisfied. Just changes the augment text

Challenge mods

These do change gameplay. They are only for doing specific challenge runs.

• Broken shields: reduces all player ships’ starting shields level to 1, for shieldless runs
• No free reactor upgrades: removes all free reactor rewards, for a “no reactor upgrades” challenge
• No reactor: removes all reactor power from player ships, for reactorless runs. Yes, this is as insane as it sounds

Balance mods

These do change gameplay. I’m not currently using them, but I do like them.

• Twinge’s balance mod: a large number of subtle balance changes intended to improve the experience
• Balance mod light: my modified version of the above, reverting many changes for a closer-to-vanilla feeling