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The CFAN is a metadata respository and associated tools to allow you to find, install, and manage mods for Factorio. It provides strong assurances that mods are installed in the way prescribed by their metadata files, for the correct version of Factorio, alongside their dependencies, and without any conflicting mods.

Unfortunately, currently factorio's API doesn't return dependencies field. CFAN stopped automatically installing dependencies.

CFAN is great for players and for authors:

• players can find new content and install it with just a few clicks;
• modders don't have to worry about misinstall problems or outdated versions;

The CKAN, which CFAN is fork of, has been inspired by the solid and proven metadata formats from both the Debian project and the CPAN, each of which manages tens of thousands of packages.

The CFAN is currently under active development. I very much welcome contributions, discussions, and especially pull-requests.

Currently it's undocumented.

CFAN can download, install and update mods in just a few clicks. See the User guide to get started with CFAN.

If you are an author, the easiest way to make sure your mod has current version on CFAN is to upload it to factoriomods.com.

Check out the page about adding a mod to the CFAN on the wiki

The CFAN client is a C# application that targets Mono 4.2, and therefore it runs natively on all the major platforms

Contributions are welcome:

• We have a wiki that you are encouraged to use and contribute to. You can find development instructions there.

• Our issues page lists things that need doing, or are being worked upon. Feel free to add to this!

• You can share your ideas at CFAN topic on forums.factorio.com

• If you found mods missing from or outdated in CFAN, you can post an issue.