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FTL: Faster Than Light

Player Options

Choose the options you would like to play with! You may generate a single-player game from this page, or download an options file you can use to participate in a MultiWorld.

A more advanced options configuration for all games can be found on the Weighted options page.
A list of all games you have generated can be found on the User Content Page.
You may also download the template file for this game.

Player Name: (?)

Options Preset: (?)

Game Options

Progression Balancing: (?)

A system that can move progression earlier, to try and prevent the player from getting stuck and bored early.

A lower setting means more getting stuck. A higher setting means less getting stuck.

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Accessibility: (?)

Set rules for reachability of your items/locations.

Full: ensure everything can be reached and acquired.

Minimal: ensure what is needed to reach your goal can be acquired.

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Goal

Victories Required: (?)

How many times you must beat the Flagship to finish, each time with a different ship layout (Kestrel A and Kestrel B count as two).

This is what decides how long your game is. 5 is a good length when you play with friends, 1 or 2 for a first game. Ignored when Goal is victory_selection.

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Victory Difficulty: (?)

The lowest difficulty a victory must be played on to count for your goal.

any: every victory counts, Easy too. You can also write easy. Pick it if you usually play on Easy. normal: Normal or Hard. hard: only Hard.

An easier victory still sends its check, it just does not count for the goal.

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Archives: (?)

How many Archives are hidden in the multiworld, in your own world or in the other players'.

Archives are items you need on top of your victories to finish. 0 plays without them.

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Archives Required: (?)

How many Archives you need to finish.

Keep it a little lower than Archives, so one Archive in a bad place cannot block you. If it is higher than Archives, every Archive is needed.

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Game Size

Ship Layouts: (?)

Every ship has up to three layouts (Type A, B and C). Which ones are in the game.

type_a_only: only Type A. A smaller game. up_to_type_b: Type A and B. all_layouts: all of them. The biggest game.

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Layouts in the Seed: (?)

How many ship layouts are in the seed, drawn at random among those Ship Layouts allows.

Your starting ship and the Kestrel Cruiser A are always in, and a Type B or C only comes with its ship's Type A. The others are left out: no key, no check. Raised to Victories Required if lower.

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Excluded Ships and Layouts: (?)

Ships or layouts you never want in the seed: no key, no check, no victory with them.

Name a whole ship ("Engi Cruiser") or one layout ("Engi Cruiser B", or "Engi B"). Leaving out a Type A leaves out its whole ship, since the hangar opens a ship by its Type A.

Your starting ship and the Kestrel Cruiser A are always in the seed and cannot be left out, nor can a layout listed in Victory Layouts.

Valid keys: "Lanius Cruiser", "Engi Cruiser", "Crystal Cruiser", "Zoltan Cruiser", "Federation Cruiser", "Kestrel Cruiser", "Slug Cruiser", "Mantis Cruiser", "Rock Cruiser", "Stealth Cruiser", and any layout name, like those of Victory Layouts.

Crystal A

Crystal B

Crystal Cruiser

Crystal Cruiser A

Crystal Cruiser B

Engi A

Engi B

Engi C

Engi Cruiser

Engi Cruiser A

Engi Cruiser B

Engi Cruiser C

Federation A

Federation B

Federation C

Federation Cruiser

Federation Cruiser A

Federation Cruiser B

Federation Cruiser C

Kestrel A

Kestrel B

Kestrel C

Kestrel Cruiser

Kestrel Cruiser A

Kestrel Cruiser B

Kestrel Cruiser C

Lanius A

Lanius B

Lanius Cruiser

Lanius Cruiser A

Lanius Cruiser B

Mantis A

Mantis B

Mantis C

Mantis Cruiser

Mantis Cruiser A

Mantis Cruiser B

Mantis Cruiser C

Rock A

Rock B

Rock C

Rock Cruiser

Rock Cruiser A

Rock Cruiser B

Rock Cruiser C

Slug A

Slug B

Slug C

Slug Cruiser

Slug Cruiser A

Slug Cruiser B

Slug Cruiser C

Stealth A

Stealth B

Stealth C

Stealth Cruiser

Stealth Cruiser A

Stealth Cruiser B

Stealth Cruiser C

Zoltan A

Zoltan B

Zoltan C

Zoltan Cruiser

Zoltan Cruiser A

Zoltan Cruiser B

Zoltan Cruiser C

Sectorsanity: (?)

Reaching a sector with a ship sends a check. Most checks come from here.

disabled: never. milestones: only sectors 5 and 8. full: every sector. First and Last Sector, in the advanced options, set the range.

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Systemsanity: (?)

Installing a system sends a check.

disabled: never. The default: most ships start with half of the systems. first_install: once per system, 16 checks. every_level: every upgrade level too, 68 checks. A much longer game.

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Ship Achievement Checks: (?)

Each ship's three achievements send a check, 30 in all.

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General Achievement Checks: (?)

Which of the 21 general achievements send a check.

disabled: none. basic: the easy ones, like reaching sector 8. most: also the harder ones earned over a run. all: every one, the very hard ones too.

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Crew Checks: (?)

The first crew member of each race to join you sends a check: Human, Engi, Zoltan, Mantis, Rock, Slug and Lanius. 7 checks.

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Combat Checks per Ship: (?)

Winning fights sends checks: with each ship, the first fights you win in a run (by destroying the enemy or killing its crew) send "Fight 1 won", "Fight 2 won"... up to this number. 0 turns them off. A fight that sends a check gives less scrap (see Combat Check Scrap); missiles, fuel and drone parts stay.

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Combat Check Scrap (%): (?)

The percentage of a fight's scrap you still get when that fight sends a combat check. Fights that send nothing keep their full reward.

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Archipelago Shop Checks (minimum): (?)

The smallest number of packages in the Archipelago shop, a special shop at one beacon per sector. Buying a package sends it to the player it belongs to.

This is a total for the whole shop, not a number per ship. If your options create more items than there are checks, packages are added by themselves (up to 400) until every item has a place. With Archipelago Shop per Ship, the packages are then split between the ships.

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Playing with Others

death_link: (?)

When you die, everyone who enabled death link dies. Of course, the reverse is true too.

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Death Link Trigger: (?)

With Death Link on: what sends your death to the other players.

ship_destroyed: only losing the run. Best in a big multiworld or for a first game. crew_death: losing any crew member. both: either one. Crew members die often, so this sends a lot of deaths.

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Death Link Cloned Crew: (?)

With Death Link on: whether a crew member the Clone Bay brings back counts as a death.

Off: only a crew member who does not come back sends a death, for example when the Clone Bay has no power at the jump or the last crew member dies. On: every crew death is sent, even one the Clone Bay will undo.

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Death Link Effect: (?)

With Death Link on: what a death from another player does to you. None of them can destroy your ship or kill your last crew member.

major_incident: a breach and a fire in a system room. The hardest one. crew_member: one crew member dies. hull_damage: your hull takes damage. fire: a fire starts somewhere. boarding: one enemy Mantis comes aboard. varied: one of the four milder ones, at random each time.

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Energy Link: (?)

Share a fuel reserve with the other Energy Link players. Your extra fuel goes in, and you get some back when you are almost out.

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Trap Link: (?)

Traps are shared with the other Trap Link players: when one of you gets a trap, the others get one too, even if your own game has no traps.

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Trap Chance: (?)

Percentage of filler items that become traps: fire, hull breach, boarding party and more. 0 means no traps.

Traps wait for a quiet beacon and never destroy your ship on their own.

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Advanced

Starting Ship: (?)

The ship you start with. The Kestrel Cruiser is always unlocked too.

You get the Type A layout; Type B and C are found like the other ships'.

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Head Starts: (?)

Head Start items give a free system level, or a reactor bar, at the start of every future run. They make each new run a little stronger.

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Mod Language: (?)

Language of the mod's messages, menus and shop.

game: the same as FTL, chosen by itself. Recommended. The others force a language, for example to play FTL in English but read the mod in French.

Item and location names always stay in English, because every player and tracker shares them.

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Sectorsanity First Sector: (?)

The shallowest sector that is worth a check. Must not be higher than Sectorsanity Last Sector.

Sectors below this one send nothing, whatever Sectorsanity says. Raising it is the cheapest way to trim a seed: with every layout in play, sectors 1 and 2 alone are 56 checks that you collect just by taking off.

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Sectorsanity Last Sector: (?)

The deepest sector that is worth a check.

Sectors beyond this one send nothing. This is the option that decides how LONG your seed is, where Sectorsanity First Sector decides how much of the shallow filler it carries.

Why it matters: a check at sector 8 costs a whole run to collect - forty-five minutes, and only if you survive. A check at sector 4 falls out of a run you were playing anyway. Lowering this to 5 or 6 keeps the same number of layouts in play while cutting the tail of the seed, which is the part that makes a multiworld wait for you.

Leaving it at 8 is the full experience, and the right setting when FTL is your only game.

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Victory Collects the Layout: (?)

What beating the Flagship with a layout also sends, among its checks still due.

off: nothing more than the victory. sectors: every sector check of that layout. everything: its sector checks, and its ship's achievements, per-ship system checks and fight checks.

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Layout Unlocks: (?)

How the Type B and Type C layouts become available.

items: each layout is its own Archipelago item, and you also need the ship's key to fly it. vanilla: layouts unlock the way FTL does it, by earning that ship's achievements. No layout items are created, and owning a ship key puts every one of its layouts in logic.

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Cross-Run Achievement Checks: (?)

Whether the three achievements that cannot be earned inside a single run are checks.

They are "Rule Ten: Greed is Eternal" (10,000 scrap across all games), "Warlord" (1000 ships destroyed across all playthroughs) and "Your Own Fleet" (unlock every ship). Leaving this off is strongly recommended for a short seed: the first two may simply never happen.

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System Blueprints: (?)

Whether system blueprints are items.

Without a system's blueprint, stores will not sell you that system, and a system your ship starts with stays at level 1 until Archipelago sends you the blueprint: it is never torn out, only capped.

Turning this off also silences the five per-system blueprint logic options below, and leaves Sector Logic with nothing to require.

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Progressive System Upgrades: (?)

Whether progressive system upgrades are items.

Each copy raises how far you may upgrade that system, up to the vanilla maximum.

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Full System Upgrades: (?)

Each Progressive system item gives every upgrade level of its system at once, instead of one level.

Fewer items, so a smaller Archipelago shop, but a coarser progression.

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Free Upgrades: (?)

System upgrade levels you receive are installed for free: right away if you are in a run, and again at the start of every run. Off: a received level only lets you buy it at a store. Only matters with Progressive System Upgrades on.

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System Install: (?)

When a system whose blueprint you received is put aboard, for free, if your ship has a place for it. Only matters with System Blueprints on.

store: never for free, you buy it at a store (the base game way). run_start: at the start of every run. immediately: at the start of every run, and as soon as the blueprint arrives during a run.

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Run Start Scrap (%): (?)

At the start of every run, you get this percentage of all the scrap items you received so far. Scrap items still give their scrap once when they arrive. 0 turns it off; 10 to 25 is a good range.

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Crew Members: (?)

Crew members as progressive items, one per race, received like weapons.

First copy: a crew member of that race joins your current run. Second copy: that race enters the Archipelago menu that opens at the first beacon of every run, where you may take one crew member per run. Third copy: the menu offers an expert instead, one skill mastered (Human pilot, Engi engines, Zoltan shields, Mantis combat, Rock repair, Slug weapons). Lanius and Crystal stop at two copies.

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Shop Weapons: (?)

How many of FTL's weapons are handed out by Archipelago instead of found in shops.

The default is all of them: a weapon you have not received is not for sale anywhere. Lower it to leave part of the arsenal to ordinary shopping, or set 0 to leave weapons alone entirely.

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Shop Drones: (?)

How many drones are handed out by Archipelago instead of found in shops.

Drones are the narrowest choice: they are useless until you own Drone Control, so a seed that leans on them should make sure that blueprint is reachable early.

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Shop Augments: (?)

How many augmentations are handed out by Archipelago instead of found in shops.

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Weapon Bundle Size: (?)

How many weapons each Weapon Bundle holds. A bundle unlocks all of them at once.

1 means no bundles: every weapon is its own item. Bigger bundles mean fewer items, so a smaller Archipelago shop.

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Drone Bundle Size: (?)

How many drones each Drone Bundle holds. 1 means no bundles.

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Augment Bundle Size: (?)

How many augments each Augment Bundle holds. 1 means no bundles.

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Shop Unlock Mode: (?)

What receiving a shop item does.

rarity_boost: the item already appears in shops; receiving it makes it noticeably more common, and each extra copy more common still. Nothing is ever taken away from you.

locked: the item is removed from every shop until you receive it. Harsher, and much more of a moment when it finally arrives - this is the mode where finding a Burst Laser II in a shop means another world sent it to you.

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Shop Item Delivery: (?)

Whether a shop item is also handed to you on the spot, once.

On: the weapon lands in your cargo hold at the next safe beacon, as well as becoming available in shops forever. Off: it only changes what shops offer, and you still have to buy it.

On is the default because an item you can only benefit from an hour later does not feel like a gift. Turn it off for a longer, more deliberate seed.

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Archipelago Shop by Sector: (?)

Each package of the Archipelago shop belongs to one sector, 1 to 7, and is only sold at the Archipelago beacon of that sector. The logic expects you to reach that sector first.

Off (default): every Archipelago beacon sells from the whole shop.

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Archipelago Shop per Ship: (?)

Each package of the Archipelago shop belongs to one ship, and is only sold while you fly it. This adds no packages: the shop's packages are split between the ships.

off: every ship sees the whole shop. per_class: one owner per ship, whatever its layout (Kestrel). per_layout: one owner per layout (Kestrel B).

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Systemsanity per Ship: (?)

With Systemsanity on: each ship has its own Install checks, like "Kestrel Cruiser: Install Cloaking". A ship never has a check for a system it can start with. The level checks of every_level stay shared.

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Progressive Upgrades per Ship: (?)

With Progressive System Upgrades on: the upgrades belong to one ship each, like "Kestrel Cruiser: Progressive Shields", and only raise that ship's systems. Many more items: when the shop would pass 400 slots, the last copies of useful items are left out instead of refusing the seed.

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Sector Logic: (?)

What the logic expects of your ship before sending you deep into the sectors.

relaxed: nothing. Every sector and every victory is in logic as soon as the layout is. standard: 2 system blueprints received for sector 4, 4 for sector 6, 5 for the Flagship. strict: 3 blueprints for sector 3, 6 for sector 5, 9 for sector 7, 11 for the Flagship. power: milestones on the ship that does the check, from its real start. Sector 5 needs 2 shield layers, sector 8 also Weapon Control 5, the Flagship 3 layers, Weapon Control 6 and Engines 4. A ship that starts without shields may use Engines 5 for one layer before the Flagship. Lower with Victory Difficulty "any", higher with "hard" (4 layers for the Flagship).

This never changes what the game allows, only what the generator considers fair. standard and strict count blueprints without caring which, and do nothing if System Blueprints is off. power reads upgrade levels, so it matters most with Progressive System Upgrades on.

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Expert (YAML only)

Item & Location Options

Local Items: (?)

Forces these items to be in their native world.