What settings and conditions would you consider as a "Pure Pyanodon" run? I now have loaded Alien Life and all the rest of the Py mods, and FNEI and that's it. I had started before with Robot World and a bunch of QoL mods but then reconsidered if I really would feel like I beat the pack legitimately with the head start (logistics only really comes in after the 3rd science pack). The only real option in the mods now is "finite oil". Otherwise I'd consider default settings on the map, biters disabled. I wanted to have a full replay so I didn't have to worry about recording video during play (I don't stream or anything, but for posterity I wanted proof), but mods cannot be changed once you start or that turns off.

I was just trying to figure out some kind of "standard" settings for a Py run, kind of like how Factorio speed runs have a rule set (though for those it's without any mods). I want to stick with only mods that don't modify play, but I think informational/planning mods should be fine (like Task List, FNEI, Factory Planner, helmod). Not that I think I'm really competing against anyone, but I don't think anyone has come close to finishing Alien Life yet in this way. I am not playing for speed, I just want to finish and know that I did it in a legit way. For me that's not launching a rocket as much as finishing all non-repeating techs, which has the space science packs/quantum computer and AFAIK is harder than simply launching a rocket.

Most people think this will take 1000 hours. A x64 replay might take almost a day to run. The pack is pretty insane after all.