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Just add a quality of life mod giving you earlier access to precursor bots, e.g. Construction Drones[1] or Nanobots[2].

[1] https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Construction_Drones

[2] https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Nanobots

This mod is great, really speeds up the early game to get to the more interesting middle and late games.

Watching AntiElitz speedruns and going for No Spoon taught me how to sprint through the early game and get to bots and a large amount of production quickly.

Indeed, and to explain for the audience, in speedruns the split to get construction bots up and runnuing is around 40 minutes.

The WR time to launch a rocket and get 'space science', the final science is currently about 1hr46m.

Drones are a lot easier to get to now after they tweaked the sciences/tech tree, you're now able to pursue drone science immediately after green. Mods are always available if you need it immediately though.