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    June 25, 2020

    Factorio A simple accumulator charge display

    A simple accumulator charge display

    Posted: 25 Jun 2020 12:41 AM PDT

    7 GW of solar in under 4 minutes!

    Posted: 24 Jun 2020 08:39 PM PDT

    i don't think i need to explain what's wrong... for those who didn't understand: the sliders bars aren't aligned which is preaty ugly to see.

    Posted: 24 Jun 2020 05:31 PM PDT

    CG Artillery wagon

    Posted: 24 Jun 2020 08:52 AM PDT

    A tip for people that don't have too much free time, but still want to reach endgame and megabases

    Posted: 25 Jun 2020 05:11 AM PDT

    Hey,

    I've got over 1000 hours in factorio, but due to work, the lockdown and two very bored (and non sleeping) kids, my evenings are short and I don't get much time to play anymore. Factorio is a great way to relax after a tough day so I really missed it.

    I'm doing a new play through now that allows me to progress quickly without being too cheaty. I find as soon as I add anything that makes it *too* easy, I lose all interest in playing!

    - First, all the QOL mods that still keep the game vanilla feeling. Quick start, auto fill, squeak through etc.

    - Use the game speed command as often as you like. While waiting for things to build, science to finish, travelling around. I up the game speed to 5, even 20 sometimes. This would be mega cheaty and completely ruin the feeling of the progression without the next step:

    - Death world settings. You have to be really careful changing game speed and only for a short amount of time and you need to make sure your defences are solid. This adds so much challenge while with the above changes, keeps the game pace up.

    My current play through, I'm completely cornered and just managed to expand enough to get oil to my spaghetti base. It's been a lot of fun and has been really difficult.

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    And another noob launched his first rocket, just shy of 100 hrs into the map... it really feels like an accomplishment. 25 bucks well spent.

    Posted: 25 Jun 2020 01:47 AM PDT

    My Spaghetti base. (15360x8640)

    Posted: 25 Jun 2020 06:01 AM PDT

    The factory must grow

    Posted: 25 Jun 2020 06:35 AM PDT

    I'm stuck and don't know what my next goal should be.

    Posted: 25 Jun 2020 06:40 AM PDT

    So I started playing yesterday and I like it so far. Except I don't know what to do next. Right now I have automated making and distributing red and green science packs. That process was very fun and it gave me a goal to work towards, now that is finished I feel stuck.

    I know the "end" goal is to launch a rocket only I have no idea how to get there. Right now I'm just researching technologies and that's it.. So sure, I can refine oil right now but I have no need for oil because nothing is consuming it.

    I hope you get my point and would appreciate some guidelines and tips.

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    2x2 Nuclear Power-Brick

    Posted: 24 Jun 2020 03:11 PM PDT

    Disabling the new pipette tool beep?

    Posted: 24 Jun 2020 07:12 PM PDT

    Is there an option to turn this beep sound off, or a mod to disable it? It's incredibly annoying when I use the key constantly and I haven't found anything to turn it off.

    I cannot play factorio with a constant beeping sound and as such haven't managed to play the game for more than 5 minutes since the feature was implemented. Any kind of help would be mega appreciated.

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    After a few years of incomplete runs , finally launched my first rocket with my gf after 60 hours

    Posted: 24 Jun 2020 12:01 PM PDT

    10,000 rockets, here I come!

    Posted: 25 Jun 2020 05:59 AM PDT

    Modding Help

    Posted: 25 Jun 2020 04:17 AM PDT

    Hello everybody, so basically I was working on a mod, you can use alien artifacts to create a special item that you can put down to create a spawner, it spawns a special type of biters that when killed have special drops, the only problem is that when you put the spawner down its friendly, pliiiiz hilp :(

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    My first thought after first play through

    Posted: 24 Jun 2020 11:37 AM PDT

    A friend and I were looking for a game to play together in the end of April. Normally when I look to try a game I usually look for multiplayer games that we think we might work for a LAN Party we host usually about twice a year. We took the plunge on Factorio this time. We never played through the tutorial or story missions. We do this to see how LAN Party friendly it would be. We took a deep dive and decided to play on the first randomly generated map on the default settings. We played it for an evening as local coop and decided to throw it on our server for multiplayer purposes.

    I was impressed. I enjoyed the balance of trying to build and trying to fend off the bugs. The other part we noticed is that It was interesting to see how naturally imperfect the production flow felt. Just when we think we finally got supply in one area sorted out the next task completely threw off that production as we started to over use the resources for that. I never felt that the game was cheating but I knew it was always a mistake we made that we needed to correct or it was a gross underestimation on our part.

    By the second research flask we needed to expand and find a better way to protect ourselves. I snuck along the shoreline north to our fist expansion and started bullet production that would put bullets one a belt along the entire wall of our base. By time we finally decommissioned in favor of lasers, it was a few thousand belts long fully loaded.

    By time we got to the third research flask and looking a head at the forth I realized our scale was way off and that our production lines and ripped apart everything and rebuild.

    My friend build a train. we still have not used it to this day. It is in its original place. he build a couple of cars. It handles like the Rare game RC-Pro am for the NES. we have a few of them, including a tank. They are scatter about like old vehicles found in farmers fields. If new trees were to ever grow in this game I'm sure the next time I see it there would be one that popped up threw the rusted out floor boards straight up through the roof.

    Around the forth one took a bit longer to do because we needed to figure out where this crude oil was and what it even looked like. We had a uranium patch near us for a while with no way to use it. My friend was also eager to get nuclear power going as well. Fortunately, we found one in the same direction as the uranium.

    It was around this time we had 2 major wall failures. It was at this point we started to focus on improving our effectiveness by doing double walls and filling the gaps on turrets. In places we started doing a layer of laser turrets as soon as we could as a second line directly.

    Some time before the first satellite launch we had a few major expansions. The fully loaded power Armor with a personal reactor and 6 shield and 8 turret was line god mode for a bit. I was running out into the fields with a disco light show emanating from my body with bugs dying after being blinded by the light. That changed as soon as the green bitters showed up and I noticed all the fire was on them for a few seconds. :(

    Once we launched our first satellite launched I noticed we got a logistics embargo accolade. It was also around this time I started noticing that we were only accomplishing one task in a gaming session due to scale. I had no idea what that was. It wasn't until about 45 satellite launches after when I started mass producing roboports and robots. I only had personal robots up to this point. It took probably another 20 satellite launched to figure out what was going on and tinkering with them. And also on a number of occasions, finding them flying out into a middle of a lake, give up, return to shore flying slowly in defeat and trying again... and again. I had to landfill paths on the lake just for roboports. Now that they are sorted out, I have enjoyed them greatly. Nothing like dumping a thousand items in a chest to be gone a second later. Due to base expansion it has been challenging to expand the network as well.

    Recently I started ripping up the old unused area and upgrading them to their higher tier items. we also centralized our oil refineries and coal processing. Now we are just expanding our base strictly for mining to funnel resources into our old outer factory productions.

    I would say the most challenging part in this game is balancing our Green, Red and Blue card production. At this point the only thing I really feel like I need to do set up another area for green card production and expand the logistics network. I find that ore patches that are only 1 to 4 million are too small and will require attention too soon. I still need to look at trains but in our map express belts seem to work okay. I also feel like for the first game save we are close to its natural conclusion for us.

    In about 2 days we would have only had the game for 2 months, I will say this game is way better then expected. The only thing that i found annoying is running back to find out what broke to find that one belt somehow rotated after running by an area. That really is minor. I don't have to use cars so who cares. I may take a break from it for a bit because it does suck a lot of time. I highly recommend the game. We had fun.

    If anyone is curious. Here is the game save. Also If there are any notable issues for efficiency let me know. We entered this blind.

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yUJhHrhcIHdSyf2IdOAV2_dqkIXs2LSm/view

    submitted by /u/Rob_mc_1
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    How's my first nuclear setup?

    Posted: 24 Jun 2020 06:51 PM PDT

    Full Py - Update 2 - Quartz Processing Stage 1

    Posted: 24 Jun 2020 11:35 AM PDT

    After 36h on this map (around 80h total) I built my first rocket. I still feel like I have a lot to learn

    Posted: 24 Jun 2020 06:14 PM PDT

    After 36h on this map (around 80h total) I built my first rocket. I still feel like I have a lot to learn

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    The mess itself.

    I can't believe I've gotten so far, I can't believe the mess I've made. I tried using a main bus of sorts this time, and it did help but I think that at the end of the day I put too many things on the bus (sulfur, plastics, even though they're not used throughout my entire factory)

    There are still so many things I haven't tried yet. Some of the things that remain on my to-do list:

    • Infinite science, better science. I don't have a lot of labs, yet I always felt that science always went too fast for me. It's a weird thing to complain about, but my idea of how things should go was that I'd get red science up and running, and while red science's going I would go ahead and make a factory for green science to plug it in as soon as red science was done... that didn't go as planned. I always exhausted all research before I had finished building the next tier, after blue science in particular I spent a lot of time not researching at all.
    • Bots. Yes, I have a roboport there. But I've only used them sparingly, the most use I've gotten out of them is on my nuclear setup (and I only have one reactor and one kovarex centrifuge). I've heard some people love them around here, and maybe they'd help me be faster, but they're expensive and require set up and I was rushing the rocket damn it!
    • Find a solution to the walking problem. This is something I don't know how to solve at all, and not for lack of searching even this subreddit itself. Walking is so tedious and the real bottleneck in my factory. Walking all the way to a far corner of the factory only to realize oh no, I've run out of X! Time to run to the other corner to get some, and then back, but oh no now I've run out of Y and I didn't realize! This and bots are probably related. I imagine bots help a lot with this, but again I just couldn't bring myself to stop working on other projects that seemed more important at the time and set up a bot factory.
    • Maybe exoskeletons? I have a pair but they're extremely power-hungry and I only have solars, because I'm playing on peaceful mode and completely ignored all military research... turns out you need military science for a fusion reactor.
    • Try playing with biters on sometime, as the devs intended.

    What I'll do next:

    • Probably try to make another green circuit factory, expand a lot of parts of the factory, right now this factory CAN make a rocket but it's practically limping to the finish line. Faster rockets wouldn't be bad.
    • Once I do have faster rockets, probably infinite science. I still feel like it's a long way away, since I'm sure my factory would choke on itself if I tried to make science and rockets at the same time. In fact it would since I've redirected some of the assemblers meant for science, such as the ones making low density structures, to make the rocket instead.
    • Get myself some blue belts. I already have a blue belt factory, I just never upgraded.
    • Bots - I'll probably use them to upgrade the belts so I don't have to do it myself.

    It's been a wild ride so far, and I still know so little! Factorio is surprisingly fun and addictive

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    Train/Bus Base Abomination

    Posted: 24 Jun 2020 01:24 PM PDT

    57 Rocket launches in and my Iron still looks like this. I am begining to move stuff to start a megabase.

    Posted: 24 Jun 2020 11:40 AM PDT
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