Factorio didn't want to deal with the logistics of refuelling my oil train, so set this up real quick |
- didn't want to deal with the logistics of refuelling my oil train, so set this up real quick
- At the heart of my vanilla base, is a logistic distribution center.
- Feature/mod request: Missing materials for construction should be readable by circuit network.
- Wave Defense
- A geometrical and astronomical exploration of Nauvis
- Train-to-train transfer depot for small cells
- Avoid tiny research hiccups by setting manual stack override of lab-to-lab inserters to 1
- I recently posted about how happy I was with my purchase of Factorio. Wanted to give an update now that I've got Blue and Military science rolling! Still having an absolute blast, now with 50% more explosions!
- I mean, A for effort I guess? (top inserter)
- Possible structures of Nauvis system
- Now that's some spaghetti right there
- TIL: you can scroll while holding a copied part to scroll thru all the things you have used copy paste with
- Factorio irl. Where are the inserters?
- Tutorial for Cars on Belts
- Please help - why is this last rail signal coming up red?
- Oil processing vs. advanced oil processing
- My road markings from before (in white type) in action!
- Rate my base, 12 hours in, at purple science and producing ~300K+ iron plates, ~12K+ Red Circuits, ~95K+ Green Circuits (Per hour). One thicc ore belt. No trains yet!
- Concrete Production block
- First time playing any tips?
- Is there any way to toggle a curved belt into a straight belt? (or vice versa)
| didn't want to deal with the logistics of refuelling my oil train, so set this up real quick Posted: 10 Oct 2020 10:47 PM PDT
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| At the heart of my vanilla base, is a logistic distribution center. Posted: 10 Oct 2020 12:36 PM PDT
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| Feature/mod request: Missing materials for construction should be readable by circuit network. Posted: 11 Oct 2020 05:36 AM PDT
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| Posted: 11 Oct 2020 12:24 AM PDT So, after banging at Wave Defense, I finally completed it. Around day 10 or so. Probably could easily do it by day 8 or even earlier I think. It took a surprisingly (though very fun!) amount of time to figure out a winning approach. I started with various failures trying to throw up defenses, like bullet turrets feedings bullet turrets; flame turrets; flame turrets and lasers; flame, lasers, and bullets. A well thought out base BP, at least for me, was a must. The last approach with the entire kitchen sink backing me, I liked quite bit and was mostly effective - but still, I could only get to day 23+ or so and not really much to show for it. I was always so busy keeping the defense together I never got beyond the defending and eventually was overwhelmed by evolved biters. Plus all that laser power bursting! So, as with all of my factorio play, after I had squeezed out all the thoroughly and very entertaining 'winging it gameplay', I took a step back. Nothing I was doing was really working and so I experimented and rethought my approach. There were two ahah moments / tricks that were key for me, though I'm pretty sure now that I can win without the second one. The first trick came from my frustration with the very very annoying personal robotport. I always kept it off except to mow down trees. I hand built my blueprint. Why? The little personal construction robots would always build off of them in absurdly inefficient order, drain their batteries at inopportune times and painfully, they flew too slow to follow me and ended up dragging way behind as I zipped across the base. I actually had to stop several times for the robots to catch up, recharge and then re-enter the personal roboport to sleep for a bit! Stop? Sleep? In wave defense? Anyways, hand building always seem to worked better. But still, I am very slow on the keyboard. So, I thought about it and finally did the very obvious thing everyone likely ends up doing - I split up my blueprints into a personal roboport optimized order. Wow. I was rather stunned how quickly the base came together. I had an artillery shell line producing by day 6, and that was just on the first run through without really much effort on optimizing my over all build order. I had been lazy and only split the base BP into 3 sections. I've seen a few Any% speedrun videos and I imagine if I rewatched them, I'd just cringe as their bots randomly wandered off building things. My goodness folks, break up the BPs. Lay down power and belts first. The efficiency improvement will shock you. The second trick*, may seem even more obvious, but honestly I never bothered looking at it as I was having fun trying to make my approach work without it. And really, it feels like a bit of a cheat. Yes, I'm talking about the upgrades. Once I had a few shells, I blasted a base or two and had the prebuilt turrets nicely upgraded. No need for a custom defense at all, just use the wall turrets that comes out of box as part of the scenario. Maybe make upgrades an option? Though TBH, I don't think it really matters and you can win without them. I was producing around 20 shells per minute by day 8 and I think you really only need about 160-200 shells or so to win the game. I am pretty confident I can accelerate the peak artillery shell production to day 6 if I wanted to by just splitting up the base BP into smaller, more optimized subset BPs. My bots were still doing a lot of dumb things with my 3 BP / day 10 win. I've also found that you generally don't lose the game with zero new defenses until around day 9 when they overwhelm your base. Again, I'm pretty confident that I would have the map cleansed of the natives by then and just taking out the nearby bases stops the biters from coming. Anyways, sorry for the long post, but the scenario was a lot of fun and wanted to share my personal victory. Fast game with rapid closure and a very clear build optimization problem. Really hope WUBE releases more scenarios. I think I'll try the rocket rush next, but this time I'm going straight to recursive blueprints with an optimized build order. For me at least, especially after how wave defense played out, I believe the recursive blueprints are the game at its best, and all the manual keyboard mashing seems a bit beside the point. Though maybe that's just my aching RSI wrists talking. * Easiest win, as I learned from a reddit post after celebrating my victory, is just leaving the base early after setting up some quick smelting lines. Take out a few biter bases with turret creep to grab some low hanging upgrade points. Yeah, that looks like it'll work, though maybe not the fastest approach. [link] [comments] | ||
| A geometrical and astronomical exploration of Nauvis Posted: 10 Oct 2020 10:31 AM PDT
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| Train-to-train transfer depot for small cells Posted: 10 Oct 2020 11:29 PM PDT
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| Avoid tiny research hiccups by setting manual stack override of lab-to-lab inserters to 1 Posted: 10 Oct 2020 09:15 PM PDT Title basically says it all, a very tiny optimization tip that many likely already know. I recently noticed that the stuttering research that results from lab-to-lab inserters pulling both of the banked research packs only manifests after researching Stack Inserter Capacity 2 and can be fixed with manual stack override. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 10 Oct 2020 07:12 PM PDT
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| I mean, A for effort I guess? (top inserter) Posted: 10 Oct 2020 12:10 PM PDT
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| Possible structures of Nauvis system Posted: 11 Oct 2020 01:41 AM PDT
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| Now that's some spaghetti right there Posted: 11 Oct 2020 02:21 AM PDT
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| Posted: 11 Oct 2020 03:03 AM PDT this is the second time i found some function that never imagined using but knowing its a thing, i cant belive how much time this would have saved. are there any other "hidden" functions that aren't shown on their own you can use? [link] [comments] | ||
| Factorio irl. Where are the inserters? Posted: 11 Oct 2020 06:30 AM PDT
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| Posted: 10 Oct 2020 08:37 PM PDT
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| Please help - why is this last rail signal coming up red? Posted: 10 Oct 2020 11:36 PM PDT
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| Oil processing vs. advanced oil processing Posted: 11 Oct 2020 06:30 AM PDT What is more efficient, meaning produces more petroleum gas, using basic oil processing or the advanced setup with cracking down any heavy and light oil to petroleum? [link] [comments] | ||
| My road markings from before (in white type) in action! Posted: 10 Oct 2020 03:51 PM PDT
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| Posted: 11 Oct 2020 01:29 AM PDT
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| Posted: 10 Oct 2020 08:23 PM PDT
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| Is there any way to toggle a curved belt into a straight belt? (or vice versa) Posted: 10 Oct 2020 11:45 PM PDT I'm aware of the underground belt exit to force a straight piece but it doesn't work in this particular case. Edit: I'm talking about changing the belt in-situ. I have no space surrounding it. There's an inserter on one side, splitter on the other and it's not possible to place a belt behind. I want to change the belt from turning out of the splitter to simply being straight on. [link] [comments] |
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