Factorio is a real-time strategy game focused on constructing elaborate automated factories.
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- 6490I played through the first couple of tutorial missions from the campaign. It starts out feeling a bit like building a new base in Warcraft, with your single little peon chopping away at trees and the warmachine slowly ramping up. However, it doesn't take long before you are considering Conveyor Belt routes and efficient placement of Inserters, and it slowly starts feeling more like The Settlers or SimCity.
- 6491Hmm. Apparently, you need a Lab to perform research. Makes sense.
- 6492...Aaand Labs need electricity. So that's a whole new thing to deal with.
- 6494I have electricity and can research stuff. Logistics seems like a key technology for getting a production up and running.
- 6495I'm starting to figure out how to place stuff, and I'm rapidly running out of space in the center of my base. I guess I need to move some stuff around soon.
- 6496I need Assembling Machine 2, and require Automation 2 for that.
- 6500I rebuilt my entire base from scratch to support creating the red and green science stuff. It looks pretty well organized now.
- 6519I have greatly optimized the production of coal and steel, moved my steam generator away from the factories, and rebuilt a lot of stuff to be able to generate more science materials.
- 6520I couldn't sleep for some reason, and started watching a video stream of my own game of Factorio from earlier that night. It's a great video to fall a sleep to, it's like watching paint dry!
- 6521Now I'm digging for oil. It's a whole thing.
- 7589Hotkeys:
- E: craft
- T: research
- F: pickup
- Q: cancel
- F9: 1:1 zoom
- 7590Oil Refineries produce Petroleum Gas from Crude Oil. Chemical Plants use Petroleum Gas and Water to create Sulphur, which can be combined with Water and Iron Plantes to create Sulfuric Acid, which can be used to create Batteries, used together with Advanced Circuits and more to create Science pack 3. Advanced Circuits require Plastic Bars, which are created from Petroleum Gas and Coal. It's complicated.
- 7591The Factorio wiki entry on Science Pack 3 is pretty helpful.
- 7592This dependency graph could also be useful.
- 11119Version 1.0 is out now! I tried updating and continuing the game, but got the error: Map version 0.14.22-0 cannot be loaded because it is lower than the minimum input version (0.16.0-0). Time to start over!
- 11122A few links with hints:
- 11123I started a new standard game in version 1.0, including attacks from Zerglings ... I mean Biters.
- 11152Constant Biter attacks forced me to build a wall with turrets around my factory. To build the wall, I created a wall factory and an ammunition factory.
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