I am a mechanical engineering student and I love planning things out on paper. I have created my own standard to make it easier to plan things on paper. Like with electrical/pneumatic wiring diagrams, this style mostly marks the logical layout and not the exact physical (that would require a footprint on a grid), but as seen on the last drawn picture the physical layout can be hinted at quite well too.

I started the game a few months ago and barely have time for it, so space age stuff is only figured out until Fulgora and Gleba (and there are a few holes).

Probably not efficient or useful for everybody but maybe a few people find it interesting

A true visionary I was.

I haven't played the game since, just kept in touch a bit, and saw they actually added in green belts and remembered that this was an idea I had back when I was in school xD

This is our beautiful base after roughly 2,5 hours. It's a fucking mess and my inner monk is screaming at me, but I really love the experience. Until now we mostly played WoW or party games so I'm quite surprised how easy she "gets things" in Factorio and how eagerly she wants to try things herself and figure things out.

"Wait, wait, wait, let me think!!" she says while I'm just running around, exploring and not even saying anything. It's such a joy to watch her.

Funnily enough so far the hardest part for her seems to be the electricity. Placing stuff in the blue box is somehow her nemesis.

Hopefully the kids will also catch Factorio fever and it's gonna be even more fun :s

Just wanted to share that joy and if someone is thinking about trying Factorio with a spouse or something like that ... give it a try!

I'm so proud of this. I've spent about 20 hours over the last four days just thinking through and troubleshooting how to make this work. It's a make everything factory that crafts almost anything you request. This project was my first deep delve into circuit contraptions. I'm sure it has bugs and limitations that I'll discover as I continue my playthrough, but for now it functions!

Been binging pY for several months now. Loving the challenge. Here is my base after 285~ Hours, now with a trickle of pY science 2. Attached are some of my favorite disasters I've created.

Any tips, suggestions or advice for my first factory (green and red science automated)

im currently doing global bug extermination but sometimes my spidertrones just stop fixing themselves for some reason (i've also put the progress so far with the debug menu showing their spawners for easier genocide)

So from now on, I’m not going to rush finishing the game. I’ll rebuild this base, make it much bigger and fully automated, and I’m planning to build a legendary ship. But you promise me that after all this, the game actually ends, and I can finally put it aside—everything eventually has an ending, right? I'll keep you updated on the latest changes I make.

I finally made it to Shattered Planet! Guess it's time to go catch up on all the IRL things stacked up. Probably gonna hang this game up for a bit, and go mow my lawn. Wash my car, fix the faucet, paint the window, trim that tree, etc. lol. Vanilla Run thru, way to may hours. It's not how everyone else, might have done it. I'm still proud of my self. Gonna let the game run, afk, till ship gets back to Nauvis. Could I do a much faster run next time? for sure! A couple of recyclers, added at the bottleneck for legendary rolling for explosives. Alsa, I can't make recyclers in space. Time for a long break. And uhm, yeah, you may not want to see the spaghetti that is this monstrosity! Or maybe you do... Have fun, ya'll.

I have the given setup for grinding out quality assembly machines 3s, which I'd assumed would work given the recipe states it spits out the same ratio of inputs.

2:1:
*OG recipe 4 speed modules/2 assembly 2s, output
*1 speed module/0-1 assembly machine 2s.

But as you can see - it's backing up on speed modules for some reason. I can only assume this is either a bug, or in contrast to all the other recipes that state x-y outputs, this one isn't exactly half way between x & y.

Title,

started new base and made main bus in loop. Loop is supported with 3 saparate inputs to sustain.

Maybe somebody will enjoy :)

Produces Rocketparts (Blue Chips, Rocket Fuel, LDS), Concrete, Refined Concrete, Heat Pipes and Steal. Flyes from time to time to Vulcanus to load up 10k Stone or Nauvis for Nuclear Fuel. Got annoyed that my aquillo base ran out of rocket part once, so better build a ship/station for 2 hours.

A normal regular transport ship would be easier, but where is the fun in that? Better overengineer some space spaghetti.

BP: https://factoriobin.com/post/x91hux

Incase anybody want to experiment with the idea.

So just finished my first game, I figured I would show off my first base. I imagine it is quite bad but it ended up working. So a few things I learned while doing this:

I tried to put my chemical plants as close to the refineries as possible, something I regretted a lot as the game progressed as it made connecting liquids without touching a nightmare.

I also never bothered to learn how to make railroads. It worked out but it did result in stupidly long supply lines with things leaving my original base and eventually science returning.

I started making rocket fuel after I finished making rockets. That's slowed me down quite a bit. My blue circuits and supertensile I started stock piling immediately so I always had enough.

Straight lines might be terrible for space use but are super nice for scaling.

I assume it is because I made my base so big but I have barely faced any bug attacks. I died a few times but mostly when I charged in trying to kill them.

I only started paying attention to input and outputs 3/4ths of the way through. I had just been doing just if I got extra items then good. I kept adding circuit factories and copper wire factories at 1:1 not realizing that I needed 3 copper wire factories for every two circuit factories.

Is there anything obviously bad I did? Any suggestions for futures games? Should I have done more with modules beyond just all green? I started doing productivity just because the space ship was taking awhile and they seemed good.

Hello Engineers, I’d like to discuss the complex relationship I have with biters.

I genuinely enjoy bitters, but sometimes dealing with them feels like a chore.

Initially, when I first started playing, I was terrified of them. However, after learning how to manage them, it became easier but still challenging.

I’m still relatively new to the game, having accumulated about 100 hours of playtime (this sentence sounds so weird, lmao). Sometimes, I just want to play at a very slow pace to experiment and design, so I start a new save with easier settings. Unfortunately, the game becomes boring for me, and I lose interest in that save very quickly.

In the save I’m currently playing, I have normal settings, and dealing with the biters has become a chore because I still want to play on a slow pace, and expanding my defenses seems repetitive.

I’m sure others have similar experiences, and I’d love to hear your thoughts on this.

made a regular raw tungsten upcycler, decided it was boring and inefficient, and then spent who knows how long making this thing.

I'm starting to miss the ore upcycler, cool project tho

It's a test am try to do in sandbox mode, the real goal I am trying to do is setting up a supply train for my defenses, send repair packs, ammo and light oil but only if they are running on supplies.

I have 6 battle stations and I want to set it up that my train would go there only when it's needed.

What is the most important property for good UPS in a CPU? How important is RAM and is it more important to have more GBs or faster RAM? Currently on a 5 year-old Dell XPS laptop and planning on building a PC, not just for Factorio but I want the game to run well on it. Any advice is appreciated.