+1, chopping trees is annoying maybe add a toggle-able hotkeys in order to turn on and off "hand mine resources" After early game there is are very few times you actually need to mine raw resources yourself (the most common being trees which you can't automatically clear until robots), and...

Can someone explain why this is a terrible idea? And when designing a sub-factory that uses direct insertion, should i leave ANY room to manually grab the items (like one line of belt), just so i can see them being produced? Or is it a waste? It doesn't have to have direct insertion. Basically its ...

Can i get an idea of a good order to build things in so that the things that rely on each other are closest together?

People say to insert copper wire into electronic circuits to take advantage of the inserter stack size bonus. If you don't, your belt will fill up and slow the assembler down. Putting copper wire on a belt for advanced circuits is fine. There is no "right" way to make a factory. If it wor...

I have re-designed my factory about twice times and i am getting to the point where i just want to go ahead and continue with the game, but one thing keeps nagging me.... how do i know which items i will need later??? My first factory was garbage... my second was okay but messy, my third was imacula...

+1 factorio has such innovative gameplay the likes of which o haven't seen in a long long time. Keep up the amazing work.

my bad, i should have searched. mods can delete to keep forum tidy.

Splitters with one belt going one way and the other belt going the other. This makes splitting a belt to backtrack an item to earlier in the line way easier and saves more space than the ugly wrap around.

I have access to the basic gun turrets but haven't built any because i didn't know how effective they were, i dont know their range or how quickly they can take down a biter,I will test some. Walls seem very expensive for how little ground they cover. Are they actually effective at keeping out biters?

I am a decent way into the game. After realizing how comvoluted my factory set up was and realizing i needed much more copper i moved a little north from my starting area to a large clearing with huge iron and copper deposits nearby. I set up my factry in a more systematic way so i could easily expa...

Hello, So i am decently into the game right now, i have set up machines to build cogs, copper wire, circuits, conveyor belts, red and green science packs and a couple other things. But my machines are starting to slow to a crawl, specifically the choke is happening with iron plates and copper wire. ...

Discussed often, search for recycling, waste... From gameplay there is currently no need for that and that is also the devs standpoint: there will be no recycler, cause it will be used only for very low amount of items. Put em in a chest and destroy it. :) I am saddened by this, and i disagree that...

Why is there no way to disassemble items into their component parts? It would be way better to disassemble my burner miners and burner inserters than havijng to destroy them. Obviously certain things shouldn be able to be disassembled without help (like turning a spool of copper wire back into a bar...

The day must be longer than it appears in-game, because if the planet rotated fast enough for days to pass like that, it would cancel out the gravity and fling everything into space. I was just thinking the same thing, unless this planet had massive gravity... So theres two pieces of evidence that ...

https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/index.php?title=Game-day Thanks for the link.What an odd amount of time for a day(programming wise), but as it is its own planet we shouldn't expect it to divide evenly into our own (lore wise). So yeah, in just one earth day is roughly is 205 days (if this game is ...

kinda rare for a several day overcome of the fear, but yea that can be possible We have no idea how one day on this planet compares to one earth day. If the game is real time then several "days" pass in just one earth hour. But It may not be real time because i doubt it would take just se...

@MangledPork that's a great story. I'm glad people are adding their own take on what they believe fsctorios lore is all about.

@root I agree, I think him starting out as a coward and eventually conquering his fear as he conquers the planet is really fitting with the game.

@Laturine I realize that cowardice is not a trait most people want to have in their protagonist (and even more so when you have to play as him), but i was trying to give him some humanity. I said he was a younger member of the crew to give the reader a sense that he hasn't fully developed strength i...

Thanks for everyones kind words and encouragment. I never was very good at writing (as you can tell by my excessive use of "we"), but I am glad people understood what I imagined. @ssilk, This post wasn't to suggest and endgame of colonization, it was mostly for me to express how i imagined...

Hey all, I recently bought this amazing game after my friend showed me it. I have only played a little bit but so far all i know about the main character that we play as is that he is preparing an extraterrestrial planet for colonization by building a rocket defense system. I read in the dev blogs t...