Factorio
General
- Efficiency modules help a ton with pollution
- Always smelt right under ore patch
- For space logistics, use named logistic groups. These always “pull” resources. So you create a logistic group named
Vulcanus exports. You pull into your space platform by setting it on your space platform, and pull into a cargo pod on e.g., Nauvis by setting it on your cargo landing pad. But you can reuse the same named logistic group in both of those “pull” spots.
Expansion
- Expand to other mineral patches in only one direction. Resource patches get bigger as you get farther away from center, so this maximizes how big the resource patchces are.
- When expanding to planets, first order of business is to get regular space logistics between Nauvis working
- Keep two sides of the bus open to allow easier expansion
Nauvis
Starter bus
- Group 1
- Group 2
- Group 3
- Group 4
- 1 plastic
- 1 red
- 1 coal
- 1 stone
- Group 5
- 1 petrol
- 1 lube
- 1 light oil
- 1 water
Build order
- Rush
- Construction bots (get early lube)
- Nuclear power
- Personal fission reactor and personal upgrades
- Swap brick with steel smelters early, but no electric until you have nuclear
Notes
- Iron is more important early, copper becomes more important later. So start with 2 iron, 1 copper, 1 steel smelting.
- Belt logistics until you have advanced logistics chests
- Secure choke points and clear nests within so that you don’t end up playing wack-a-mole
- Make an early basic science platform and just float it out there to get science
- Make a temporary minimal belt mall (what to include), then a robot mall
- Don’t bother with anything besides yellow inserters/belts until your belt is saturated. Downgrade/upgrade books together to help with the above.
Vulcanus
Notes
- Don’t need to bring anything for defense
- Solar is highly efficient
- Fluid has basically unlimited capacity, so bus molten iron/copper instead of lava
Starter bus
- Need to do this fresh next time
- Ship around molten copper and iron wherever possible instead of doing a ton of plate smelting
- Try using logistic bots for calcite instead of belting it everywhere
Exports
- Science
- Foundries
- Big miners
- Calcite
Fulgora
Notes
- Don’t need to bring anything for defense
Exports
- Science
- Electromagnetic plant
Questions
- What should a minimal belt mall include?