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
  • 4 iron
• Group 2
  • 4 copper
• Group 3
  • 2 green
  • 2 steel
• 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?