Author:
Jaime Wolf
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Date:
11/29/2018 2:24:52 PM
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RE: I bought Factorio
I'm 800 hours in, those of us who have broken the 500 hour mark have elected to call it Cracktorio instead.
For the start, just go in and make a spaghetti looking mess, it's really the best way to learn the controls and how all the various machines work.
For basics: Make sure to fully understand how splitters work, the rules on whether products end up on the left or right side of a belt and how to flip them, and the ever required concept of ratios. Once you've got first round automation going, look up what a main bus is in the context of the game, as well as the myriad options for building a balancer, learning these 2 things early will help you out a lot in the long run, so you don't end up having to rip up half your factory to implement things that are now too late to cram in. Always give sections of factory a six tile space between them for fitting service belts wherever they are required, and always try to build in a modular fashion where if a module needs to be extended, you can just keep building repetitions of it in a cardinal direction unimpeded.
I've been playing a multiplayer map with a friend on and off over the past year where if you zoom out all the way, you can view about 1/10 of the hilariously massive, over-engineered thing we've built.
