r/factorio

Express delivery completed with 12 minutes 20 seconds left on the clock. Full vanilla play through with homegrown blueprints and standard settings. How many people are in the same club?

Raw materials go in, non-space science packs and stuff to make rocket parts and satellites come out. Every recipe that can use four level-3 prod modules does.

Power usage is approximately 12MW for the whole setup.

The left-most blue belt (moving downwards) is where the final products come from - all the other blue belts (moving upwards) provide all the necessary solid raw materials. First three pipes are for input: light oil, lubricant, sulfuric acid. Last pipe is for trash/output - intermittent amounts of any of the three preceding liquids, "recycled" back where they came from.

And did I mention that it's tileable?

Blueprint:

https://factoriobin.com/post/1b1sf8

Blueprint with sample (infinity) inputs for demonstration purposes:

https://factoriobin.com/post/v9lvwr

My first playthrough of factorio I watched a bunch of Nilaus's videos. I did manage to get through aquillo but sort of lost steam, and realized how much using pre-made blueprints and sticking to city blocks and busses sort of sapped the fun out of the game. With the 2.1 release, I decided to come back since interplanetary logistics seemed really interesting, with enough changes to things that I'd want to do all my own designs.

That said, I still like watching tutorials & especially speedruns or megabasers, as well as playing with friends of mine that have never watched a single video or interacted with the online factorio community. The bizzare spagetti & techiques they come up with are inspiring - one programmer friend of mine solves problems with as much circuit logic as possible & has built full on displays with gpus & bit encoding.

In particular I wanted to give a shoutout to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFl3yXu7tHcH-um4yCq_cOq0ReC1pBaU7, who's put together a lovely, low stress and relatively unopinionated set of tutorials that helped me remember how to focus on the actual fundamentals of the game, break down problems, and avoid some pitfalls. In short, while I was already familiar with the game, I found these actually very encouraging to find my own playstyle, and I wanted to give them a mention.

I keep seeing a bunch of posts from people doing their own thing, like the recent spaceships - They're so different from anything I produce! I keep getting hung up on symmetry still. Those ships made me want to play with making something different! Just wanted to say to the community, keep doing your own thing - if it works, it works and if it's yours all the better!

I'm playing a space age deathworld with semi-railworld settings. My current situation is pretty stable, I've got solar power, flame & red ammo turrets all around my base, 10m iron and 4m copper left in the ground, 1847% oil. However, I'm running very low on coal (40k left) and maybe 600k stone left, so I need to expand sooner rather than later.

Clearing biter nests with tank shells is slow enough already, but at 0.86 evolution factor, behemoths will be inbound soon. So I don't think I can put the land-grab off any longer, once behemoths show up the tank is going to be virtually ineffective.

I assume running railworld-style outposts isn't going to be effective, with this many biters I'm sure the collateral will take out the rail lines fairly often right?

And should I just attempt to go to space and unlock artillery? Or perhaps beeline the nearest coal and then go to space?

WWYD here?

I noticed that my iron ore production graph looked a heck of a lot like the Fourier approximation of the Heaviside step function (second image dark blue curve). In general every resource's production graph seems to be a periodic function, and even weirder, they all seem to be the sum of waves / sinusoids. Is there a mathematical reason for this?

Triple wield submachine guns

I'm trying to have a 6belt main bus. in this bus i will have 5 or 6 different item.
what is correct way to get item from the 4 belts in the middle of bus?

edit: i dont want other lanes get mixed... is this form of splitters correct?

edit2: thanks to all. I feel stupid for not thinking of undergrounds.

This little guy fitts perfectly in my basic powergridd.

I caped its heat at 600° and it runns perfectly. It is also stackable... as long as there is a second stack. My Aquilo base isn't demanding enough jet to find the size at wich aditional blocks don't pull the heat below funktional for atleast two minutes.

C&C welkome.

Im starting Warptorio 2, but i want a little less stress. Stress in designing cramped spaghetti or stress in fighting biters. Honestly the biters arent that big of a stressor, but the small space is bugging me a lot. Does anyone have good tips? It's a long way until quality beacons and good speed modules.

I'd totally use the linked chests mod, unichest, but that feels a bit toooo cheaty.

Anyone got good suggestions so i don't get burned out?