Factorio - building your own Foxconn

Wossack

still at it myself - had a lot of decision paralysis, but things are moving along again now. Had to scrap my 2 way trains (trains at each end of the carriages), as just couldnt work out a signalling system for the trainyard and stations. Will need to revisit in creative mode or something, as did really like them. Back to a more traditional 2-4 arrangement. Sorry no screenshots, but happy with how its working now.

Few cool things I never knew about trains - can have multiple stations with the same name, so 'Iron Unloading' can be a bank of 2/3/4/10 stations, and incoming trains will go to the nearest free one. Pretty intuitive. Can do some clever things with toggling stops on and off with the circuit network - have plans for that for my mining outposts (dont send trains to outposts unless theres a full load of ore to retrieve) etc
And trains have different speeds depending on their fuel type. Am just using wood, as have tonnes of it to use up, and they go plenty fast enough for me already

Have considered outposting a few things, but last time I did it (outposted rocket fuel production), my base expanded and I ended up enveloping it back into the main base lol

Launched about 50 rockets so far, so infinite science is on the way. Only about lvl 20 mining efficiency, to give some idea

.11 came out last night, and my nuclear power tanked, so getting hit by the heatpipe nerf it would seem. Spent a good while trying to resolve.. and tbh, I think Im going to flip back to solar, as its fluctuating too much with the patching, and becoming a pita

Am toying with logi bots and mining myself at the moment - switched a mixed patch of copper/iron to them, and am enjoying the organised chaos lol.

Will try and get some screens up tonight

cruizer101

I know this thread has gone kind of dead but came across this and thought people here would like it. A factory built in 9 x 14 that makes a rocket. It uses a mod to rebuild itself but still amazing.

jaxxx

There is a Factorio thread! Was just about to post one, good thing I searched first. No posts in almost a year though?? For possibly the most underrated and best game ever?? Only 8 pages back too??? My gawd!!

I've started a private server if anyone wants to join

Annoying that the server pauses whenever a player isn't in the server. I was hoping it would keep running persistently.