The easiest way, if you have an account on Factorio.com, is to download the .zip version you want.

You can unzip it to a directory of your choosing and then play.

You don't even have to "downgrade"; you can keep both versions on your system.

In fact, if you have several different overhaul mods ...

You can buy just the base game and you'll still get most of the 2.0 enhancements. There are also many, many mods you can use to enhance your gameplay in various ways if you want to. This way you cut the price in half, and you can wait till later to get the expansion.

Recently my son wanted to play with me so we went to look at getting him the game, at $90 Canadian for the full game its just way to much. This very high price has cost a purchase as we will move on to something else.


When you say "full game", I guess you mean Factorio plus Space Age?

That's ...

If it were purely random, then it would allow you to end up with all big demolishers in the nearby territories after the initial single small one.

How would you play that?

oh, didn't know IR3 is for 1.1 only, I thought having 2.0 means I have all the other stuff backward compatible.
Does IR2 work with factorio 2.0?

I am not stuck on the above mods mantioned, just looking for ways to diversify the next playthrough a bit, these were just the ones poped into my mind ...

If you want something really different, Industrial Revolution 3 is a good choice. There's a long steam-pipe era before you get to electricity. Most recipes are broken down into many more smaller parts, so you'll probably use fewer belts and more assembly machines, especially the small 1x1 assembly ...

Part of the issue might be the effort involved in the teardowns and rebuilds: Having to uproot everything one-by-one and then having to carefully place each item one-by-one in the new spot.

If that's the case, you might consider a mod that gives you construction bots from the start.

Below are just ...

What if trains are backed up in that block? Should subsequent trains just plow through the first train?

This seems like kind of a "Doctor, it hurts if I do this" issue.

You're creating track that crosses itself, and then creating a train long enough to hit itself, and then asking how this can be prevented.

Maybe by creating longer track or a shorter train?

Thank you!

Once again politely asking for the Gleba! thread to be unlocked.

Is a big train with 5 resources better than 5 trains with 1 resource? this mostly regards the time that the big train has to gather resources from each section


It depends on how quickly you can fill the train.

If you can fill 5 cars as fast as 1 car, then you're getting 5 times as many ...

For some reason this thread was locked:

https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?t=131828

This was about the only positive thread about Gleba on the board. I don't understand why it was locked.

If it was due to people arguing, please moderate them; don't kill the whole thread because of a few ...

Tertius wrote: Wed Apr 01, 2026 12:39 pm Kyralessa's solution works only if the belt isn't stalling and all output is being consumed.

Which, to be fair, one could say about any purely mechanical splitting/balancing mechanism at any ratio.

Yes, you just need to split into 4 belts, then feed one belt back into the original splitter, like this.

(Obviously you can combine two of the belts to make it 2:1 instead of 1:1:1.)

If you connect a heating tower to something else using a red or green wire, you'll see a couple of properties on the heating tower, one of which is temperature. By default, it uses T, which means the T signal value is the temperature value, e.g. T 903.

This guy has over 5 thousand hours in factorio.

After spending tens or hundreds of hours figuring it all out he's declared Gleba was actually easy the whole time.

That whole Gleba thing both new and experienced users are telling wube is not fun and is ruining the game? No problem - it's the ...

Good point. If you can run over nests and damage biters with a tank, why can't you poke them with Spidertron legs?

What weapons do you have available in your research so far?

One thing many players don't consider: The bugs are attracted by pollution, so see what you can do to stop the pollution.

If you're in a desperate situation, it might make sense to shut down most of your factory :


Clear your research ...

All it took was one nudge of the mouse scroll wheel for me to guess who wrote this.

Green Cat, you might get more traction for your ideas if each one didn't take three hours to read.