I look for what direction I can build a main bus (although with SA the bus is far less important). Starting on the 2nd playthrough of SA, which I'm still on, I also leave gaps in my factory so I have room to add things later, like pipes for molten metals, room to swap green and red circuit ...

You can use it for oil cracking and rocket fuel, sure, but you're not doing that because you have to, but because you want to.
Wait, what?

That explains why oil processing never got a building upgrade!
And that explains the fish growing tech for Nauvis...to make nutrients for more efficient ...

You can use it for oil cracking and rocket fuel, sure, but you're not doing that because you have to, but because you want to.
Wait, what?

That explains why oil processing never got a building upgrade!
And that explains the fish growing tech for Nauvis...to make nutrients for more efficient ...

Enjoy the different music!

I found it helpful to bring along some big miners, since they use up the resources half as fast.

The biggest grip I have with it is the reward. The biological chamber is quite weak and mostly useless outside of this moist planet.


The biochamber isn't the big reward from Gleba. You're overlooking the Stack Inserter, which enables a huge throughput improvement across your entire factory ...

You have to personally land on the planet to actually place the cargo landing pad and start doing work. It's not self-deploying, so it's just sitting there in a drop pod waiting for you.

You'll probably want to search around for the best island to build on. I found a car to be helpful for this ...

Hey, thanks! I had not thought of qualitying my artillery. I am enjoying the ~+30% range on my Rare arty. It also lets me scout a lot more of the map.

Definitely like it the way it is.

On my current playthrough, I've gone beyond the edge of the solar system (so VERY far in) and haven't even researched laser turrets. I only built gun turrets for my space platform. I have defended successfully with nothing but flame turrets, walls, and artillery.

I do have some tesla turrets, but ...

Why can't I set a display screen to simply display a number?
I have a belt. I hook a green wire to it and set it to display a count of whatever's on the belt. The screen won't accept that as a displayable input?

Factorio has raised my standards for software quality across the board.
Nobody at work understands when I'm grumpy about how inefficient and wasteful some programs (including OneDrive!) are.

91 hours and about 2 months to get to the edge of the solar system.
Now on 2nd playthrough. I have an Epic mech armor and am in the process of building a big ship to challenge the shattered planet.
I have exactly one biter egg farm for tier 3 modules. I know I will need more for making promethium ...

Typically on Nauvis. I've had to make a couple of trips to Fulgora, as expanding production there typically requires laying train tracks across the oil ocean, well beyond the range of roboports.

This is a good idea. We get a really cool explosion when a nuke plant goes up. A spaceship should be pretty big, too.
I haven't tested to see what happens if a Fusion plant brews up.

Start it loading and then just alt-tab over to your other windows.

I have a ship for each planet that cycles back to Nauvis, which is my central hub. Nauvis then supplies resources the centralized resources (Holmium, Superconductors, Tungsten, etc.) to Aquilo. Nauvis is also importing 1500-2000 calcite from Vulcanus, as orbital calcite manufacturing is only good ...

The sound of foundries and steam turbines is really relaxing, but if I leave the game on in the background, stuff happens and it's distracting. Has anyone thought about making a 1 hour loop of Factorio industrial sounds for people to use as background noise while working/writing?

(Just no EM plants ...

In a game where a tiny flying drone can chop down a tree massing multiple tons in an instant and carry the entire tree's worth of lumber several miles, a grabby arm breaks your suspension of disbelief?

Once you get Elevated Rails, you don't need the landfill any more. They're a game changer! I was very happy to discover this on my 2nd SA playthrough..

There is no reason not to install steam, especially seeing how you can buy the game directly from the devs, and still enjoy steams comfort.
It's an opinion thing, not an indicator of anything. Of course, it would be way nicer to have stats across all platforms, but that's not gonna happen :P

It ...

That happened to me. I got my base crushed by medium stompers. So I left, and I came back with Tesla turrets. It was a lot of fun having to flee. Luckily, the ghosts were still there, so when I came back, my base rebuilt itself automatically. I slapped down the tesla turrets and a few artillery ...