Yeah, this is definitely a game where you play the villain: you are bizarre-looking (to them) alien-invader determined to take over the world and terraform the planet; they are the heroic defenders trying to forestall the invasion. If you're able to steal technology from them, they must have tech, a...

"Isn't easy" is kind of an understatement... :) Things less likely to go wrong than trying to multithread a complicated program like Factorio that wasn't designed that way from the ground up: - Pushing a bucket down a well in Moria - Eating calamari in front of Cthulu - Your first KSP roc...

Yup, that's what I was doing initially, but then I realized it was much easier just to line up unbent 1/7/5 next to each other . Thanks!

I ask, because I'm currently playing in a very space-constrained ribbon-world .

Is the standard 1/14/10 boiler set-up somehow more efficient than two 1/7/5, beyond needing one pump instead of two?

To me, I always figured the campaign was essentially a "tutorial mode" rather than the main event. (I got bored with it about halfway through, & decided to figure out things as I went in "regular mode" :) ). As others have said, it doesn't make much sense of them to put a lot...

OK... i'm still in the pre-robot phase so that is not an option....I'll read up on the robots and active providers! For early game (before you have the logistics chests and robots), you'll want to use belts (to move items) and inserters (to take them out of the assembler/off of the belt or into the...

The production chains that this game specializes in are something I've tried to play with in Dwarf Forteress, (heavily modded) Minecraft, and Simutrans. But since in this game, the automated production chains are the primary purpose, Factorio does a better job with them. Plus, it's addictive as hell...

Great info. Thanks, guys!

When attacking a base, does killing biters and spitters accomplish anything? Or will the spawners always spawn new ones as fast as you can kill them?

+1 for this. maybe it comes from WoW but I constantly hit esc to get back to the default ui. I've never played WoW, but I also keep hitting escape go get out of the map view; it's a pretty common thing. I usually end up hitting escape about five times before I remember to hit 'M'; it works better w...

The accumulators aren't used because the steam plant is sending enough power to the network that they aren't needed. They don't know or care if the power is being supplied by solar panels or steam, just whether the network has enough power or not. There's some great designs on these boards about how...