GreyGoo Mk I: A self-expanding factory

NiftyManiac · Post by **NiftyManiac** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 4:38 pm

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GreyGoo Mk I is a factory that expands on its own and sees to it's own needs, with no player input.

The original youtube video of it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF--1XdcOeM
An imgur album with some more details: https://imgur.com/a/Ewhsv

The Reddit thread has a lot of discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comme ... _album_in/

Running the factory

By popular demand, I've attached a couple of saves: one is the bare minimum for starting the factory, and one is after the factory has made a lap. After about 2.5 laps around the factory, all ores finally get saturated at the depot and the trains get a lot less busy.
Video with some details if you want to tinker: https://youtu.be/lkKPcOCBnco

Required mods (download them via the attached mod-pack):

Recursive Blueprints 0.2.5
Nifty's Logistic Train Network 0.9.1 (NOT the main Logistic Train Network mod; I made a few minor but critical changes, see the mod's page for specifics)
(Base Mod 0.14.22)

Probably optional but recommended mods:

Sticky Notes 2.1.2
Pushbutton 0.0.4

Useful commands:

Reset robot speed back to normal: /c game.player.force.worker_robots_speed_modifier=2.4; game.player.force.worker_robots_storage_bonus=3
Speed up the game: /c game.speed=5
Reveal the map to figure out where the scout is: /c game.forces.player.chart_all()

Let me know how it goes!

You want even more detail?

Signal name documentation for people trying to reverse engineer this thing.
Instructions for moving it to a new map

Known Issues

Mining stations are sometimes placed without enough medium power poles.
Trains can run out of fuel.
The factory will place lots of solar panels after every night if night is enabled
Stone from rocks will eventually clog the scout
Eventually train station names will be duplicates, causing issues with train scheduling.

Changelog

Post by **Koub** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 7:51 pm

Holy shit

Epic Von Neumann factory is epic

quinor · Post by **quinor** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 10:12 pm

Factorio finally plays itself...

Mehve · Post by **Mehve** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:49 pm

Huh. I remember when I decided that Factorio made every other building/production game obsolete. And now... Factorio has made me obsolete.

Just make sure not call any future versions "Skynet".

mngrif · Post by **mngrif** » Fri Feb 17, 2017 11:02 am

This is fantastic!

In a YT comment you said it places solars after a recent brownout, but there are no accus, so that means it will always place a solar field in the morning. Since you aren't launching rockets I guess that's OK

Good luck getting oil going, a third mod that helps with water might be needed.

MrRegs · Post by **MrRegs** » Fri Feb 17, 2017 8:11 pm

Could you give us a save file and list of mods? Even if its not done yet... I wanna fire that beast up and let it run

MeduSalem · Post by **MeduSalem** » Fri Feb 17, 2017 8:16 pm

Mehve wrote:Huh. I remember when I decided that Factorio made every other building/production game obsolete. And now... Factorio has made me obsolete.

Isn't that the point to say that Factorio has made Factorio obsolete?

Because in the end there is no point in playing anymore when the game plays itself.

krazygamer154 · Post by **krazygamer154** » Fri Feb 17, 2017 8:25 pm

How do I get this?

NiftyManiac · Post by **NiftyManiac** » Fri Feb 17, 2017 9:00 pm

mngrif wrote:In a YT comment you said it places solars after a recent brownout, but there are no accus, so that means it will always place a solar field in the morning.

Yeah. I mean I could make a daylight detector, and make sure the brownout detector isn't triggered at night... but I'd rather spend the effort on future versions that use accumulators instead. Tbh starting the current factory with night enabled would be really slow, since when you only have a few mines it'd take forever to build enough solar panels to place them after every night.

MrRegs wrote:Could you give us a save file and list of mods? Even if its not done yet... I wanna fire that beast up and let it run

Sure. I'll post a save later tonight or tomorrow, I'm just letting it run for now to catch any last bugs that could cause it to break.

ps666 · Post by **ps666** » Fri Feb 17, 2017 9:42 pm

Holy crap! That's incredible.

What is your profession?

stormcloud23 · Post by **stormcloud23** » Fri Feb 17, 2017 10:30 pm

This is rad, any plans on uploading the save file somewhere? I'd like to see it run for myself.

Mehve · Post by **Mehve** » Sat Feb 18, 2017 1:14 am

MeduSalem wrote:
Mehve wrote:Huh. I remember when I decided that Factorio made every other building/production game obsolete. And now... Factorio has made me obsolete.
Isn't that the point to say that Factorio has made Factorio obsolete?

Because in the end there is no point in playing anymore when the game plays itself.

I dunno. If we can get people to sit and watch fishing and golf on television, there has to be a place for this too.

NiftyManiac · Post by **NiftyManiac** » Sat Feb 18, 2017 4:17 am

ps666 wrote:What is your profession?

I'm a roboticist

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Mehve wrote:If we can get people to sit and watch fishing and golf on television, there has to be a place for this too.

Believe me, just watching this thing run is pretty damn fun!

etn · Post by **etn** » Sat Feb 18, 2017 6:16 am

It took me a while to find this, but an intresting related read
https://archive.org/stream/galaxymagazi ... 1/mode/2up

DutchJer · Post by **DutchJer** » Sat Feb 18, 2017 11:07 pm

make this run on a 24/7 stream

that would be fun to watch

farjai · Post by **farjai** » Sun Feb 19, 2017 3:31 am

I cant wait to play with it

I would be also interested to see a version that works with Bob's mods

NiftyManiac · Post by **NiftyManiac** » Sun Feb 19, 2017 3:43 am

Alright, since everyone's been asking, I updated the OP with savefiles and some instructions on playing it. Have fun! Let me know if you do something cool with it or make a gigantic factory... I have no idea what the limits of it are in terms of size.

PSS · Post by **PSS** » Sun Feb 19, 2017 9:25 am

Thanks, that's cool.

But where to find main part - fBasic blueprints?

miturion · Post by **miturion** » Sun Feb 19, 2017 12:42 pm

Thats really cool. Factorio is solved!

I think the required mods should be implemented in the base game somehow. Because a factory that builds itself is really the endgame of Factorio.

Could use the AAI mods to automate biter fighting too.

steinio · Post by **steinio** » Sun Feb 19, 2017 12:57 pm

Well nice to look at but it looks strictly scripted without making decisions.
How does the base handle biters?
How does the base evolve from starting the game?

Greetings steinio

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