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You can see the area I started building my factory. The original science lab, the original coal patch is almost mined out by now. The starting factory chain for Red & Green science packs. And of course the lifeline of the factory, the mixed ore / copper belt which I kept around. I worried it wasn't effecient enough, but with enough upgrades it worked admirably throughout the game.


A little bigger view of the 'top half' of my factory. The most left boiler chain was the original one.


A view of the 'bottom half' of the production area. The chemical plant area was a right mess due to a very cramped area. But all the more satisfying to get it to work
Getting the 'advanced manufacturing' area to work on the right faced similar challenges, but mostly a problem of scraping more performance from the older circuit & wire producing areas.


Overview of the entire factory production area


Start of setting up a train yard. In all honesty, in this save I hadn't fully figured out how to do trains. It is functional at this point, but most mining areas were serviced by long belts instead of trains.


And finally the overview map showing the extent of the rail network and the solar areas. Most of the rail network you see is mainly used for personal transport.

Initial starting area, this time with a very different philosophy than the first factory. Instead of 'wasting time' on full automation it was very geared around efficient 'box to box' production. Always keeping some assembly labs around which could quickly be retooled for the lower production run items.



In this game I did relocate the initial boiler part to the left. Also the furnaces were eventually moved to a 'clean' line. Keeping the old factory intact wasn't as much of a big deal as in the last factory as I was constantly moving stuff around anyway. Playing with my house rules did prove for a very interesting different game



Better view of the Chemical area. You can clearly see the lessons learned from the cramped approach in the first factory. One issue: The Oil Refinery requires 5 ingredients, for the longest time I ran with only one until I couldn't bear it any longer producing the rocket defense requiring an insane amount of oil products.



solar farm, not much to see here. Solar farms always seem to end up the same, lots of panels in the large stretches and filled up with accumulators around the edges.


The initial train yard which served me very well. The start had very little iron ore, just 2 fairly poor patches bearing a 2-3 miners each at most. I had to rush to trains, almost ran dry of iron setting it up, but got the mother lode hooked up just in time.
I started with the bottom line, then added the ones up from it one by one. Note that one is only a through track.


Showing the expanded train yard to the left. Obviously the initial train yard had an issue with the turn at the end (I wanted only one-directional rails everywhere to simplify signalling). I was still setting up this yard when the game ended. This one has even less room due to awkward turn radius, I guess I didn't learn this time


And the map