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themcfluffy
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Hey All,

Ive only recently bought factorio but have already had many many hours of fun with it. Im a bit compulsive when it comes to mapping out processes & made myself a construction tree diagram to help me figure out what i needed where. I'm not sure anyone else would actually find it useful (see disclaimers below!) but just in case I thought id post it up here :-)

DISCLAIMERS
- it does not include weapons (but it does include base defences) , id gotten too far by the time i realised this wasnt going to be practical
- colours and line types are just for ease of following, if i make any future versions they may be used to group certain items
- I didnt have any proper software handy, as such i made it on trial software which kindly didnt mention until i tried to export that it was going to add the annoying watermark over the image, sorry about that! (anyone got smartdraw ci? i could email over the file!)
-I have only done a single efficiency sweep over the tree, if anyone likes it and i make another at game launch it will be properly optimized to minimise crossing paths
-if this is not the sort of thing im supposed to be doing i will fall on my own ignorance without complaint

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Here's a nice free graph editor with automatic layout algorithms for you.

http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html

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oooh, new toy, many thanks! :-)

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themcfluffy wrote:oooh, new toy, many thanks! :-)
Allow me to point you to my construction planner that generates only the necessary graph:
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... 133#p25133

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This actually does help with knowing exactly how many factories you will need. I‘ve just gotten to the end game and realizing how everything needs circuit boards and how my 4 assemblies weren't cutting it. And then when I made more I realized my copper wire wasnt keeping up, then my copper plates and then i realized im out of space for forges. So if i had this now ill know how much of each I‘ll need and how much space needed for the future.. thank you for your hard work

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