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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

Fluff

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

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

oooh, new toy, many thanks!

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

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