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https://wiki.factorio.com/Keyboard_bindings List of ShortCut Keys.
- Modders Terms also included
- Alien = Bitters and Worms and other NPC you encounter in the game. the ones that keeps you company in the Lonely Planet.
- Base = where your Spawn point is Located and All your installations are clumped together
- Belts = Conveyor belts.
- Lanes = a single belt has 2 lanes. a left & right towards it's moving Direction.
- Bootstrap (Phase) = Very start of the game trying to Reach the Fuel powered Drills.
- Bitters = Alien Race that messess what you build and kills you in the process the only enemies you get in the game.
- Worms = immovable defensive creatures that protect Spawners.
- Spawners = where Bitters originate to give your life meaning.
- Spitters = aliens that fire projectiles. and can move.
- Spawn = a point where you get revived when you get killed. or hitch a ride from a moving train's path.
- Bus = multiple belts side by side in long paths.
- Burner Phase = Establishing LABS & USING Fueled Facilities.
- Character = see Engineer
- Engineer = the one that's running around the map like it's head chopped off trying to figure out and fix the industry its' trying to build while being attack by bitters.
- Chunk = a piece of size of a map.
- Entities = items placed on the MAP.
- Ingredients = see mats
- Mats = (Materials) = ingredients that you need to make an installation or science potion, etc...
- Mid-game = when your able to use Steam Engines. and start Exploring Resource patches.
Where you reached past the Green Science. and trying to reach these Stages of Development - Vehicles & Train Stage.
- Solar Stage.
- Armor Stage. = the fancy upgrades you place on your character QoL, Slots
- Weapons Stage
- Laser Turrets Stage
- Bots Stage.
- Nuke Stage.
- Rocket Stage.
- Mods = Features that players of this game made that you download to make your game better or Crash.
Benefiting from their work, you enjoy that you don't even give thanks and buy them coffee or send them money when they beg for it. because they are starving and Economy can't give them work that they like or find sufficient. - Modders = see MODS. skills that they have and we don't.
- ModPack = combination of Mods
- Moddable = Mods that have settings in the Menu Screen before initializing the game.
- Lib = (Libraries) = commonly used code in their different mods.
- Loader = a mod alternative for inserters.
- LUA =
- Nauvis = the whole area of the map including unseen. Where you spend time enjoying yourself "mostly" alone till visitors come.
- Outpost = Constructing Buildings in the remote ore/oil patches.
- Pollution = installations on the map emit, that players that usually ignore and wonder why bitters keeps messing their base.
- RailKill = when you forget to look both ways when crossing a Rail way path.
- SideLoading= using one of the Belt Lanes.
- Sprite = the Animations of Entities.
- Stacker = the system you build to Load Trains.
- Sushi = Mixing multiple mats in one belt or more.
- Trash = mats that are not needed anymore. or old tech.
- Troughput = industrial engineering term for out put of the system or installation being efficient.
- Turret creep = Strategy using Defensive installations to move close to a Spawner.
- QoL = （Quality of Life） refers the ability you use or gain by your engineer.
- Quickbar = where you place links to your inventory to your items. the Bottom Center of your screen.
Unless a Modder moves it to a vertical position on the side of your screen. - Shortcuts = the buttons available beside your quickbar. to the Right.
- Zoo = Gathering point of Swarms
- Swarms = Bunch of bitters and spitters etc.
