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I see you've played Factorio before. Would you like to skip ahead?

In short, the beginning game can be so boring to redo every time you start a new game. I really don't want to put down a miner and a furnace, chop some stone, make more miners and furnaces, set up 4 iron, 2 copper, 4 coal, and one stone furnace then run around refilling them by hand just to get enough resources to build power and make my first factory and a science lab or two every time I play. Allow a user who has played previously the option to skip this stage.

In practical terms some amount of time will pass instantly. Biters will evolve and grow some percentage. The character then starts with everything needed to start the game with Basic power, mining, smelting, and red science in inventory.

I dunno, I kind of like the feel of blundering through the first half hour more than what comes after. Setting up a fully automated burner powered furnace chain can be quite satisfying, then setting up the power grid and such.

I suppose if there was a skip ahead option, I'd probably just want to have it give me:
1x offshore pump
30x units of pipe
4x units of underground pipe
4x boilers
3x steam engines
1x lab
20x power poles
10x basic electric mining drills
5x stone furnaces
50x standard belt
100x units of iron plate
50x units of copper plate
50x units of stone
50x units of coal.
5x burner inserters
10x standard inserters.

Seems enough to give you a bit of a kickstart.

There is only one thing that I don't like at start. Manual mining/crafting. It take short time and because of that it's even more annoying for me. I would like to have little more starter machines and mining tools to skip manual era and go right to automation.

Well, my suggested list of items basically gives you a few hundred worth of resources in machines that you don't need to research for you to just plop down, then you can start researching automation straight away to unlock the assembling machine. Even enough in raw resources to make 50 red science packs.

bobingabout wrote: I suppose if there was a skip ahead option, I'd probably just want to have it give me:
1x offshore pump
30x units of pipe
4x units of underground pipe
4x boilers
3x steam engines
1x lab
20x power poles
10x basic electric mining drills
5x stone furnaces
50x standard belt
100x units of iron plate
50x units of copper plate
50x units of stone
50x units of coal.
5x burner inserters
10x standard inserters.

Seems enough to give you a bit of a kickstart.

Seems about right.

There are some mods, that do that already.

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