That moment when,

[-root]

You've built entirely around the lake and realize that getting from one side of your base to the other is a gigantic PITA.

[Myaskol]

you realize you just deleted all ur savegames by re-downloading the game.

[Junion]

You realize you spent over an hour in a chat discussion about factorio...discussing what it would take to make a 'train defense' (using trains to kill biters near your base).

[-root]

You realize you spent over an hour in a chat discussion about factorio...discussing what it would take to make a 'train defense' (using trains to kill biters near your base).

that moment when you enjoyed said discussion and thought the suggestion had some merit but was hard to pull off...

[NeaGigel2014]

That moment when you are spawned on an island!



Try building a base here!

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[Rage]

That moment when your FPS and UPS maxes out and you know it's cause your trains deadlocked again.

[Dantounet]

That moment when you run completly out of oil and you realise you didn't set a limit to explosives factory, and have 3 full chests of it.

[Boogieman14]

That moment when you run completly out of oil and you realise you didn't set a limit to explosives factory, and have 3 full chests of it.

At least you'll be able to make plenty of cannon shells

[Skellitor301]

you are designing newer modules to your base, and then wear down half your pic putting up and tearing down 'til you're finally satisfied with it. Then your pick breaks when you add it in and update your base.

[JackGruff]

You are blinded by your robotic network. FPS also goes down quite a bit.

[Phantomix]

That moment, when...
... you realise that the oil transportation by train used the only test-barrel you created for over an hour, because biters distracted you from building the barrel production

[Marconos]

That moment, when...
... you realise that the oil transportation by train used the only test-barrel you created for over an hour, because biters distracted you from building the barrel production

Or my model ... where you automate production of barrels and filling / loading /etc and forget to validate everything due to bug attacks ... then realize you now have over 3k empty barrels gumming up your system ....

[Gandalf]

Or my model ... where you automate production of barrels and filling / loading /etc and forget to validate everything due to bug attacks ... then realize you now have over 3k empty barrels gumming up your system ....

Yup. Definitely happens.

[warmadmax]

empty oil barrels clogging up the system happens more than i'd like as well!

thought i'd sorted it, put a couple of several stacks of steel into an barrel assembler to feed onto the belt way downstream of the "empty oil" machines i'd got,
after train had sucked up two carriages full of empty barrels, belt was empty, a surge of barrel production happened.
after the train did a few more trips and the above repeated a few times, both my full barrel belt and the empty barrel belt were full,
the empty oil machines had nowhere for the inserters to put the empty barrels and it all came to a halt!.

bloody things, think i'll need to swap the wooden chests for smart chests and wire up smart inserters to control barrel production,
got one barrel in any of the chests, don't make any more!

[Smarty]

making a sorter for iron, copper and stone but somehow derped at placing the transport belts and everything gets mixed

[Xterminator]

Your whole train system stops working because you weren't paying enough attention, and accidentally places a rail signal on the wrong side. >.>

[FishSandwich]

Your oil refinery stops working because someone introduced water into all of your oil pipes. >:D

[Koub]

Your oil refinery stops working because someone introduced water into all of your oil pipes. >:D

... and you play solo

[anmoch]

You spend half an hour with a friend redesigning the entry/exit area into your main train station to allow trains to exit and enter at the same time, and shortly afterwards the new design gets everything stuck in a 7-train deadlock.

(Sadly I didn't make a screenshot.)

[GlassDeviant]

You spend hours designing new ways to load and unload trains, and then realise there's nothing left for them to haul because every ore deposit you have been mining is now thoroughly depleted.

While at the same time, the ores and plates you had stockpiled have been completely drained by your belts/logistic network/assembly machines which you optimized beforehand.

So you have a super efficient train system and super efficient factory capable of processing huge amounts of raw materials but nothing to process with them