thumbnail Factorio - A game about automation, logistics and network optimizations is a gaming app. Factorio is a game in which you build and maintain factories.

Tips to play the game

Aspects of the game

Building supplies - Bulk craft any item without a mall
Train network
Flying robots
Logistics in Factorio
Input controls
Base layouts
Circuit networks
Main bus, Compact bus
City block
Modules
Combat

Discussions

Playstyles

Biters pathing logic - Factorio Forums
Compact bus
Main bus
City block
Don’t produce main green chips, steel from main bus
If your factory is bad, use your resources to build a better one
Smelt ores directly at outpost using brought-in coal
Produce power locally in outpost using brought-in coal
Rail reach all mall chests
Don’t plan ahead
Wrong ways to play Factorio
Design factories in Factorio

Combat

Use area of affect weapons like grenades, flamethrowers, poison capsules (worms)
Don’t turret creep, use combat robots
Ideas to Avoid Turret Creeping - Factorio Forums
Friday Facts #166 - Combat Revisit | Factorio

Mobility

Move around using personal resupply trains or by hijacking regular trains
Drive parallelly to the terrain VehicleSnap
Cruise drive on paved roads incentivizes you to build mobility infrastructure Pavement Drive Assist

Remote access, far reach

How far can you reach - How much can you do remotely

Possible phases of the game

Early game

Logistics: spaghetti
modular armor with loaded up shields
build pollution stuff in chunks with many trees, trees damaging obsorbs 10 pollution
Build row of 8 assemblers
change assembler recipes instead of belt automation
build in surrounding chunks to prevent biter expansion
leave one wide gap between turrets
mark wall for deconstruction to make them only-player-passable
Can you beat FACTORIO when the Biters start at 100% EVOLUTION - Full Movie (edited) - YouTube

Don’ts

Build spontaneously instead of planning ahead. The factory can easily be moved. Future requirements can usually be better implemented with a new factory section instead of upgrading existing ones.
If you hand-craft something you should probably add it to your mall.
If you are afk to wait for something to finish, a research or crafting
If hand-crafting takes too long, use assembling machines with speed modules
Don’t play afk to wait for a research to finish, improve your production instead
Don’t use buffers. They make seeing your actual production harder.
Don’t drive trains manually. Temporary stops are much safe to travel with.
Overproduce instead of balancing the output precisely

Defence, Outposts

Don’t attack from the north, less visibility
Biters attack polluting machines (boiler, drills, pumpjack, refinery) and military targets (radar, walls, turrets)
Space out turrets at almost double shotting range to catch at incoming biters, temporarily space turret in the mittle to show ideal distance
Build outposts instead of walling in everything, which gets hard to expand
Kill the nests in your pollution cloud
Move half of the resource patch’s ores in the opposite direction in order to increase mining on the richer center
All outposts stations should be reachable independently from a bidirectional connection to the railroad
Wall of turrets with a one wide gap to prevent biters from reaching over
Leave 1 wide gap between turrets to prevent slash damage
Place distanced flamethrower turrets
Place repair roboports as far from wall as possible to let the flamethrower fire disappear before the bots reach the wall
Round of wall edges
Turret creep: Not have more entities in the blueprint than your personal roboports (10 robots each) can build at once to force the power to be built on the first flight, no corner turrets
Power armor: charge batteries with solar panels, replace with shields
Built roboport network in separate rectangles, so bots don’t fly out of it

Trains

Use double headed trains on bidirectional outposts and connect them with directional railroads
Personal resupply train that can refill from the mall
Refuel trains automatically Automatic Train Fuel Stop
Place rails everywhere you want to visit like mall, defenses, miners
Refuel stop that auto detect train length

Tweak game aspects - Does this mod go to far?

Discover and lookup recipes in Factorio

External Sites

Extensions

Picket Dollies: Move combinators
Tree Xray: See below trees
Temporary Stop Default: No 5s restart timer

Name	Modportal links	Categories	Description
Task List	Mod portal	Collaboration, Organisation, Multiplayer	Keep track of your tasks in a simple and unobtrusive interface. Similar to Todo List.
Automatic Train Fuel Stop	Mod portal	Content, Trains	This mod allows trains with low fuel to automatically enter the fuel stop to replenish fuel.
Ore Eraser	Mod portal	Environment	Adds the Ore Eraser toolbox shortcut which allows you to erase ore from the map. Resources to be deleted selectable through player based runtime settings. Krastorio 2 support.
Simple Landfill Mining	Mod portal	Environment	Lets players mine landfill so you can fix those mistakes you make.
Remove requester, buffer, activer provider chests	Mod portal	Logistic network	Makes the requester, buffer and activer provider chests unplaceable. Does not remove their items, recipes or technology.
Recipe Book	Mod portal	Planning	Search for information about machines, materials, recipes, and technology in a clean, easy-to-use interface. Similar to FNEI and What is it Really Used For.
Belt Reverser	Mod portal	Quality of life	Reverse entire segments of belt
Unstoppable by Cliffs Force	Mod portal	Simplifier	Nature thinks some mere cliffs can stop progress? Not on my watch. I will destroy every single cliff with my bare hands if I need to.
Wire Shortcuts	Mod portal	Simplifier, Circuit network	Removes red and green wires as craftable items and makes them available as shortcuts, similar to blueprints and planners. Let them clutter your inventory no more! Additionally, adds a shortcut to p…
Editor Extensions	Mod portal	Testing, Planning	Extends the Factorio map editor with new tools and utilities, and makes tweaks to aid with sandbox play. Adds a suite of supercharged items and entities to assist with testing setups, and allows fo…
Bottleneck Lite	Mod portal	Testing, Visual	A tool for locating bottlenecks in your factory, with zero runtime overhead and instant response to changes in status.
Pavement Drive Assist	Mod portal	Transportation	Introduces a driver assistance system that autonomously follows paved roads, while maintaining a preset cruise speed if desired.
VehicleSnap	Mod portal	Transportation	Smoothly snaps movement angle when driving cars or tanks.
Stack Size Tooltip	Mod portal	Visual	Shows stack size of items in tooltip.
Almost Invisible Electric Wires	Mod portal	Visual, Circuit network	You can make the wires 80%, 50% or completely invisible. The Red and Green wire can be Blue and Yellow, or invisible too. Now you can customize it in settings.
Tapeline	Mod portal	Visual, Designing	Measure distances or create a flat surface to do work on. Make temporary measurements, or create persistent measurements that can be adjusted, moved, or deleted.
Underground Indicators	Mod portal	Visual, Designing	Shows indicators to help you know where to place underground belts and pipes.
Dana	Mod portal	-	Dana is an assistant mod to help making sense of Vanilla (or modded) crafting graphs.
QuickBar Import Export	Mod portal	Quality of life	Allows you to export your current quickbar and import it in a different save.
Long Inserters ⊘ Discarded	Mod portal	Content, Logistics	Adds long fast, filter and stack inserters.
Blueprint logistics requests ⊘ Discarded	Mod portal	Quality of life	A button that you can click with a blueprint in hand to add all its contents to your current personal logistics requests. Click multiple times to request more. Right click to request less, will not…
Player Request Crafting Layout ⊘ Discarded	Mod portal	Quality of life	A way for players to apply their crafting item layout to their logistics window

Replace local settings with synchronized cloud settings

New-Item "$env:AppData\Factorio" -Target "D:\PlutosCloud\Gaming\Factorio Space Age" -ItemType SymbolicLink -Force
$filesToKeepAvailable = Get-ChildItem "D:\PlutosCloud\Gaming\Factorio Space Age" -Recurse
$filesToKeepAvailable += Get-Item "D:\PlutosCloud\Gaming\Factorio Space Age"
$filesToKeepAvailable | foreach {
    $_.Attributes = $_.Attributes -bor 0x080000 -band (-bnot 0x100000)
}

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Factorio - A game about automation, logistics and network optimizations