Factorio

[Vibe]

https://www.factorio.com/

Factorio is a game in which you build and maintain factories.

You will be mining resources, researching technologies, building infrastructure, automating production and fighting enemies. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, apply management skills to keep it working and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

I'm not really sure if it's worth the pricetag, but I did download and finish the demo yesterday and I had a lot of fun. I think it's great for anyone who likes base building or tycoon-like games, where you try to make functional placements of buildings, etc

[Kafein]

People stop making games I have imagined first

please

[Christo]

People stop making games I have imagined first

please

Well you can always recreate same game in minecraft block world style, and call it your original work right

[Vibe]

Bought the game. Time to have fun polluting the alien planet with my factories

[Tibe]

The environmentalist community frowns upon your shenanigans.

[Vibe]

Jesus this game is getting quite complicated

I have just researched oil drilling, so I can finally replace my main fuel source, coal (8MJ energy) with solid fuel (25MJ energy).

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As you can see in the above pic, in the bottom left corner is the old fuel system of digging coal, which I then had to manually carry to boilers that heat water for steam engines (on top) to produce electricity. In the right corner you'll see the new oil machinery, which drills oil, pumps it into oil refinery, which splits crude oil into 3 different fluids: Heavy Oil, Light Oil and Petroleum Gas, which is then used to make Solid Fuel and that one is transported via transport belts to the boilers that heat the water for steam engines.

[Gravoth_iii]

Holy fuck that was one amazing trailer  Might have to try this out now.

I can see a game like this having so many ways of expanding into one big amazing mess of factories across planets/solar systems.

[Vibe]

The demo is free, I suggest playing that and if you like it purchase the game

[Gravoth_iii]

Played all the demo missions, game seems gud will buy.

[Vibe]

OK the trailer is a ruse guys, my factory doesn't look anything like the one in the trailer, it's a complete mess (but still functional) compared to how pretty the one in the trailer is

[Gravoth_iii]

You should see mine  looks like a junkyard. Works though, labs are being automated to research shit.

[Vibe]

I just automated making the second research pack (the green one), so many intermediate parts that need to be produced

[Osiris]

think ill try the demo out tommorow. looks interesting

[Kafein]

Yeah this trailer is absolutely fabulous

[Vibe]

Time to post some pics of my new factory. I restarted the map because my previous factory was designed horribly beyond repair, so it was easier to start a new game where I could place certain parts/functions of the factory with enough space in between. Lack of space was the main problem of my first factory and it was VERY hard to add new stuff to it. Even now with more space between parts of factory I still have problems adding stuff.

Anyway, here goes:

Iron mining and smelting on bot, sulfur/battery production on top
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Assembly part of the factory and steel smelting on bottom
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Copper ore digging, smelting and my first train that hauls copper ore from a more distant source (im running out of copper nodes in the starting area)
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Fuel production on right, steam machines for power on left
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Newest addition to the factory, solar power panels with a bunch of accumulators, because solar panels don't work over night (obviously), so tons of accumulators store energy gathered through day for night use. Mind you solar panel and accumulator production is automated and I have construction bots that build these squares of solar panels/accumulators automatically based on blueprints, it's really awesome.
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Anyway, I spent hours optimizing stuff and figuring out bottlenecks in the factory and that's what makes this game awesome Things got quite a lot easier when I researched logistics robots, which can carry stuff from chest to chest automatically based on requests. That puts some weight off the transport belts so you don't have to have them for everything. For example Advanced Circuits are made out of Copper Cables, Basic Electronic Circuits and Plastic and Plastic is transported from Chemical Factory by flying logistic robots (because the chem factory is quite far away from Advanced Circuit assemblers).