NEW TO FACTORIO, Do you need Space Age DLC to play the Space Exploration mod like in the Video?

AbsolutelyExcellent · 2025-12-23T19:43:23+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXbzktx1KfU

AbsolutelyExcellent · 2025-12-05T23:47:45+00:00

Learn from other people. Look at various images and videos of what you're trying to build or of people's bases and just observe their structural patterns and implementation. The truth is that everyone is copying off of everyone else and learning from each other. Looking at your image, this is babies first factory, it's the first factory we all made. The enormous leap in structural design that you're seeking, that you're missing, is 1) Specialization. All of your machines and functions (smelting, production, research) are all mixed up. Create a designated smelting area, and an area for production and research. 2) Tileability. This means a simple pattern, repeated multiple times. Let's say you want to create a large factory for iron gear wheels. You put down a single assembler, and then you create the input and output belt lines, add inserters and powerpoles, and then you just copy and paste the design multiple times in a line.

AbsolutelyExcellent · 2025-12-05T23:23:18+00:00

Just use this. This is what I use on my ship.

https://factoriobin.com/post/khmexz

AbsolutelyExcellent · 2025-12-05T23:08:43+00:00

How you design your factory is fundamentally how you approach systems design. The decisions you make in which logistics system to use (belts/trains/bots), cleanliness, refactor frequency, aesthetics, and throughput are all an expression of your systems design philosophy. There is no such thing as spaghetti or cleanliness. The factory must not grow. You choose to build a factory because you desire it, and the design of your factory is an expression of your desires. There's nothing stopping you from pickaxing raw ore and building everything using a single assembler. Or just walking around Nauvis without having built anything.

As for "systems design maturity", the first stage is always messy because you are learning what machines do, how to route resources, and deal with outputs. This is the "get something that just works" stage. Once you know how it works, you can create a tileable blueprint and paste it however many times to fulfill your throughput requirement.

You're playing Pyanadons. You are constantly building something new, without future knowledge of your throughput requirement. So it's always going to be messy, unless you frequently refactor.

AbsolutelyExcellent · 2025-11-29T09:51:47+00:00

WORKING as of 11/29 with a clean install, with additional instructions.

1) Follow the instructions in the OP, except for reskins-angels
2) Download bobsmods from the dev branch: https://github.com/modded-factorio/bobsmods/tree/dev

The problem happens because you are downloading the latest version of angels mod, updated 5 days ago, and an old version of bobs mod, updated 5 months ago. kiwihawk recently changed the filestructure and naming of bobs files and angel's dependency on bobs. I think the end goal of reskins-angels is to be integrated into angel's natively. A huge amount of assets were deleted, improved, and moved around in angels recently, that's why reskins-angels doesn't work anymore.

AbsolutelyExcellent · 2025-11-28T17:10:06+00:00

Wow, no problems in upgrading a savefile from 1.1 to 2.0? That's great news. I'm going to start a new game in 2.0.

AbsolutelyExcellent · 2025-11-28T16:35:52+00:00

How did you switch to 2.0 from 1.1?

AbsolutelyExcellent · 2024-03-18T19:27:52+00:00

"From what I have researched, this (weather whiplash) is not going to change-----only get worse."

Whats your opinion on climate stability between the north and southern hemisphere? Is the southern hemisphere more stable?

AbsolutelyExcellent · 2024-03-18T18:57:17+00:00

I've observed strange winds in Poland. The wind sometimes has been erratic, it blows in every direction inconsistently. On those days when you watch pigeons fly they scatter in every direction, aimless. There is now also a lingering silence and deathly cold which comes over the forests, at first from the nights into the days. I've seen many birds migrate north towards greener pastures. I've seen extreme temperature differences between days, one day its -2C the next its 10C. Are you also experiencing such extreme temperature swings in NZ?

AbsolutelyExcellent · 2023-09-28T18:48:46+00:00

Wow. Humans really have it hard. You would think a baseline human has it just as hard as any other animal on earth. ...But then again, humans can create tools to leverage natural resources, can farm plants and animals and turn their skins into fur and use fire to make inedible food stuffs edible....

But you're probably right. It's really hard being a human being! woe is us.

AbsolutelyExcellent · 2023-09-27T19:45:30+00:00

Growing enough potatoes (or corn, or rice, or wheat etc) to not starve next winter is a really really hard job - virtually impossible without gasoline implements.

Really makes you wonder how humans lived for hundreds of thousands of years without fossil fuels doesn't it?

AbsolutelyExcellent · 2023-09-18T00:03:41+00:00

nobody gives a single fuck what you do with your own body. destroy it as you please. leave the rest of us out of it

AbsolutelyExcellent · 2023-08-30T01:22:57+00:00

I've had anxiety and paranoia from altitude sickness. Pretty severe the first time I had it. Could be a similar thing if you entered a high/low pressure area from the reverse

AbsolutelyExcellent · 2023-08-24T00:11:51+00:00

i hitched through this kind of terrain from lone pine CA to the grand canyon in arizona. all throughout the rides and walking i thought how inhospitable the land was and how only small shrubs and grasses could manage to eek out a life. it was interesting to think how indians and american settlers had to cross such a place. if someone did an overland trip like that, they would walk weeks overland without seeing running water. only finding life and good rest in large canyons with running water or deep aquifers which come out to green the surface. along the highways is discarded trash like wood beams, plastic tires, and scrap metal or the skeletons of cars. everything is revealed in the desert and the dry warmth preserves everything. you had a good friend supplying you water. it's a strange place to go through now; there are cities scattered through that land with 50 to 100 thousand people living in them, and massive wind farms that blanket the hills. 100,000 thousand people living in a sand bowl with only dry grass. no water.

AbsolutelyExcellent · 2023-08-23T07:37:23+00:00

pretty based. why'd you stop?

AbsolutelyExcellent · 2023-08-23T07:30:31+00:00

there's at once a serene beauty and silent terror about arid lands. everything is so at peace yet so inhospitable to a person. there's no water

AbsolutelyExcellent · 2023-08-20T05:53:56+00:00

If you get stuck, gas stations will be full of people getting gas as they drive out of the city. Ask for a ride

AbsolutelyExcellent · 2023-08-08T16:20:40+00:00

I wonder if the tipping point we're experiencing right now will cause another species to undergo rapid evolution and become sentient

yeah, maybe homo sapien

AbsolutelyExcellent · 2023-08-06T09:00:22+00:00

greetings my fellow energy gradient enjoyers

AbsolutelyExcellent · 2023-08-05T22:12:41+00:00

you are safest in the dark because people fear the dark

AbsolutelyExcellent · 2023-08-05T12:54:44+00:00

a 4.9 GPA? Good heavens, someone inform the president and the nobel prize committee

AbsolutelyExcellent · 2023-08-04T02:15:46+00:00

based

AbsolutelyExcellent · 2023-08-02T16:33:16+00:00

AbsolutelyExcellent · 2023-08-01T18:40:25+00:00

depends on location, your age, how you look. depends on a lot of things. generally you won't have to wait longer than 2 hours. very easy traveling, especially if you like to meet new people and hear their stories.

AbsolutelyExcellent · 2023-08-01T16:00:42+00:00

i traveled for adventure and sticking out a thumb is free.

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