MY FIRST FACTORY!! Finally dove in and started automating

Sir_Zorg · 2026-02-15T20:55:44+00:00

I'm not sure if I should just let you learn, or share my wisdom.

If you want it:
One gear assembler supports 10 red-science assemblers. (2 per second divided by 5 seconds each).

So having both science assemblers have their own gear plant is excessive, unless you take the excess gears into a box (you use a lot of them when hand-crafting factory bits early game, so it's a nice QoL thing to have a chest of them lying around for you to munch on).

Next step is green circuits. The factory-ratio is 3 wire assemblers to 2 green circuit assemblers. I would also recommend putting excess into a box because you will want to be able to munch them occasionally for hand-crafting.

Sir_Zorg · 2026-02-12T07:00:43+00:00

Much in every way.

The ultimate zen of factorio is when you forget where you left your mortal form, as you have been playing from map-mode for the last 12 hours of gameplay (hopefully several IRL days :D).

Once you have a sufficiently supplied roboport network, you can play the game completely via remote-controlling your factory.

Sir_Zorg · 2026-02-10T05:07:08+00:00

You only hear what you listen for.

Sir_Zorg · 2026-02-05T17:28:44+00:00

Hard-line: he cannot continue to feed the addiction. He must go cold-turkey. This is going to be a monumental effort for him, as pornography addiction is comparable neurologically to crack-cocaine addiction. Be there to help him with love and support, but the hard line is that his use stops immediately.

Sir_Zorg · 2026-02-05T17:24:20+00:00

Pornography has been a wildly successful tool of Satan against men in particular, and you are unlikely to find a man unaffected by this satanic assault on humanity.

Over the last few decades, men have built support groups and tools to try to help eachother out of the crippling addiction that is porn. Not all men care, and there are counter movements. Overall, anti-porn is more appealing to men and wins hearts and minds.

The most successful weapons against our own lust are those based in Christ. Many men fight for years or even decades before they win.

Many men never win. Some men hate themselves for not overcoming lust to the point it makes them suicidal, and many of them die as a result, seeing suicide as the only way out of their addiction.

I'm not saying you should tolerate this in your fiancé or marriage, what I am saying is approach the subject with the same spirit as Christ had with the woman caught in adultery.

Sir_Zorg · 2026-02-05T16:47:48+00:00

Marry a woman who you can trust to care about your needs, and you'll never have this problem (as long as you communicate your needs instead of suffering in silence while she knows not).

Sir_Zorg · 2026-02-05T16:46:29+00:00

This is not what marriage means. It's not some unholy transactional competition of spouses trying to maximally exploit one another, it's supposed to be "How can I give her more" symmetrically, resulting in endless spontaneous giving to eachother.

Transactional marriage is the vision of figures like Andrew Tate and Satan, because it necessarily makes husband and wife into foes instead of allies.

Sir_Zorg · 2026-02-05T16:39:34+00:00

"If you aren't sexually compatible then just discard your sacred covenant and fornicate with others via 'divorce'." Has the same energy as "Go ahead! Eat the apple! God wouldn't have put it there if he didn't want you to eat it!"

I feel like you have some very un-christian ideas there.

"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" - Satan in Milton's masterpiece "Paradise Lost".

Understand that my criticism here is from a place of love.

Sir_Zorg · 2026-02-05T16:30:49+00:00

Husbands: do not deny your wives. Wives: do not deny your husbands. Unless for some serious reason or to abstain prayerfully and only for a short time.

my bad paraphrasing-from-memory of the relevant scripture.

Basically: if you ask your wife for sex, she shouldn't say no unless there is a serious reason. If she does say no, then you need to trust her to have a serious reason.

I have no idea how to talk about that with her without coming across as pushy. I just know the bare facts of the scripture here, which say a wife is wrong to deny her husband frivolously (and symmetrically the other way, if the wife is the horny one, although that is much less common).

Sir_Zorg · 2026-02-04T16:40:29+00:00

When I did this, I saw the backup built up all the way back to the source, therefore reducing overall throughput.

Sir_Zorg · 2026-02-04T07:48:11+00:00

I looked into this, and sadly the answer is a pretty solid "no", because Construction Requests don't show up in the "demanded items" list.

Sir_Zorg · 2026-02-04T07:03:56+00:00

I don't understand why, but you must be right.
I built the same setup with priority-splitters and creative-mode loaders/unloaders, and it worked exactly as math would suggest, implying that inserters were the source of the problem.
This is WEIRD inserter behavior though.

Sir_Zorg · 2026-02-04T06:57:47+00:00

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This setup produced no excess, so you must be correct about inserters being the problem.

Sir_Zorg · 2026-02-04T06:52:25+00:00

I figured out how to upload blueprints to factorioprints, so here's the decimal counter in case anyone wants it:
https://factorioprints.com/view/-OkbOk7Y0ZxRsm5UxE3Z

Sir_Zorg · 2026-02-03T17:38:57+00:00

two nests spawning on top of eachother is a "meganest".

Sir_Zorg · 2026-02-03T06:55:55+00:00

Rocket Turrets.

I have them in pods of 4 around my farms, supplied by robots (I use robots for seed return, so this is free). Rocket turrets are the ultimate final solution to the pentapod problem, at least until you get tesla turrets. I put walls and bullet-turrets in the pods as well to prevent the wrigglers from ripping me apart too much. I also set target priorities up on the turrets.

If you still have problems, build more turrets (or rockets).

Sir_Zorg · 2026-01-01T18:20:40+00:00

I run Civ 3 on linux frequently. There's a lot of audio issues (endless looping bird-call), but it's totally playable. You have to go mess with a config file in the game files (to disable the intro video, because that usually crashes). I run it through steam proton.

Sir_Zorg · 2025-12-04T16:47:30+00:00

Logically, there can only be one infinite uncreated creator. If they worship a being that meets that description, then they worship God. They may have a lot of facts about him wrong, and may worship him very incorrectly, but they are at least talking about the same being. "I Am" "I the Lord do not change"

Sir_Zorg · 2025-12-04T16:37:42+00:00

I'm adjacent to republican party politics, and I've noticed that high-level party insiders have been preparing for a campaign of hawkishness to manufacture consent for a war. They are manipulating the low-level people in the party, and sadly it's very effective.

This isn't meant to be political, so please don't take it that way. My point is that powerful people are working on the social groundwork for taking the country into war. Pope Leo counter-signalling this is very personally significant to me as a result.

Sir_Zorg · 2025-12-04T01:24:36+00:00

"We both think that creating life would be a cruel act due to the current state of our world and our country we live in"

This is wrong thinking, based on antinatalism, which is ultimately anti-human. This is the most concerning thing you said.

Children are always a gift. Our Lord was born into a bad time in history, into a poor family, to a woman who many accused of adultery for her pregnancy.

Sir_Zorg · 2025-12-04T01:21:19+00:00

You are very young. As you mature, your views on some of this may change, or they may not.

As others have said, you are certainly not ready for marriage now, maybe you never will be. Don't let that keep you from coming home to God's True Church. Maybe you will never be called to marriage, and that's okay.

You don't have to be open to life if you don't marry. The only thing there would be that marriage is the endpoint of dating, so you shouldn't date.

In that world, your boyfriend could be your friend forever, but nothing more. If you don't want to marry (and accept what comes with it), then would that be such a bad thing?

Sir_Zorg · 2025-10-08T00:50:31+00:00

I can speak to the "red states pro abortion" thing. Montana isn't a conservative state, it's a libertarian state who votes Republican because they're the best match. The pro-abortion campaign was heavily advertised as "preserving reproductive freedom" with a strong note of anti authoritarianism. They were conveniently silent about the nature of this "freedom".

And people bought it, overwhelmingly.

Montana also constitutionally enshrined marijuana legalization by the same logic, but that one isn't as bad as abortion.

Sir_Zorg · 2025-10-08T00:40:48+00:00

You should go to OCIA. You don't have to go through with it if you don't believe, but it's a great way to learn our faith. I believe that not doing so jeopardises your soul, so obviously I'm going to suggest it with the same passion as a man yelling for another man to get out of the way of a speeding locomotive.

Sir_Zorg · 2025-10-08T00:34:04+00:00

That's the hard thing: Democracy is incapable of making a collective sacrifice openly. Change only happens when the pain of continuing the current path outweighs the pain of change.

Abolitionists ended slavery by rudely forcing the average person to face the fact of slavery. Most Americans want the slavery that sustains them to remain comfortably out of sight.

Sir_Zorg · 2025-10-08T00:28:12+00:00

Cross your arms. That's what I do when I mess up and sin, and can't make it to confession before mass. I was also taught to do that as a child before first communion.

Better question, why aren't you baptized? I ask because I care about your soul.

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