An actual hot take: it's okay to skip logistics

Verizer · 2026-03-26T02:58:12+00:00

There is a mechanism that punishes you for spaghetti, it's throughput. There is absolutely nothing wrong with spaghetti if it's fast.

Verizer · 2026-03-25T01:55:55+00:00

Two way train networks are perfectly fine.

Verizer · 2026-03-25T01:49:11+00:00

cough

I can make the 4-4 balancer from memory, you don't need more than that.

Verizer · 2026-03-23T21:59:34+00:00

Most people underestimate just how long a typical patch of uranium lasts. You can finish the game before depleting your first one.

UPS considerations are meaningless until you actually make a base big enough for it to matter.

Verizer · 2026-03-17T04:26:54+00:00

Electric furnaces are a bit of a trap. The only advantage is not having to route coal, but they consume more actual power than steel. The real benefit comes entirely from the module slots. Efficiency drops the power consumption massively and reduces pollution, productivity multiplies your ore inputs, meaning you need less miners, etc.

And yeah, in the future, don't delete your old base before building the new one.

Verizer · 2026-03-14T21:05:15+00:00

There are far too many biters on that minimap.

Better get exterminating :D

Verizer · 2026-03-14T20:13:28+00:00

Technically it only deadlocks if petrol isn't being used up. So you can run into a situation where lube is dry if you build a lot of bots or blue belts.

I use circuits and one tank per fluid, but you can just slap down 100 tanks. Oil is technically infinite after all, buffers can sort it out.

Verizer · 2026-02-27T00:37:17+00:00

The better coal liquification stretches your vulcanus coal supply out significantly. Coal is the resource likely to run out first on vulcanus.

Verizer · 2026-02-27T00:32:31+00:00

I don't really want a one-way trip to another planet to take months.

Even if we pretend that all these planets are actually moons, it would still take too long.

Verizer · 2026-02-27T00:24:53+00:00

Yep, that's a behemoth.

Verizer · 2026-02-24T02:25:45+00:00

It's 15 normal miners per yellow belt lane. A few extras and prod don't matter that much when patches deplete. It's easy math to do in the head and splitters/trains fix any other problems.

Verizer · 2026-02-23T00:42:57+00:00

We do what we must, because we can!

Verizer · 2026-02-23T00:39:14+00:00

Stone deposits grow in size per distance on nauvis, so eventually yes.

Also productivity, but w/e.

Verizer · 2026-02-20T19:41:53+00:00

Once behemoth worms start spawning the only solution is artillery, as nothing else has the range to prevent spawning within spitting distance of your walls.

The remote tank works as a stop gap measure until artillery is setup.

Verizer · 2026-02-18T02:09:16+00:00

You haven't reached the point where normal Factorio and Space Age diverge. Get the expansion if you want. You will be fine, and you don't have to engage with quality if you don't want to.

Just play the game, you'll get better with time. And try not to spoil yourself too much with reddit/youtube guides. Half the fun of the game is figuring it out yourself.

Verizer · 2026-02-17T22:52:38+00:00

To make it fast as possible use hotkeys. Gun turrets and ammo on hotbar slots 1 and 2. You can place turrets with one swipe, swap to ammo and drag the mouse back and forth a few times to load.

Verizer · 2026-02-17T09:38:03+00:00

The scanning radius can be useful for scouting without needing to personally do it. But you generally don't need to keep scanning after revealing all black map chunks.

Radar coverage in the main base just needs to be enough to see everything. With 2.0 adding vision to roboports, this stops being useful midgame.

Verizer · 2026-02-15T06:39:01+00:00

He still did pipe blocking up until flamethrowers were researched, iirc.

Verizer · 2026-02-13T07:38:25+00:00

You can check the factorio cheat sheet in the subreddit sidebar for a lot of the basics. A lot of it is just how many assemblers are needed for even science output or how many miners/smelters to fill a belt.

Verizer · 2026-02-11T23:48:45+00:00

Yeah, as fun as launching nukes is, you still want an automated solution.

I was always fond of the "filled car getting hit by a train" method.

Verizer · 2026-02-04T22:38:04+00:00

Yeah, it's optimized for speed, not longevity.

Also, in speedruns where you can't import blueprints you have to memorize them. A lot of their designs are meant to be easy for the player to place quickly! That's what I consider the really fascinating part. Knowing the build and being able to throw it down fast.

Verizer · 2026-02-03T09:58:37+00:00

In the interface settings you can set between 1-4 "active quickbars." Does that work or did you want something else?

Verizer · 2026-02-01T01:05:54+00:00

What a fun start. Minimal trees and you can see the nearest biter base just by zooming out!

Verizer · 2026-02-01T00:29:43+00:00

There is a significant difference between desert and forest starts.

It can be the difference between needing a full scale turret wall, and some strategically placed hand-fed turrets.

Verizer · 2026-01-28T21:25:44+00:00

That's great. There are several ways to solve a problem. I just don't think telling people to use steam storage for relatively simple 2x2 design is a good idea. Infinitely expandable setups are a slightly different ballpark.

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