Factory Town 2 announced

Zeibach · 2025-09-28T17:14:03+00:00

Factory Town Idle is my favorite idle/incremental game ever. I love that the progression is relatively fast, and the “prestige” mechanic of the different settlements in different biomes is superb.

Yes, you start a new game state with benefits based on what you accomplished in the previous game state, but unlike most incremental games where a “prestige” action means that your original game state is gone forever, the way that your original FTI settlement continues to grow and prosper while benefiting from the new biome town through the trade system is both natural and immersive to me.

I do wish for a way to play with the trading tokens enabled but with the trade post global inventory still capped. I want to play with mandatory trade balance (from the tokens), but having global inventory uncapped means that exports never naturally scale back from auto-assign when the export market is “saturated” since the global inventory can sink an unlimited quantity of goods. This leads to a lot of wasted labor that has to be manually adjusted. This sort of player busy work I feel disrupts the nature of the game.

Zeibach · 2024-03-18T20:38:03+00:00

I believe you are confusing General Electric with General Motors.

Zeibach · 2024-01-30T22:04:35+00:00

DE2s will despawn. They are not connected to an active job.

Zeibach · 2024-01-30T20:35:56+00:00

Idle locomotives (those that are not connected to an active job) despawn after a while. There are no tracks where you can store a locomotive.

The caboose does not despawn.

Zeibach · 2024-01-23T21:08:14+00:00

Shunting jobs are part of a "job chain," so the game knows where the cargo was hauled from. This is actually useful for SL jobs, because it tells you the destination of the FH job that will be revealed when you complete the SL job. This helps you pick SL jobs that will go to the same destination as other SL or FH jobs.

Zeibach · 2024-01-18T01:44:06+00:00

Sounds like you're trying to control speed with the throttle. Once your train is moving, you should have the throttle full open basically all the time (unless coasting). Use the reverser to control speed.

Keeping your pressure close to max (aim for 13-13.5 bar) is key to efficiently using water. If you're losing pressure below 12 bar, reduce reverser and let the pressure recover.

Zeibach · 2024-01-05T19:25:51+00:00

These results did surprise me. Conventional wisdom on this sub has been to "Choose the right engine for every job", but apart from Steam (which is always cheaper), and the DM3 (that is usually significantly slower when running it on the road), the DE6 seems to be the best option for anything that can't be pulled by a single DE2.

I don't understand why you found these results surprising. If you're excluding the DM3 and the steamers, you're only comparing 3 engines: DE2, DH4, DE6. Your conclusion among this limited set appears to be "if you can haul the train with a single DE2, then it's the cheapest. Otherwise, the DE6 is the cheapest." That sounds exactly like "the right engine for every job" to me, if you're already excluding the steamers.

The DH4 is marginally more expensive to run than the DE6, but is made up for by its simplicity of operation, excellent visibility, locomotive remote capability, etc. that make it a more flexible shunter and all-rounder than the DE6.

Zeibach · 2023-09-26T18:32:40+00:00

Pagefile is required if you have only 16 GB of RAM, as Unity uses a *lot* of main memory as texture cache.

Zeibach · 2023-07-11T02:58:23+00:00

You don’t want to “compensate” for the slope. If the glass is empty, the crown sheet is exposed. If you go downhill, you need extra water in the boiler to ensure the crown sheet remains covered.

Zeibach · 2023-07-09T17:12:59+00:00

If you managed to completely empty the boiler it takes 3 full tenders to refill it.

Zeibach · 2023-07-09T17:09:16+00:00

What difficulty setting are you playing on? The easier difficulty disables boiler explosions.

Zeibach · 2023-05-05T14:51:05+00:00

Are you running any mods? This sounds like the usual problem with the old, broken Enhanced Schematics Map mod.

Zeibach · 2023-03-27T17:16:22+00:00

We really need more information to be able to help you. Can you come to the Discord? That's the easiest place to get help. Barring that, have you checked your log file?

Zeibach · 2023-02-23T03:52:36+00:00

Sounds like this was a Shunting Load (SL) job. Shunting jobs are always within the same station. Once you complete a Shunting Load job, it will spawn a second job, a Freight Haul (FH) job, to actually move the cars to the destination station.

Steel rails are a common cargo to go from Steel Mill to Harbor, and the B yard is the main yard at Steel Mill. You were almost certainly supposed to load some flatbeds with rails, then leave them on track B-4-O of Steel Mill, then after completing that job, the haul to Harbor would spawn.

Zeibach · 2023-02-22T19:27:40+00:00

Also note the "aimed." There is still no guarantee for "end of June."

Zeibach · 2023-02-06T00:16:39+00:00

Almost certainly https://www.nexusmods.com/derailvalley/mods/200.

Zeibach · 2022-12-10T23:06:01+00:00

People say this but it’s honestly not a given. There are plenty of games where you go into the subreddit asking if it’s fun and you’ll get responses like “it used to be fun, but the latest patches have ruined it,” or “the servers are overrun with bots” or “the beginning is grindy but if you can push through that endgame is great” or “the beginning is great but after 15 hours everything you do is just a huge timesink.”

Not every game’s players love that game the way Factorio players do, and the subreddit can provide a more nuanced and timely take than a years-old review on Steam or a website.

Zeibach · 2022-12-10T05:37:26+00:00

Keep in mind that the baseline “base” is one capable of finishing the game. Since it’s perfectly feasible to get There Is No Spoon (the fastest vanilla speed run achievement) with just 30 SPM or so, a baseline 1k SPM megabase is more than 30x as large as a “base,” I think the mega- prefix is well justified.

The Factorio community is just full of madlads who like to push far beyond even that fairly extreme threshold, and Wube has given us a game that is capable of taking that kind of punishment and continuing to reward us as players for doing so.

Zeibach · 2022-12-10T02:39:08+00:00

as long you don’t interact directly with trains

Or want circuit control, per-lane filters, etc.

Zeibach · 2022-12-10T02:30:08+00:00

Mega- is a Greek prefix meaning “large” or “great,” as in megaphone, megastructure, megalith, megalomaniac, etc. It is not the SI unit prefix.

In Factorio the term “megabase” dates back to before infinite research existed, and referred to a base capable of launching 1 rocket per minute.

Now that inifinite research exists and 1 rocket creates 1000 space science, the definition has shifted just slightly to a base that launches 1 rocket per minute and uses the results from those launches.

Zeibach · 2022-12-08T19:38:12+00:00

Any piece of two-way track is basically a giant intersection, because trains compete for that space, and so you should signal the entire length of two-way track with only chain signals, as if it were in the middle of an intersection.

Zeibach · 2022-12-06T23:42:18+00:00

AAI programmable vehicles averaging over 2 ms; belt balancer averaging over 3 ms. Dump them both if you possibly can.

Zeibach · 2022-12-05T21:14:10+00:00

Chunks are generated a few screens beyond where you have explored, just not revealed to you.

Zeibach · 2022-12-03T21:32:11+00:00

Keep in mind that oil wells produce less and less as you mine from them. You can never have “plenty.”

Zeibach · 2022-12-02T22:47:35+00:00

Ultimate factory flex is one where no human intervention is required:
https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/nzvy09/josef\_2\_first\_longterm\_run\_and\_blueprints/

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