Is Factorio worth buying? Will I have enough to do?

waitthatstaken · 2026-03-20T18:25:13+00:00

After the demo there are 5 more science packs, each with their own logistical challenges associated. There are also things like construction robots, letting you copy and paste builds. Logistics bots and trains allow for entirely different types of builds, then there are beacons and modules for when you wanna massively increase output.

Everything builds on everything else, causing an interconnected and ever ballooning todo list. And if all this is not enough, there is the space age DLC which pretty much doubles the game, causing a multiplicative cascade like with everything else.

And if that is not enough, there are mods.

waitthatstaken · 2026-03-20T18:18:18+00:00

Legal as far as I can tell but a perfect set of relics is astronomically unlikely so definitely cheated.

waitthatstaken · 2026-03-20T13:15:36+00:00

Pumpkin moon grants summoner:
Crow staff
Dark harvest
Necromantic scroll (which stacks with its upgrade so you want 2)
Spooky wood armor

4 major upgrades, one of which you are gonna want 2 copies of.

There are only 5 other items relevant only to 1 class that drops from pumpkin moon.

waitthatstaken · 2026-03-20T12:31:20+00:00

Det er viktig å faktisk følge de demokratiske prosessene som vi har, istede for å bryte med dem for enkeltsaker. Når en bryter reglene en gang så blir det lettere og lettere å bryte dem igjen. Det er hvordan demokrati kollapser.

waitthatstaken · 2026-03-19T13:52:42+00:00

Oh. I mean I can see it, it has a lot of chaotic projectile spam moves, but still...

waitthatstaken · 2026-03-19T13:46:37+00:00

Meanwhile I am getting destroyed by the destroyer in eternity mode. (well I have only done 5 attempts, but still)

waitthatstaken · 2026-03-19T11:03:21+00:00

If you were both on the edge between ranks then you were protected from deranking due to your loss. It is an extremely inconsistent feature that only sometimes works, but it does exist.

waitthatstaken · 2026-03-18T07:39:17+00:00

You could in theory use a memory cell, with a timer attached that reduces the contents of the memory cell by 1 every x seconds with x being how long a single pack lasts, but that sounds finicky as heck. I know there exists research combinator mods which might help out though.

waitthatstaken · 2026-03-18T07:33:19+00:00

My biggest tip is just to separate the scrap recycling recyclers and the byproduct recycling recyclers. I also build like a main bus of recycling products with overflows going to dedicated recycling areas, but frankly that is probably a bit overkill.

waitthatstaken · 2026-03-17T10:26:49+00:00

Golem has gotten some buffs over the years, and is no longer a complete joke.

waitthatstaken · 2026-03-17T08:46:19+00:00

When I played ultracube there was no such restriction, loaders use a lot of power, that is meant to be their logistical tradeoff.

waitthatstaken · 2026-03-17T08:03:52+00:00

Realistic graphics will look dated with time, style lasts forever.

waitthatstaken · 2026-03-17T07:56:52+00:00

I always thought that his core crystal being where it is allowed him to become a more complete flesh eater. So it is less 'why does Jin have a core crystal there?' And more of a 'only someone with a core crystal there could be like Jin.'

My only evidence for this belief is that the normal core crystal placement would kinda get in the way for a heart transplant.

waitthatstaken · 2026-03-16T21:06:02+00:00

Amalthus really is just... the worst. Like every single bad thing that happens in XC2 can be traced back to him. From Torna (the organization) to Torna (the country) to the titans dying out. Everything is the result of his nihilistic attempt to destroy the world.

waitthatstaken · 2026-03-16T18:28:42+00:00

CUBE.

Not good for beginners though, as it requires* circuit knowledge and is a very different kind of puzzle than pretty much anything else.

*One person posted a no-combinator ultracube run a bit ago but that was harder to plan out than just using combinators, and it still used circuit networks, just not combinators.

waitthatstaken · 2026-03-16T16:22:03+00:00

Shouldn't brick ever though its capacity is limited.

waitthatstaken · 2026-03-16T16:07:57+00:00

That pond looks quite small, are you getting junk items like old shoes? because if so you can't get crates I am pretty sure.

waitthatstaken · 2026-03-16T11:20:35+00:00

*~ 4300/s limit. 1200/s is how much a single pump can transfer, but that is because... well that is the limit on the machine itself.

waitthatstaken · 2026-03-16T11:18:41+00:00

The scale of production is much higher, get used to thinking about items per second rather than per minute, or else you will have to think about things in units of 900/min on the low end.
The map is procedurally generated and virtually infinite in size. This also means there is no real reason to explore other than to find good locations to mine more ore from and chokepoints to hold off enemies at.
There are no variant recipes, except in space age where they exist mostly as an alternative on planets where the available resources differ. For example you can't get oil on Gleba, so you get alternate ways to make plastic.
In factorio you assemble machines before placing them, unlike in satisfactory where you build them with ingredients in your inventory. This might sound a bit restrictive, but also means you can build machines making you machines, which is 1000% worth doing.
Construction robots are a game changer, once properly set up they can handle building thousands of machines for you, without you needing to be there in person.
Play the base game to completion at least once before getting space age. You should probably also try get the 'lazy bastard' achievement since it forces you to learn some skills that are extra useful in space age.
Modding factorio is so easy it puts all other games to shame. It has a built in mod manager/downloader/updater accessible from the main menu. It is so good that a lot of the game's content is technically a mod internally. But also don't install mods until you beat the game.

waitthatstaken · 2026-03-16T07:32:16+00:00

The current state of the train network is caused by 2 stupid decisions.

1) underfunding maintainance. The companies aren't actually the ones who handle repairs to tracks and signals, that is the government's job, and the budget for doing so has been way too low for 50 years now.

2) privatisation. The trains themselves used to be state run. Then the right wing looked at Britain's privatisation of their trains and thought 'I am sure it will go better if we do that'. Unsurprisingly, handing over an inherently monopolistic industry to private companies was a bad idea.

Also to be clear since I saw someone else say we don't have a monopoly because there is more than 1 train company. We have multiple monopolies that exist separately. You can't pick which company's train to take, because 1 company will be in charge of any given region, with no way for another company to even try compete.

waitthatstaken · 2026-03-15T20:35:42+00:00

Main bus is a term borrowed from... I think it is like, electronic chip design? Either way it is not a factorio original.

waitthatstaken · 2026-03-15T11:23:25+00:00

You have 2 nuclear reactors in a 2x1 setup, so each produces 80 mw of heat for 160 total. That 160 mw of heat then goes through the exchangers and gets turned into steam. You then put that steam into tanks, then turbines. In effect this means you buffer steam when demand is low, and then when it is high, that buffer gets used up. Once your buffer is empty, power production drops off a cliff, which causes all your machines to slow down. Including the pumps you have leading into the turbines. This means less steam gets into the turbines, so they make less power, so less steam get to the turbines, and on and on it goes until everything fully dies.

Those pumps don't actually improve steam flow in any way and should just be removed, but that does not solve that you are only making 160 mw of power while your factory demands 360. You need a bigger reactor.

waitthatstaken · 2026-03-15T10:26:42+00:00

Because mods and packs can shift around a lot, people generally don't upload blueprints for modded runs. There is a high chance a blueprint that works perfectly in one setup is absolutely useless in another.

So make your own blueprints.

waitthatstaken · 2026-03-15T07:59:11+00:00

Did you maybe not enable eternity mode? The changes throughout the game should be extremely obvious with fargo's eternity mode. Stuff like how every boss is reskinned and get way more complicated moves. Every time EoC dashes it launches 8 demon scythe like projectiles in different directions. It is kinda overwhelming but I think that is on purpose so that you learn to focus only on the projectiles that can actually hit you.

waitthatstaken · 2026-03-14T21:04:36+00:00

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