#01: Menial Machinations [ Factorio — Noob to Pro ]
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#01: Menial Machinations
It's time to dive in to a pre-selected seed and begin our industrial journey. Getting started in a new world is always a bit tedious, but I've come to enjoy challenging myself to get a main bus going as fast as I can. It always starts with burner miners and a bit of mining by hand to get resources rolling in; using them efficiently and having my priorities in order is going to be the major factors in getting there quickly.
I like to start with a half array of power going with 5 steam engines and 6 boilers, expanding up to a full array of 10:13 when I need more juice. As soon as I have power, it's time to make a lab and 10 red science packs for automation; then I setup some assembly machines to make red science packs automatically, some electronic circuits for hand-crafting inserters and other necessary items, transport belts which we are going to need a ton of as soon as possible, a bit of basic ammo to for some rudimentary defenses, and some stone bricks for pathways. With red science automated, it's easy enough to plow through most of the red science fairly quickly, adding in a small smelter for a bit of steel when it becomes available, and making some turrets and heavy armor for protection.
With resources piling in, and the supplies I need to begin my smelter array being made, I begin to wind down and start planning ahead, scouting out the area where I will have all of my furnaces. We're well on our way to getting the factory up and running.
VIDEO BREAKDOWN:
Start - Introduction
03:03 - A New World
SERIES PLAYLIST:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUycoBGiV0r_6LsTwfmLJufTeekeM6SZT
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GAME VERSION:
Alpha 0.12.27
MODS USED:
Evolution Factor Indicator (v0.4.12)
Landfill (v2.1.7)
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ABOUT THIS SERIES:
I'm a new player to Factorio, having recently picked it up with the Steam Release of the game. I have completed the campaigns and finished a single freeplay game by launching my first rocket, but beyond that I'm still green. In this series I hope to expand my skills and knowledge of the game as much as possible, exploring all the technologies, and pushing the limits of what I can do in it. Seeing as how Factorio is a pretty slow-paced game, the footage is sped up to 3x normal speed with post-commentary.
ABOUT THE GAME:
Factorio is an early access game that has recently released on Steam, but it has been in development for the past four years by the Wube Software team. This is a game about gathering resources to research technology, craft machines, process materials, and defend your base against angry biters, but this isn't just another survival/crafting game... no no! The name of the game is 'automation', and Factorio is all about finding ways to engineer solutions to your ever expanding horizons. We don't do manual labor here; instead we use our creative problem-solving skills to design a factory to do all the hard work for us.
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