Factorio biter harvest: 55k kills in 4h

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Published on May 3, 2022 5:41:10 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWuuFF1GhjE

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Factorio (2020)

Duration: 4:10:12

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How many biters can you kill given 4 hours on a fresh map?

This is on the same seed as the recent speedrunner race of the same goal. Having checked in afterwards, Nefrums won that with a monstrous 224k biters killed. Seky16 made a mod just just so racers could track their numbers. Mod did good, nice work.

I'm ~39k kills at the 3h 40m mark compared to the ~37k of my earlier trial run, barely any better and indeed the opening felt much worse (fast inserters go where?) before capping out at 55k. I did remember the powerplant & bullet "outposting" I previously forgot, and to work on the forests, but I'd make a number of other more significant adjustments for a similar race on a deathworld. The extra evo suggests the base needs more to just stay intact - mines, bots? Outposting red ammo instead of yellow.

My most prescient regret here (besides executing a cleaner opening) would be to start the final turret push earlier than just the last few minutes. I had enough ammunition for much more, but I'd still feel bad about the rather unnecessary death earlier even if I pushed that entire giant cluster.

Race seed: 740276410
Kill counter mod: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/kill-count

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