Game:

Factorio (2020)

Duration: 3:02:53

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Today's plan: Prepare for Kovarex processing, pause research to make MK2 power armor and accoutrements, and fortify defenses. Note: I design some bad blueprints only to abandon them for next episode.

Big picture:

With utility and production science we now can build toward a decentralized infrastructure that transitions us to a megabase. The first rocket is still a long way off because the current starter base will be replaced with a beaconed and moduled setup that relies on all intermediates arriving by train rather than built off the bus. The plan for a while:

# Transitional Module 1 Base

Begin building transitional megabase infrastructure while upgrades complete.

Principle: “Build now with what we already have.” Transitional base runs on red belts and module 1s. Gets furnaces and beacons to outposts.

**Goals**:

- 1 - 3 200 SPM bases. All intermediates trained in.
- Grab “low hanging fruit” from the research tree (bots, military buffs, mining productivity)
- Prepares infrastructure for actual megabase
- Extends game time?
- Substantial improvements immediately.

## Power

- Set up uranium mining
- Set up uranium enrichment
- Build power plants

## Utility upgrades

- Power Armor MK2
- Spidertrons (for builders and landfill)

## Trains

- Depots and fuel stops
- 2-1 trains
- Buffered “smart” loading stations

## Intermediate factories

- Centralized smelting (for faster outpost building while mining productivity increases)
- Electric circuits
- Advanced circuits
- Processing units
- Fluid processing: Plastic; lube, acid, petroleum, water

## Defenses

Bullets and landmines

- Dedicated factory
- Artillery
- Ammunition and walls
- Automate wall resupply

The map: I began with default settings, increase the resource size to 200%, remove cliffs, enlarge the starting area, and leave everything else on default settings. I am playing with a variety of interesting quality of life mods.

"Factorio is a game in which you build and maintain factories.
You will be mining resources, researching technologies, building infrastructure, automating production and fighting enemies. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, apply management skills to keep it working, and protect it from the creatures who don't really like you." Mods include Better Beginning, Clockwork (for 100% darkness), Big Brother, and some of Klonan's mods. Map is minimal biters, for now, but the nests are 600% size and expansion is on.

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