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My biggest Factorio lesson was this: I no longer start a new factory from scratch if I want to do things differently. I use my existing - and now outdated - fa
by FredPret 5y ago
My biggest Factorio lesson was this:
I no longer start a new factory from scratch if I want to do things differently. I use my existing - and now outdated - factory to launch a new one a few minutes run away.
- kortex 5y agoThrow the first one away. Especially when starting a run, plan on throwing away the starter base. I learned this trick watching AntiElitz speedruns. He'll build a manual bootstrap "factory" (really just mines and smelting) to get plates, then build a very-polished-through-iteration bootstrap base which builds all the development essentials - circuits, arms, belts, ammo, etc. That's used to build the real base.
- zentiggr 5y agoThat sounds a lot like the old Gentoo stage 1 / 2 / 3 build system... Makes me a little more interested, in general.
- ThatPlayer 5y agoI've done this once, but ended up spending three days building a rail in one direction because resource patches get bigger the further you are away from spawn. I ended up using nuclear powered trains to traverse it and it was still about 15 minutes to travel.