The Factorio founder stated on Reddit that "Modded minecraft, mainly buildcraft/industrialcraft, was huge inspiration to create Factorio." (A link to that Redd

The Factorio founder stated on Reddit that "Modded minecraft, mainly buildcraft/industrialcraft, was huge inspiration to create Factorio." (A link to that Reddit post is the first citation in Wikipedia's article on Factorio.) The entire factory game genre owes its existence to Minecraft mods.