Whenever I play Factorio, I play with the Biters turned off. For me, it's about managing the throughput and the aesthetics of the factory I'm building. I still

Whenever I play Factorio, I play with the Biters turned off. For me, it's about managing the throughput and the aesthetics of the factory I'm building. I still run out of resources, but typically by that point I have enough stuff that creating mining outposts is trivial, and in fact significantly better - I get trains full of raw ore, iron plates, and steel instead of having a big chunk of my primary factory devoted to processing that stuff.