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Factorio review8/3/2023 ![]() You create your first few manually, after collecting copper and iron from your furnaces, and deposit them in the lab to start researching. The first type of beaker, red, must be crafted from copper plates and iron gear wheels, which are in turn crafted from iron plates. Research is done by consuming beakers of different colours, the production of which will provide the major impetus for expanding your factory. You extend your coal line to the boiler, and now you have electricity, with which to power faster electric miners and grabbing arms.Īt this stage, you can also power glass domes called labs, which allow you to research new items to build. You place the pump on the closest body of water and attach it to a boiler and the boiler to a steam engine. Using the resources gathered by your coal-powered miners, you build an off-shore pump. This is the start of your factory, destined to build a rocket that can launch a satellite into space.Įver crashed so badly that you needed to reinvent spaceflight?īut before you can build a spaceship, you must first recreate the industrial revolution by building a steam engine. A line of conveyor belts takes coal past your furnace and miner, and two grabbing arms (also coal-powered) deposit this fuel in each. To power both the miner and the furnace, you build a second miner in the nearest coal field and then two types of items which define Factorio’s early game: the grabbing arm and the conveyor belt. Machines can feed items into other machines, so you can place a furnace directly in front of your miner, and it will automatically smelt ore as it’s mined. The first such item you’ll craft is not an iron pickaxe, but an automatic mining machine, powered by coal. Then you dig up iron and bronze ore to smelt into ingots plates, from which more sophisticated items can be crafted. Armed with a pickaxe, you dig up your first resources from a Command & Conquer-style resource field. Other aspects of the game, such as its top-down perspective and elaborate tech tree, originate in the RTS genre.Īt the beginning of the game, you find yourself in the workboots of a lone engineer whose spaceship has just crashed on a sufficiently Earth-like planet. Factorio takes these elements up to eleven and builds a whole game around them, with a bit of the survival aspect thrown in for flavour. ![]() The basis of Factorio can be found in two areas of Minecraft’s gameplay: crafting items from raw materials and automating extraction with minecarts and redstone. There are broadly similar games, like Terraria and Starbound, as well as games that tip the mix more towards survival – Don’t Starve – or construction – the subject of this review, Wube Software’s Factorio. Through its sublime combination of an endless box of Lego with a survival game in a procgen world, it has birthed multiple new genres. To call Minecraft the game of the last decade is, if anything, an understatement. ![]()
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