*** FACTORIO: Space Age **** DLC pack announced!

[Ace Modder]

Finally WUBE have announced their upcoming DLC expansion pack for Factorio.

Friday Facts #373 - Factorio: Space Age | Factorio

Hello, long time no see! Today we are going to talk about the expansion which is called Factorio: Space Age.

www.factorio.com

I have been playing the Space exploration mod, and this seems to be a combination of that mod with other elements and new UI overhaul etc.

Looking forward to this one.

 

[Ace Modder]

I have over 1300 hours in Factorio, love this game.

 

[Ace Modder]

I love the look of this, I've clocked almost 2000 hours in this game and I really wanted them to expand things after white science,

A year to wait also means they'll do it properly,

They have been working on it for 2 years already.

 

[Ace Modder]

I'm liking the weekly update the devs give also, another reason to enjoy Fridays.

 

[Ace Modder]

Some interesting blog updates the last few weeks, more game devs need to do this type of thing.

 

[Ace Modder]

Factorio is by far my most played game on steam and it will be even more once this is released.

 

[Ace Modder]

I've been playing today for 9 hrs, the starter game is not that different, few minor changes but nothing major. I expect I will hit space maybe by Weds/Thursday.

 

[Ace Modder]

I've gone to Vulcanus first, great planet to get rich resources Green belts are amazing!

Just arrived on Fulgora - looks fun so far.

Taking my time and over engineering my bases before moving onto the next part.

Here is my Navuis base.

Here is my Vulcanus base.

 

[Ace Modder]

So after some more play time.

I have setup the following:

Navuis update from my previous screenie:

Fulgora - this was my fave planet so far, it was really fun to work out and design a recycling centre that I'm happy with.

Gleba - I didn't like this planet at first, was a nightmare to get the balancing correct with the spoilage, but now I'm making 90 Gleba science per minute, which I feel is awesome.

My spaceships all have the same design, but I feel I need to rip them apart and redesign again from scratch, at least one for Aquilo, as my solar panels for energy is PROBLEMTIC to say the least when you travel so far away from the sun haha.

And Vulcanus I may have built an army of rocket silos. I need so much calcite on navuis that I need many silos sending up rockets continually. I have 3 spaceships just going back and forth from vulc to nav... I'm shipping green belts/undergrounds/splitters etc and calcite contiunally to Nav from there.

 

[Ace Modder]

Nice builds there @Ace Modder

I went to Fulgora first and it's a great new challenge, but probably should have done Vulcanus.

Did you go with default settings?

All default except for ore patches being richer than normal. I went 200%

 

[Ace Modder]

Surely you don't need that much fuel storage on your spaceship! Some of my early game ships had one tank of each, my late game ship doesn't have any as I can just make it so quick - granted with high quality chem plants and so on.

Nuclear powered ships is nice and easy to do, and Fusion later in the game is excellent with how much power it can simply provide in a small footprint.

You are right, I don't but my first trip was a problem as I run out mid way though, so I went over kill and not scaled it back yet. Maybe I should.

 

[Ace Modder]

There are so many ways to play this game, I generally do not use a main bus.

Since Space age my play style is: I make a base which is a starter base, that is spaghetti, even for the first 40-60 hours in. Has all the sciences - didnt use a single train. I've moved to space and setup every planet science now.
Only now am I reworking my Navius base and segementing it out, so I can make it more modular (using trains) and copy and paste my designs and plonk them elsewhere so scaling up it easier, I've created yellow science so far like this, and deleted it and its previous component manufacturing as far back as I can upto the point where I have to stop as it is sharing the items with other production lines. I need to comtinue to do with each starter planet science.

 

[Ace Modder]

Main bus is a n00b trap tbh. It leads to some bad habits (imo) and you end up just burning through so much material with multiple lines of parallel belts to try and workaround issues like throughput that could be bypassed by using a modular train approach and direct insertion between assemblers.
If you've managed to build a base that has got you into space before, you probably don't need a video guiding you on making a bus. Just have pretty much everything you build running onto parallel belts, but try and keep this to only items that are used by multiple recipes - ie Plates, Plastic, Circuits. Don't put gears on the bus, you always want to be making these with direct insertion.

agreed, same with copper wire, never bus them either.