Then there's also amazing mods (for whatever you like to do, there's thousands). Most of my play in factorio (if I exclude modding) is just designing factories that I can use in play someday in the future q: Just build more a few more miners and you can easily supply a massive factory that you can just keep building.Īlso when you get further into the game you get blueprints and expanding your factory is not only less manual labour but it also means you can just design good reusable blueprints which is also a very rewarding part of factorio. Resources in high amounts means you don't have to wait because you don't have materials for your factory. Time spent waiting is time the enemy grows stronger while you aren't so you always have to get ahead and also have to react to threats. If you want action a bit more than just building then turning biters up will mean that you can't ever wait. Peaceful mode or playing without natives gives you the freedom to use any space you want to and expand as fast as you want, or take it as slow as you want since there's no threat. If you have too difficult natives then you will be constrained by space and time spent repairing your turrets. Just keep building and designing factories constantly, that's what the game is about.įor the first case, settings for freeplay gives you many options: (freeplay is the 'main' game that most play in the full version which gives you full freedom) When things cost 10 or 100 times more you are forced to expand your factory to progress, so waiting doesn't really help you further than just getting marginally further. To keep going at a steady pace you need to automate so you can grow your production exponentially. In case it's the second scenario, just keep building and expanding. If you are waiting for things then that means you either didn't tweak the map settings (available in the full version) to match your playstyle or you made a tiny factory and decided that instead of expanding it to make it faster you could just wait for the tiny and slow factory to do things while you go AFK.

Is factorio fun