Just like in Rust, power generator placement is crucial to avoid power outages due to pesky enemies. Handcraft some pipes, underground pipes, and small electric poles as well. The player will need one offshore pump to get the water, one or two boilers, and two steam engines per boiler. It is now time to find a good water source for the player's offshore pump for steam power production. Remember to keep all the miners and furnaces on your resources topped up on coal! Creating Electricity in FactorioĮverything is mining and smelting now, so the player has some time to complete more tasks. Collect the coal from all the miners only one piece of coal is needed to start this mining system. Each miner should only have one miner inputting coal. The player can expand this by either creating a new loop or adding to the current loop. Miner A should go into miner B, miner B into C, C to D, then D into A. Rotate the miners until each miner is providing coal to another miner. Place two miners next to the existing ones, creating a square. Once the player has seven or eight furnaces making copper plates, craft more burning miners and return to the coal plot. While doing so, use the extra coal in your coal miners to keep the factory fueled. Unlike Ark: Survival Evolved, none of these creatures are friendly, and they cannot be tamed.īefore the player expands their coal mining operation, it is recommended to expand copper plate production first. If it reaches the locals (the red blips on the map), they will begin to accelerate in spawn rate and become increasingly hostile. The red covering the map represents the distance your pollution has traveled. Fuel one of the miners, and it will place coal into the adjacent burning miner, creating a perpetual coal mining machine! The player should now view their map and turn on the pollution filter. Begin by placing the miners next to each other and then rotating the miners until the miners' outputs are going into one another. The player will need two burning miners to start the coal mining process. The player should now have iron plates, copper plates, and stone mining automated. Once the resources are available for more miners, place a miner on the other four sides of the Wooden chest, having all the miners outputs going towards the chest (rotate any building by pressing "R"). Once the miner is placed, the player should then put a wooden chest at the output. Go to the selected stone deposit and place a miner. The player needs at least one to start the stone mining process. One or two will due until the stone, and coal mining is automated. Once the player has a decent amount of Iron plates in production, they should create the same miner-furnace pair on their selected copper node. This layout will make conveyor belts easy to run. Repeat this process until there are several pairs of miners and furnaces, collecting more fuel and stone as needed. Place more miners and furnaces next to the first iron miner creating two lines, one of the miners and one of the furnaces. The player should use the stone gathered and the plates manufactured to build more miners, using stone to make stone furnaces. They are faster to destroy and yield a significantly greater amount of stone then hand mining a coal or stone patch. The fastest way to gather stone and fuel necessary to craft and power furnaces and miners is to find rocks and huge rocks.
Like the Hopper's automation function in Minecraft, the player is now free to explore and gather more materials while their machines make plates.