Mods

Use

• [ ] picker extender <- or get from big bags
• [ ] Power armor mk3 & mk4
• [ ] Smart inserters
• [ ] Big bags <- disable stack increase/maybe swap for larger inventory
• [ ] Long reach
• [ ] Bottleneck
• [ ] Research queue <- meh
• [ ] A Better Start - medium or big?
• [ ] Auto deconstruct <- mark miners without resources for deletion
• [ ] LTN

To consider

• Auto Fill
• Nano bots
• Beast finder
• Longer underground belt (aligned)
• Electric vehicles
• Smart displays
• Single-Splitter - Balances load on a single Belt
• Pavement Drive Assist - Introduces a driver assistance system that autonomously follows paved roads, while maintaining a preset cruise speed if desired.
• Miner Planner - auto plan miners for a resource
• Resource Labels - add icons for resources on the map
• Todo List - This mod adds a todo list to the single- and multiplayer game to allow players to synchronize their work.
• Filtered Deconstruction Planner - ability for entities to be targeted for or be excluded from deconstruction by bots.
• Better Bots Technologies
• Logistic Research Fix - Reverts the science requirements of the Logistic System research to the pre-0.15 levels, because screw doing production and high tech science without requesters.

Planning

• Upgrade Builder and Planner
• Helmod

Not really useful for V2 server if bugs are peaceful or off

• [ ] Air filtering

Game changing

• factorrisimo 2
• Assembling machine zero
• Even distribution
• Auto research
• F.A.R.L
• Squeak through
• Warehousing mod
• Big brother

A Better Start Mod Levels

Small Pack - Only to speed up the initial grind

• 10 Steel Axes
• 200 Iron Plates
• 200 Copper Plates
• 50 Iron Gear Wheels
• 500 Transport Belts, 50 Splitters, 50 Underground Belts
• 20 Burner Mining Drills
• 100 Coal

NO TECHNOLOGIES

Starter Pack - Everything in the previous tier AND skipping straight to automation

• More Iron and Copper plates
• More belts
• 30x Electric Mining drills
• 48x Stone Furnaces
• 100x Inserters
• 10 Boilers, 20 Steam Engines, 1 Offshore Pump.

TECHNOLOGIES INCLUDED

• Automation, Electronics, Toolbelt, Logistics, Electric Energy Destribution 1

Medium Pack - Everything in the previous tier + moar + START WITH CONSTRUCTION ROBOTS

• Power Armour with: fusion reactor, 4x personal roboport, 3x battery.
• Moar Plates
• Moar Belts
• Green Circuits
• 100x Assembling machine 2
• 300 Inserers
• 50 Long inserters
• Steel chests
• 50 electric mining drills
• Allllll the poles
• Starting power generation supplies
• Pipes
• Car

SAME TECHNOLOGIES AS LAST TIER

Big Pack - It’s big.

• Power Armour mk2 with 4x exo, better robotports, batteries, night vision. (It’s nice).
• Moar of everything.
• Logistic Chests
• Oil refinery setup
• 20 Chemical Plants
• 10 Storage Tanks
• Alllll the poles

TECHNOLOGIES

• Automation, Automation 2, Steel Processing
• Plastics, Oil Processing, Fluid Handling
• Electronics, Advanced Electronics, Sulfur Processing
• Battery, Toolbelt
• Engine, Electric Engine, Flying, Robotics
• Logistic Robotics, Construction Robotics, Logistic System

Best Practices/Design Patterns

Links

• Factorio cheat sheet https://dddgamer.github.io/factorio-cheat-sheet/
• Design collection - https://imgur.com/gallery/ERVhg

Power

• 1 pump - 20 boilers - 40 steam engines -> 36MW
  • so 1:2 boiler to steam engine
• 25 Solar Panels - 21 Accumulators -> 1MW

Nuclear

• Simple Ratio - 40MW
  • 1 Reactor
  • 1 Offshore Pump
  • 4 Heat pumps
  • 7 Turbines
• Common Ratio - 480MW
  • 4 Reactor
  • 5 Offshore Pump
  • 48 Heat pumps
  • 83 Turbines
• Use storage tanks as buffers

Oil

• Simple Cracking - 8 crude - 1 heavy light - 7 petro light
• Accurate Cracking - 25 crude - 3 heavy light - 21 petro light

Other

• 3 coil assemblers feeding 2 green circuit
• Alex’s solar/accumulator blueprint
• one-space gap between walls and turrets
  • otherwise medium and large biters can bite turrets directly
• Starting build
  • Burner miners - 1 stone, 4-6 for iron, 1-2 for copper, 2-4 on coal

V2 server plan

Themes

• city layout
  • forum post and imgur gallery from Nilaus about city block design
  • Post on using trains instead of robots with city blocks
  • preserve the walkways!!!
  • we want to align to grid though
• layout to grid
• consistent layout
  • use more blueprints, maybe even for things like power poles (so they have lights?)
  • can we hotkey this better?
• Use trains more
  • trains in V1 don’t seem to provide a benefit over belts/pipeline?
  • Should we start out planning to go further out?
• Grid aligned train layouts
  • blueprints - Chunk aligned modular rails, mostly for 1-4-1 trains
  • Chunk-aligned modular railway system
• Avoid hand crafting
• I don’t like running out of ore every hour
  • Backfill ore - deposit runs into next one, even though just sitting idle
  • use slow mining

Map settings

• maybe rail world?
• Starting area - very large
• Resource Frequency - lower to increase size of deposits
• Cliff frequency - low
• resource size - large or very large
• cliff size - small to avoid bug
• resource richness - very high

Game settings

• biters off or biters passive
  • or maybe use pollution cleaner mod, much better pollution dissapation, slower evolution curve

Mods