#factorio

[ping1n]

my dad used to play a lot of minecraft. he played on the same world for maybe like 10 years.

i have vague memories of his various bases - a massive cave, some weird cobblestone hell - but he eventually settled on a glass platform surrounded by farms (i think he had one of those really old wither based tree farms) suspended above an absolutely fucking massive pit down to bedrock. like this pit was collosally fucking huge. and every day he would just. widen the pit. id come home from school and go to his office to tell him about my day and he'd just be digging that pit with an inventory of diamond pickaxes. no beacons because he hated fighting the wither.

only once did i ask him why. and he just shrugged. and kept digging that pit.

this was all on 1.8 as well. 1.9 came out, he tried it. died to a skeleton and immediately went back to 1.8. he wrote a script to back up his saves, and when i asked him for it he used this as an opportunity to teach me how to write batch files.

anyway. couple years ago i bought him factorio. possibly one of the best gifts ive ever bought. shits like crack cocaine to him. now i look into his office and he's optimizing production lines. had to buy him the dlc. he reached the edge of the solar system today. 1 monitor dedicated to this game at all times. constantly running even when hes away. sometimes i leave little concrete wall smiley faces. he finds them instantly because the factory is an extension of his soul. never removes them just builds around.

anyway i think this explains why im like this.

[azulcrescent]

Factorio fan comic - Space Platform

[zoeythebee]

wtf was 14 year old me doing playing factorio???

[foone]

it's interesting how everyone calls out factorio for having the "don't forget to watch out for the natives!" line, but the Civilization series has always had the idea that there are "uncivilized" tribes randomly arranged around the map who serve no purpose and have no value and must be exterminated or they will continually attack your innocent settlers. it's okay, we called them "barbarians", because clearly some humans are just Orcs without culture who only exist to be killed.

Like, how are these not the same thing? Factorio at least has the weak justification that their natives are bugs who don't show any signs of having sapience, but Civ barbarians build settlements and develop weapons. The game just uses its rules to make it so you can't talk to them, you can only kill them or let them kill you.

Unlike, you know, the named civilizations. Even the most warlike civ in the game can be reasoned with, you can make treaties with a warmonger who is currently building nukes, but these nameless local tribes? they must be wiped out. There is no other option.

[baba-is-blog]

Thoughts on Factorio and other automation games of the sort?

AUTOMATION IS FUN

BABA LOVE AUTOMATION

[e17omm]

I have nightmares about Rampant Demolishers

Still, bless Dimm2101 for porting Rampant to 2.0/Space Age. This is going to suck.

[sigmaleph]

apparently they added new achievements with space age, which means for a brief window my achievement page is implying i have crafted twenty million green chips without ever building an assembling machine

[quantum-mechan1c]

Average Factorio player

[samueldays]

One of my mutuals (foss?) remarked that Factorio is the best videogame about colonialism, it doesn't overbearingly lecture and it doesn't explicitly tell you it's about colonialism, it directly invites you to see things from the viewpoint of the colonizer who landed in a new world and started extracting resources. If you know the game and look at the map here, you can trace a thought process embedded in the image that goes something like:

hmm, my rapacious industry (southeast) is upsetting the natives, maybe I should build some solar panels and restrain myself

hmmm, the solar panels are underwhelming, I'll build some guns and walls on my frontier to repel native raids instead

hmmm, those cliffs and lakes over there would be good chokepoints, I can drive out the natives to create a buffer zone

hmmm, the landmass ends there, conquering the entire north peninsula would be more convenient to give me a shorter border, I just have to cleanse it of the increasingly violent natives. gotta arm up heavily. Bring the earthmovers and deforestation, it'll be easier to draw straight lines on the map than keep working with the terrain at this point.

Diplomacy with the natives? the default interface presents no options for that.

[nudiscoturkey]

more factorio shenanigans! this time it's me on vulcanus greeting a worm pal moments before the ground erupts beneath me, incinerating me instantly and the demolisher runs over my charred corpse.

i like watching them from afar though

[caassette]

cities skylines 2 and factorio space age both coming out soon, be sure to check in on your weird transfem friends who have an unhealthy relationship with trains and don't seem to sleep. we will not be getting enough water

[neurotoxizity]

drew the vehicle of all time

[starcrvmb]

How I feel going on social media looking for friends to play games with

[ultimitethepig]

I had a dumb idea for a comic of tech priests trying to get help from factorio guy and wanted to draw it. I don't know Warhammer 40k lore.

[hellsiterefugee]

sorry, I only play video games made by and for a niche group of autistic people