Steve Troughton-SmithPicking Factorio back up for the first time in years, in preparation for the upcoming expansion. I'd never seen the vignettes on the title screen before — what a delightful little feature!
I finally started a new playthrough of Factorio, with Space Age enabled — I think my first fresh start in maybe 6 years. I love the progressive disclosure; they don't even tell you there are other planets until you're dozens of hours into building on your first
From this point on, I have absolutely no clue how to play the game. It's all uncharted. New items, new UIs, new mechanics. I'm a little overwhelmed…
Somehow I pulled it back. Really cool that the different planets in Factorio do give you that 'challenge mode' or 'survival island' kinda feel.
…is what I thought I was about to post. Until I realized that my spaceship no longer existed, and had silently been eaten while I wasn't paying attention.
I guess now I have to slowly build and launch another from scratch 🤡
It took 20 hours of gameplay on this one barren rock to build a spaceship capable of taking me home. Multi-planet Factorio is no joke, holy shit. Really did feel like a survival island. The next time I go planet-hopping, I'll be more prepared.
The one thing you can do is remote-control your drones on other planets, so I was forced into setting up all the automation steps on the starter world so I could actually build every little thing remotely. I like how this expansion redid the tech tree
I have put 72 hours into this Factorio playthrough, and only visited one of the four additional planets. I have no idea how long a full playthrough will take me, but it's a looong game now
Ryan Graves@stroughtonsmith I played through it after the expansion came out with two friends, and with biters and pollution turned off, and it still absorbed a couple months of our evenings.
So fun though.
Michael Hanson@stroughtonsmith Just... don't go to Gleba next.
@stroughtonsmith This is where you start looking for a bigger island. Good luck!
// James Martin 
@stroughtonsmith oof. Fulgora is rough first planet to land.
Jago@stroughtonsmith there’s a lot of learning curve, but it’s a blast! (Heh. Literally.)
Frederic Barthelemy@stroughtonsmith The hardest part for me at that point was learning to embrace the sushi belt, and learning belt-monitoring circuits.
I haven’t yet landed on another planet in my “current” (paused-for-1-year) run.
Jacob Dyer@stroughtonsmith say goodbye to the next 100 hours. Hands down my favourite game, it seems like it tickles the same part of my brain that solving problems with programming does.
Miroslav Stankic@stroughtonsmith I’ve installed Timberborn again this weekend and just can’t close it.
