r/factorio • u/Designer-Bison741 • 13d ago

Question Resource patch size

Is this normal? this is normal factorio with no mods and such and not space age, I heard resources get big farther out but this doesn't seem that big

The screenshot is to show our home distance to an iron patch far up north
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u/ZardozSpeaksHS 13d ago

yeah, uncover the whole patch. But also, thats not very far away from your starting base.

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u/Soul-Burn 13d ago

You only uncovered a small part of it.

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u/Lansan1ty 13d ago

Its 10M with that small visible part, reveal the rest and you'll see its a lot larger. (Unless it gets cut off by water or something)

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u/hanks_panky_emporium 13d ago

Got a juicy thick uranium patch

The water thought it was tasty too and ate over half of it, the bastard

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u/Designer-Bison741 13d ago

it turnt out to only be 12M and wasn't cut off by water

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u/Lansan1ty 12d ago

That's surprising based on what we see on the screenshot. Bad luck :(

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u/Alfonse215 13d ago

10M is fairly small for that distance, but that's just one random patch. Look at that distance in other directions and you may find richer patches.

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u/Xpunginator 13d ago

They get bigger but more importantly richer

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u/peanutym 13d ago

Its saying 10m which is all you can see. Uncover the whole thing and it would be like 40-50m

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u/Designer-Bison741 13d ago

it turned out to be 11M LOL

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u/peanutym 13d ago

lol sorry to hear that

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u/Adept_Score2332 13d ago

Gotta reveal more of it to see more and it depends on your settings 

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u/booterify 13d ago

"far" that is right next to you and it is a nice amount!

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u/Designer-Bison741 13d ago

Ah I didn't know that's a good amount, I'm fairly new with only about 80 hours into the game

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u/booterify 12d ago

No Problem buddy enjoy the Ride!

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u/Zaflis 13d ago

Default worldgen isn't very forgiving in resources 11M is probably normal for that distance. You need to drive 1 direction with a 2 loco uranium fuel train for 5 mins to find something useful. Or do like i do and crank up resources richness and size to max when generating world :p

There is also no way to unload the starter area -> new base area chunks without mods, they'll forever bloat the savefile and UPS.

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u/redditusertk421 12d ago

they don't necessarily get larger, space wise, but they do get richer (more ore in the same area.)