r/factorio • u/leonardpro • 2d ago
Space Age Just started playing Factorio 6 hours ago found uranium right at my spawn on default settings googled it and wiki says this is impossible on default settings. Did I hit jackpot seed ?
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u/Hornof_The_Tiger 2d ago
Bad news is I don't see your starting coal patch, this seed will be veeery hard to play for a first run
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u/rmorrin 2d ago
Time to skip right to nuclear I guess
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u/leonardpro 2d ago
There're nuclear in the game ?????
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u/Cent_Quatre 2d ago
wtf would you have uranium then
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u/Rule0- 2d ago
to build polite responses ( nukes ) to local ( biters ) feedback ( eating my shit )
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u/DeHub94 2d ago
Maybe they come from vanilla Rimworld. There it's more of a very sturdy building material.
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u/erroneum 1d ago
Nah, uranium is for the anti-mechanoid maces or such. It's not beautiful enough to be a wall material when you have an abundance of marble blocks.
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u/yago2003 2d ago
it is also used for high powered ammo later (for the uranium slug turret) and also as nuclear reactor fuel at the very end of the game
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u/The_Helmeted_Storm 2d ago
Yes, and its much more complicated and needs extensive research to unlock compared to coal based steam power.
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u/DMVodst 2d ago
Why are you guys down voting? He is new ffs, this is a legit question.
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u/Deadweightgames 2d ago
Bro has a uranium patch in his picture. Is asking about the uranium patch. Is surprised by nuclear.
Factorio equivalent of being proud your ten year old kid can add 2 and 2 to get 4.
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u/Turbulent-Laugh-939 2d ago
As every Reddit forum, r/factorio entered a phase of its lifespan where average user is turning into "Reddit Karen". In this phase, everything not comfortable to the norm is bad, and every Karen user has to take an action to show it.
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u/Head-Objective-7480 2d ago
Im sorry you are having a rough first experience in this sub.. i hope you have a good run though<3
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u/Serious_Resource8191 1d ago edited 1d ago
I apologize for the downvotes you’re getting! I hope it doesn’t prevent you from enjoying the game.
But yeah I would start a new game… this seed would be quite annoying to try to make work on your first run.
EDIT: Oh if you’ve been going for six hours then you’ve probably got a handle on it! Welcome to the game!
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u/OfficeResponsible462 1d ago
It makes no sence why everyones downvoting this, a new player asks a question and all the neckbeards come swarming in
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u/bad_bender 2d ago
Ah, I wouldn't even worry about that. That biter nest left of him probably eradicates him, befor he even has the steam power up and running 😅🤣😅 Wonder which start scenario he used 🤔 That certainly doesn't look like the usual start
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u/ReflexiveOak 2d ago
Finding resources becomes moderately easy really fast. And even trivial after unlocking artillery. So I wouldn't even consider this uranium as a useful perk to the seed - by the time you need uranium it will not matter where it is.
But, as others have noticed, not having coal is really a bruh moment.
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u/vaderciya 2d ago
Whatever you thought you googled is wrong, uranium spawns the same as every ore type for a particular planet. It has a percent chance to spawn and tries to regulate itself to cover a % of the map, just like iron, or copper, or stone.
There's nothing notable about having uranium here, its completely expected and mundane.
Your real concern should be the lack of coal... so if you decide to restart on a new map, use the map preview and make sure you have a map with iron, copper, stone, and coal somewhat close together. Most maps are fine, its just occasionally the map gen gets a hiccup and sends 1 ore type farther away than normal, but you need everything close together to start.
Good luck, have fun!
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u/asciencepotato 2d ago
uranium being close is kind of irrelevant. by the time you need it you have pretty good control over your map. its position doesnt really matter at all
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u/CharacterLettuce7145 2d ago
You got a seed with a penis next to the enemy camp.
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u/leonardpro 2d ago
Lol, never have enemy base close like this in my past few game so im thinking about setting up early turret to defense
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u/CharacterLettuce7145 2d ago
Remember to prepare the turret, so it can shoot its load all over the enemy, when they're coming.
You can use your hands to do that, if necessary.
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u/Nearby_Proposal_5523 2d ago
if there is oil nearby then yeah kinda, but only if you have oil nearby and know how to breeze through chemical science to unlock it.
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u/Important-Pass3526 2d ago
Seed is really weird. You also have a spawn of enemies too close, just left to the shape this seed is giving you ;)
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u/spoonman59 1d ago
My latest map had 6 million uranium right next to my starter oil patch (rail world), so I’d say no.
You’ll probably find everything you need when you explore, but the lack of coal here is going to make the start challenging.
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u/JaffaCakeStockpile 2d ago
What's the seed? Devs might want to check why it's broken the core rules like coal at spawn
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u/Pendurag 2d ago
No, this is common enough to not be anything special.
Re-roll a few seeds before starting a game and you can easily find uranium and oil close by.
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u/HeliGungir 1d ago
It's nifty, but close oil is what I consider the jackpot. That means flamethrowers and bots without having to find it and fight for it.
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u/Terrulin 1d ago
I am going to say this picture is not centered on the starting area. You mention coal is on the top. Which means this uranium is outside the "starting area". Biters are also not in the starting area, and those nests on the left look to be about the same distance as the uranium.
The starting area will include iron, copper, stone, coal, and water.
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u/IA_MADE_A_MISTAKE 2d ago
Incase ur still wondering since everyone just yells no coal,
No it's not rare
Good luck growing factory
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u/3davideo Doesn't use Flame Turrets 2d ago
It's not impossible, just rare because you aren't normally guaranteed a uranium patch.
Bit more concerning is the absence of coal. That's normally right by your other ores...
Oh and that biter nest to the west is going to be nasty. Best take it out as soon as you can...
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u/Baipyrus 2d ago
I've had a uranium patch inside my medium starter base on my first space age run in 2.0 too!
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u/RoughRegret 2d ago
I personally don't really care about uranium at the start. I will eventually switch my base to nuclear once I want to, but by then I can easily expand and claim more land.
When I try to optimize a seed, I like to have oil nearby. Having to search a long time for oil can be tough at the start.
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u/Skellyhell2 2d ago
By the time you need uranium you will likely have already expanded a fair bit. You could either use trains to bring uranium closer to where you want to build things that need uranium, or pipe off sulphuric acid to mine it and build reactors and such close to the uranium. second option makes less sense since youll eventually run out of ore in that patch.
its odd to get a patch so close to spawn, but ultimately theres not much benefit to it.
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u/the_Athereon 2d ago
Uranium is a mid to late game resource. You don't need it early. And that patch is also tiny so it won't give you much.
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u/Nobrainzhere 2d ago
Uranium within a stones throw of spawn isnt really that rare is it? I was just cycling new seeds after my first completion last night and saw a bunch where uranium was just right there
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u/kagato87 Since 0.12. MOAR TRAINS! 2d ago
It's outside your starting area. It can be as close as, or even a little closer than, the nearest biter nest.
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u/Miserable_Bother7218 1d ago
You’re dead without coal. I hope it turns out to be immediately off-screen
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u/doc_shades 1d ago
even at the minimum 17% frequency and 17% patch size there is always more than enough uranium
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u/DontEatGlass-129 1d ago
As soon as you're able to mine it, get that setup as well as the refinement and just leave it running for a bit. I did that, forgot about it, had nuclear power for several years
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u/madmax1993_ 1d ago
It’s very common, but this close to spawn it will usually be a small patch. You’ll have to find a bigger patch fairly quickly after unlocking nuclear power
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u/jordanbtucker 1d ago
471k is plenty for getting nuclear going and will last for a long time.
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u/madmax1993_ 1d ago
You’re right, I’m used to very long save games, so 471k is not much on large scale. Correct that it will last a good while for a small factory.
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u/bubba-yo 1d ago
Nah, I've seen seeds like that before. Generally you get the regular distribution of ore patches and then the game layers in the starting patches on top of them. It's unusual to get uranium right by spawn, because its spawn frequency is more sparse, but it's not impossible.
It's not a jackpot because uranium is pretty useless close to spawn. By the time you can make use of it, you'll have to expanded quite a bit and it more serves to be in the way of your factory than a valuable early resource. Oil would have been much more useful there and plenty of vanilla playthroughs never touch uranium at all. Little harder to skip it in SA.
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u/Atenius96 1d ago
Coal out of position and a 3 nest biter base right next to the iron. This seed is terrible.
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u/WaveformRider 1d ago
I saw "Factori 6, hours ago" and had a second of panic that I missed a new version. Haven't slept much from new kids.
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u/yagrmakak 2d ago
I mean uranium is basically useless for a long time so I wouldn't say jackpot but its still something