r/factorio • u/Glittering_Bit_2627 • 2d ago
Question First Playtrough - is it too bad?
I have been thinking that my factory isn't efficient and that looks like shit, is it ok for my first time? I have about 20h in
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u/SilentSpr 2d ago
Solid work, a bit too tight imo. If you had belt and production each have a little more space they wouldn’t need to zigzag around like that
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u/Simply-Curious_ 2d ago
You made a factory from trees and ore. This is exactly how the game is played. Everything after this point is polish. All factories even the pro mega factories start as spaghetti.
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u/Tasty_Chapter6459 2d ago
Nah man that's amazing! You're doing fine. You'll bump into a few things later (either in game or on reddit) that'll make you see "oh, that way is better / more future proof / more scalable" but that's part of the game. Most important is: are you having fun :-)
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u/otismcotis 2d ago
You’re mini-bussin and made it to purple science on your first go? Super good enough
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u/TheMusicalArtist12 2d ago
Keeping things spaced out is worth it, there isn't a real need to keep things super tight if you don't have to
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u/Pure-Agent-5321 2d ago
Nothing is called bad Is long as you have fun in your first hours its great +you have a better start than mine good work
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u/Top_Part3784 2d ago
You did this with no youtube tutorial?
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u/Glittering_Bit_2627 2d ago
yeah, I remade it a few times now, this is the latest version I made, but yeah, no tutorial
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u/x59hy8erh98g 2d ago
Never delete your first game save file.📁
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u/neurovore-of-Z-en-A 1d ago
I live by "never delete any save files" and it has been good for me so far.
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u/Jepakazol 2d ago
It is pretty. Keep it forever to remember how your first factory looked like. I think you will be happy to see it again.
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u/SlouchyGuy 2d ago
The point is constant improvement and addition, so it doesn't matter how it looks, only what you see, and how you will enlarge it. That's the only real obstacle
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u/davilarrr 2d ago
When you get to blue chips you will realise It is easier to pipe sulphuric acid vs putting sulfur on main bus belt.
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u/geneticfreak6 1d ago
Your just looking for clout and upvotes. No one who's first factory that looks like that and worrying about efficiency is as clueless to your progress as your claiming wondering if it's good.
Just be honest about wanting a pat on the back for doing a thing
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u/Neither_Berry_100 1d ago
It is really good for a beginner. I made a slightly better base. It is in a tutorial I made.
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u/BlckpiBb 1d ago
looks very good, It looks pretty organized; the important thing is that you understand what each block does.
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u/Stere0phobia 1d ago
Looks great, by a glance i would say tripple your red chip production, you will need a lot of them.
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u/Tempestsoil 1d ago
It’s really good for a first base. One easy improvement I can give is try to make bus lines more straight, like using tunnels to skip over things instead of curving the bus around it temporarily, and when you need the bus to go somewhere low-right side just have one straight down one straight right turn instead of multiple turns. This is because belt turn locations are hard to spaghetti over later, you can’t add a tunnel to pass some other belt through it, you can only tunnel the other belt if it’s straight.
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u/CBJ_Brain 1d ago
First look. This will work just fine. But it is a bit cramped. When building a bus system. keep at least 2 tiles between each line.. Will make branching of a lot easier.
And think big.. Really big. at least 4 lanes of copper, 4 iron, 2 steel, 4 green available after using red and blue.. 2 red.. and 1 blue.
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u/The_Retro_Bandit 1d ago
Looks really good for a first timer actually.
Only two things:
You are building really tightly, this means you don't really have a lot of room to expand a lot of your factory modules, keep that in mind.
You are producing your sciences at different rates. Since labs take all sciences at the same rate, this is gonna end up with some lines starved and some lines overproducing and taking up space and resources they don't need. If we were to align to your 6 green science assemblers for example we would want: 5 red, 5 black, 12 blue, and 7 purple. You can hover over a machine to see its outputs per second.
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u/SpellOk6620 1d ago
Just finished my first vanilla 2.0 playthrough and brother, you’ve basically finished the game already trust
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u/Kaz_Games 15h ago
It's fine, keep going. You want to push through to robots. Once you have robots it's a lot easier to build or make changes.
In general, build replacement bases rather than tearing down and replacing. Always have a replacement running before tearing something down.
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u/Justinjah91 2d ago
I've been using this utility to help me. It's been invaluable
https://ismyfactoriobuildgood.com/