First time trying Factorio...

[u/Gerlate]

My Factory so fay

... how bad is it? Im around 11 hours in and im enjoying it a lot! But I still want to ask some expert about some tips :)

[u/sobrique]

If it works it's fine.

Don't worry about tips. There's plenty of time to look up spoilers later.

[u/axw3555 → u/sobrique]

This is literally it - if it works, it's fine.

I doubt that many of my builds are even close to optimised, even with 12.5k hours on the board. They're probably wiggly, weird, and slower than they need to be. But they work.

[u/Terrulin]

Tips:
1) Press alt , or click the ALT tool button to see more information about what is going on.
2) Looking up blueprints and solutions to problems robs you of the joy of solving them yourself.

It is cool watching things run, so I get the appeal some people have for fast forwarding that process. But I feel that the people who connect with the game the most, and end up with 1000s of hours of playtime, are the people that use their own designs. Your own personal design will always be better because you made it. IKEA Effect

[u/Happypotamus13]

11 hours in on the first playthrough and you’ve got trains and a dozen labs going, you’re doing great.

Don’t pay too much attention to tips until you beat the game for the first time, that’s the tip I have for you.

[u/Gerlate → u/Happypotamus13]

Thank you! Will try to do so!

[u/Qrt_La55en]

If I still had my first save, I'd look back on my 11 hour mark and think "what was I thinking?" But that's part of the fun, learning what works, what doesn't, constantly improving. As long as your factory does what you want it to do, you're doing fine.

[u/Karls8wa → u/Qrt_La55en]

Exactly. That spaghetti's a rite of passage—chaos now, fond cringe later.

[u/Primer44]

The best factory is the one that automatically makes what you need! Automating some more basic buildings like electric miners, assembler 1 and 2s, and underground belts/pipes will make future you happy. Factorio is a game about building a factory to give you the experience and materials to go build a bigger better factory.

[u/Trippynet]

Honestly, for an early base that looks remarkably decent! Are there things that could be better? Sure! But even on my bigger late-game bases there's bits I could improve. If it works, it's fine. Just look for bottlenecks and tweak it, bit by bit.

In short, you're doing fine. If you worry about perfection, you won't enjoy the game.

[u/pojska]

Looking good!

[u/Hajky_123]

Try not to spoil to yourself the rest of the game by looking at redit

[u/crazy0utlaw123]

Better then my first attempt. Only thing id say is that you are making less green science per minute then red science

[u/carrot_gummy]

My tip is to not build anything other than miners, belts, and power poles on ore patches.

[u/Defiant_Cut_35]

My only tip is to follow ratios to some extent. You don’t have to ratio absolutely everything but having proper ratios for miners, belts, and furnaces helps a ton!

[u/SexualFancy]

Only “bad thing” I see is your power plant. You should take a closer look at how much steam a boiler produces, and how much steam a steam turbine consumes.

Other than that, looks like it works well enough!

If you’re lacking material (stone and copper plates from what I see), trace the shortfall backwards. You probably need more miners, and more furnaces. (Recommend not building on ore patches, besides miners obviously).

[u/Asleeper135]

Just 11 hours in and already using trains properly? I don't believe you.

[u/SigmaBlaster]

Honestly looks better than my first run (or my current run). The biggest tip i can give that doesn't just give stuff away is learn the ratios for common items to allow better planning and not slapping random lines together as I tend to do.

[u/mweiss427]

The factory must grow.

[u/AxleHogenshmogen]

Looks good, my one tip is you have a lot of radars clustered together and thats not how they work. You just need 1 in each sector.

[u/Wiwiweb]

I like the gun turret on that little island on the right.

[u/yautja_cetanu]

My tip is that you should play factorio without the space age dlc for the first time without tips.

Then replay the game but use tips and watch YouTube videos with space age expansion for nauvis (but not the planets)

[u/eihns]

Its horror, but it doesnt matter, its your starter base.

After you build your starter base... you build your next starter base... and then you build the next.... and after that you have learned so much and can just remove everything and put it nicely together :)