PC/Mac/Linux. According to Steam, over the past week I’ve played Factorio for 31 hours. That may not seem like a lot to gaming diehards, but we’re talking about a guy with three kids who is forced to spend most of his waking hours away from a keyboard. 31 hours in a week on my laptop, playing games, is simply unheard of. Controls are set by left-clicking them and then pressing the desired key combination. They can be unbound by right-clicking them. The keybindings can be reset in the controls settings menu. Factorio is a game in which you build and maintain factories. You will be mining resources, researching technologies, building infrastructure, automating production and fighting enemies.

Do the numbers in the 'beacons' column represent the number of modules or the number of beacons?

They represent the number of modules.

What does clicking on an item's icon in the 'Factory' tab do?

It omits the dependencies of that item's recipe from the solution. The intent behind this feature is to model the case of building a factory when you are shipping in one or more ingredients from elsewhere. For example, if you are making an advanced circuit factory and want to ship in electronic circuits, and want to see the remaining copper cable requirements on their own.

Clicking on the icon a second time will restore its dependencies.

This feature is not compatible with certain items, namely those that have no dependencies, and those that don't map one-to-one with a recipe.

How do I interpret the pipe numbers on the 'Factory' tab?

Pipe throughput is inversely proportional to the length of the pipe. This means that the longer a pipe is, the more parallel lanes of pipes will be required.

Say the solution calls for 7500 units of heavy oil per second. With the default 'minimum pipe length' setting, the calculator will display a value of '[pipe] × 7 ≤ 47.' This means you will need seven parallel lanes of pipes, each with a maximum length of 47 segments.

The 'minimum pipe length' setting controls the minimum number of segments that a pipe will be permitted before the calculator uses multiple lanes of pipes. It defaults to 17, which corresponds to a fluid rate of 1200/s, which is the output rate of an offshore pump.

The number of pipes will be omitted if only one pipe is required.

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• 2User data directory
• 3Application directory
• 4Changing the user data directory

Overview

Depending on your installation method and OS, you will have one or two directories that contain Factorio assets, and one that contains user data, such as saves and mods.

User data directory

The user data directory is where personal files are stored:

• Save files ./saves
• Mods ./mods
• Script-output, e.g. from /screenshot ./script-output
• Local scenarios./scenarios
• Local settings ./config/config.ini
• log filesfactorio-*.log
• Crash dump files factorio-dump-*.dmp

Locations

Search your computer for the directory location, or type the path into your file manager address bar.

Windows:

The %appdata% shorthand translates to your local version of C:Users[user name]AppDataRoaming

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MacOSX:

Linux distributions:

When using Steam on Windows, the config.ini, achievements.dat, modded-achievements.dat and player-data.json can also be found in

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Application directory

The application directory stores three things:

• Factorio executables ./bin
• Data for vanilla Factorio ./data
• API documentation ./doc-html

Locations

Windows:

MacOSX:

Linux:

Changing the user data directory

You can create a file config-path.cfg to configure Factorio to any directory.

Please see this discussion (for MacOS, but should work on any other OS).

In order to change the user data directory, user must edit the location of the 'write-data' entry in the file (Game install directory)/config/config.ini. This affects the location of mods, scenario and temp.

Linux

Update __Game_Install_directory/config-path.cfg

Update __Game_Install_directory/config/config.ini

You could set the write-data value to .factorio if you prefer.

Once you have done this, you can remove write permissions to the entire game installation directory except for config/config.ini, which must be writable by all people who wish to play the game.

Note that if someone changes any options, in-game, those option changes will apply to everyone who plays on the same computer.

Installation from Zip File

The unzipped Factorio directory.

A list of all things found here:

• Save games (as zip files)
• User-installed/created Mods.
• User-installed/created scenarios.
• User configuration and settings storage
• Log file (factorio-*.log)
• Player data (player-data.json)

Note: Deleting the configuration file will result in a default replacement being generated upon the next Factorio launch.

It is recommended to create backups from this directory (of saves, config, etc) before installing a new version.

See also

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