Blueprints

are one of the most genius systems at work in Factorio, and it’s a crime that many players don’t know how to make proper use of Blueprints to save time and effort when building their factories. Our Factorio Blueprints guide will not only walk you through how to get started using and creating blueprints, but also invite you to use RPS’s very own Factorio Blueprint Book (along with a few other community-made blueprints) to help kickstart your factory!

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Struggling to get started in Factorio? Have your friends told you time and time again about the joys of building factories, but you find yourself completely lost when it comes to starting your own? Or perhaps you just want a few pointers on how you can get set up even quicker in your next world?

Whichever of the above, this Factorio early game walkthrough is here to help. I’ll take you along for the ride as I play through my first hour or so of a new Factorio world; and in that time, I’ll show you how to be productive with your first steps, so you can create a solid foundation which you can then turn into a glorious, pollution-chugging factory.

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Using Factorio’s in-game console, players can do just about anything they could ever want to do in this marvellously addictive factory management game. From modifying the world around them to controlling the spread of biters, from instant teleporting to increasing your inventory size, from adjusting the game speed to enabling instant crafting of items, our Factorio console commands guide will show you exactly how to use all the most useful and powerful cheats in the game.

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Factorio mods

have been around almost as long as the game itself – and for good reason. While already an enormous and startlingly polished game, introducing the right mods into the fold will not only expand the game with tonnes of new features to discover and master, but also simultaneously improve the base game experience with dozens of quality of life improvements.

Keep reading for our list of the very best Factorio mods for 1.0 out there, along with instructions on how to get started downloading mods of all shapes and sizes to augment your game.

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“The factory must grow.” It’s a mantra that all Factorio players know – or at least they should. But it’s one thing knowing it, and quite another to put it into action. The truth is that it can be tricky for new players to know just how to grow their factory from nothing into an energy-guzzling, environment-poisoning behemoth of efficiency and automation.

Our Factorio guide for 1.0 hopes to solve this problem for new players, as we delve into our top 15 Factorio tips covering everything from quality of life improvements to building strategies, and much more.

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Blueprints

are one of the most genius systems at work in Factorio, and it’s a crime that many players don’t know how to make proper use of Blueprints to save time and effort when building their factories. Our Factorio Blueprints guide will not only walk you through how to get started using and creating blueprints, but also invite you to use RPS’s very own Factorio Blueprint Book (along with a few other community-made blueprints) to help kickstart your factory!

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Last year, second-hand games marketplace G2A made a bet: If any developers or publishers could prove that stolen keys were being sold on G2A, the storefront would pay back the money lost on chargebacks tenfold. Only one studio offered to take them up on the offer, Factorio developers Wube Software. Turns out, Wube were right to suspect stolen sales – and now G2A’s gamble has cost the storefront $39,600 (roughly £32,360).

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Factorio is one of those games that are brilliant but have never seemed to make it out of early access. Well now there’s an end in sight for the Factorio at least because the devolpers say, and I agree with this, “if we just pushed the button to release 1.0, it wouldn’t be a catastrophe.” After exactly four and a half years Factorio will officially launch on September 25th, 2020. I know that date isn’t even remotely close, but Wube Software have put it out there more so players don’t allow them to procrastinate and continue to polish the way wires work and aliens attack forever.

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Despite being in development for a fifth of my lifetime, Factorio has somehow only reached version 0.17. Crikey, software development terms, eh? Whenever I’ve developed a game, I just make ’em up. Still, I wager the folk behind the mechanical monstrosity that is Factorio have everything scheduled out nicely, laid out on complex spreadsheets which work themselves out without human input. But still, their assembly line continues to self-construct. Nerds.

This week’s latest stable release brings in new content for construction nerds old and new with a new tutorial and world-construction tools.

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The horrifically compelling sci-fi construction sandbox Factorio received another major update over the holidays, bringing much-needed performance improvements to the game along with adding a whole new subset of heavyweight military technologies. This update also marks the start of the final stretch of development, with Wube Software announcing that the price of the game will be increasing to $30 later this month.

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