Factorio Again
Nov. 29th, 2017 08:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI have vague memories of turning myself around like a rotisserie while trying to sleep at four in the morning today.
I'm back to playing with Factorio, in my game named "Special Kind of Hell" after someone's description of trying to play the game with all the mods I have.
In the base game, you mine iron ore and smelt it into iron plate. Two steps. In the modded version, one of multiple ways to do it is to mine a composite ore, crush it, flotation filter it with pure water, process the chunks with sulfuric acid in a leaching plant, refine it into a purified form, sort the purified form of the composite ore into it's component refined ores (including iron, nickel, cobalt, gold, etc.), turn the purified ores into ingots (which have their own processes, involving, for instance, putting nickel ore into a blast furnace with carbon monoxide to get nickel ingots - Wikipedia says this is the Mond Process; I love how close to real processes the mod author has tried to be), then, for the most efficient production, smelt multiple kinds of ingots (one combination that works is cobalt, nickel, and iron) together in an induction furnace to make molten iron, which is cast into iron plates in a casting machine.
Sometimes I get a little overwhelmed by the complexity of trying to do something that's so very simple in the base game and I take a break for a while. But I keep coming back to it. This is one of the best toys I've ever played with.
I'm also playing with a new way to arrange train lines that looks more factory-like. I'm having some signaling issues and trains getting stuck, but I'm working through the bugs.
I'm something like a hundred hours into this map and I have yet to get anywhere close to launching a rocket, the ostensible 'end' of the game.
I'm back to playing with Factorio, in my game named "Special Kind of Hell" after someone's description of trying to play the game with all the mods I have.
In the base game, you mine iron ore and smelt it into iron plate. Two steps. In the modded version, one of multiple ways to do it is to mine a composite ore, crush it, flotation filter it with pure water, process the chunks with sulfuric acid in a leaching plant, refine it into a purified form, sort the purified form of the composite ore into it's component refined ores (including iron, nickel, cobalt, gold, etc.), turn the purified ores into ingots (which have their own processes, involving, for instance, putting nickel ore into a blast furnace with carbon monoxide to get nickel ingots - Wikipedia says this is the Mond Process; I love how close to real processes the mod author has tried to be), then, for the most efficient production, smelt multiple kinds of ingots (one combination that works is cobalt, nickel, and iron) together in an induction furnace to make molten iron, which is cast into iron plates in a casting machine.
Sometimes I get a little overwhelmed by the complexity of trying to do something that's so very simple in the base game and I take a break for a while. But I keep coming back to it. This is one of the best toys I've ever played with.
I'm also playing with a new way to arrange train lines that looks more factory-like. I'm having some signaling issues and trains getting stuck, but I'm working through the bugs.
I'm something like a hundred hours into this map and I have yet to get anywhere close to launching a rocket, the ostensible 'end' of the game.
