When I saw that 2.1 added an arm64 version for Linux, I thought, my phone is arm64 too, maybe it works there. It took some work, but now I'm playing Factorio on my phone and it runs really well. I get 60 FPS and 60 UPS on my vivo X200 Ultra, even on a server save with a pretty big base.

It's the normal game from factorio.com, running on the phone itself. Nothing is streamed from a PC. The app doesn't come with the game, so you have to buy it, download the Linux arm64 version from your factorio.com account and load it in the app.

You can play with the buttons on screen, using your finger as the cursor, or with a real controller.

Things that don't work yet: it only runs on phones with a Snapdragon chip, so no Samsung Exynos or MediaTek for now. I've also only tested it on my phone, so I don't know yet how it goes on others. And huge saves use a lot of memory.

Before posting I sent an email to Wube to check it was ok, and they said they're fine with it being shared, which was really nice of them.

It's free and open source, the APK is in the releases: https://github.com/JulioFerrero/pocket-foundry

If you have a Snapdragon phone and try it, please tell me how it goes, good or bad. It would help a lot to know which phones work.

Considering that a single human is capable of conquering multiple planets and extracting every last one of their resources until they are completely depleted, just how destructive would the entirety of humanity in *Factorio* be?

This was the second attempt. This asshole kept going outside of his red box destroying my lanes and was sitting on some tasty tungsten. It had to die and glad I didn't have to go there!

For 2 whole gameplays ( never reached the solar system edge ) [ YET ! ] and I used to take out items from the Landing pad by inserters with some basic lvl of circuits.
A few hours ago I was working on my Fulgora base , and had an Idea to use a selector combinator to filter quality items ( > normal quality items ) to a requester chest.
Didnt work ; BUT I found I could do it with a buffer chest.
Really robot heavy and kinda limited but it worked wonders to take out any no-normal item from my buffer system.
Then it hit me.
Wait , IF green chest hold on items via logistic requests , then that means ..... FUCK ME ... SO THIS IS HOW YOU USE THEM ?!.
All this time I could unload low use/quantity items with ONE chest.
And I can even make requesters ask items from them with an extra click ?!.
Posting this here in case someone finds it usefull.

Like, in terms of actual boosts to your SPM, Vulcanus gives foundries (a bit over 2.25x iron/copper production), Fulgora gives EM plants (bit over 1.5x circuits, which is better than it sounds as it is multiplicative with itself), but... Gleba gives biolabs, which are an over 2x bonus to SPM *for free*, *and* you get prod 3s which are a +8% prod bonus to all electric furnaces, +12% to chem plants, +16% to assemblers, and a net +28% to your labs (resulting in a total of x2.56 science from those, ignoring quality), which very much adds up over time. And you get a bit over x1.5 to rocket fuel, heavy->light cracking, and light->petroleum cracking, if you're willing to import bioflux which you need to do anyway for biter eggs.

(Edit, because I realized this wasn't stated: Vulcanus and to a lesser extent Fulgora's buildings require you to make a way bigger base to actually use all the increased resources you get. To use all the iron and copper foundries give requires a correspondingly bigger everything-else. EM plants only help with circuits, everything else is going to have to scale up to match them. But for Gleba's bonuses? You just rebuild labs and maybe your science builds to use a few more assemblers/a beacon or two to deal with prod 3s reducing machine speed more than prod 2s do, and if you want to, your oil processing to use the better cracking/rocket fuel recipes.)

Sure big mining drills give x2 to ore patches but Gleba lets you get literally free iron/copper/carbon/sulfur/ice/calcite from space with the advanced crushing recipes, meaning you don't even need to mine ore patches (you can easily send lots of ore down from space now in 2.1 with the new unloading bays so that part isn't an issue)

Sure Fulgora gives the recycler for quality upcycling but Gleba gives epic quality in the first place. (Okay admittedly you need both, but.. you can gamble a few epic equipment pieces with just Gleba.)

Sure you get artillery on Vulcanus and sure Fulgora gives mech armour but Gleba gives spidertrons which do the job of both, and lets you have effectively a remote player on every planet.

Sure you get green belts on Vulcanus for x1.33 throughput on belts but you get stack inserters on Gleba which give you x4 throughput for a lower cost.

The only things I really miss from not doing Fulgora and Vulcanus earlier are cliff explosives, the recycler, bot speed research, and a foundry on Fulgora for holmium plates.

(And no Gleba is not that hard if you just make sure to put a spoilage outserter on everything and circuit limit your agri towers to not put too much fruit on the belt. Bots make it trivial if you just set up a spoilage requester somewhere, set all requesters to "trash unrequested", limit all outputs to one stack, and make sure things are close... maybe direct insert a few things like yumako mash/jelly. And the pentapods are a non issue as soon as you get spidertrons researched. I find it easier than Fulgora to build a 120SPM base on, and you have no risk of anything running out of raw materials as everything is literally infinite, not even just figuratively infinite like on Vulcanus, except stone.)

(Also if the devs see this, pretty please make the biochamber actually useful on all four planets like the other main planetary buildings, maybe make it able to make holmium solution?)

I’ve got around 50 hours in Factorio but never really made it past trains and blue science solo. Thinking about getting Space Age and starting fresh with biters off solo save.

I mostly just want a game I can sink hundreds of hours into while watching something or listening to music. Is there enough progression and replayability in Space Age to get 500+ hours out of it without biters, or does it get boring after a while?

I’ve forever just stuck to the main bus, but I feel like I’m missing out not being able to understand how to city block properly. I swear I’ve looked at maybe a dozen or so blueprint designs just to see where I could take inspiration from or try to understand it and nothing clicks for me. It just hurts my head.

A lot of the comments are asking the same questions so I’ll update it here:

The biggest part I’m not understanding for city blocking is how I’m supposed to organize it and how I’m going to make the trains be able to move around the city blocks without making congestion. Do I make several train networks to separate them? Do I put them all on one? How do I plan for this? I have a lot of choice paralysis.

I run several Factorio servers for friends and got tired of juggling folders, so I reworked the old Factorio Server Manager (OpenFactorioServerManager) into something that handles multiple servers from one web UI. It’s a fork; credit to the original authors is in the README.

What it does

• Multiple servers on one machine, each with its own saves, mods, config and logs
• Mod library: every mod version is stored once, each server has a manifest. “Sync from save” reads the mods a save needs and either enables only those (Match save) or just adds them (Add from save). An Apply preview shows what will be added, removed, enabled or disabled before anything touches the server
• Scheduled save backups with retention, pin, rename, and restore into any server (including a different one)
• Factorio versions are pinned per server, so a new release never silently updates a server. Stable/experimental only change when you pick them
• Watchdog with RCON reconnect, logs, inline server settings
• Built-in Help tab with a quick start, plus a “danger zone” for wiping or deleting a server
• The interface is available in English and Russian, but you can add any other language.

Running it

• Linux: Docker, one command starts a setup wizard (optional macvlan so the container gets its own LAN IP)
• Windows without Docker: unzip, run start.bat. It builds the server from your own Steam client (only factorio.exe is taken) plus the matching headless data downloaded from factorio.com
• Windows with Docker Desktop: compose file generated by the wizard

Honest notes

• Tested: Linux Docker (NAT and macvlan), Windows exe with a Steam install and with a manually entered Factorio path.
• The Windows build needs a copy of the game, because there is no official headless server for Windows
• Part of the old mod code still lives alongside the new system; cleaning it up is on the roadmap
• Early release. Bug reports are welcome

Repo

I know the rails cross over, I don't really care that much and prefer a smaller intersection over throughput. Style over function any day

Hi

I Read that pipes have unlimited throughout. That means I can connect 20 offshore pumps at the lake, have a single pipe to my coal field and generate all steam/electricity there?
I have kids and not enough time to try every potential stupid idea myself…

PS: from answers i realise I’ll have to check my version - i Play via GoG and might have an older version running

I've tried Space Age multiple times since it's release, but always got stuck somewhere along the way. I had 100% achievements before Space Age, this time I was going to make it!

A special thank you to all who share helpful guidance, blueprints and map strings. I have almost 1500 hours in Factorio and this community is awsome! Thanks also to Wube for such a wonderful game!

Galaxy of Fame

I did not craft or use a fusion reactor, nor capture a biter spawner and obviously no biolab. Did not use quality. I managed with 60-80 spm for a good chunk of the run up to the end. I didn't have to deal with biters on Nauvis with the map string below and didn't trigger the pantapods on Gleba (only 4 agricultural towers). For Vulcanus, Fulgora and Gleba I used all in one starter bases with Gleba being the bottleneck in science procurement. They also provided with resources needed for Aquilo, which I wasn't able to find a similar starter base so my Aquilo base is not self-suficient (had to bring in blue chips and low density structures from Nauvis for rocket parts). Ran out of water and power a few times on Aquilo until I managed to fix that.

This guide on this subreddit was super helpful. The map string I used came from this blueprint by bob.factorio (but I didn't use the blueprint itself). I went in order from Nauvis > Vulcanus > Fulgora > Gleba for the inner planets.

Hope this is helpful even if this is probably blasphemy in front of the Factory Must Grow™ gods.

Technology

• Physical projectile damage 9
• Weapon shooting speed 6 (max)
• Stronger explosives 9
• Railgun damage 1
• Railgun shooting speed 0

Blueprints

• Everything you need for Nauvis (Space Age Mall crafts over 170 items from ores to endproduct) by 83Ramy (I put down layer 4 from the start, but built it gradually)
• Starter Early Mall v1.1 by myself (helped to build the everything mall and science)
• All 100 SPM. Nauvis science book by Space Ghost (I didn't actually build the whole thing, initialy enough for 25 spm and grew it gradually to 60 and 80 spm)
• 10/m Construction robots 25*25 by Rasmus9110 (get those bots early to help build everything)
• Vulcanus Starter Base by Jepakazol (just noticed I was using an older version)
• Fulgora Starter Factory by Jepakazol
• Gleba Starter Factory by Jepakazol
• Aquilo starter by AbsoCZ
• Aquilo Self-Heating 240SPM starter module by Anonymous
• Easy normal quality Edge ship by Wobbleland (I had about 9k regular ammo and 6k or 7k rocket and 200 railgun ammo, was able to go from Nauvis to Edge and back with 0 damage)
• Basic Ship (Space Age) by Matias Lozano
• Basic Ship no walls by myself (I had issues with Matias ship, made some slight adjustments)
• Space science 100 SPM. Space science pack by Space Ghost
• The Smelting & Refining Book by Dangwiggums
• Basic Rocket Builder Spaceage by SlappingTree (not hard to make it tilelable, I had 3 on Nauvis)
• Can't seem to find the nuclear power blueprint I'm using, it's a 480MW setup
• I did a small oil/sulfuric acid setup to mine uranium and provide oil for rocket parts, it's badly optimised.

Map string

    >>>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<<<

I've been working towards the legendary fish and my Steamdeck has been offline for a week. The achievement was 0.9% of players when I got it then I turned on wifi and the achievement changed to 3.7% of players. Other things like finishing the game are now 10%.

Seems like a reasonable change but I was bummed to see my <1% turned into a 4% achievement.

Side note: I think 10% of players beating SA is a huge achievement for Wube given the amount of time and dedication it takes to complete. I'm an achievement hunter so I always look and I can't think of any game that has a high completion rate for an achievement that requires that much effort.

She's ugly but she did it!

Spent a lot of time on this only to be a bit disappointed lmao, the new 2.1 update slowed down to ~220KM/S to 180KM/S and only capable of making 1 round trip before needing to "refill" the thruster fuel etc. Is this normal? Or did you build a ship that can constantly be on the go as long as nuclear fuel is present?

Also main question: What speeds are you guys targeting for Aquilo trips? I have half a mind to completely redesign this to be more compact/faster, but worried about rocket turrets to production ratio.

EDIT: Sorry guys i uploaded the wrong picture - i added nuclear to the ship (shown in the main post pic) because it was needed to make that first round trip which is what made it successful. I added the nuclear update at the end so very ugly implementation lol (see one of the comments below)

Behold! A man-made horror. Sorry if that kind of posting is not allowed in here, I'm kinda new and really wanted to share! Anyway, that was an interesting exercise at least

You're free to scold me btw

So I reworked my base to make (almost) 900 potions per minute with vulcanus and fulgora tech for my 15x run, since the highest techs were taking too much time to research. My design principle was to make the most use of the rare modules and buildings, so I designed a beacon grid and accomodated all the belts for the various intermediates, it was a nice puzzle and a lot of fun. It takes by train ores, stone, coal and oil and does everything in between, only things taken by bots are calcite and materials for the mall

The little cheat is that I only make 450 potions per minute of grey, yellow and purple and stock them, since I research with one or with another at any given time. eSPM sits around 1050 and techs of 90000 science research in a moment compared to the 180ish SPM I had before. Purple potions are producing a bit slower, since three rare bulk inserters cannot keep up with the beaconed rail assembler. I need to unlock the stack inserters and everything will work as a charm

Imgur butchered the resolution of the screenshot but I'm guessing reddit will butcher it much more: https://imgur.com/a/E00j7af

So I have a lot of hubs and landing pads with insane inventories... This one isn't even that bad, only 1,300 slots or so, but it makes useful information scroll off the bottom of the screen on the right.

How do I use the scroll bar though? Moving the mouse to it makes it disappear (as I'm no longer mousing over the container in question), the scroll wheel zooms instead, and WASD moves the window/character as you would expect... I'm out of ideas.

Help!

I'm kinda new (87 hours since 10 days ago spread across 3 saves, this is my furthest one) but reset like 3 times at blue science due to getting overwhelmed with my mess of spaghetti. I went into the game knowing a little bit about it having seen some videos and someone I used to be friends with talking about it a bunch for a few years so I wasn't entirely spoiler free from the start. I now have purple and yellow science to deal with but my starter base is a disaster once again so I'm planning on starting up a new base a bit away from my starter. Any tips for planning/relocating? What's worth automating vs what's not? I was trying to figure it out myself but I think I've spent at least like 5 hours staring at this unsure how to proceed going about it layout wise. Pics attached of my beautiful bowl of fettucini Alfredo. I'm tempted to restart 1 final time but if this seems salvageable please let me know!

This is the first ship I’ve built that has managed to reach the Fulgora region and survive there. Could you suggest any improvements? Apologies for my language—I’m using a translator.