When you get enough plates and stone, create a couple of new drills and place them on your coal patch, both feeding into each other.

Manually mine some coal while you wait for the furnace to smelt iron ore into plates.

Place the drill on top of some iron, place the furnace adjacent so that the drill feed directly into it, and place some coal in both.

You start with a single drill and a furnace in your inventory.

These rocks give you coal as well as stone, and they are by far the quickest way to obtain these resources early on.

If there are large rocks nearby, then mine them before you do anything else.

Your first steps should involve getting the absolute basic resources up and running. Once you're happy with your world and game settings, let's get started. I'd also recommend that Factorio beginners enable Peaceful Mode before they begin, as this will prevent Biters from attacking you until you attack them for the first time.

Look for natural chokepoints to help with defending your factory, but make sure the space you're left with is large enough to fit everything you need.

Green areas with plenty of forest will help absorb some pollution, which can give you more time before the Biters come a-knocking.

All the ore patches clustered around your starting area should ideally have a bit of space between them.

Plenty of nearby iron, copper, and coal (and at least a little stone).

Otherwise, there are a few things you might want to look for when picking your world: If you're the type to leave your world up to chance, then skip this section. The world itself has not been altered in any way.įirst step is setting up your new world. Note: the reason it says 'Default ' in the top-left is because I set the Research queue availability to 'Always'.

The seed for the world in this walkthrough is 759782236, if you wish to play along in the same world as me.

Hopefully you'll gain some use from this walkthrough. But I do have 850 hours in Factorio at the time of writing, and I know how to start strong in a new world.

I am by no means a Factorio master, nor a speed-runner.

None of them change the game, so you'll still be able to use this walkthrough as a guide for your own games. All of these can be found in our Factorio mods for 1.0 guide.

I'm using several non-game-changing Factorio mods in this walkthrough (Bottleneck, Even Distribution, EvoGUI, and Squeak Through).

But first, a couple of points worth quickly mentioning: Skip below if you want to get stuck straight into my Factorio early game walkthrough. 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. Whichever of the above, this Factorio early game walkthrough is here to help.

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