So I have intermittently played factorio. Scraped through a vanilla playthrough a while back and just did a more serious playthrough recently. I would like to move into using more mods, getting better at using trains and such. Are there any recommended mods for where I’m at to be able to keep moving forward without jumping to far into the deep end of complexity too fast and losing interest?

  • SethranKada@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ll make a list of some good ones to start with.

    Hand Craft Priority This let’s you move thing around in the hand crafting que.

    More Minimap Autohide Hide the minimap if it’s preventing entity data from being shown. Very useful.

    Ammo Group Barreling Group Schall Circuit Group Schall Transport Group These four just move various items into their own crafting category so they don’t clutter up the the menu. This is very important if you have many mods that add items.

    Double Speed Belts Makes it so tier 3 belts move at exactly twice the speed of tier 2 belts, and tier 1 at half the speed of tier 2. This let’s you use splitters easier.

    Realistic Heat Glow Science Pack Glow Black Rubber Belts These three just make things look nicer.

    Clockwork Enhances the day/night cycle. Very customizable.

    Inventory Repair Auto repairs items that are in your inventory using repair packs.

    Inserted Fuel Leech Makes fuel inserters actually useful

    Enhanced Map Colors Visual improvement. Makes the map easier to read.

    Fluid Must Flow Flow Control These two make handling fluids much nicer and simpler.

    Informatron Let’s mods include ingame tutorials on how to use them. Sometimes, it’s almost impossible to understand what’s going on without it.

    Squeak Through Makes it so you can navigate your base easier.

    Extended Descriptions Adds important details to item descriptions that you would otherwise have to look up online to find.

    • Holyginz@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Oh wow these all seem super helpful! Everytime I’ve tried to find mods I end up lost because there are so many different ones and some are really good and others less so. I’ve started really loving this game more recently, especially with the replay ability. Recently I’ve been working on getting better at train layouts as well as using the circuit network since I always tended to go whole hog into the logistics network as soon as I unlock it. Thank you so much!

      • SethranKada@lemmy.caEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Your welcome. I love this game too, and it’s nice to be able to help out the community a bit.