early game

[chikenbob]

I really like Factorio but I get really board during the early game. Is there any way to speed it up the early game?

[brian_va]

There's a handful of fast start mods, I think tiny start is what I used but there's a few of them. Most give what you need to jumpstart electricity, mining and smelting and some basic assembly. Helps skip the first couple hours

[Hedning]

You can cheat. Not with the /cheat command, because it also adds all techs. Use

/c game.player.cheat_mode=true

This lets you craft without spending time and resources, so you can add some miners, belts, furnaces, steam engines, etc, then set it to false and continue from there.

[Ages]

What makes the early game boring for you?

I suggest building out more with early tech. Chain a bunch of coal mines, automate the metals right away and mine like crazy early game. Build more science so you progress faster.

Watch a couple speed runs for ideas.

[Khagan]

Originally posted by chikenbob:

I really like Factorio but I get really board during the early game. Is there any way to speed it up the early game?

What do you count as 'early game'? Just the initial burner mining phase? Or also the bootstrap phase where you are doing red (only) science and still handloading some of your assemblers (or the chests that feed them)? Or everything before blue science (including a fully automated factory making red and green science)?