Map exchange strings or "seeds" for beginners with easy to defend location needed.

[Doktor_KlingeL]

Does anyone have a good map "seed" or rather exchange string where there are plenty of ressources and a good spot to defend yourself? (In the current version)

I cant tell you how many times my base was raided and had to start over again and again because of this pesky aliens :D I mean I could play without them but I need that possible danger...but not too much haha :D

[knighttemplar1960]

When you set up the map you can set it to what ever you want. You can make it easier by making sure that you start in a forest. You can increase the size of your start area. You can decrease the rate at which biters evolve. You can turn off enemy expansion by selecting a rails world setting.

Play around with the sliders until you get a start that works for you so you can learn the fine points of the game.

[AlexMBrennan]

Have a look at this peninsula:

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https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2392809689

[valenti_scott]

I like to turn the number of alien starting nests way down, and slightly turn down the other parameters like evolution. I also like to make my starting area quite a bit larger.

Also, I feel there is nothing wrong with beefing up the resource richness. I like to turn up the frequency of oil and uranium, because they can be hard to find at the defaults.

Personally I like playing with fewer trees; they are a pain to cut down! But later in the game you can destroy them with grenades, a tank, or robots.

OK, I'm guilty of "save-scumming," making a mistake and then reverting to a save file.

[Doktor_KlingeL]

Thank you guys! Will try that :)

@AlexMBrennan it looks awesome too!

[AddOnArmor]

If you guys want natural choke points that are easier to defend set the water scale down and coverage up to where you like it. You'll get more of an archipelago connected by land bridges, that's what I do. Then you can expand your island with land fill when you need it bigger or to bridge to new islands.

[Sebine]

Need to find a mod with a shovel
so you can dig bloody moats.

[Nailfoot]

Originally posted by Sebine:

Need to find a mod with a shovel
so you can dig bloody moats.

There is a mod that adds water tiles. You place them just like landfills.

[Sebine]

Originally posted by Nailfoot:

Originally posted by Sebine:

Need to find a mod with a shovel
so you can dig bloody moats.

There is a mod that adds water tiles. You place them just like landfills.

Basically the same thing.
Where D:

[Nailfoot]

I use Noxy's.

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Noxys_Waterfill

[Sebine]

Originally posted by Nailfoot:

I use Noxy's.

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Noxys_Waterfill

So just to be clear

Waterfill w/o Swim
Will allow me to make impassable moats
yes?

[Nailfoot]

Yes. It will be just like the water that is generated by the game. The reason it is not in the vanilla version of the game is that Wube thought it would make the game way too easy.

It does.

I only use it to make water supplies in nice, straight lines for my power plants.

[Sebine]

Well it might make the game "too easy"

But I'm trapped alone on an alien planet with hostile creatures from hell

Of course I'm going to dig moats and try to prevent my base from being overrun

[AlexMBrennan]

The reason it is not in the vanilla version of the game is that Wube thought it would make the game way too easy.

It does.

It doesn't really affect the difficulty all that much - landfilling the ocean produces the exact same result as building a moat; it's just a question of how much stone you have to sacrifice to build your unassailable citadel of doom.

[Sebine]

Originally posted by AlexMBrennan:

The reason it is not in the vanilla version of the game is that Wube thought it would make the game way too easy.

It does.

It doesn't really affect the difficulty all that much - landfilling the ocean produces the exact same result as building a moat; it's just a question of how much stone you have to sacrifice to build your unassailable citadel of doom.

Oh that's a good point, turn water up to a billion.....

[knighttemplar1960]

Originally posted by Sebine:

Well it might make the game "too easy"

But I'm trapped alone on an alien planet with hostile creatures from hell

Of course I'm going to dig moats and try to prevent my base from being overrun

If it was in the vanilla game the bugs would be able to swim....