Factorio
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
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Guides
Guides
Factorio Beginner Guide — The First Hour, Key Ratios and Research Order
Factorio's opening follows a fixed chain: burner drills into stone furnaces, the 2.0 trigger research that unlocks steam power and labs, automated red science, then green science. This guide walks through that chain, gives the few ratios worth memorising (1 boiler to 2 steam engines, 5 electric drills to 8 stone furnaces), sets research priorities, and covers when to start a main bus and how to keep biters calm.
Factorio Defense Guide — Evolution, Pollution, Turrets and Walls
Biters attack because their spawners absorb your pollution, and they get stronger as the hidden evolution factor rises from time, pollution and destroyed spawners. This guide gives a defense plan for each evolution stage, explains the real evolution numbers (and why pollution, not time, is usually the main driver), compares gun, laser and flamethrower turrets, and covers walls, nest clearing, artillery and the map settings that turn enemies down or off.
Factorio Main Bus Guide — What Goes on It, Belt Counts and Take-offs
A main bus runs shared materials (iron and copper plates, steel, circuits, plastic) down parallel belts through the base, with production lines branching off one side. This guide gives the layout up front, then the numbers behind it: belt throughput (15, 30 and 45 items/s), how many plates each science pack really costs, how to size the bus for a science target, when balancers matter, how to design take-offs that do not starve the end of the bus, and when to move on to trains.
Factorio Progression Guide — Research Order from Red Science to the Rocket
Factorio's base game is a route through science packs: red, green, oil, blue, then purple and yellow, ending with a rocket silo and a satellite launch. This guide puts the whole route in one table (science tier, key research, what to build, typical bottleneck), then covers each stage with verified 2.0 recipes: military science and when defense matters, basic and advanced oil processing, modules and beacons, trains, and the rocket launch.
Overview
What's the Game?
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Full automation
Belts, assemblers, and inserters carry items from mining to finished products with zero clicks.
Tech tree progression
Red, green, blue, military, utility, production, and white science packs gate new technology.
Circuit logic
Signal circuits enable complex control like inventory-driven production.
Rocket launch milestone
Scale your factory until a satellite rocket can launch — the base game capstone.
Space Age expansion
The official paid expansion sends you to multiple planets for vast new content.
Massive mod community
Diverse mods reshape rules and difficulty endlessly.
Trailer
Trailer
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Screenshots
Screenshots
Languages
Supported Languages
| Language | Interface | Audio | Subtitles |
|---|---|---|---|
| English ● | ✓ | — | — |
| Deutsch | ✓ | — | — |
| Español | ✓ | — | — |
| Français | ✓ | — | — |
| Italiano | ✓ | — | — |
| 日本語 | ✓ | — | — |
| 한국어 | ✓ | — | — |
| Português (Brasil) | ✓ | — | — |
| Русский | ✓ | — | — |
| 简体中文 | ✓ | — | — |
| 繁體中文 | ✓ | — | — |
Specs
System Requirements
Windows
Minimum
OS: Windows 11, 10 Processor: Quad core 3Ghz+ Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: DirectX 11 capable GPU with 1GB VRAM - GeForce GTX 750 Ti, Radeon R7 360 or Intel UHD Graphics 730 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 5 GB available space Additional Notes: Normal sprite resolution, Low quality compression, 1080p resolution
Recommended
OS: Windows 11, 10 Processor: Quad core 4Ghz+ from 2020 or newer Memory: 16 GB RAM Graphics: DirectX 11 capable GPU with 4 GB VRAM - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, Radeon RX 570, Intel Arc DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 10 GB available space Additional Notes: High sprite resolution, High quality compression
macOS
Minimum
OS: OS X 10.10 Yosemite Processor: 2016 Mac Memory: 8 GB RAM Storage: 5 GB available space Additional Notes: Normal sprite resolution, Low quality compression, 1080p resolution
Recommended
Processor: 2020 Apple Silicon Memory: 16 GB RAM Storage: 10 GB available space Additional Notes: High sprite resolution, High quality compression
Linux
Minimum
OS: Linux (tarball installation) Processor: Dual core 3Ghz+ Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: DirectX 11 capable GPU with 1GB VRAM - GeForce GTX 750 Ti, Radeon R7 360 or Intel UHD Graphics 730 Storage: 5 GB available space Sound Card: PulseAudio Additional Notes: Normal sprite resolution, Low quality compression, 1080p resolution
Recommended
OS: Linux (tarball installation) Processor: Quad core 3GHz+ Memory: 16 GB RAM Graphics: DirectX 11 capable GPU with 4 GB VRAM - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, Radeon RX 570, Intel Arc Storage: 10 GB available space Sound Card: PulseAudio Additional Notes: High sprite resolution, High quality compression
Achievements
Achievement Highlights
Automated cleanup
Automated construction
Circuit veteran 1
Circuit veteran 2
Circuit veteran 3
Computer age 1
Computer age 2
Computer age 3
Delivery service
You've got a package
FAQ
FAQ
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