Factorio

Make one production chain work, verify power, and diagnose the first missing input before expanding your factory.

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New factory? Prove a fueled mining-and-smelting chain first. Add power before building a small science line and tracing its first bottleneck.

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Prove fuel, ore output and furnace input on one short chain.

Trace the first missing pack from lab back through its assembler and ingredients.

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A small, checkable first factory: fuel, ore, plates, belts, inserters and power without copying an unexplained megabase layout.

Move from hand-crafted research toward a small red- and green-science line with a check for missing ingredients, pickup and lab delivery.